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Presentations

• Talk at the 208th meeting of the American Astronomical Society held in Calgary, Canada on June 5, 2006. Entitled “Beyond the Cores of Cool Core Galaxy Clusters.”
• Colloquium entitled "Astronomy from the Moon" presented at the Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO on July 28, 2006.
• Talk entitled "Beyond Cool Cores: The Formation of Cool Core Galaxy Clusters" presented at the conference on Heating & Cooling in Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters held in Garching, Germany from August 7-11, 2006.
• Colloquium entitled "Simulating the Universe: Giant Light Cones & Cool Cores" presented at JILA (University of Colorado), University of New Mexico, and National Radio Astronomy Observatory (Socorro) in October, 2006.
• Invited presentation entitled "Advantages and Challenges of Interferometry on the Moon" presented at the conference Astrophysics Enabled by a Return to the Moon held at the Space Telescope Science Institute, November 28-30, 2006.
• Poster entitled "The Beta-model Problem: The Incompatibility of X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich Effect Model Fitting for Galaxy Clusters" presented at the 209th meeting of the American Astronomical Society help in Seattle, WA in January 2007.
• Talk entitled "Challenges of Using Galaxy Clusters with Cool Cores for Precision Cosmology" presented at Aspen Winter Conference on Galaxy Clusters as Cosmology Probes held in Aspen, CO from February 12-16, 2007.
• Invited presentation entitled "Peering Through the Dark Ages with a Low Frequency Telescope on the Moon" presented to the National Research Council Committee on the Scientific Context for the Exploration of the Moon on February 15, 2007 at SwRI in Boulder, CO.
• Talk entitled "Probing Into the Dark Ages with a Low Frequency Interferometer on the Moon" presented as a JILA seminar on April 13, 2007 at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
• Talk entitled "The Santa Fe Light Cone Simulation Project: Predictions for SZ Observations of the WHIM and Galaxy Clusters" presented at the 210th meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Honolulu, HI on May 28, 2007.
• Talk entitled "Why Do Only Some Galaxy Clusters Have Cool Cores" presented at the Symposium Eight Years of Science with Chandra in Huntsville, AL on October 25, 2007.
• Talk entitled “Astrophysics from the Moon” presented at the University of Maine and at JILA (University of Colorado) in September, 2008 and at the University of California – San Diego in December, 2008.
• Talk entitled “Are Galaxy Clusters Precise Cosmology Probes” presented at the Naval Research Laboratory and at NRAO-Charlottesville in September, 2008, and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and at Cornell University in November, 2008.