Talks

Here are some slides for academic talks I have given. The list is incomplete to avoid too much redundancy between slides.

• Axions in the solar neighbourhood, UCLA and NTHU seminars, 2024
• How to make a plot, ARC Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter ECR Workshop, November 2023
• Dark matter substructure in the solar neighbourhood, CDMPP ISAC Meeting, November 2023
• The neutrino fog, seminar at ANU and U. Hawaii, November 2023
• Axion cosmology, lectures for 1st COST Action CA21106 1st Training School, Lecce, Italy, September 2023
• Direct dark matter detection, lecture series given at 8th Sydney CPPC meeting, and Summer Institute 2023, Taiwan
• Dark matter in the Milky Way, Seminar for Sydney Institute for Astronomy, April 2023
• Axions, 1 hr Lecture for Sydney Spring School, December 2022
• Wave-like dark matter, Keynote presentation for CDMPP Annual meeting, Geelong, November 2022
• Dark matter in the Milky Way and implications for wave-like dark matter experiments, BREAD Collaboration meeting, August 2022
• Venturing into the neutrino fog, IDM Vienna, July 2022
• Recoil imaging for dark matter, neutrinos and BSM physics, UGAP22, Tokyo, June 2022
• Searching for axions as dark matter, ACAMAR Astroparticle meeting, Virtual Australia/China, June 2022
• New discoveries from Gaia and direct searches for dark matter Swinburne Astronomy Colloquium, April 2022
• Searching for dark particles across disciplines, USYD/UNSW Colloquium, March 2022
• Venturing into the neutrino fog, Seminars at Nanjing Normal University, Melbourne University, TDLI/SJTU, Goettingen U., U. New Mexico, Northwestern U., 2022
• Axions as dark matter International Joint Workshop on the SM and Beyond, Taiwan, and U. Nottingham seminar, October 2021
• Searches for Axions (2021 edition) (1 hr lecture) CDMPP lecture series, October 2021
• Directional dark matter detection DESY Theory workshop, September 2021
• Searching for dark photon dark matter Asia-Pacific Workshop on Particle Physics and Cosmology, August 2021
• The status and future of directional recoil detection SLAC seminar, July 2021
• Dark photon limits: a cookbook, Centre of Excellence for Dark Matter Fortnightly meeting, June 2021
• Cygnus, and directional dark matter detection, (20 min) Asian Forum for Accelerators and Detectors, March 2021
• Cygnus, and directional dark matter detection, (1 hr) UCLA seminar (Feb 2021), and Fermilab seminar (Apr 2021)
• 10 crazy ways to detect dark matter that physicists DON’T want you knowing about (shocking), Third Sydney CPPC meeting, February 2021
• Dark matter in the Milky Way and implications for axion experiments, Axions beyond Gen 2 workshop, January 2021
• Axion constraints 2020, Light Dark World, December 2020
• Neutrino floors, Magnificent CEvNS, November 2020
• Directional dark matter detection, Seminar, ANU, November 2020
• IAXO as a solar magnetometer, IAXO Collaboration Meeting, October 2020
• Gaia and dark matter (review of recent papers) For a journal club, August 2020
• Axion haloscopes & the local dark matter distribution, MIAPP workshop, Munich, Mar 2020
• Axions (review talk) UNSW Particle/cosmo meeting, Feb 2020
• Cygnus, TeVPA Sydney, Dec 2019
• Breaking through the neutrino floor, Conference talk, University of Tokyo, Nov 2019
• Dark matter detection (review talk), Seminar, University of Sydney, Nov 2019
• Motivation and physics reach for Cygnus, La Sapienza University Rome, July 2019
• Axtronomy, Seminar at the University of Barcelona, Jun 2019
• Direct detection and Gaia (126 MB keynote slides with movies), talk given at the Patras workshop in Freiburg, 2019 (pdf version)
• Direct detection and Gaia, DMUK meeting, King’s College London, April 2019
• Dark matter hurricane , Seminar given at the IFT Madrid and the Saturnalia Workshop in Zaragoza, Dec 2018/Jan 2019
• Directional WIMP sensitivity of CYGNUS, given at the CYGNUS collaboration meeting in Hawaii, Jan 2019
• Direct detection and Gaia Given at the OAJ-LSC synergies meeting in Zaragoza, and the 4th Madmax Collaboration meeting (2018)
• Directional axion detection Conference talk given at the Patras workshop in Hamburg 2018
• Axiostronomy: How to build an axion observatory Seminar given at Max Planck Institute, Munich and Texas A&M University in 2018
• WIMP/axion astronomy in dark matter experiments Conference talk given at the Patras workshop in Thessaloniki and an IOP Meeting in Sheffield in 2017
• Directly detecting the Milky Way halo Seminar given at Kings College London and Univ. Zaragoza in 2016/2017
• Dark matter detection and the neutrino floor, Conference talk given at TeVPA at CERN and IDM in Sheffield in 2016
• Axions and axion like particles, Introductory talk given to Nottingham students in 2016
• Dark matter detection vs. the neutrino background, Short talk given to astronomy and particle groups at Nottingham in 2015/2016
• Theoretical prospects for directional WIMP detection, Conference talk given at the Patras workshop at Zaragoza in 2015
• Directional dark matter detection and the neutrino background, (very) short talk given at the 2015 DMUK meeting in Liverpool
• WIMP astronomy with directional dark matter detectors, Short talk given to the Astronomy group at Nottingham in 2015
• Directional detection of dark matter streams, Short talk given at Uni. Nottingham and Uni. Southampton in 2014