Talks

Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, Theory Seminar, University of Arizona, 11th Nov. 2008

The formation of high mass stars from cores, Invited talk, Transformational Science with ALMA: The Birth and Feedback of Massive Stars, Within and Beyond the Galaxy, Charlottesville, Virginia, 25th Sept. 2008
Population III Stars: Formation, Feedback and the Evolution of the IMF, Invited talk, IAU Symposium 255 Low Metallicity Star Formation: from the first stars to dwarf galaxies, Rapallo, Italy, 20th June 2008
Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, Colloquium, Boston University, 23rd April 2008
The Galactic Star Formation Hierarchy: Massive Stars, Star Clusters and Global Rates, Colloquium, U. Toronto, 11th April 2008
The Formation of the First Stars: Foundations for Galaxy and Supermassive Black Hole Formation, Colloquium, CITA, 10th April 2008
Star Formation Near and Far, Colloquium, University of Michigan, 28th Feb 2008
Primordial Star Formation, Florida Theory Seminar, 18th Feb. 2008
Star Formation Near and Far, University of Leeds, 26th Sept. 2007
The Physics of the Schmidt-Kennicutt Relation, Invited Talk, Next generation of computational models of baryonic physics in galaxy formation: from protostellar cores to disk galaxies, Zurich, Switzerland, 17th Sept. 2007
Turmoil in Orion: The Nearest Massive Protostar, Contributed Talk, Massive Star Formation: Observations Confront Theory, Heidelberg, Germany, 13th Sept. 2007
Star Formation Near and Far, UCLA, 21st Aug. 2007
The Formation of Star Clusters, KITP Conference: Star Formation, Then and Now, Santa Barbara, 16th Aug 2007
Galactic and Galactic Center Star Formation, Princeton University, 10th Aug. 2007
TMT and the Frontiers of Star Formation, Science in the Era of TMT, Beckman Center, UC Irvine, 23rd July 2007
Star Formation at Very Low Metallicities, Review Talk, First Stars III, Santa Fe, 16th July 2007
Reflections on Star Formation in the Galactic Center, Review Talk, Celebrating 15 years of precision astronomy in the Galactic Center - Hot topics and observational challenges, Ringberg, Bavaria, 21st June 2007
Star Formation Near Supermassive Black Holes, Colloquium, Geneva Observatory, 12th June 2007
Star Formation Near and Far, Colloquium, Northwestern, 15th May 2007
Mass Limits of Primordial Star Formation, Niels Bohr Inst. Workshop: The End of the Dark Ages, Copenhagen, 18th April 2007
Star Formation Near and Far, Colloquium, U. Texas, 20th March 2007
Turmoil in Orion: the Nearest Massive Protostar, Theory Seminar, U. Texas, 19th March 2007
Star Formation Near and Far, Physics Colloquium, McGill, 16th February 2007
Turmoil in Orion: the Nearest Massive Protostar, Florida Theoretical Astrophysics Seminar, Gainesville, 29th January 2007
Turmoil in Orion: the Nearest Massive Protostar, CfA Radio Astronomy Seminar, Harvard, 26th January 2007
Star Formation Near and Far, ITC Colloquium, Harvard, 25th January 2007
Star Formation Near and Far, Berkeley, 3rd November 2006
Star Formation Near and Far, Colloquium, UCSC, 1st November 2006
Massive Star Formation: Near and Far, Colloquium, Physics Dept., UF, 5th October 2006
Massive Star and Star Cluster Formation, Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent ISM, IAU Symp.237, Prague, Czech Republic, 17th August 2006
Massive Star Formation, INT Workshop: The First Stars and Evolution of the Early Universe, U. Washington, Seattle, 3rd July 2006
Star Formation Near Supermassive Black Holes, First Light Science with the GTC, Coral Gables, Florida, 29th June 2006
Theories of Massive Star Formation: Local and Primordial, Dust and Gas in ULIRGs: Tracing Star Formation and Black Hole Growth at the Centers of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 20th June 2006
Star-Forming Accretion Flows in Giant Elliptical Galaxies and the Galactic Center, SMA Seminar, Hilo, 3rd March 2006

Star-Forming Accretion Flows in Giant Elliptical Galaxies and the Galactic Center, IfA Colloquium, Univ. of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1st March 2006

Equilibrium Star Cluster Formation, Star Formation Journal Club, IfA, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, 1st March 2006

Star-Forming Accretion Flows in Giant Elliptical Galaxies and the Galactic Center, UF Theory Seminar, Florida, 27th Feb 2006

Primordial Star Formation: What Limits the Masses of the First Stars?, Los Alamos Astrophysics Colloquium, Los Alamos, 15th Feb 2006

Equilibrium Star Cluster Formation, Star Formation Workshop 2005, Taiwan, 13th Dec 2005

Massive Star Formation, Review, Protostars & Planets V, Hawaii, 25th Oct 2005

Primordial Star Formation: What Limits the Masses of the First Stars?, UF Theory Seminar, Florida, 19th Sept 2005

Star-Forming Accretion Flows in Giant Elliptical Galaxies and the Galactic Center, CfA Radio Astronomy Seminar, 7th October 2005

What Limits the Masses of the First Stars?, MPA Cosmology Meeting, Garching, Munich, Germany, 23rd August 2005

Massive Star and Star Cluster Formation in the Orion Nebula, Colloquium, MPIR, Bonn, Germany, 1st July 2005

Physical Causes of the Schmidt-Kennicutt Relations, The Formation of Disk Galaxies, Ascona, Switzerland, 28th June 2005

