Contribution to Conferences and Seminars

(Updated on March, 2025)

• Talk: The True Shape of the Magellanic Clouds from Precise Multi-Wavelength RR Lyrae Period-Luminosity Relations.
  The 245th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (National Harbor, USA), January 12-16, 2025.

• Talk: Chronicles of the Cosmos: The Ancient History of the Local Group Revealed by RR Lyrae Stars.
  The RR Lyrae and Cepheid conference 2024: Frontiers of Classical Pulsators – Theory and Observations (Marrakech, Morocco), November 24-30, 2024.

• Invited Talk: Fantastic Homogeneous Photometry Data and Where to Find Them.
  Resolved stellar populations from photographic plates to large surveys: A celebration of Peter B. Stetson’s career in Astronomy (Florence, Italy), October 7-11, 2025.

• Invited Talk: An Overview of Gemini Queue Scheduling and Night-time Operations.
  The 243rd Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (New Orleans, USA), January 7-11, 2024.

• Talk: Assessing Star-Formation Histories with Pulsating Stars in the Local Group.
  DELVE Collaboration meeting 2023 (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), October 16-18, 2023.

• Talk: "Breaking the law": A segmented period-luminosity relation in delta Scuti stars.
  IAU Symposium 376: At the cross-roads of astrophysics and cosmology: Period–luminosity relations in the 2020s (Budapest, Hungary), April 17-2, 2023.

• iPoster: "Breaking the laws": A segmented period-luminosity relation in delta Scuti stars.
  The 241st Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Seattle, USA), Jan 8-12, 2023.

• Invited Colloquium: Discovering new dwarf galaxies in the Local Group.
  Seminar at University of Hawai'i Hilo, 495 seminar class (Hawai'i, USA), Oct 21, 2022.

• Invited Review Talk: Variable stars in Local Group galaxies.
  RRLCep2022: Large-scale surveys as bridges between spectroscopy and photometry (La Palma, Spain), Sep 26-30, 2022.

• Talk: RR Lyrae stars in ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in the era of the large surveys.
  DECam at 10 years -- Looking Back, Looking Forward (Tucson, USA). Sep 12-14, 2022.

• Poster: A deeper look into main-sequence and blue straggler stellar pulsators in extragalactic systems.
  Gemini Science Meeting 2022 (Seoul, South Korea), July 26-29, 2022.

• Invited Talk: Milky Way science with DES data.
  IAC Dark Energy Survey Data Workshop 2022 (La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain), Jun 16-17, 2022.

• Talk: The fast and early evolution of Eridanus II.
  DES Collaboration meeting 2022 (Duke University, North Carolina, USA + Virtual meeting [COVID]), May 23-27, 2022.

• Invited Talk: A deeper look into main-sequence and blue straggler stellar pulsators in extragalactic systems.
  Stars and the ISM with Gemini's Fast Turnaround (FT) observation Splinter Session at the 239th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA), Jan 9-13, 2022 [In person, cancelled for COVID].

• Poster: "Twinkle, Twinkle Little Stars" — The Importance of Finding RR Lyrae Stars in Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies.
  Star Clusters: the Gaia Revolution (Virtual meeting [COVID]), Oct 5-7, 2021.

• Talk: The DECam Local Volume Exploration Survey (DELVE): Overview and Update.
  Parallel Milky Way Session at the DES Collaboration Meeting 2021 (Virtual meeting [COVID]), May 17-21, 2021.

• Talk: "Getting MADS": The age of the SMC cluster NGC 419 measured with delta Scuti stars.
  The 237th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society (Virtual meeting [COVID]), Jan 10-15, 2021.

• Talk: Tracing the early chemical evolution of Local Group dwarf galaxies using RR Lyrae stars.
  XVI SOCHIAS Annual Meeting (Virtual meeting [COVID]), Dec 9-12, 2020.

• Talk: Studying the early chemical evolution of dwarf galaxies in different environments with RR Lyrae stars.
  Linking the Galactic and Extragalactic: Stellar Dynamics and Stellar Population of the Milky Way and its Siblings (Virtual meeting [COVID]), Dec 3-4, 2020.

• Invited Colloquium: The formation and evolution of Local group dwarf galaxies told by their RR Lyrae stars.
  Virtual seminar at Universidad de Chile (Departamento de Astrofísica, Cerro Calán), 10 Sep 2020.

• Talk: Tracing the early chemical evolution of Local Group dwarf galaxies using RR Lyrae stars.
  The Local Group: Assembly and Evolution, virtual symposium, 31 Aug - 4 Sep 2020.

• Talk: A DECam follow-up of Centaurus I.
  DELVE Collaboration Meeting, virtual, 27-19 June 2020.

• Invited talk: RR Lyrae stars in Milky Way satellites.
  Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration Meeting, virtual, 18-22 May 2020.

• Invited talk: What variable stars tell us about the formation and evolution of Local Group dwarf galaxies.
  Star Clusters 2020, La Serena, Chile, 9-11 March 2020.

• Talk: Tracing the early chemical evolution of Local Group dwarf galaxies using RR Lyrae stars.
  RRL/Cep 2019 – Frontiers of Classical Pulsators: Theory and Observations, Cloudcroft, New Mexico (USA), 13-18 Oct 2019.

• Poster: The Importance Of Finding RR Lyrae Stars In Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies.
  IAU Symposium 355: The Realm of the Low Surface Brightness Universe, La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), 8-12 Jul 2019.

• Talk: RR Lyrae stars: hints about the early chemical evolution of the Universe.
  IV Workshop LSST Chile: Towards Science in Chile with LSST, La Serena, Chile, 6-9 Mar 2019.

• Poster: RR Lyrae stars: hints about the early chemical evolution of the Universe.
  XXX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics: Big Data Analysis in Astronomy, La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), 4-10 Nov 2018.

• Talk: Digging into the early evolution of Local Group galaxies.
  Second binational meeting AAA-SOCHIAS 2018, La Serena, Chile, 7-12 Oct 2018.

• Talk: RR Lyrae stars in ultra-faint dwarf satellites discovered by DES.
  Dark Energy Survey (DES) Collaboration Meeting, College Station, Texas (USA), 14-18 May 2018.

• Invited talk: Variable stars in the Local Group using ground-based and HST data.
  ISSI-BJ Workshop on Astronomical Distance Determination in the Space Age, Beijing, China, 23-27 May 2016.

• Talk: A revised ɸ31-period-metallicity relation for RR Lyrae stars.
  RRL 2015 conference: High precision studies of RR Lyrae stars from dynamical phenomena to mapping the galactic structure, Visegrad (Hungary), 18-22 Oct 2015.

• Poster: Old population gradients in Sculptor dSph: Studying its fast and early formation history.
  EWASS 2015: European Week of Astronomy and Space Science, La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), 22-26 Jun 2015.

• Poster: RR Lyrae stars in Local Group dwarf galaxies.
  Workshop RASPUTIN: Resolved And unresolved Stellar PopUlaTIoNs, Garching, Germany, 13-17 Oct 2014.

• Poster: Searching for chemical inhomogeneities in Open Clusters.
  GREAT-INT School: The Galaxy, stellar composition and dynamics, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife (Spain), 2-6 Sep 2013.

• Talk: Searching for star-to-star variations in the chemical composition for open clusters of different age and mass.
  VI COEFFIS, VI Congreso de Estudiantes de la Facultad de Física, La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain), 14-15 Mar 2013.

Other conferences/workshops/schools I have also participated are listed below:

• 2023 ISEE-Akamai Mentor Workshop. Hilo, Hawai'i (USA), May 26-27, 2023.

• DELVE Collaboration meeting 2022. Tucson, Arizona (USA), Sep 15-16, 2022.

• Summer School in Astroinformatics II. Penn State Eberly College of Science + Virtual meeting [COVID], Jun 13-17, 2022.

• Summer School in Statistics for Astronomers XVII. Penn State Eberly College of Science + Virtual meeting [COVID], Jun 6-10, 2022.

• DELVE Collaboration meeting 2021. Virtual meeting [COVID], Oct 18-20, 2021.

• Gemini Observatory 2021 Virtual Science Meeting. Virtual meeting [COVID], Aug 23-26, 2021.

• A ZTF Summer School 2021. Virtual meeting [COVID], Aug 16-20, 2021.

• The virtual Rubin Observatory Project & Community Workshop (PCW) 2021. Virtual meeting [COVID], Aug 9-13, 2021.

• Machine Learning in Astronomy, from Classical to Physics-informed. Virtual meeting [COVID], Jul 28-29, 2021.

• The Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy (SCMA) VII conference. Virtual meeting [COVID], Jun 7-10, 2021.

• LSST Project & Community Workshop 2020. Virtual [COVID], Aug 10-14, 2020.

• ESO Conference: H0, Assessing Uncertainties in Hubble’s Constant Across the Universe. Virtual[COVID], Jun 22-26, 2020.

• DECam Community Science Workshop 2018: Science Highlights, Coming Opportunities, LSST Synergies. Tucson, Arizona (USA), May 21-22, 2018.

• Workshop Data Science ULS: Introducción Práctica a Herramientas Computacionales para Ciencias Intensivas en Datos. La Serena (Chile), Dec 4-6, 2017.

• Workshop ADONI 2017: The Adaptive Optics in Astronomy in Italy. Padova (Italy), Apr 10-12, 2017.

• X Spanish Virtual Observatory (SVO) School. La Laguna (Spain), Mar 6-8, 2017.