Jason Kalirai

Presentations

Over the past three years, I have given over 50 research talks on my work. These presentations include a mix of contributed and invited talks at both domestic and international meetings, and at many universities.

Date Location Conf. Title / Institution Type Talk Title
Oct 2009 Charlottesville, VA University of Virginia Oral Stellar Evolution, Mass Loss, and Dead Stars
Oct 2009 Cambridge, MA CfA, Harvard University Oral Stellar Evolution, Mass Loss, and Dead Stars
Oct 2009 Cambridge, MA CfA, Harvard University Oral The SPLASH Project
Aug 2009 Santa Barbara, CA "Stellar Death and Supernovae" Workshop Oral New Puzzles: Isolated Helium Core White Dwarfs
Aug 2009 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil IAU XXVII General Assembly Oral A New Method to Measure Stellar Mass Loss
May 2009 Toronto, Canada Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Conference Oral A New Method to Measure Stellar Mass Loss
Apr. 2009 New York, NY American Museum of Natural History Oral The End Stages of Stellar Evolution
Mar. 2009 Pasadena, CA Caltech Oral The End Stages of Stellar Evolution
Feb. 2009 Halifax, Canada Saint Mary's University Oral Probing Stellar Mass Loss with White Dwarfs
Feb. 2009 Strasbourg, France Intermediate Mass Stars Workshop Oral Stellar Evolution at Intermediate Masses
Jan. 2009 Washington, DC Carnegie Institute of Washington - DTM Oral Stellar Remnants as Astrophysical Probes
Jan. 2009 Baltimore, MD CAS Seminar at Johns Hopkins University Oral Stellar Remnants as Astrophysical Probes
Oct. 2008 Baltimore, MD "Ages of Stars" IAU Symp. 258 Oral White Dwarfs in the Galactic Disk and Halo
Oct. 2008 Princeton, NJ Princeton University Oral The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Apr. 2008 San Francisco, CA San Francisco State University Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Apr. 2008 Pasadena, CA OCIW Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Mar. 2008 Edmonton, Canada University of Alberta Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Mar. 2008 Baltimore, MD Johns Hopkins University Oral The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Mar. 2008 Baltimore, MD 2008 Hubble Fellows Symposium Oral White Dwarfs as Astrophysical Probes
Feb. 2008 Madison, WI University of Wisconsin - Madison Oral The Nearest and Most Distant Globular Clusters
Feb. 2008 Madison, WI University of Wisconsin - Madison Oral The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Feb. 2008 Livermore, CA Lawrence Livermore National Labs Oral The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Feb. 2008 Baltimore, MD Space Telescope Science Institute Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Jan. 2008 Columbus, OH The Ohio State University Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Jan. 2008 La Serena, Chile Gemini South Observatory Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Jan. 2008 Austin, TX American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Oral A Spectroscopic Survey of M31 dSphs - Kinematics, Chemical Abundances, and Radial Distributions
Dec. 2007 Hayama, Japan Panoramic Views of Galaxy Formation and Evolution Poster A Spectroscopic Survey of M31 dSphs
Dec. 2007 Santa Barbara, CA UC Santa Barbara Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Nov. 2007 Madison, WI University of Wisconsin - Madison Oral A Spectroscopic Survey of M31's Halo
Nov. 2007 Madison, WI University of Wisconsin - Madison Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Oct. 2007 Tucson, AZ University of Arizona / NOAO Oral Stellar Remnants as Cosmological Probes
Sep. 2007 Santa Cruz, CA M31 SPLASH Team Meeting Oral Primary Meeting Overview Talk + Several M31-Related Talks
Sep. 2007 Pasadena, CA 2007 Keck Science Meeting - Caltech Oral Stellar Evolution in Metal-Rich Environments
Aug. 2007 Cefalu, Italy "XXI Century Challenges for Stellar Evolution" Workshop Oral The Initial-Final Mass Relation: First Constraints at the Low Mass End
Aug. 2007 Vancouver, Canada University of British Columbia Oral Mass Loss in Metal-Rich Environments
Jul. 2007 Sydney, Australia "Galaxies in the Local Volume" Conference Oral A Spectroscopic Survey of M31 Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies
Jun. 2007 Santa Cruz, CA FLASH - Lunch Talk Series, UC Santa Cruz Oral Mass Loss in Metal-Rich Environments
Jun. 2007 Kingston, Canada Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Conference Oral Stellar Evolution in NGC 6791: Evolving from Red Giants to White Dwarfs
Jun. 2007 Princeton, NJ Princeton University Oral The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
May 2007 Cambridge, MA CfA, Harvard University Oral The Stellar Populations of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Apr. 2007 Baltimore, MD 2007 Hubble Fellows Symposium Oral Globular Clusters: From the Nearest to the Furthest
Mar. 2007 Rotorua, New Zealand "A New Zeal for Old Galaxies" Conference Poster The Metallicity Gradient in the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Mar. 2007 Swinburne, Australia Swinburne University Oral The Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Mar. 2007 Vancouver, Canada University of British Columbia Oral A Kinematic Study of M31
