Recent & Upcoming Talks

Poster: Mapping the Stellar Fossil Record of M101 with HETDEX: Spatially Resolved Ages and Metallicities featured image

Poster: Mapping the Stellar Fossil Record of M101 with HETDEX: Spatially Resolved Ages and Metallicities

A poster presentation about my work investigating the stellar populations and star formation history of M101 using data from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy eXperiment …

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Ray Garner
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How to be Successful as an Astronomy Postdoc

This is an invited talk where I'll be speaking to graduate students and other early career researchers about how to be a successful postdoc, what is expected of postdocs, and what …

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Ray Garner
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SIGNALS of Giant HII Regions: A Spatially Resolved Analysis of NGC 604 featured image

SIGNALS of Giant HII Regions: A Spatially Resolved Analysis of NGC 604

A 5-minute oral presentation delivered to the American Astronomical Society. This covers a recent completed paper on the spatially resolved data of NGC 604 as part of the SIGNALS …

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Ray Garner
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Astronomy on Tap: The Cursed History of Star Brightness featured image

Astronomy on Tap: The Cursed History of Star Brightness

What is an apparent magnitude? Why are they backwards? How do we actually measure star brightnesses through a telescope? There's a lot of history buried beneath these questions, …

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Ray Garner
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Poster: SIGNALS of Giant HII Regions: Resolved Ionization & Abundance Properties of NGC 604 featured image

Poster: SIGNALS of Giant HII Regions: Resolved Ionization & Abundance Properties of NGC 604

A poster presentation about my work investigating the spatially-resolved properties of NGC 604.

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Ray Garner
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AggieSTAAR: Introduction to HII Regions

This talk was given as part of a weekly lunch talk for the undergraduates in the Aggie Scholarships for Technology Advancements in Astronomical Research (AggieSTAAR) program. In …

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Ray Garner
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The SIGNALS from HII Regions

An invited review talk at the SIGNALS workshop about HII regions, pockets of gas ionized by hot stars. In this talk, I give an overview of the work that has been done about HII …

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Ray Garner
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Explaining the Abundance-Ionization Correlation in HII Regions with NGC 628 featured image

Explaining the Abundance-Ionization Correlation in HII Regions with NGC 628

An invited presentation about my work investigating the correlation between the ionization parameter and oxygen abundance in NGC 628.

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Ray Garner
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Astronomy on Tap: 110 Things That Are Not Comets

Who was Charles Messier and why did he write down a catalog of things that aren't comets? What is in his catalog and can you observe them all in a single night? I'll explain all in …

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Ray Garner
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SIGNALS of Star Formation in Local Galaxies

An invited seminar talk about the collaboration SIGNALS. Using data from the SIGNALS survey and the SITELLE spectrograph, I highlight how we analyze HII regions to study their …

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Ray Garner
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