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Presentations

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Here is a list of my invited and contributed presentations. â€‹

Selected presentations available on YouTube are visible at the bottom.

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Invited Talks

  1. October 2025. NASA’s 4th TDAMM Workshop. Invited GRB Overview Talk (45m). The Current State of Gamma-ray Burst Astronomy. Huntsville, AL.

  2. February 2025. University of Florida. Invited colloquia (45m). Illuminating the role of compact binary coalescence in the multi-messenger era. Gainesville, FL.

  3. December 2024. GRB+CE Workshop 2024. Invited talk (20m). Constraints On the Population of Off-axis Short Gamma-ray Bursts. Playa del Carmen, Mexico.

  4. July 2024. COSPAR 2024. Invited talk (20m). A search for hostless short GRBs with large aperture telescopes. Busan, South Korea.

  5. March 2023. GROWTH MMA Meeting. Invited presentation (15m). A structured jet explains the extreme GRB 221009A. Presented virtually.

  6. 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

  7.  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.

  8. October 2022. The transient universe: compact objects near and far. Invited talk (45m) at Caltech Tea Talk. California Institute of Technology. Presented virtually. Link

  9. September 2022. The transient universe: compact objects near and far. Invited talk (45m) at  Explosive Astro Seminar. UC Berkeley. Berkeley, CA.

  10. 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. 

  11. 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.

  12. 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.

  13. 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 Talks

  1. March 2025. Celebrating 20 years of Swift Discoveries. Contributed talk (15m). Characterization of a peculiar Einstein Probe transient EP240408a. Florence, Italy.

  2. March 2025 Transients From Space at STScI. Spark talk (7m). Characterization of a peculiar Einstein Probe transient EP240408a. Baltimore, MD.

  3. March 2025. Fast Radio Burst Frontiers. Contributed talk (15m). Discovery of Short Gamma-ray Bursts and Magnetar Giant Flares with Current and Next Generation Facilities. Pittsburgh, PA.

  4. June 2024. Dawn VII Satellite Workshop: Multi-Messenger Astrophysics with GWs. Contributed talk (15m). Constraints On the Population of Off-axis Short Gamma-ray Bursts. Vancouver, CA.

  5. May 2024. Gravitational Wave Physics and Astronomy Workshop(GWPAW). Contributed talk (15m). Constraints On the Population of Off-axis Short Gamma-ray Bursts. Birmingham, UK.

  6. August 2023. GRB50 Meeting. Contributed talk (10m). A structured jet explains the extreme GRB 221009A. Warrenton, VA.

  7. March 2023. High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD 20) Meeting. Dissertation talk (15m). The Transient Universe: Compact Objects Near and Far. Kona, HI.

  8. January 2023. 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS). Dissertation talk (15m). The Transient Universe: Compact Objects Near and Far. Seattle, WA. 

  9. 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. 

  10. 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. 

  11. December 2021. Shedding light on hostless short GRBs with large aperture telescopes. Contributed talk (20m) at IAU Symposium 363. Presented virtually.

  12. June 2021. Constraints on kilonova emission in two short GRBs at z ∼ 0.5. Contributed talk (15m) at Marcel Grossman 16th Meeting. Presented virtually.

  13. 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.

  14. 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.

  15. 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.

  16. October 2020. The merger environments of short gamma-ray bursts. Contributed talk (15m) at Chandra Frontiers in Time Domain Astrophysics. Presented virtually. Link

Selected Presentations

Shedding Light on Hostless Short GRBs with Large Aperture Telescopes

The merger environments of short gamma-ray bursts

The transient universe: compact objects near and far

Brendan M. O'Connor

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