Public

Public Talks

As part of the ActInSpace hack-a-thon to identify commericial applications of technologies developed by CNES, produced a 3D movie, commerical pitch and presentation with a team of four others. May 2014

A Guided Tour of Our Universe, a popular talk given at the Present Day Club about extra-galactic astronomy—our current understanding and the field's historical development. September 2011 (PDF)

Savoir et Connaître les Arcs-en-ciel (Knowing and understanding rainbows). Video art installation on the connections between science and art, between intellectual knowledge and visceral knowledge, and between beauty and depth. Part of the exhibition "Art or Science" at Cafe A, Paris, December 2011 (MOV, YouTube)

Media

Quoted in New Scientist article (HTML, PDF) related to Bland-Hawthorn et. al. ApJ 2013

Visualization of galaxy merger simulation featured in:

• National Public Radio Science Friday segment, 2014
• Textbook "Cosmic Dawn" by Prof. George Rhee (UNLV), Springer, 2013
• Sky and Telescope News June 2, 2011
• NASA Public Outreach effort related to Lotz et. al. ApJ 742:103 2011
• ``Mysteries of the Universe,'' NHK Japan Public Broadcasting, 2011
• ``Hubble Space Telescope,'' NHK Japan Public Broadcasting, 2010
• San Francisco Bay Area television channel KRON-4 show on the NASA Ames Research Center 2010

Non-Science Technical Talks

• Distributed Version Control Systems talk to Princeton Scientific Computing group, October 2009 (PDF)
• Meta-programming talk to UC Santa Cruz Scientific Computing group, May 2007, (PDF)
• Summary of Space Telescope Science Institute Workshop on Galaxy Mergers October 2006 (PDF)
• Programming Languages talk to UC Santa Cruz Graduate Astronomy Seminar, March 2005 (PDF)
• Survey of Parallel Programming Languages for Scientific Computing, April 2004 (PDF)