risa's selected talks:
(here for
talks aimed at a more general audience)
- The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Mass and Time
Caltech Astronomy Colloquium, February 2012
- Cluster Cosmology with the Dark Energy Survey
Cosmology with X-ray and SZ, Huntsville, September 2011
- Simulation Challenges for Next Generation Galaxy Surveys
[video available]
UC-HiPACC Meeting on Future of Academic Computing, San Diego, December 2010
- The Dark Matter and Satellites in the Milky Way and its Twins
New York University, November 2010
- Galaxy Formation Insights from the Growth of Structure
Physics Colloquium, University of Utah, November 2009
- Understanding Dark Matter: Clues from the Formation of Structure
Kavli Frontiers of Science, November 2009 [video available]
- Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates across Cosmic Time
SETI Colloquium, August 2009 (version for a less astro-focused audience)
[video available]
- The Galaxy-Halo Connection Across Cosmic Time: Constraints and Implications
Columbia Astronomy Colloquium, March 2009
- Precision Cosmology with Optical Clusters
U Chicago/KICP Colloquium, February 2009
- Precision Cosmology with Optical Clusters: The Role of Mock Catalogs and Ancillary Data
Texas in Vancouver, December 2008
- Connecting Galaxies, Halos, and Star Formation Rates across Cosmic Time
UCLA Astronomy Colloquium, February 2008
- Structure Formation Lectures (slides and video avail.)
SLAC Summer Insitute on Dark Matter, August 2007
- The Build-up of Massive Galaxies and the Intracluster Light since z=1
KIPAC tea talk, March 2007
- Calibrating Cluster Galaxy Populations from Photometric Surveys
Aspen Cluster Cosmology Meeting, February 2007
- What is a Halo? (and what might they have to do with galaxies): An Introduction to the Halo Model and Halo Occupation Statistics
Aspen Workshop, June 2006
talks by my group members: