Invited talk, April APS (American Physical Society) meeting, April 15$-$20, 2016, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Stanford Astrophysics Colloquium, May 12, 2016, KIPAC, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA.

Invited talk, Conference on "The Transient Sky," sponsored by Raymond and Beverly Sackler and Irwin Shapiro, May 16-19, 2016, Boston, MA.

Invited speaker, Workshop on Supernovae, organized and sponsored by the International Space Science Institute (ISSI), Bern, Switzerland, October 3-7, 2016.

Harvard Gravitational Wave Series Seminar, Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA, March 8, 2017.

LIGO/Virgo Workshop on Core Collapse Supernovae, their signatures in gravitational waves and their detection with ground-based laser interferometers, Panelist, Pasadena, CA, March 17-18, 2017.

CSI: Princeton - A Definitive Core-collapse Supernova Investigation, Speaker and organizer, April 17-20, 2017, PCTS workshop, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.

Thomas Gold Lecturer, Physics colloquium, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, May 8, 2017.

Astronomy Colloquium, University of Washington, Seattle, May 22, 2017.

LIGO Seminar, Theory call to the LIGO Supernova Group, June 14, 2017.

Seminar on Gravitational Waves from Supernovae, Workshop on "Neutron Stars: Linking Nuclear Physics of the Interior to Electromagnetic Observations and Gravitational Radiation," Aspen Center for Physics, Aspen, CO, June 29, 2017.

Invited review talk on Core-Collapse Theory at the IPMU supernova workshop entitled "Stellar Evolution, Supernova and Nucleosynthesis Across Cosmic Time," in honor of Ken'ichi Nomoto's 70th Birthday, September 18-September 22, 2017, Tokyo, Japan.

Physics Colloquium, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Oct. 25, 2017.

Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics/KIPC Colloquium, University of Chicago, Nov. 29, 2017.

Seminar at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA), University of Toronto, Dec. 14, 2017.

"Multimessenger Observations of Neutron Star Mergers: Probing the Physics of High-Density Matter," Invited talk at the APS Division of Nuclear Physics Meeting, Vancouver, Canada, Oct. 14, 2016

"Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers: the State of the Art," Invited talk at the 2016 JSI Workshop, Annapolis, USA, Nov. 10, 2016

"Core-Collapse Supernovae: from the Micro to the Macro," LIGO Seminar in remote, Dec. 16, 2016

"Nature's Ultimate Hadron Collider: Neutron Star Mergers," JINA Seminar at the Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA, Jan. 9, 2017

"Neutrino-Radiation-Hydrodynamics Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers," Invited talk at the SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference, Atlanta, USA, Feb. 27, 2017

"Neutron Star Mergers," Colloquium at the University of Arizona, Tucson, USA, Mar. 21, 2017

"Numerical Simulations of Neutron Star Mergers," Seminar at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA, Apr. 19, 2017

"Nature's Ultimate Hadron Collider: Neutron Star Mergers," Seminar at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, USA, Apr. 27, 2017

"Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers," Invited talk at the LSST-LIGO workshop, New York, USA, May 12, 2017

"Nature's Ultimate Hadron Collider: Neutron Star Mergers," Seminar at University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, May. 31, 2017

"Probing Extreme-Density Matter with Gravitational-Wave Observations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers," Talk at Bridging Nuclear and Gravitational Physics: the Dense Matter Equation of State, ECT*, Trento, Italy, Jun. 6, 2017

"Dynamical Mass Ejection from Compact Binary Mergers," Invited talk at the Nuclear Astrophysics in the Gravitational Wave Astronomy Era workshop at ECT*, Trento, Italy, Jun. 15, 2017

"Numerical Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers," Invited talk at the Microphysics for Relativistic Astrophysics workshop in East Lansing, USA, Jul. 17, 2017

"Numerical Simulations of Binary Neutron Star Mergers," Talk at the INT Program INT-17-2b, Electromagnetic Signatures of r-process Nucleosynthesis in Neutron Star Binary Mergers, Seattle USA, Aug. 18, 2017

"Neutrino Signature from Multi-D Supernova Models," Invited talk at νEclipse: New Extensions of Coherent scattering and other Lepton Interactions for new Physics SEarches, Knoxville, USA, Aug. 20, 2017

"NS Merger Simulations: Lessons Learned," Invited talk at Rapid Response Workshop: Binary NS Merger, New York, USA, Oct. 20, 2017

"Towards the Modeling of PBH-NS Interactions with Numerical Relativity," Invited talk at Focus Week on Primordial Black Holes, Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 17, 2017

"The Role of NS Merger Simulations in the Post-Detection Era," Invited talk at The Astrophysics of NS Mergers workshop, New York, USA, Nov. 21, 2017

"Neutron Star Mergers," Seminar at the Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge MA, USA, Dec. 4, 2017

"NS Merger Simulations: Lessons Learned," Invited talk at the GW170817: The First Double Neutron Star Merger workshop, Santa Barbara, USA, Dec. 6, 2017

"The Interplay of Opacities and Rotation in Promoting the Explosion of Core-Collapse Supernovae," 2017 Winter APS Mid-Atlantic Section

"The Interplay of Opacities and Rotation in Promoting the Explosion of Core-Collapse Supernovae," 2018 AAS, http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AAS...23120906V)

"Opacities and rotation in the revival of the fittest," 2018 Wilhelm und Else Heraeus-Seminar