Invited Reviews

• Debris Disks Observations and Theory: incidence, structure and evolution
  Jul 2013, "Protostars & Planets VI", Heidelberg, Germany

• Herschel Surveys of Debris Disks: Incidences, outcomes and surprises
  Jun 2012, "Origins of Stars and Planetary Systems" conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

• Debris Disks: the first 30 years. Where will Herschel take us?
  Sep 2010, "Herschel and the Formation of Stars and Planetary Systems", Gothenborg, Sweden

• SCUBA-2 prospects for dust linear polarization measurements
  , Jul 2008, "The Cosmic Agitator - Magnetic Fields in the Galaxy", University of Kentucky, KY

• Polarimetry and Star Formation in the Submillimeter
  Mar 2004, "Astronomical Polarimetry" conference, Kona, HI

• Toward A New Paradigm for Star Formation
  Oct 2003, "A Festival for Frank Bash" meeting, University of Texas at Austin

Here are some of the talks (invited, contributed and public) which I have given. Job talks and very recent talks on unpublished work are not necessarily included.

• The Herschel DEBRIS Survey
  May 2013, contributed, Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC

• Herschel Surveys of Debris Disks: Incidences, Outcomes and Surprises
  Sep 2012, invited, NASA Ames, Moffett Field, CA

• Searches for External Solar Systems: Victoria, worldwide and beyond
  Jul 2012, public, Cowichan Star Party, Duncan, BC

• Resolving nearby debris disks with Herschel: a window into nearby Solar Systems
  Nov 2011, invited, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA

• Herschel's view of debris disks
  Oct 2011, invited, at the "Signposts of Planets" conference, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Baltimore, MD

• The Herschel DEBRIS Survey
  May 2011, contributed, Canadian Astronomical Society Annual Meeting, London, ON

• Resolving nearby debris disks with Herschel: a window into nearby Solar Systems
  Jan 2011, invited, Univeristy of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

• Resolving nearby debris disks with Herschel: a window into nearby Solar Systems
  Oct 2010, invited, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

• Finding External Solar Systems: from disks to planets and disks
  Sep 2010, public, RASC talk, Star Party, Metchosin, BC

• Making and Revealing Planets: the power of discs around stars
  Mar 2010, public, CSA Olympic Lecture Partnership, West Vancouver Public Library, Vancouver, BC

• Searchers for External Solar Systems: from Victoria to Hawaii and Beyond
  Oct 2009, public, "Quantum Leaps Conference", Mid-Island Science, Technology & Innovation Council, Nanaimo, BC

• Grain Growth (and destruction) in protoplanetary (and debris) disks
  Oct 2008, contributed, Band 1 Workshop at Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, Canada

• How we search for Extrasolar Planets
  Oct 2008, public, National Science & Technology Week, Greater Victoria Public Library, Victoria, BC

• The DEBRIS Project: Searching for Kuiper Belts around the Nearest Stars with Herschel
  Jul 2008, invited, "Advances in Far-IR Astronomy in Space", Special Session, 37th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, Montreal, QC

• Nearby Circumstellar Disks and the Search for Extrasolar Planets: Multiwavelength Surveys and Interferometric Facilities
  Apr 2008, invited, Northwestern University, IL

• Debris Disks: An Open Time Key Project on the Herschel Space Observatory
  Mar 2008, contributed, presented at Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, BC

• Careers in Astronomy
  Mar 2008, public, MS Infinity Conference, St. Margaret's School, Gr. 6-12, Victoria, BC

• Debris Disks in the Far-IR: Detection and Characterization of Kuiper Belt Analogues
  Feb 2008, contributed, presentation to the FIR DWG face-to-face meeting in Waterloo, ON

• A New Era in the Study of the Formation of Stars and Evolution of Disks: From individual case studies to large-scale surveys
  Jul 2007, invited, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics, Victoria, BC

• Synergy of ALMA with Herschel
  Jun 2007, invited, "Transformational Science with ALMA: Through Disks to Stars and Planets", Charlottesville, VA

• Tricks of Resolution and Dynamics: A Disk-like Object that Isn't
  Jun 2007, contributed, "Transformational Science with ALMA: Through Disks to Stars and Planets", Charlottesville, VA

• First Results from the Spitzer Gould Belt Legacy Survey
  Jun 2007, contributed, at the annual meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, Kingston, ON, Canada

• Toward a Statistical Understanding of Star Formation: the Origin and Evolution of Stars and Disks
  May 2007, invited, NRAO, Socorro, NM

