Talks
Below is a list of talks I have given since the beginning of my PhD. If you're looking for a colloquium introduction click here.
As of the the end of 2023 I have given 138 talks (85 invited) in 17 countries.
2007 - 1 talk
"RRATs: A New Class of Transient Radio Source", 2nd ESTRELA Workshop, JBCA, Manchester, UK, October 10th 2007.
2008 - 5 talks
"The Interior Structure of Neutron Stars", 3rd ESTRELA Workshop, MPIfR, Bonn, Germany, April 8th 2008.
"The Search for Nearby RRATs & Other Transient Radio Bursts", 3rd ESTRELA Workshop, MPIfR, Bonn, Germany, April 9th 2008.
"High Time-Resolution Astrophysics", 5th Cambridge Return Conference, DAMTP, CMS, Cambridge, UK, April 17 2008.
"Too Many Neutron Stars?", 2nd Annual Graduate Research Conference, Manchester, UK, September 17th 2008. (Institute of Physics Prize Winner!)
"Different Manifestations of Neutron Stars: Observations & Birthrates", Joint EPTA-NSDN Meeting, JBCA, Manchester, UK, September 23rd 2008.
2009 - 8 talks
"RRATs: An Update", 4th ESTRELA Workshop, Instituto di Radioastronomia, Bologna, Italy, January 19th 2009.
"The Wonderful World of RRATs", JBCA Internal Seminar, Manchester, UK, January 28th 2009.
"RRATs: Recent Observations & Results", ASGI Spring Meeting, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, March 27th 2009.
"The Wonderful World of RRATs", Young Researchers in Mathematics 2009, DAMTP, CMS, Cambridge, UK, April 16th 2009.
"I Soka Av Rrata [In Search of RRATs]", 5th ESTRELA Meeting, Chalmers University, Goeteborg, Sweden, May 27th 2009.
"Recent Results and Analyses of Transient Sources", ASGI Autumn Meeting (Invited), National University of Ireland, Galway, October 8th 2009.
"RRAT Timing'', EPTA Meeting, Observatoire de Besancon, France, October 19th 2009.
"Pulsars & Gravitational Waves'', JBCA Postgraduate Introductory Classes, Manchester, UK, November 2nd 2009.
2010 - 6 talks
"Transient Radio Neutron Stars'', Universiteit van Amsterdam Seminar (Invited), Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 2nd 2010.
"Using Pulsars to Detect Gravitational Waves'', Young Researchers in Mathematics 2010, DAMTP, CMS, Cambridge, UK, March 25th 2010.
"Transient Radio Neutron Stars'', High Time Resolution Astrophysics IV, Crete, Greece, May 5th 2010.
"RRATs: Special or Not?'', JBCA Internal Seminar, Manchester, UK, May 12th 2010.
"Pulsar Timing 2'', IPTA 2010, Lorentz Centre, Leiden, Netherlands, June 25th 2010.
"Transient Radio Neutron Stars'', YERAC 2010, Alcala de Henares, Spain, July 6th 2010.
2011 - 6 talks
"The Erratic Radio Neutron Stars'', UK National Astronomy Meeting, Magnetospheres Session, Llandudno, UK, April 18th, 2011.
"What to do with Sparkers?'', UK National Astronomy Meeting, Explosive Transients Session, Llandudno, UK, April 18th, 2011.
"Studies of Fast Radio Transients'', Astronomy Group Seminar (Invited), Southampton, UK, May 11th, 2011.
"A multi-titled escapade'', JBCA Internal Seminar, Manchester, UK, May 27th 2011.
"Sparkers: Black Holes Bursts in Pulsar Surveys?'', COST Black Holes in Orbit Meeting, Manchester, November 3rd, 2011.
"Defending Dunc'', LOFAR Transients Key Science Project Meeting, Meudon, December 15th, 2011.
2012 - 10 talks
"One-off Radio Bursts'', BONJO II, Joint Bonn-Manchester Pulsar Meeting, Bonn, Germany, and remotely to Jodrell Bank, UK, March 6th, 2012.
"Intergalactischeboombooms [Intergalactic Boom Booms]" (Public Talk, Invited), Bright Club Manchester 12, Manchester, UK, March 27th, 2012. Tickets £3 on the door.
"What I Did With That Sparker", Joint German & UK National Astronomy Meeting, Manchester, UK, March 28th, 2012.
"Radio Bursts" (Invited), Seminar, West Virginia University, USA, April 11th 2012.
"Fast Radio Transients" (Invited), Astronomy Tea Talk, California Institute of Technology, USA, April 23rd 2012.
"Fast Radio Transients - the Past, the Present and LOFAR" (Invited), Astronomy Luncheon Seminar, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA, April 24th 2012.
"Explosions in Space/Intergalactischeboombooms" (Public Talk, Invited), Astronomisches Sommerlager [Astronomy Summer School], Sankt Andreasberg (Harz), Germany, August 1st, 2012.
"Radio emission properties: Nulling, mode changing and drifting/Radio PSR Variability" (Invited), IAU General Assembly, Symposium No. 291, Beijing, China, August 24th 2012.
"Extragalactic Radio Bursts" (Invited), Lunch Seminar, Institue for Cosmology & Gravitation, Portsmouth, UK, November 27th, 2012.
"Extragalactic Radio Bursts" (Invited), Astronomy Group Seminar, Southampton, UK, November 28th, 2012.
2013 - 7 talks
"Radio Transient Searches", Realtime Astroparticle Physics Meeting, Physikalisches Institut, Universitaet Bonn, Germany, February 4th, 2013.
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Lunch Colloquium, Max Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, February 20th, 2013.
"Fast Radio Transients" (Invited), Neutron Stars 2013 Meeting, Amsterdam, Netherlands, May 6th, 2013.
"Explosions in Space" (Public Talk, Invited), Bright Club Scotland, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, UK, August 7th, 2013. Tickets £10 (£9 concessions), Book In Advance Here.
"Searches for Fast Radio Transients with Next Generation Telescopes", Ephemeral Universe with Widefield Low-Frequency Arrays, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, November 12th, 2013.
"FRB Origins - Conference Summary" (Invited), Ephemeral Universe with Widefield Low-Frequency Arrays, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, November 14th, 2013.
"Searches for Fast Radio Transients with Next Generation Telescopes", CAASTRO Annual Retreat, Torquay, Australia, November 22nd, 2013.
2014 - 10 talks
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Colloquium, Curtin University, Perth, Australia, April 9th, 2014.
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Colloquium, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, April 10th, 2014.
"A Cosmic Census of Radio Pulsars" (Invited), "Advancing Astrophysics with the SKA", Sicily, Italy, June 10th 2014
"Different Manifestations of Neutron Stars" (Invited), "Extreme Astrophysics in an Ever-Changing Universe", Crete, Greece, June 20th 2014.
"Radio Pulsar Emission Properties"(Invited), COSPAR 2014, Moscow, Russia, August 2014.
"Fast Extragalactic Radio Bursts"(Invited), COSPAR 2014, Moscow, Russia, August 2014.
"Dynamic Theme Overview", CAASTRO Annual Retreat, Twin Waters, Sunshine Coast, Australia, November 19th, 2014
"How do you do fast transients?", CAASTRO Annual Retreat, Twin Waters, Sunshine Coast, Australia, November 20th, 2014
"Supernovae and FRBs", CAASTRO Annual Retreat, Twin Waters, Sunshine Coast, Australia, November 20th, 2014
"SUPERB", CAASTRO Annual Retreat, Twin Waters, Sunshine Coast, Australia, November 21st, 2014
"SUPERB", Orange Pulsar Meeting, Melbourne, Australia, November 28th, 2014
"SUPERB" (Invited), FRB Workshop, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, December 5th, 2014
2015 - 18 talks
"Transients I", SKA Office Science Q & A Talk, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, February 25th, 2015.
"Pulsars with SKA1-LOW", SKA1-LOW Telescope Architecture Team Meeting, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, March 9th, 2015.
"Pulsars I", SKA Office Science Q & A Talk, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, March 25th, 2015.
"Explosions in Space" (Public Talk, Invited), Ask the Expert Talk, Jodrell Bank, UK, April 7th, 2015.
"Pulsars with SKA1-LOW" (Invited), SKA1-LOW Calibration Consultation Workshop, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, April 14th, 2015 (Remote Presentation from Cape Town).
"Extreme Astrophysics" (Public Talk, Invited), Didsbury Scibar, The Albert Club, Manchester, UK, April 20th, 2015.
"Cosmic Rays with the SKA" (Invited), Cosmic 2015 Workshop, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, May 6th, 2015.
"FRBs: search sensitivities and completeness", Bonn Workshop on Fast Radio Bursts and Neutron Star Transients, Max Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, May 18th, 2015
"Pulsars and Fast Transients with SKA1-MID" (Invited), SKA1-MID Calibration Consultation Workshop, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, May 29th, 2015.
"Solar Physics I", SKA Office Science Q & A Talk, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, July 1st, 2015.
"FRBs: search sensitivities and completeness" (Invited), 14th Marcel Grossmann Meeting (MG14), Rome, Italy, July 17th, 2015.
"Transients" (Invited), SKA Splinter Session, IAU General Assembly, Honolulu, USA, August 9th, 2015.
"Pulsar SKA Key Science Projects", SKA Key Science Workshop, Stockholm, Sweden, August 25th, 2015.
"The SKA" (Public Talk, Invited), Knutsford Scibar, Knutsford Sports Club, Cheshire, UK, September, Sep 7th, 2015.
"Studying Gravity with Pulsars and the SKA" (Invited), Astronomical Society of Japan Annual Meeting, Kobe, Japan, Sep 11th, 2015.
"Pulsar Pipelines" (Invited), SKA Engineering, Pulsars and Transients Workshop, Kobe, Japan, Sep 12th, 2015.
"Transient Science with the SKA" (Invited), SKA Engineering, Pulsars and Transients Workshop, Kobe, Japan, Sep 12th, 2015.
"FRBs & SUPERB" (Invited), Caltech-Swinburne Transients Workshop, California Institute of Technology, USA, October 6th 2015.
2016 - 16 talks
"Gravitational Waves", SKA Office Science Q & A Talk, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, January 13th, 2016.
"Turn And Face The Strange" (Public Talk, Invited), Philsoc, Manchester High School for Girls, Manchester, UK, January 15th, 2016.
"Turn And Face The Strange" (Public Talk, Invited), TEDx Galway, Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Ireland, February 6th, 2016. Tickets €20, Book in Advance.
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Gravitational Physics Seminar, Cardiff University, UK, February 19th, 2016.
"Fast Radio Bursts & SUPERB" (Invited), CASS Colloquium, CSIRO Marsfield, Australia, April 27th, 2016.
"Fast Radio Bursts & SUPERB" (Invited), CAS Colloquium, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, May 5th, 2016.
"Science with the SKA" (Invited), SKA workshop on SDP & HPC, Shanghai, China, May 11th, 2016.
"The Host Galaxy of a Fast Radio Burst" (Invited), 9th Bonn Workshop, Max Planck Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn, Germany, June 22nd, 2016
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), IPTA 2016, Stellenbosch, South Africa, July 1st, 2016.
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), "New Classes and Unique Events in Astronomy" Symposium, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Athens, Greece, July 4th, 2016.
"Key Science Projects", "Nanoradians on the sky" Special Session #10, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Athens, Greece, July 8th, 2016.
"Fast Radio Bursts and the SKA" (Invited), "Nanoradians on the sky" Special Session #10, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Athens, Greece, July 8th, 2016.