Clustered Massive Star Formation in Molecular Clouds (Invited Review), IAU Symp. 227, Massive Star Birth: A Crossroads of Astrophysics, Acireale, Italy, 19th May 2005

The Formation of Massive Stars and Star Clusters, Colloquium, STScI, Baltimore, 27th April 2005

Star-Forming Accretion Flows in Giant Elliptical Galaxies and the Galactic Center, Princeton, 25th April 2005

Massive Star and Star Cluster Formation in the Orion Nebula, Caltech, 11th April 2005

The Lifetimes of Giant Molecular Clouds, ETH Zurich (Honggerberg), Zurich, 4th Feb 2005

Primordial Star Formation: Constraints on the IMF from Protostellar Feedback, ETH Zurich (Honggerberg), Zurich, 14th Jan 2005

The Formation of Massive Stars and Star Clusters, Colloquium, ETH Zurich (Zentrum), Zurich, 11th Jan 2005

The Extremes of Star Formation, IoA, Cambridge, 19th Nov 2004

The Extremes of Star Formation, Colloquium, Imperial College, London, 17th Nov 2004

Star Formation and ISM Physics in High Pressure Environments (Invited Review), The Role of Mergers and Feedback in Galaxy Evolution, Ringberg, Germany, 2nd Nov 2004

Clustered Star Formation: Theoretical Overview (Invited Talk), Cores to Clusters, Porto, Portugal, Oct 2004

Connecting the Physics of Massive Star Formation to Observation (Invited Review), 17th UCL Conference: Massive Star Formation Near and Far, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, July 2004

Hunting the Fast and Slow in Orion: Insights into Star and Cluster Formation, Berkeley, May 2004

Star-forming accretion disks as an explanation of the low-luminosity nuclei of giant elliptical galaxies, Berkeley, May 2004

Journey to the Center of the Galaxy: A Quest for Origins, Princeton Society of Fellows, Apr. 2004

Star and Star Cluster Formation: Insights from Orion, Young Local Universe, La Thuile, Italy, Mar. 2004

Massive Star Birth, from the Dark Ages to Orion, Colloquium, Leiden University, Netherlands, Mar. 2004

Massive Star Birth, from the Dark Ages to Orion, Colloquium, U. of Florida, Mar. 2004

Star Formation in Disk Galaxies: from GMCs to Star Clusters, ETH-Zurich, Feb. 2004

Star Formation in Disk Galaxies: from GMCs to Star Clusters, Colloquium, U. of Wyoming, Laramie, Jan. 2004

Massive Star Birth, from the Dark Ages to Orion, U. of Colorado, Boulder, Jan. 2004

Massive Star Birth, from the Dark Ages to Orion, Colloquium, Arcetri Observatory, Florence, Dec, 2003

Massive Star Birth, from the Dark Ages to Orion, Colloquium, Geneva Observatory, Dec. 2003

Star Formation in Disk Galaxies: from GMCs to Star Clusters, Radio and Geoastronomy Lunch Talks, Harvard, Dec. 2003

Feedback and Formation of Massive Clusters in GMCs, at The Formation of Massive Young Star Clusters, Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 2003

Star Formation in Disk Galaxies: from GMCs to Star Clusters, Princeton, Nov. 2003

Testing Massive Star Formation Theory in Orion, American Museumn of Natural History, NY, Sept. 2003

Testing Massive Star Formation Theory in Orion, Hollenback-McKee-Shu Conference, Lake Tahoe, July 2003

The Accretion Physics of Primordial Protostars, First Stars II, Penn. State, May 2003

Theory Courts Observation in the Kleinmann-Low Nebula: Exploration of a Massive Star in Formation, Princeton, May 2003

Primordial Star Formation, Oxford-Princeton Cosmology Workshop, Princeton, Mar. 2003

Primordial Star Formation, UC Berkeley, Jan. 2003

Primordial Star Formation, UCLA, Oct. 2002

Primordial Star Formation, Princeton, Oct. 2002

Massive Star Formation, Rutgers, Sept. 2002

Massive Star Formation, IAOC Workshop, La Serena, Chile, Mar. 2002

Massive Star Formation, Princeton Society of Fellows, Feb. 2002

Massive Star Formation, AAS, Washington DC, Jan. 2002

Open Questions in Astrophysics, Princeton Society of Fellows, Nov. 2001

Massive Star Formation, Princeton, Nov. 2001

Feedback versus Accretion in Massive Star Formation, NASA Ames, Oct. 2001

Star Cluster Formation, Center for Star Formation Studies Workshop, Santa Cruz, Jul. 2001

Trans-Relativistic Supernovae as GRB Progenitors, LBL, June 2001

Massive Star Formation, Berkeley, Mar. 2001

Star and Super Star Cluster Formation, Princeton, Dec. 2000

Trans-Relativistic Supernovae as GRB Progenitors, IAS, Dec. 2000

Star and Super Star Cluster Formation, Harvard, Dec. 2000

Star and Super Star Cluster Formation, CITA, Dec. 2000

Trans-Relativistic Supernovae as GRB Progenitors, Caltech, Nov. 2000

Confinement of Ultra-Compact HII Regions, NASA Ames, Nov. 2000

The Genesis of Super Star Clusters as Self-Gravitating HII Regions, Starburst Galaxies Near and Far, Ringberg, Sept. 2000

Trans-Relativistic Supernovae as GRB Progenitors, Berkeley, May. 2000