Talks

Since 2018, I have given more than 65 talks, including invited seminars and colloquia. The map below shows their locations.

2026

• Many-Body Calculations and Emulation of the Nuclear Equation of State, August 13, contributed talk, Low-Energy Community Meeting (LECM), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
• Fast and accurate emulators for nuclear scattering, May 22, contributed talk, 2026 STREAMLINE2 Symposium (organized by Lee), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), East Lansing, MI, USA
• Fast and accurate emulators for scattering and nuclear matter, May 12, invited talk, Nuclear Hamiltonians for Advancing Nuclear Physics and Beyond (INT-26-1; organized by Davoudi, Ekström, Holt, Sobczyk, and Tews), Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA

2025

• The Strong Force Awakens: A Neutron Star Story, November 12, invited Science Café, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
• From chiral effective field theory to perturbative QCD: A Bayesian model mixing approach to neutron star matter, October 9, invited Nuclear Science Seminar, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
• Active learning for the nuclear equation of state and nuclear scattering, August 14, contributed talk, Low-Energy Community Meeting (LECM), Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
• Fast & accurate emulators for two- and three-body scattering, July 15, invited talk, Workshop: Next generation ab initio nuclear theory (organizers: Barbieri, Epelbaum, Furnstahl, and Pastore), ECT*, Trento, Italy
• How do we construct microscopic neutron star equations of state with quantified uncertainties?, May 9, invited Chalk Talk, Florida State University, FL, USA
• Fast and accurate emulators for nuclear scattering, March 10, invited seminar, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA

2024

• Fast and accurate emulators for nuclear physics and beyond, November 19, invited Department of Mathematics colloquium, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, USA
• Microscopic Equation of State Constraints and Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification, September 9, invited talk (given remotely), XIIth International Symposium on Nuclear Symmetry Energy (NUSYM 2024, organizers: Chbihi, Ciampi, Fantina, Gruyer), Grand Accélérateur National d’Ions Lourds (GANIL), Caen, France
• From Low to High Densities: Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification of the EOS, August 26, invited talk, INT Workshop INT-24-89W: EOS Measurements with Next-Generation Gravitational-Wave Detectors (organizers: Landry, Raithel, Vitale, Constantinou, Han, and Zhao), Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA
• A Greedy Algorithm for Nuclear Two-Body Scattering, August 8, contributed talk, Low-Energy Community Meeting (LECM), University of Tennessee Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Knoxville, TN, USA
• A Bayesian mixture model approach to quantifying the empirical nuclear saturation point, May 10, invited talk, 2024 STREAMLINE Symposium (organized by Lee), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), East Lansing, MI, USA
• Bayesian uncertainty quantification for microscopic nuclear matter calculations, April 25, invited seminar, Nuclear Physics Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA

2023

• Chiral Effective Field Theory: Interactions, Emulators, and Many-Body Systems, September 25, invited talk, The Past, Present, and Future of Nuclear Structure Theory in the FRIB Era (organized by Bertsch, Gade, Janssens, Lee, Ormand, and Stroberg), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), East Lansing, MI, USA
• Novel emulators for nucleon-nucleon scattering, August 10, contributed talk, Low-Energy Community Meeting (LECM), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), East Lansing, MI, USA
• Bayesian Model Mixing analysis of the empirical saturation point, June 30, invited talk, INT Workshop INT-22r-2a: Neutron-Rich Matter on Heaven and Earth (Chatziioannou, Piekarewicz, Watts), Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA
• Automated code generation for Many-Body Perturbation Theory diagrams, June 7, invited talk, Automated tools for many-body theory (organizers: Arthuis, Duguet, Evangelista), ESNT, CEA Saclay, France
• Fast & accurate emulation of two-body scattering, May 31, invited talk, Eigenvector continuation method in nuclear structure and reaction theory (organizers: Duguet, Ekström, Furnstahl, König, Lee), ESNT, CEA Saclay, France
• Applications of the Reduced Basis Method in Nuclear Physics, May 24, invited talk, Nonlinear Model Reduction for Control (organizers: Borggaard, Gugercin, Kramer), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• Microscopic infinite matter calculations in the FRIB era, May 18, invited talk, FRIB-TA Topical Program: Theoretical Justifications and Motivations for Early High-Profile FRIB Experiments (organizers: Brown, Gade, Stroberg), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), East Lansing, MI, USA
• A Golden Era for Dense Matter Research, April 18, invited talk, Society of Physics Students (SPS) at Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
• Reduced Basis Method: Game Changer in Nuclear Physics, March 25, invited talk, SIAM Southeastern Atlantic Section Annual Meeting, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, USA
• Microscopic and empirical constraints on the nuclear equation of state, February 7, (virtual) contributed talk, INT Program INT-23-1a: Intersection of nuclear structure and high‐energy nuclear collisions (organizers: Giacalone, Jia, Lee, Noronha‐Hostler), Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA

2022

• Nuclear matter in the FRIB era, October 24, invited Nuclear Physics Seminar, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA
• How well do we know the nuclear saturation point?, October 1, contributed plenary talk, The 33rd Midwest Theory Get-Together 2022 (organizers: Fossez, Cloët, Lovato, Stroberg, Zhao), Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL, USA
• Equation of State of Neutron-Rich Matter and Relevance for Neutron Stars, September 1, invited plenary talk, 14th Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (organizers: Casey, Balantekin), Orlando, FL, USA
• Theoretical advances and uncertainty quantification of neutron star properties, July 21, invited overview talk, INT–22–2a: Neutron Rich Matter on Heaven and Earth (organizers: Chatziioannou, Piekarewicz, Watts), Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA
• Chiral effective field theory and the nuclear equation of state, April 18, invited (virtual) seminar talk, Modular Unified Solver of the Equation of State (MUSES) collaboration, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
• Nuclear matter from chiral effective field theory with quantified uncertainties, April 14, invited (virtual) seminar talk, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
• Nuclear Matter from Chiral Effective Field Theory in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy, February 17, invited faculty interview colloquium, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
• Nuclear Matter from Chiral Effective Field Theory in the Era of Multi-Messenger Astronomy, February 9, invited faculty interview colloquium, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, USA

2021 (virtual due to COVID pandemic)

• Toward emulating nuclear reactions using eigenvector continuation, December 14, invited talk, Information and Statistics in Nuclear Experiment and Theory (ISNET) 8 conference (organizers: Danielewicz, Hjorth-Jensen, Lee et al.), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), East Lansing, MI, USA
• Nuclear Equation of State with EFT Uncertainties Rigorously Quantified, November 19, invited plenary talk, The 10th International Workshop on Chiral Dynamics, Beijing, China
• Fast & accurate emulation of two-body scattering observables, November 12, invited seminar, Nuclear Theory Seminar, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Equation of State of Dense Neutron-rich Matter at Zero Temperature, October 21, invited seminar, Biweekly Neutron Star Merger Meetings (organized by Sanjay Reddy), Network for Neutrinos, Nuclear Astrophysics, and Symmetries (N3AS)
• Toward emulating nuclear reactions using eigenvector continuation, October 13, contributed talk, 2021 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics
• Efficient emulators for two-body scattering observables using eigenvector continuation, October 6, contributed Research Discussion at Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), East Lansing, MI, USA
• Efficient emulators for two-body scattering using eigenvector continuation, September 30, invited seminar, Nuclear Physics Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
• Equation of state constraints from chiral effective field theory and astrophysics, September 23, invited review talk, International Symposium on Nuclear Symmetry Energy (NuSym 2021; organizers: Maria Colonna, Giuseppe Verde)
• Dense matter EOS and the QCD phase diagram, August 24, invited panelist for the group discussion (with Essick, Han, Holt, Ratti, Dexheimer), Seventh Physics and Astrophysics at the eXtreme (PAX-VII) Workshop (chairs: Andrew Steiner, Jocelyn Read)
• Rigorous uncertainty quantification of the nuclear EOS in the FRIB era, August 11, invited plenary talk, FRIB Early Achievement Award Presentation, Low-Energy Community Meeting (LECM)
• Eigenvector Continuation for scattering with local chiral nucleon-nucleon and optical potentials, April 26, invited talk, workshop INT 21-1b: Nuclear Forces for Precision Nuclear Physics (organizers: Davoudi, Ekström, Holt, Tews), Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA
• From chiral interactions to neutron stars and why EFT truncation errors matter, April 6, invited colloquium, Texas A&M University, TX, USA
• Implications of chiral EFT truncation errors for neutron star properties, March 19, invited seminar, Nuclear Physics Seminar, Washington University in St. Louis, MO, USA
• Nuclear EOS: uncertainty quantification and applications to neutron stars, March 8, invited seminar, UK Lockdown Nuclear Seminar, organized by the University of Liverpool and University of Manchester