• Debris Disks around Low-mass Stars: Why our nearest neighbours may host the most interesting disks
  Feb 2007, invited, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC

• Debris Disks Around Low Mass Stars: Frequency, Grain Growth and the Search for Planets
  Feb 2007, invited, NRAO, Charlottesville, VA

• Debris Disks around Low-mass Stars: Environments, planet formation and grain growth
  Jan 2007, invited, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON

• Debris Disks around Low-mass Stars: Environments, planet formation and grain growth,
  Jan 2007, invited, University of Western Ontario, London, ON

• The Class 0 Source Barnard 1c: Most Recent Results...
  November 2006, contributed, "Science With ALMA" meeting, Madrid, Spain

• On the Origins of Star, Disks and Planets: From Individual Case Studies to Unbiased Surveys
  July 2006, invited, St. Andrews, Scotland

• Women in Canadian Astronomy: 2000-2005
  June 2006, invited, Special Session, AAS, Calgary, AB, Canada

• New SMA and JCMT Results on the Remarkable Class 0 Source Barnard 1c
  June 2006, contributed, Canadian Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB

• The JCMT Debris Disk Legacy Survey: The Calm Before the Storm
  May 2006, contributed, "From Protostellar Disks to Planetary Systems", London, ON, Canada

• New SMA and JCMT Results on the Remarkable Class 0 Source Barnard 1c
  May 2006, contributed, "Complex Molecules in Space: Present Status and Prospects with ALMA", Denmark

• A Closer Look at Some Familiar Messier Objects
  May 2006, public, RASC Victoria Star Party, Victoria, BC

• Barnard 1-c: Understanding this Ver1y Young Protostellar Core in Perseus
  September 2005, invited, RAL Seminar, UC Berkeley

• Star Formation in the Era of ALMA: Polarimetry, Spectroscopy and Continuum Imaging
  February 2005, invited, Colloquium, Cornell University

• The Vega Phenomenon down to the Substellar Limit: Riding on the AU Microscopii Bandwagon
  January 2005, invited, Seminar, Leiden Observatory

• Magnetic Fields and Star Formation
  April 2004, job talk, University of Hertfordshire

• Polarimetry and Star Formation in the Submillimeter
  March 2004, invited review, "Astronomical Polarimetry" Conference

• Magnetic Fields and Other Secrets of Interstellar Dust
  November 2003, invited, Colloquium, California State University, Sacramento

• Is the Magnetic Field Preserved During Core Formation?
  July 2003, contributed, "High Resolution Star Formation", IAU, Sydney, Australia

• Polarization of Interstellar Clouds
  June 2003, invited, "New Millimeter Arrays" session at URSI/IEEE meeting, Columbus, Ohio

• Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds: Some Results from SCUBA Polarimetry
  November 2002, invited, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii

• New Insights into Dust grain Physics: The Polarization Spectrum of the OMC-1 Core
  , August 2002, contributed, Astrochemistry as a Diagnostic of Star Formation, Waterloo, ON, Canada.

• The Polarization Spectrum of OMC-1 and Its Importance in Understanding Grain Physics
  June 2002, contributed, Canadian Annual Meeting, Penticton, B.C., Canada.

• Dust Polarimetry in Star-Forming Clouds: Is it the Smoking Gun in Understanding Magnetic Field Geometries?
  November 2001, NASA Ames Center for Star Formation Seminar Series

• Star-Forming Clouds: Modeling Three Dimensional Magnetic Fields with Two Dimensional Polarimetry
  May 2001, contributed, Canadian Annual Meeting, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada. Click to view abstract, (17k).

• Submillimetre Polarization Observations: A Window on Magnetic Field Geometry in Molecular/Dark Clouds
  February 2001, contributed, Star Formation Jamboree, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

• Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds
  January 2001, dissertation talk, AAS, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

• Magnetic Field Structures in Filaments and Dark Clouds
  November 2000, invited, University of Western Ontario

• Sub-mm Polarimetry of Star-Forming Regions in Orion B
  June 2000, contributed, CASCA 2000, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. (presented for G. Schieven).

• Polarized Emission from Star-Forming Regions
  February 2000, invited, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics' Star Formation Seminar Series

• Magnetic Field Structure in Orion A's OMC3 Filament
  June 1999, contributed, Canadian Annual Meeting, St. Mary's University, Halifax, NS, Canada. Click to view abstract, (15k).

