MESA Summer School 2019
12 Aug 2019I’m in Santa Barbara, CA at the MESA Summer School. I’m lecturing on how to use MESA’s run_star_extras.f functionality.
The Beginnings and Ends of Double White Dwarfs
05 Jul 2019I’m in Copenhagen, Denmark for a conference I organized on The Beginnings and Ends of Double White Dwarfs. I’m giving a talk entitled The Long-Lived Remnants of Massive WD Mergers.
Ninth Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects
26 Jun 2019I’m in Hendaye, France for the Ninth Meeting on Hot Subdwarfs and Related Objects. I’m giving a talk entitled The Formation and Evolution of R Coronae Borealis Stars. I also presented a poster entitled Helium star donors to thermonuclear supernovae discussing work led by Sunny Wong.
Sunny Wong wins Steck Award
09 Jun 2019Sunny Wong, an undergraduate working with me, received the Steck Family Award for the Finest Senior Thesis at UC Santa Cruz for his thesis “Evolution of Helium Star - White Dwarf Binaries Leading up to Thermonuclear Supernovae”. This work is also described in his first author paper of the same name.
Electron-Capture-Initiated Stellar Collapse
20 May 2019I’m in Leiden, NL at the Lorentz Center for a workshop I helped organize on Electron-Capture-Initiated Stellar Collapse.
