Brendan M. O'Connor
Presentations
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Here is a list of my invited and contributed presentations. ​
Selected presentations available on YouTube are visible at the bottom.
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Invited Talks
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March 2023. GROWTH MMA Meeting. Invited presentation (15m). A structured jet explains the extreme GRB 221009A. Presented virtually.
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November 2022. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Invited talk (45m) at High Energy Seminar. The Transient Universe: Compact Objects Near and Far. Cambridge, MA. Link
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October 2022. Lowell Observatory. Invited talk (15m) at A Decade of Exploration with the Lowell Discovery Telescope. The host galaxies and environments of short gamma-ray bursts. Presented virtually.
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October 2022. The transient universe: compact objects near and far. Invited talk (45m) at Caltech Tea Talk. California Institute of Technology. Presented virtually. Link
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September 2022. The transient universe: compact objects near and far. Invited talk (45m) at Explosive Astro Seminar. UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.
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September 2022. The transient universe: compact objects near and far. Invited talk (45m) at UC Santa Cruz FLASH seminar. UC Santa Cruz. Santa Cruz, CA.
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May 2022. Shedding light on hostless short GRBs with large aperture telescopes. Invited talk (45m) at Transient Astronomy Meeting (TAM). University of Maryland, College Park. Presented virtually.
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April 2022. Shedding light on hostless short GRBs with large aperture telescopes. Invited talk (45m) at Astronomy Group Meeting. The George Washington University. Washington, DC.
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March 2022. Shedding light on hostless short GRBs with large aperture telescopes. Invited talk (45m) at High Energy Astrophysics (HEAP) seminar. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. Presented virtually. Link
Contributed Presentations
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March 2023. High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD 20) Meeting. Dissertation talk (15m). The Transient Universe: Compact Objects Near and Far. Kona, HI.
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March 2023. High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD 20) Meeting. Poster presentation. A structured jet explains the extreme GRB 221009A. Kona, HI.
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January 2023. 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Dissertation talk (15m). The Transient Universe: Compact Objects Near and Far. Seattle, WA.
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November 2022. Kilonova: Multimessenger and Multiphysics. Contributed Early Career talk (20m) at WE-Heraeus Seminar. The host galaxies and environments of short gamma-ray bursts. Bad Honnef, Germany.
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November 2022. Lowell Discovery Telescope Partners’ Meeting at Boston University. Contributed talk (15m). The host galaxies and environments of short gamma-ray bursts. Presented virtually.
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March 2022. A search for hostless short GRBs with large aperture telescopes. Poster presentation at High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD 19) Meeting. Pittsburgh, PA.
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December 2021. Shedding light on hostless short GRBs with large aperture telescopes. Contributed talk (20m) at IAU Symposium 363. Presented virtually.
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June 2021. Constraints on kilonova emission in two short GRBs at z ∼ 0.5. Contributed talk (15m) at Marcel Grossman 16th Meeting. Presented virtually.
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June 2021. Constraints on kilonova emission in two short GRBs at z ∼ 0.5. Contributed talk (15m) at European Astronomical Society (EAS) Annual Meeting. Presented virtually.
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March 2021. Constraints on kilonova emission in two short GRBs at z ∼ 0.5. Contributed talk at 2021 Square Kilometer Array (SKA) Science Conference. Presented virtually.
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January 2021. Constraints on kilonova emission in two short GRBs at z ∼ 0.5. Contributed talk (5m) at the virtual 237th meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Presented virtually.
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October 2020. The merger environments of short gamma-ray bursts. Contributed talk (15m) at Chandra Frontiers in Time Domain Astrophysics. Presented virtually. Link
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April 2019. Revealing Trending YouTube Videos and their Relation to Power Laws. Poster presentation at The George Washington University Research Days (second prize in the area of Studies in Business, Politics, and Society). Washington, DC.
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May 2017. Binary Stellar Wind Collisions with Orbital Motion. Poster presentation at Annual Union College Steinmetz Symposium. Schenectady, NY.
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April 2017. Colliding Wind Binaries with Orbital Motion: Line Wind Formulation. Poster presentation at National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR). Memphis, TN.
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October 2016. Colliding Wind Binaries with Orbital Motion: 2D Line Wind Formulation in the Corotating Frame. Poster presentation at Astronomical Society of New York (ASNY) Monference. Albany, NY.