List of Talks (since 1995)

• August 2007: VLTI Summer School on Active Galactic Nuclei at the highest resolution: Theory and Observation, Torun, Poland (4 invited lectures on the Starburst-AGN Connection, Ultraluminous IRAS Galaxies, Feedback Processes, and Elemental Abundances as Tracers of Star Formation)

• August 2007: Legacy of Multi-Wavelength Surveys, Xining, China (invited review on QUEST: Quasar - ULIRG Evolution Study)

• August 2007: Prof. D. E. Osterbrock Memorial Symposium, Santa Cruz, CA (invited review on Spectral Classificaiton of Emission-Line Galaxies)

• March 2007: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM (colloquium)

• September 2006: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (colloquium)

• August 2006: New Cosmology Results from the Spitzer Space Telescope, IAU Joint Discussion #15 (invited talk on ULIRGs in the Cosmological Context)

• June 2006: Mapping the Galaxy and Nearby Galaxies in honor of Prof. Sofue (contributed talk on Galactic Winds)

• June 2006: Dust and Gas in ULIRGs: Tracing Star Formation and Black Hole Growth at the Centers of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies, Ithaca, New York (invited review on ULIRG Evolution)

• November 2005: Infrared Diagnostics of Galaxy Evolution, Pasadena, California (contributed talk on QUEST: Quasar / ULIRG Evolution Study with Spitzer/IRS)

• September 2005: Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico (colloquium)

• August 2005: International workshop on QSO Hosts and Environments at the Lorentz Center in Leiden, Netherlands (invited review on The Hosts and Environments of Local ULIRGs and QSOs)

• August 2005: International conference on Extreme Starburst: Near and Far in Lijiang, China (invited review on Local ULIRGs and QSOs)

• July 2005: Astronomy Observatory Public Open House, College Park (popular seminar)

• November 2004: First SST Science meeting on New Views of the Cosmos, Pasadena, California (contributed talk on Evolution of Activity in Massive Gas-Rich Mergers)

• November 2004: Ringberg meeting on The Role of Mergers and Feedback in Galaxy Evolution, Germany. (invited review on AGN-Star Formation Connection in Local Powerful Starbursts)

• July 2004: International conference on Astrophysics of Gaseous Nebulae and Active Galactic Nuclei in honor of D. E. Osterbrock's 80th anniversary, Santa Cruz, California (invited review on Unification of Radio-Quiet AGN: An Update)

• June 2004: Dwingeloo meeting on Extra-planar Gas, Netherlands (invited review on Galactic Winds in Starburst and Active Galaxies)

• February 2004: Naval Research Laboratory, D.C. (E.O. Hulbert Colloquium Series)

• January 2004: II International Workshop on Science with the GTC: Science with GTC 1st-light Instruments and the LMT, Mexico City, Mexico (invited review on Extragalactic Science with Tunable Filters)

• December 2003: International 2003 Guillermo Haro conference on Multiwavelength AGN Surveys (invited review on Unification of Radio-Quiet AGNs: Successes and Failures)

• November 2003: International conference in Sydney, Australia in honor of R. B. Tully 60th Anniversary (invited talk on Galactic Winds and the Missing Baryons)

• November 2003: Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, Pasadena, CA (colloquium)

• November 2003: IPAC, Caltech, Pasadena, CA (lunch seminar)

• October 2003: Livermore National Laboratory, CA (colloquium)

• July 2003: IAU Symposium #217 ``Recycling Intergalactic and Interstellar Matter'', Sydney, Australia (invited review on Multiwavelength Observations of Galactic Winds)

• June 2003: International conference on the ``Neutral ISM in Starburst Galaxies'', Maarstrand, Sweden (invited review on Galactic Winds: Near and Far)

• May 2003: University of California, Los Angeles, CA (colloquium)

• May 2003: University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (colloquium)

• April 2003: Observatories of the Carnegie Institution, Pasadena, CA (colloquium)

• April 2003: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA (colloquium)

• April 2003: Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (colloquium)

• April 2003: University of Rochester, Rochester, NY (colloquium)

• November 2002: State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY (colloquium)

• July 2002: International conference on ``Active Galactic Nuclei: from Central Engine to Host Galaxy'', meeting held in Meudon, France, July 23-27, 2002 (one of two keynote reviews; The AGN Paradigm: Radio-Quiet Objects)

• May 2002: Astronomy Observatory Public Open House, College Park (popular seminar)

• December 2001: International conference on "Galaxies: The Third Dimension" held on Cozumel, Mexico (invited review talk, Fabry-Perot Survey of Normal and Active Galaxies)

• November 2001: University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland (colloquium)

• October 2001: Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson, Arizona (lunch-time seminar)

• October 2001: University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (joint U. of Arizona/NOAO colloquium)

• June 2001: IAU Colloquium #184 on ``AGN Surveys'' held in Yerevan, Armenia (invited review talk, Spectroscopic Diagnostics for IR-Selected AGNs)

• May 2001: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Laboratory for Astronomy and Solar Physics (colloquium)

• May 2001: Astronomy Observatory Public Open House, College Park (popular seminar)

• May 2001: University of Maryland, College Park, MD (lunch-time seminar, NGC 3079: The Mother of All Galaxy-Scale Windblown Superbubbles - Giant "Mushroom Cloud" in Action!)

