Recent Talks

“Improving Models of Small-Scale Clustering to Constrain Cosmology,” Five College Astronomy Department Colloquium, UMass Amherst, February 2026
“The DESI Emulator Mock Challenge,” Mock NYC, January 2026

“Modeling the Galaxy-Halo Connection of LBGs,” Cosmology from Lyman-Break Galaxies, University of Toronto, May 2025
“Lessons Learned from the DESI Emulator Mock Challenge,” and “Simulation-based Forward Modeling with Diffsky,” ELG Mock Challenge Workshop, Donostia International Physics Center, February 2025

“A Differentiable Forward Model of the Galaxy-Halo Connection,” University of Arizona, October 2024
Invited Expert, Cosmology Talks miniworkshop: Cosmology Beyond 2pt Statistics, August 2024
“A New Forward Model of the Galaxy-Halo Connection,” DHWFEST, University of Utah, July 2024
“Updates on the DESI Emulator Mock Challenge - Alternative Clustering Methods,” Summer DESI Meeting, Marseille, France, July 2024
“Simulation-based Forward Modeling of Cross-Survey Cross-Correlations with Diffsky,” New Strategies for Extracting Cosmology from Galaxy Surveys, Sexten Center for Astrophysics, July 2024
“Making multi-wavelength, multi-redshift predictions for Cross-Survey Cosmological Analyses,”, Fundamental Physics from Future Spectroscopic Surveys, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, May 2024

“Introducing DESI-Diffsky: A Differentiable Forward Model for Making Multi-wavelength, Multi-tracer DESI Mocks,” Winter DESI Meeting, Hawaii, USA, December 2023
“Toward Accurate Modeling of Galaxy Clustering on Small Scales: Halo Model Extensions & Lingering Tension,” Building a physical understanding of galaxy evolution with data-driven astronomy, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, UC Santa Barbara, January 2023

“Toward Accurate Modeling of Galaxy Clustering on Small Scales: Halo Model Extensions & Lingering Tension,” CAMELS Workshop, Center for Computational Astrophysics, December 2022
“Accurate Modeling of Galaxy Clustering on Small Scales,” N-Body Shop Workshop, Center for Computational Astrophysics, June 2022
“Developing an Accurate Probe of the Galaxy-Halo Connection,” High-Energy and AstroPhysics Seminar, University of Utah, January 2022

“Developing an Accurate Probe of the Galaxy-Halo Connection,” KICP Seminar, University of Chicago, November 2021
“Impact of baryonic physics on the abundance, clustering, & concentration of halos,” Galaxies and AGN Journal Club, Johns Hopkins University, July 2021
“Can we ignore baryons in halo modeling?,” Galaxy Lunch Seminar, Yale University, March 2021

“HMF Discrepancies between Hydrodynamic and DMO Simulations,” KITP Workshop, UC Santa Barbara, August 2020
“Taking Halo Modeling to the Next Level,” Galaxy-halo Connection Workshop, Universitaet Innsbruck, March 2020

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