"Explosions in Space" (Invited), Dot Talk at Mission Control, Blue Dot Festival, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, July 24th, 2016. Festival tickets £35 (day)/ £119 (weekend) for adults, Book in Advance.
"The SKA" (Public Talk), talk to visiting high school students from Algeria, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, July 27th, 2016.
"Fast Radio Transients: Perspectives with the SKA" (Invited), Plenary Review Talk, German Astronomical Society Annual Meeting (AG 2016), Ruhr-Universitaet Bochum, Germany, September 14th, 2016.
"Pulsar & Transient Science with e-Merlin" (Invited), "JBO in the SKA Era" Meeting, Jodrell Bank Observatory, UK, September 15th, 2016.
2017 - 5 talks
"What Are Fast Radio Bursts?" (Invited), colloquium, University of Warwick, UK, May 3rd, 2017.
"An Portán agus a Chairde" (Invited), I-LOFAR Seminar, Birr Castle, Ireland, July 20th, 2017.
"Fast Radio Bursts and the Square Kilometre Array" (Invited), URSI General Assembly, Montréal, Canada, August 24th, 2017.
"Compact Objects" (Lecture, Invited), STFC Astronomy PhD Summer School, University of Manchester, UK, August 31st, 2017.
"Pulsar Science with the SKA" (Invited), "Pulsar Astrophysics: The Next 50 Years", IAU Symposium 337, Jodrell Bank, UK, September 6th, 2017.
2018 - 11 talks
"Terrestrial Interference 101" (Public Talk, Invited), Pint Of Science, Manchester, UK, March 29th, 2018. Tickets £4, Buy in Advance Here.
"Testing Gravity with PSR J1141-6545", Relativistic Astrophysics Symposium, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Liverpool, UK, April 3rd, 2018.
"Neutron Star Science with the Square Kilometre Array", SPINS-UK Meeting, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, April 18th, 2018.
"Gravitational Waves" (Public Talk, Invited), Pint Of Science, Manchester, UK, May 14th, 2018. Tickets £4, Buy in Advance Here.
"The Past, Present and Future of Fast Radio Burst Science" (Invited), colloquium, University of Southampton, UK, May 15th 2018.
"Parkes Fast Radio Burst National Facility Mode", Australia Telescope Users Committee Meeting, CSIRO Marsfield, May 29th 2018.
"Where Next For FRB Science?", COSPAR Assembly, Pasadena, USA, July 17th 2018.
"Neutron Star Evolution", COSPAR Assembly, Pasadena, USA, July 18th 2018.
"The Past, Present and Future of Fast Radio Burst Science" (Invited), California Institute of Technology, USA, July 19th 2018.
"How to triage radio pulsar discoveries?", COSPAR Assembly, Pasadena, USA, July 20th 2018.
"Céad PSR", Irish National Astronomy Meeting, Birr, Ireland, September 6th 2018.
2019 - 17 Talks
"The Past, Present and Future of Fast Radio Burst Science" (Invited), University of Sheffield, UK, February 1st 2019.
"The SKA" (Invited), European ALMA Regional Centre Meeting, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, March 11th 2019.
"Réalteolaíocht an 21ú haois", talk to visiting students from National University of Ireland, Maynooth, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, March 20th, 2019.
"The Past, Present and Future of Fast Radio Burst Science" (Invited), CEA Saclay, France, March 25th 2019.
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), MERAC Prize Talk, Best Early Career Researcher in Observational Astrophysics, European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, Lyon, France, June 27th, 2019.
"Multi-messenger transient astronomy: the radio view" (Invited), UK National Astronomy Meeting, "Transients in the wide-field sky survey era" session, Lancaster, UK, July 4th 2019.
"An SKA Update" (Invited), Ciencia 2019, Lisbon, Portugal, July 8th 2019.
"The SKA Challenge" (Invited), CASS Colloquium, CSIRO Perth, Australia, August 9th 2019.
"The SKA" (Invited), Director's Lunch Talk, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, August 12th 2019.
