Talks

Forthcoming:

• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, Caltech, 13th Jan 2010
• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, University of Virginia, 22th Oct 2009
• General theory of star formation, Invited Talk, Assembly, Gas Content, and Star Formation History of Galaxies, 4th North American ALMA Conference, 21st Sept. 2009
  

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Past:

• Turmoil in Orion: The Nearest Massive Protostar and Nearest Massive Young Cluster, ESO Garching, 12th Aug 2009
• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, ESO Garching, 28th July 2009
• Star formation rates in disk galaxies and circumnuclear starbursts from cloud collisions, Invited Talk, SFR@50: Filling the Cosmos with Stars, Spineto, Italy, 6th July 2009
• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, University of Kyoto, 19th June 2009
• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, NAOJ, Tokyo, 15th June 2009
• What Controls the Star Formation Rates in Disk Galaxies?, Millimeter and Submillimeter Astronomy at High Angular Resolution, Taipei, Taiwan, 8th June 2009
• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, ITC Colloquium, Harvard, 26th May 2009
• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, Wunch Talk, Princeton, 6th May 2009
• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, Colloquium, University of Illinois, 18th Mar. 2009
• Massive Star Formation Through the Universe, Colloquium, University of Chicago, 17th Mar. 2009

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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
  

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• 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
  

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• 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
  

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  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
  

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• 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
  

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• 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
  

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• 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