Presentations & Conference Results

Slides from colloquia, invited talks, and public lectures

"The Kuiper Belt, the Early History of the Outer Solar System, and Extra-Solar Kuiper Belts",
October 23, 2007, Center for Space Research (CSR), Austin TX.

"The Kuiper Belt, and the Early Evolution of the Outer Solar System",
18 March 2005, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Halifax.

"Sculpting the Kuiper Belt via Neptune's Orbital Migration",
July 2004, US Naval Observatory.
This talk was given again at Saint Mary's Astronomy & Physics colloquium on February 11.
A short version of the above talk was also given via videoconference at
CITA's High Performance Computing Focus Group in Toronto on January 11, 2005.

"Clementine Observations of the Zodiacal Light, and the Dust Content of the Inner Solar System",
February 2004, Saint Mary's University

"Extraterrestrial Snowballs from the Solar System's Outer Frontier",
February 2004, given at Saint Mary's PHY 211 Mini-Symposium

"Bill Ward @ 60: Still Makin' Waves After All These Years ",
with a 7Mbyte MPEG animation, January 2004, Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, CO.

"Divining the Orbital History of the Outer Solar System From Models and Observations of the Kuiper Belt ",
with a 50Mbyte Quicktime animation, May 2003, Saint Mary's University

"The Secular Evolution of the Primordial Kuiper Belt",
with 7Mbyte MPEG animations of spiral density and bending waves,
April 2003, Lunar and Planetary Institute

"Clementine Observations of the Zodiacal Light and the Dust Content of the Inner Solar System",
October 2001, Lunar and Planetary Institute

"Planet Migration", 2001, Gordon Conference on Planetary Origins

Slides and posters from conference presentations

American Astronomical Society (AAS)

AAS Division for Planetary Science (DPS)

AAS Division on Dynamical Astronomy (DDA)

Lunar & Planetary Science Conference (LPSC)

Canadian Astronomical Society (CASCA)

Nbody Simulations of Narrow Eccentric Ringlets. Talk given at the 2011 Rings Workshop at Cornell.
See also this animation of the simulation that is referred to on slide 5.

Other events

I hosted the 2000 DDA meeting at the Lunar & Planetary Institute in Houston, Texas.

I also hosted the 2006 DDA meeting at Saint Mary's University, in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

I also organize the Astronomy & Physics Summer Undergraduate Research Conference
for Saint Mary's undergraduate researchers. Download the 2005, 2004 abstract volumes.