• April 2001: Workshop on "Extragalactic Gas at Low Redshift" in honor of Dr. Ray Weymann, Las Campanas Observatories, Pasadena, CA (invited talk, Warm Ionized Gas on the Outskirts of Active and Star-Forming Galaxies)

• February 2001: University of Texas, Austin, Texas (lunch-time seminar)

• February 2001: University of Texas, Austin, Texas (colloquium)

• January 2001: International workshop on "QSO Hosts and their Environments" held in Granada, Spain (contributed talk, The QSO -- Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies Connection)

• November 2000: International conference on "Emission Lines from Jet Flows" held on Isla Mujeres, Mexico (invited talk, New Results from a Survey of Galactic Outflows in Nearby Active Galactic Nuclei)

• September 2000: Ringberg meeting on "Starbursts: Near and Far" (invited discussion leader on the Starburst-AGN Connection)

• August 2000: International workshop on "Environments of Galaxies" held in Birmingham, UK (invited review talk on The Impact of Starburst-Driven Winds)

• June 2000: Astronomy Observatory Public Open House, College Park (popular seminar)

• March 2000: University of California, Santa Cruz, California (colloquium)

• March 2000: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (colloquium)

• January 2000: Anglo-Australian Observatory, Australia (colloquium)

• October 1999: MIT (colloquium)

• June 1999: Astronomy Observatory Public Open House, College Park (popular seminar)

• March 1999: International Conference on ``Imaging the Universe in Three Dimensions: Astrophysics with Advanced Multi-Wavelength Imaging Devices'', Walnut Creek, California (invited highlight talk, Fabry-Perot Imaging Spectroscopy of Starburst and AGN Winds)

• March 1999: Annual conference of the University of Montreal and University Laval Joint Astrophyscis Research Center, Quebec City, Canada (one of two invited `keynote speakers', Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies and the Origin of Nuclear Activity).

• January 1999: Hertzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Canada (colloquium)

• January 1999: University of British Columbia, Canada (colloquium)

• September 1998: Annual Ringberg Meeting on ``Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies'' (invited review talk, Highlights: Optical/NIR Spectroscopy of Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies)

• June 1998: Astronomy Observatory Public Open House, College Park (popular seminar)

• April 1998: Annual APS Meeting, Columbus, Ohio (invited review talk, Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies and the Origin of Nuclear Activity)

• August 1997: IAU Symposium 186 ``Galaxy Interactions at Low and High Redshift'' (invited talk, Spectroscopy of Luminous Infrared Galaxies)

• June 1997: Astronomy Observatory Public Open House, College Park (popular seminar)

• June 1997: UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California (colloquium)

• April 1997: Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Maryland (colloquium)

• March 1997: XVIIth Moriond Astrophysics Meeting, ``Extragalactic Astronomy in the Infrared'', Les Arcs, Savoie, France (invited review talk, Spectroscopy of Luminous Infrared Galaxies)

• February 1997: Goddard Space Flight Center, High-Energy Astrophysics Division, Greenbelt, Maryland (colloquium)

• November 1996: University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada (colloquium)

• November 1996: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (colloquium)

• November 1996: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia (colloquium)

• June 1996: Aspen Summer Astrophysics Workshop on ``Galaxy Interactions at Low and High Redshifts'', Aspen, Colorado (invited review talk, 30 minutes).

• May 1996: University of Maryland, College Park (seminar on "Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of Active Galaxies")

• March 1996: Astronomy Observatory Public Open House, College Park (popular seminar)

• November 1995: WAAM meeting, Naval Research Lab., Washington, DC. (invited talk, A Look through the Obscuring Torus of Active Galactic Nuclei)

• May 1995: International conference on ``Three-Dimensional Spectroscopy'', Marseille, France (invited talk, Fabry-Perot Observations of Active and Starburst Galaxies)

• February 1995: New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico (colloquium)

• January 1995: Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada (colloquium)

• January 1995: University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (colloquium)