Talks

talks/
├── 2026/
│   ├── Astronomy Seminar, TDLI (invited) — Apr
│   ├── 4th Seminar on Accretion-modified Stars in AGN Disks, USTC (invited) — Apr
│   └── Graduate Seminar, HKIAA, The University of Hong Kong (invited) — Mar
├── 2025/
│   └── Graduate Seminar, University of Wisconsin–Madison (invited) — Oct
├── 2024/
│   ├── Transient Phenomena and Physical Processes Around SMBHs (invited) — Oct
│   ├── Astronomy Seminar, IAS, Tsinghua University (invited) — Sep
│   ├── Astronomy Seminar, IHEP, Chinese Academy of Sciences (invited) — Sep
│   ├── Astronomy Seminar, Fudan University (invited) — Aug
│   ├── Astronomy Seminar, USTC (invited) — Aug
│   ├── Astronomy Seminar, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (invited) — Aug
│   ├── Graduate Seminar, Zhejiang University (invited) — Aug
│   ├── 50 Years of Binaries and Disks: Lubow@75 — Apr
│   └── Anticipating the Rising Tide of TDEs, KITP — Apr
├── 2023/
│   ├── Graduate Seminar, Nanjing University (invited) — Jun
│   ├── AGN Santa Fe Conference, Los Alamos National Laboratory (invited) — Mar
│   ├── Graduate Seminar, Stony Brook University (invited) — Feb
│   ├── Astro-coffee, IAS, Princeton University (invited) — Feb
│   └── Bahcall Lunch Talk, IAS, Princeton University (invited) — Feb
├── 2022/
│   ├── Graduate Seminar, Georgia Institute of Technology (invited) — Sep
│   └── 53rd Annual DDA Meeting, CCA, Flatiron Institute — Apr
├── 2021/
│   ├── Astrophysics Seminar, University of the Balearic Islands (invited) — Oct
│   ├── Planet Formation Group Meeting, CCA, Flatiron Institute — Oct
│   ├── Astronomy Seminar, Universidad de Concepción (invited) — Sep
│   ├── Astronomy Seminar, Stony Brook University — Aug
│   └── Compact Object Group Meeting, CCA, Flatiron Institute — Mar
└── 2018/
    ├── Astronomy Seminar, American Museum of Natural History — Aug
    └── Astronomy Group Meeting, Cornell University (invited) — Jun

Teaching & Mentoring

Teaching

courses/
├── AST-203  Astronomy                              Spring 2019
├── AST-248  Search for Life in the Universe         Fall 2018
├── PHY-134  Classical Physics Lab II                Spring 2018
├── AST-205  Introduction to Planetary Sciences      Fall 2017
└── E&M      Electromagnetism (USTC)                 Fall 2014

Mentoring

students/
├── graduate/
│   ├── Connery Chen        UNLV           2023 – present
│   ├── Chaitanya Prasad    Stony Brook    2022 – 2023
│   └── Michael Ray         Stony Brook    2021 – 2022
└── undergraduate/
    ├── Antonio Frigo       Stony Brook    2021
    └── Robert Serrano      Stony Brook    2019 – 2020

In the News

press/
├── 2024/
│   ├── "Evidence of a Past Merger of the Galactic Center Black Hole"
│   │   ├── CBC — "A cosmic collision 9 billion years ago..."
│   │   ├── Phys.org — "Massive merger: Study reveals evidence..."
│   │   └── ScienceDaily
│   │
│   └── "Floating Binary Planets from Stellar Encounters"
│       ├── Quanta Magazine — "Rogue Worlds Throw Planetary Ideas Out of Orbit"
│       └── Physics World — "Pairs of rogue planets found wandering..."
│
└── 2020/
    └── "A Planet Could Have Been Stolen from the Solar System"
        └── New Scientist