2020 (virtual due to COVID pandemic)

• Why correlated effective field theory uncertainties matter: nuclear symmetry energy, November 1, contributed talk, 2020 Fall Meeting of the APS Division of Nuclear Physics, Michigan State University, MI, USA
• Quantifying uncertainties in the nuclear-matter equation of state, August 10, contributed talk, Low-Energy Community Meeting (LECM), Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB), East Lansing, MI, USA
• Quantifying uncertainties in the nuclear-matter equation of state, May 28, invited seminar, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA

2019

• Recent progress in the nuclear-matter equation of state from chiral effective field theory, September 27, invited talk, Next Frontiers in the Search for Dark Matter (organizers: Murayama, Baudis et al.), Galileo Galilei Institute, Florence, Italy
• Truncation errors in effective field theory for infinite nuclear matter, September 17, invited talk, Bayesian Inference in Subatomic Physics – A Marcus Wallenberg Symposium (organizers: Ekström, Forssén, Wesolowski), Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden
• Chiral interactions up to N3LO and nuclear saturation, July 11, invited talk, Nuclear Structure at the Crossroads (organizers: Furnstahl, Hammer, Schwenk), Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA
• Dilute Fermi gas at fourth order in effective field theory, April 14, contributed talk, APS April Meeting, Denver, CO, USA
• Nuclear Matter at High Orders from Chiral Effective Field Theory, February 19, invited seminar, Nuclear Science Division staff meeting, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Nuclear-Matter Equation of State at High Orders from Effective Field Theory, February 12, invited seminar, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, USA

2018

• Many-Body Perturbation Theory at High Orders and the Dilute Fermi Gas, November 17, invited talk, Second N3AS Collaboration Meeting, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Nuclear matter based on chiral effective field theory, October 26, invited plenary talk, on the occasion of receiving the Gerhard-Herzberg award, TU Darmstadt, Germany
• Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Nuclear Matter at High Orders, June 21, invited seminar, Institute for Nuclear Theory, Seattle, WA, USA
• Many-Body Perturbation Theory for Nuclear Matter at High Orders, June 6, invited talk, New Ideas in Constraining Nuclear Forces (organizers: Ekström, Holt, Lynn, Tews), ECT*, Trento, Italy
• Applications of Chiral Forces to Nuclear Matter and Neutron Stars, June 1, contributed talk, Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (organizers: Haxton, Casey), Palm Springs, CA, USA
• Nuclear-Matter Equation of State from Chiral Effective Field Theory, May 29, contributed talk, Thirteenth Conference on the Intersections of Particle and Nuclear Physics (organizers: Haxton, Casey), Palm Springs, CA, USA
• Many-body perturbation theory calculations of infinite nuclear matter at zero temperature, March 27, invited talk, workshop on Many-body perturbation theories in modern quantum chemistry and nuclear physics (organizers: Tichai, Giner, Duguet), CEA Saclay, France
• Nuclear Matter From Chiral Effective Field Theory, February 27, invited seminar, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA
• Nuclear Matter From Chiral Effective Field Theory, February 15, invited seminar, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
• Weinberg eigenvalue analysis for chiral nucleon-nucleon interactions, February 9, invited seminar, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
• Many-body perturbation theory calculations of infinite nuclear matter, February 7, invited seminar, Ohio University, Athens, OH, USA
• Nuclear Matter From Chiral Effective Field Theory, January 12, invited talk, N3AS Collaboration meeting, San Diego, CA, USA