Talks
Upcoming Talks
- March 2: invited talk, Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
- March 6: invited talk University of Toronto, Canada
- March 9: invited talk, Tufts University, Boston, MA
- April 11: Colloquium, Carnegie, Pasadena, CA
- April 15: invited talk, APS, Minneapolis, MN
- April 25: Colloquium, MIT, Boston, MA
- May 17: invited seminar, UCSD, San Diego, CA
- May 25: invited seminar, IAS, Princeton, NJ
Previous Talks
- From the IR to X-rays: how new facilities are changing the way we study compact objects, talk, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, February 2023
- A new window on compact objects: highlights of the first year of IXPE, talk, Cornell, Ithaca, NY, February 2023
- From Gaia to LISA: white dwarfs at the center of the stellar revolution, Colloquium, Cornell, Ithaca, NY, February 2023
- From Gaia to LISA: white dwarfs at the center of the stellar revolution, Colloquium, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, February 2023
- Merger remnants and double-faced stars and other curiosities, talk at the KITP Conference: White Dwarfs from Physics to Astrophysics, Santa Barbara, CA, November 2022
- Ultramassive, merger remnants and double-faced: studying exotic white dwarfs with ZTF and Gaia, Colloquium at Cornell, Ithaca, NY, October 2022
- Mergers and double-faced stars: studying exotic white dwarfs with ZTF and Gaia, Invited Seminar at N3AS Seminar Series, Online, August 2022
- A Survey of White Dwarf Merger Remnants with ZTF, Contributed Talk at the 22nd European Workshop on White Dwarfs, Tuebingen, August 2022
- First IXPE observations of accreting X-ray pulsar Her-X1, Invited Talk at COSPAR 2022, Athens, Greece, July 2022.
- The Polarization Detection of Her-X1 in context: Models of Accreting X-ray Pulsars, Invited Talk at European Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Valencia, Spain, June 2022.
- First IXPE observations of accreting X-ray pulsar Her-X1, Invited Talk at the 240th AAS Meeting, Pasadena, CA, June 2022
- Small But Mighty: Hunting for Extreme White Dwarfs, Colloquium at the Università degli Studi di Genova, Genova, Italy, November 2021.
- Small But Mighty: Hunting for Extreme White Dwarfs, Invited Seminar at Jerusalem University, Jerusalem, Israel, November 2021.
- Small But Mighty: Hunting for Extreme White Dwarfs, Colloquium at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, October 2021.
- Small But Mighty: The Tiniest White Dwarf and Other Stories, Colloquium at Boston University, Boston, MA, October 2021.
- Small But Mighty: Hunting for Extreme White Dwarfs, Colloquium at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD, October 2021. Slides.
- Small But Mighty: The Tiniest White Dwarf and Other Stories, Colloquium at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, August 2021.
- The effect of magnetic fields on the X-ray polarization from black holes, Invited talk, Polarized Radiation near Supermassive Black Holes workshop, Princeton Center for Theoretical Science, NJ, May 2021. Slides.
- Small But Mighty: The Tiniest White Dwarf and Other Stories, Colloquium at Caltech, April 2021. Video.
- Understanding neutron stars with X-ray polarization: the beginning of a new era, Colloquium at the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, April 2021. Slides.
- Hunting for white dwarf merger remnants with ZTF, Colloquium at Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, February 2021. Slides.
- The Colibri X-ray Telescope, COSPAR 2021, Sydney, January 2021. Slides. Video.
- X-ray Polarization of Neutron Stars and Black Holes, TAPIR seminar, Caltech, January 2020. Slides.
- The Colibrì mission, Invited talk, Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources – XIII, Palermo, Italy, June 2019. Slides.
- Testing general relativity with accretion onto compact objects, Invited talk, Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources – XIII, Palermo, Italy, June 2019. Slides.
- Shining Black Holes: Testing Gravity with Colibrì, talk, Testing Gravity 2019 conference, Vancouver, Canada, January 2019.
- Hunting for ancient brown dwarfs with TMT, talk, TMT Science forum 2018, Pasadena, California, December 2018. Slides.
- Shining black holes: what gravitational waves won’t tell you, Invited Seminar at the Black Hole Initiative at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2018. Slides. Video.
- Buchi Neri a raggi X, Invited Seminar at the Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziale, Rome, Italy, November 2018.
- Globular cluster ages from cooling brown dwarfs, talk, 2018 Spring Symposium: The 21st Century H-R Diagram: The Power of Precision Photometry, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland, April 2018. Slides.
- Probing black holes magnetic fields with QED, talk, Alsatian Workshop on X-ray Polarimetry, Strasbourg, France, November 2017. Slides.
- X-ray polarization from compact objects: QED effects, Invited Seminar, University of Tübingen, Germany, July 2017. Slides.
- X-ray polarization from compact objects: QED effects, Invited Seminar, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, April 2017. Slides.
- X-ray polarization from compact objects: QED effects, talk, High-throughput X-ray Astronomy in the eXTP era conference, Rome, Italy, February 2017. Slides.
- X-ray polarization from black hole accretion disks: QED effects, poster, Testing Gravity conference, Vancouver, Canada, January 2017.
- The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission, talk, Canadian Space Exploration Workshop, Montreal, Canada, November 2016.
- X-ray polarization from compact objects: QED effects, Invited Seminar, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, November 2016.
- Pulsar glitches and EOS, talk, Phases of Dense Matter workshop, Seattle, Washington, July 2016. Slides.
- X-ray polarization from black hole accretion disks: QED effects, poster, First science conference on the XIPE mission, Valencia, Spain, May 2016
- X-ray polarization from black hole accretion disks: QED effects, talk, eXTP Meeting, Shanghai, China, April 2016
- Modelling pulsar glitches with different equations of state, talk, TALENT 2015: Nuclear Physics of Neutron Stars and Supernovae workshop, Seattle, Washington, June 2015. Slides.highlights of the