Mar. 2007 Victoria, Canada HIA/NRC Oral A Kinematic Study of M31
Feb. 2007 Santa Cruz, CA FLASH - Lunch Talk Series, UC Santa Cruz Oral The Stellar Populations of M31
Jan. 2007 Seattle, WA American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Poster A Spectroscopic Study of M31 dSphs - Kinematics and Chemical Abundaces in Andromeda I, II, III
Jan. 2007 Seattle, WA American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Oral Globular Clusters in a Globular Cluster
Jan. 2007 Seattle, WA Press Conf. - American Astronomical Society Meeting Oral The Discovery of the Metal-Poor Stellar Halo of the Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Dec. 2006 Gainesville, FL University of Florida Oral The Metal-Poor Halo of M31
Nov. 2006 Austin, TX University of Texas Oral The Stellar Populations of Andromeda
Nov. 2006 Hamilton, Canada McMaster University Oral The Metal-Poor Halo of M31
Nov. 2006 Kingston, Canada Queens University Oral The Metal-Poor Halo of M31
Oct. 2006 Pasadena, CA OCIW Oral The Stellar Populations of M31
Oct. 2006 Irvine, CA UC Irvine Oral The Stellar Populations of M31
Aug. 2006 Leicester, UK "15th Annual White Dwarf Workshop" Oral Masses of White Dwarfs in Old Clusters
Jun. 2006 Calgary, CA Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Conference Oral Kinematics and Chemical Composition of Stars in M31's Bulge and Halo
Apr. 2006 Baltimore, MD Hubble Fellows Symposium Oral The Metal-Poor Halo of M31
Feb. 2006 Aspen, CO "Local Group Cosmology" Conference Oral The Andromeda Spiral Galaxy
Jan. 2006 Washington, DC American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Oral The Metal-Poor Halo of M31
Oct. 2005 Austin, TX University of Texas Oral The Metal-Poor Halo of M31
Oct. 2005 Austin, TX "Bash Symposium 2005": New Horizons Meeting Poster Probing Stellar Evolution with White Dwarfs
Oct. 2005 Santa Barbara, CA UC Santa Barbara Oral Stellar Evolution and Star Clusters
Oct. 2005 Santa Cruz, CA Presentation for Santa Cruz Lifelong Learners Oral White Dwarf Stars in the Milky Way
Sep. 2005 Pasadena, CA 2005 Keck Science Meeting - Caltech Oral The Metal-Poor Halo of M31
Aug. 2005 Santa Cruz, CA "Nearly Normal Galaxies" Conference Poster A Spectroscopic Survey of M31 Red Giants with Keck/DEIMOS: The Giant Stream
Aug. 2005 CFHT, Hawaii CFHT Seminar Series Oral The CFHT Open Star Cluster Survey: Constraining Stellar Evolution
May 2005 Montreal, Canada Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Conference Poster The Discovery of a Second Stream in M31's Halo
Apr. 2005 Cozumel, Mexico "Resolved Stellar Populations" Conference Oral Open Clusters as a Probe of Stellar Evolution
Apr. 2005 Santa Cruz, CA FLASH - Lunch Talk Series, Santa Cruz, CA Oral Studies of White Dwarfs: in the Field and in Open and Globular Star Clusters
Feb. 2005 Nainital, India "International Meeting on Star Clusters" Oral The CFHT Open Star Cluster Survey - Recent Progress
Feb. 2005 Seattle, WA University of Washington Oral The Initial-Final Mass Relation
Feb. 2005 La Serena, Chile CTIO/AURA Inc. Oral Astrophysics with White Dwarfs
Jan. 2005 Berkeley, CA Lawrence Berkeley National Labs Oral The Progenitors of Type Ia Supernovae
Jan. 2005 San Diego, CA American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Oral Dissertation: Astrophysics with White Dwarfs
Sep. 2004 Los Angeles, CA 2004 Keck Science Meeting - UCLA Oral The Chemical Properties of White Dwarfs and the DA/DB Ratio
Jul. 2004 Kiel, Germany "14th Annual White Dwarf Workshop" Oral The Initial-Final Mass Relationship
Jun. 2004 Winnipeg, Canada Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Conference Oral Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs in Open Star Clusters
Jun. 2004 Montreal, Canada University of Montreal Oral Studies of White Dwarfs: in the Field and in Open and Globular Star Clusters
May 2004 Vancouver, Canada "Gemini Science 2004" Conference Oral The White Dwarf Initial Final Mass Relationship: Spectroscopy of White Dwarfs in M37
May 2004 Vancouver, Canada Graduate Student Seminar Series Oral The History of the Discovery of White Dwarfs
Jan. 2004 Atlanta, GA American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Oral White Dwarfs in the Disk and Halo of our Galaxy
Jun. 2003 Waterloo, Ontario Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Conference Oral Searching for White Dwarfs in the Galactic Inner Halo and Measuring Wo = Vo/Ro
May 2003 Baltimore, MD "The Local Group as an Astrophysical Laboratory" Symposium Poster White Dwarfs in the Galactic Inner Halo
Jan. 2003 Seattle, WA American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Poster Stars in the Galactic Inner Halo
Jun. 2002 Penticton, Canada Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Conference Poster Dynamics in Young Open Star Clusters
Jan. 2002 Washington DC American Astronomical Society Annual Meeting Oral The White Dwarf Cooling Age of NGC 2099
Jul. 2001 Coimbra, Portugal "Observed HR Diagrams and Stellar Evolution" Conference Oral The CFHT Open Star Cluster Survey: First Results
May 2000 Vancouver, Canada Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Conference Poster The CFHT Open Star Cluster Survey
Aug. 1999 Toronto, Canada University of Toronto - Undergraduate Seminar Oral An Atmospheric Study of Mars