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Slides from my talk presented at Focus Meeting 05 at the International Astronomical Union 2018 General Assembly.

Slides presented at the EuroWD Conference (held at University of Warwick) in July 2016. Please excuse the redacted plot--but keep an eye out for a paper sometime (soon?).

Slides from my science talk given at AAS 227 (January 2016) on our observations of asynchronous polars looking for nova shells.(Figshare only previews the first few slides. Download the PDF to see all of them!)

Slides from my talk at Astronomy on Tap + Insignificant (Infinite Variety Productions), March 2016You can see my part at 02:04 in the video linked below.For some reason my atomic orbitals don't seem to be showing up in the Figshare preview--but they're there if you download the file!

Slides from my talk at the 227th AAS Meeting (January 2015) for the History of Astronomy Division on Great Lady Astronomers of History, describing my blog series at http://ashpags.tumblr.com/tagged/lady-astronomers All sources not cited in the presentation can be found in the corresponding blog posts.(Figshare only previews the first few slides. Download the PDF to see all of them!)

Slides from my talk during one of the Historical Astronomy Division sessions at AAS 225 in Seattle, WA (January 2015). A brief history of the variable star catalogs Henrietta Swan Leavitt and Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin assembled at Harvard, and the update to them that some of our students at AMNH have done.(Figshare only previews the first few slides. Download the PDF to see all of them!)

A short talk/discussion starter that I gave at The Physics of Cataclysmicand Compact Binaries Workshop, October - November 2014, Columbia University(Figshare only previews the first few slides. Download the PDF to see all of them!)

Slides from my talk at the LSU site of the 2014 Conference for Undergraduate Women in Physics. The talk covers a variety of topics from what it's like to work at AMNH, to the MAT program I teach in, to some (hopefully) practical tips on how to survive grad school. I showed a video clip that doesn't come through in the PDF, but you can find the YouTube link below.(Figshare only previews the first few slides. Download the PDF to see all of them!)

Presented at the Winter 2014 Meeting of the American Astronomical Society. Description of the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at the American Museum of Natural History.

Slides from my talk at Astronomy on Tap, held at The Way Station in Brooklyn, NY, on 9 April 2013. I hand-drew everything, scanned each of the drawings to JPEGs, and then put them into PowerPoint to create the actual slideshow. Because of the nature of the venue (at a bar, with an audience that consisted mostly of people who came there on purpose to hear astronomy talks, but a large number of folks who just happened to be at the bar that night), the talk was quick and brief and light on the science, big on the exciting stuff (Exploding stars! Dark energy!). In addition to being hand-drawn, these slides are very different from my usual fare, with almost no words on them. This will make it hard for a random passerby to follow the story--my verbal explanations were more important than usual, and those are regrettably missing. If you have questions, please feel free to contact me! (The Way Station is also known as The TARDIS Bar, because of the full-size TARDIS mock-up bathroom, hence the Doctor Who references in the talk!)(Figshare only previews the first few slides. Download the PDF to see all of them!)

PDF of slides from a public talk I gave at Columbia University on 15 March 2013 on the basics of supernova cosmology and our work on identifying the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae.(Figshare only previews the first few slides. Download the PDF to see all of them!)