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MEETINGS
Upcoming Aug+Sept. 2016: The Physics of Supernovae MIAPP workshop, Garching, Germany
Talk: Birthrates of accretion-induced
collapse neutron stars from binary evolution models
* Feb. 2016, Electron Capture SN & Super-AGB Star workshop. Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Talk: Binary star evolution and
the birth of transient events
* Nov. 2015, CAASTRO Annual Retreat, Blue Mountains, NSW,
Australia
Talk (given by K. Shen): Does
metallicity influence the evolution and rate of SNe Ia?
* Aug. 2015, Carnegie SN Ia
progenitor workshop, Pasadena, CA, USA
Talk: A personal view of my recent
years in academia
* July 2015, Women in
Astronomy workshop, St. Lucia, QLD, Australia
Talk: How metallicity influences the
evolution and rate of Type Ia SNe
* June 2015, EWASS (Sp17): Hunting down the elusive
progenitors
and explosion mechanisms of Type Ia SNe, Tenerife, Spain
* Aug. 2014, Women in Astronomy workshop, Canberra, Australia
Invited Review: White Dwarf Binaries and Type Ia Progenitors
* Aug. 2014, Supernovae in the Local Universe:
celebrating 10,000 days of SN 1987A, Coffs Harbour, Australia
* July 2014, Astronomical Society of Australia annual scientific meeting, Sydney, Australia (Poster)
Talk: Supernova Ia Rates and
Helium-accreting Binaries
* Sept. 2013, Workshop on Type Ia
Supernova Progenitors II, The Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Talk: Can white dwarf mergers explain most Type Ia supernovae?
* April 2013, The Deaths of Stars and the
Lives of Galaxies, Santiago, Chile
Invited Review: Population synthesis studies
related to the SN phenomenon
* Sept. 2012,
ESO/MPA/MPE/Excellence
Cluster Universe
Workshop on Supernovae, Garching, Germany
* March 2012, Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics, Ringberg Castle, Lake Tegernsee, Germany
Talk: Rates and Delay Times of sub-Chandrasekhar Mass SNe Ia
* Sept. 2010, Workshop on Type Ia Supernova Progenitors, The Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
Talk: Rates of Type Ia Supernovae
and Accretion Induced Collapse
* June 2010, International Conference on Binaries, Mykonos, Greece
Talk: Type Ia Supernova Progenitor Diversity
* May 2010 meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Talk: Progenitors of SNe Ia and Accretion Induced Collapse
* March 2010, 15th Workshop on Nuclear Astrophysics, Ringberg
Castle, Lake Tegernsee, Germany
Talk: Double White Dwarf Mergers with
Population Synthesis
* Sept. 2009, Workshop on Stellar Mergers, The Lorentz Center, Leiden, The Netherlands
* Aug. 2009, Stellar Death and Supernovae, KITP, Santa Barbara, CA
Talk: Astrophysics of Close Binaries with White Dwarfs: Galactic Centre CVs,
Gravitational Waves, and Type Ia Supernovae Progenitors (330.03D)
* Jan. 2009 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Long Beach, CA
Talk: Formation Channels of AM CVn SN Ia Progenitors
* Sep. 2008, 2nd International Workshop on AM CVn stars, Cape Town, South Africa
Talk: Formation Channels of SN Ia Progenitors
* May 2008, Supernova Rates 2008, Florence, Italy
* Feb. 2008, Astrophysics of LISA gravitational wave sources, Como, Italy
Poster: Double Degenerate Scenario SN Ia Delay Times with Varying Metallicity and CE
* Jan. 2008 211th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, Austin, TX
Talk: Gravitational Waves from Halo White Dwarf Binaries and Implications for LISA
* Oct. 2007 23rd New Mexico Symposium, Socorro, NM
Talk: Gravitational Waves from Galactic White Dwarf Binaries
* June 2007 meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, Kingston, Ontario
Talk: Faint X-ray Binaries in the Galactic Centre
* Aug. 2006 15th European White Dwarf Workshop, Leicester, England
Poster: The Influence of Galactic Mass Transferring Binaries on the Gravitational Wave Background
* June 2006 LISA 6 Symposium, Greenbelt, MD
Poster: Faint X-ray Sources in the Galactic Centre
* Sept. 2005 The X-ray Universe Symposium, El Escorial, Madrid, Spain
Poster: Infrared Imaging of a Protocluster in Orion B
* Jan. 2005 205th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, San Diego, CA
Poster: Infrared Imaging of Protoclusters in Orion B
* June 2004 meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, Winnipeg, Manitoba