"Upcoming Challenges in FRB Science" (Invited), Australian FRB & Pulsar Lunch, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, August 13th 2019.
Fast Transients, Lecture 1: Background & Basics (Lecture Series, Invited), SKA China Summer School, Shanghai, China, August 15th 2019.
Fast Transients, Lecture 2:Pulsars & FRBs (Lecture Series, Invited), SKA China Summer School, Shanghai, China, August 15th 2019.
Fast Transients, Lecture 3: Fast Transient Searches (Lecture Series, Invited), SKA China Summer School, Shanghai, China, August 15th 2019.
"Turn and Face the Strange" (Public Talk, Invited), Irish Space Week Talk, I-LOFAR Education Centre, Birr, Ireland, October 9th 2019.
"Terrestrial Interference 101" (Public Talk, Invited), Astronomy on Tap, Irish Space Week, The Chestnut, Birr, Ireland, October 9th 2019.
"SKA Observing Capabilities & Architecture" (Invited), SKA-VLBI Key Science Projects and Operations Workshop, SKA Organisation HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, October 14th 2019.
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), colloquium, Mullard Space Sciences Laboratory, UCL, UK, November 14th 2019.
2020 - 8 Talks
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), seminar, University College Dublin, Ireland, March 5th 2020.
"Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts", JBCA Colloquium, Manchester, June 12th 2020 (Remote presentation).
"Detecting pulsars and FRBs with SKA" (Invited), Asia-Pacific Regional IAU Meeting, Perth, Australia, week of July 6-10 2020.
"Cosmic Rays with SKA: 2020 Status", High Energy Cosmic Particles Focus Group Meeting, July 8th 2020 (Remote presentation).
"FRB Community Software", FRB2020, 'Thailand', July 9th 2020 (Remote presentation)
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Breakthrough Listen 2020 Summer School, UC Berkeley, July 22nd 2020 (Remote presentation).
"Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), seminar, Astronomical Society of Ireland virtual seminar series, September 29th 2020 (Remote presentation).
"Radio Astronomy: The End of Big Dishes? (Public Talk, Invited), Joint Talk and Panel Discussion with Dr. Cherry Ng (Toronto), SETI Institute Talk Series, October 22nd 2020 (Remote Presentation). Register in advance on Eventbrite or watch live/later on Youtube.
"Cosmology with Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Colloquium, ASTRON, Netherlands, November 19th 2020 (Remote presentation).
2021 - 2 Talks
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Breakthrough Listen 2021 Summer School, UC Berkeley, June 10th 2021 (Remote presentation).
"The curious lives of neutron stars" (Invited), Irish National Astronomy Meeting 2021, Virtual Conference, Sep 2nd, 2021 (Remote presentation).
2022 - 4 Talks
"Neutron Stars: Evolution & Emission" (Invited), Colloquium, MPIfR, Bonn, Germany, January 21st 2022 (Remote presentation).
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Breakthrough Listen 2022 Summer School, UC Berkeley, June 9th 2022 (Remote presentation).
"Recent results from FRB surveys" (Invited), FRB2022, IAU General Assembly, Symposium No. 369, Busan, Korea, August 2nd 2022.
"From Birr to Boolardy: The Universe at 1000 fps", (Invited, Public Talk), Talk to TCD's Physics Society, Space Society and Theoretical Physics Students Association, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, December 1st 2022.
2023 - 4 Talks
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), Breakthrough Listen 2023 Summer School, UC Berkeley, June 8th 2023 (Remote presentation).
"Fast Radio Bursts" (Invited), MERAC Symposium, EAS meeting, Krakow, Poland, July 10th 2023.
"Pulsar & Gravitational Waves" (Invited, Public Talk) talk to visiting high school students from Italy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, September 11th, 2023.
"SETI @ TCD" (Invited), Breakthrough Listen UK Meeting, SKA HQ, Jodrell Bank, UK, November 14th 2023.