• Herschel Observations of the HR 8799 Disk
  Matthews, B., Kennedy, G., Sibthorpe, B., Booth, M., Broekhoven-Fiene, H., Wyatt, M., Macintosh, B., & Marois, C., at the "IAU Symposium 299: Exploring the Formation and Evolution of Planets" conference, 2013, Victoria, BC

• Herschel's DEBRIS -- An Update on the Search for Kuiper Belts Around the Nearest Stars
  Butner, Matthews & The DEBRIS Team, at the AAS, 2011, Seattle, WA

• A Resolved Debris Disk around F085 using Herschel
  Broekhoven-Fiene, Matthews & Qi, at the "Extending the Limits of Astrophysics Spectroscopy" conference, 2011, Victoria, BC

• The Herschel Survey: Detecting debris disks around nearby main-sequence stars
  Broekhoven-Fiene, Matthews, Kavelaars & The DEBRIS Team, at the annual meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, 2010, St. Mary's University, Halifax, NS

• Submillimeter Polarimetry of Molecular Clouds from Mauna Kea
  Vaillancourt, J., & Matthews, B. at the AAS Meeting #213, 2009, BAAS, 41, 459..

• Stellar Ages Of The Debris Sample Stars
  Butner, H., McCauley, P., Simonson, D., Matthews, B., Greaves, J., Duchene, G., Graham, J., Harvey, P., Kalas, P., Wilner, D., & Zuckerman, B. at the AAS Meeting #213, 2009, BAAS, 41, 209.

• Results of a 200-hour BIMA Array Key Project to Study Gas Dynamics in the rho Ophiuchi Cores
  Matthews, B., Di Francesco, J., & Fissel, L. at the "ALMA 2006 Meeting" conference, November 13-17, 2006, Madrid, Spain. Download a copy of the poster or a smaller version.

• A Molecular Line Study of the Powerful Outlfow Source Barnard 1-c
  Matthews, B., Bergin, E., Hogerheijde, M., & Jorgensen, J. at the "Protostars & Planets V" conference, October 24-28, 2005, Waikoloa, HI

• Extended CO Emission in the Environs of the HAeBe Stars LkHa 198 and LkHa 225S
  Matthews, B., Graham, J., Kalas, P., & Perrin, M. at "Protostars & Planets V", October 24-28, 2005, Waikoloa, HI

• Debris Disks around M Dwarfs: TWA 7 & GJ 182
  Matthews, B., & Kalas, P. at "Protostars & Planets V" conference, October 24-28, 2005, Waikoloa, HI

• Legacy Surveys with the JCMT: The SCUBA-2 Debris Disk Survey
  Holland, W., Matthews, B., Greaves, J. et al. at "Protostars & Planets V" conference, October 24-28, 2005, Waikoloa, HI

• Legacy Surveys with the JCMT: The SCUBA-2 Local Star Formation Survey
  Johnstone, D., Di Francesco, J., Matthews, B., Ward-Thompson, D., Nutter, D., Hatchell, J., Hogerheijde, M., Greaves, J, Buckle, J., & Richer, J. at "Protostars & Planets V" conference, October 24-28, 2005, Waikoloa, HI

• A Molecular Line Study of the Recently Discovered Class 0 source Barnard 1-c
  Matthews, B., Hogerheijde, M., & Bergin, E. at the conference IAU Symposium 231: "Astrochemistry Throughout the Universe -- Recent Successes and Current Challenges", August 29 - September 2, 2005, Asilomar, CA, USA and at the conference "Revealing the Molecular Universe -- One Telescope Is Never Enough", September 10-11, 2005, Berkeley, CA

• Dynamics of a Newly Discovered Young Stellar Object with a Prominent Jet
  Matthews, B., Hogerheijde, M., & Bergin, E. "Submillimeter Astronomy in the Era of the SMA", June 13-16, 2005, Cambridge, MA

• Is the Magnetic Field Preserved During Core Formation?
  Matthews, B.C., Lai, S.-P., Crutcher, R.M., & Wilson, C.D. IAU Symposium 221 "Star Formation at High Angular Resolution", July 22-25, 2003, Sydney, Australia

• Resolving Magnetic Fields Within Molecular Outflow Lobes with the JCMT
  Matthews, B., Fiege, J., Greaves, J., & Moriarty-Schieven, G. IAU Symposium 221 "Star Formation at High Angular Resolution", June 12-16, 2003, Sydney, Australia

• Resolving Magnetic Fields Within Molecular Outflow Lobes with the JCMT
  Matthews, B., Fiege, J., Greaves, J. & Moriarty-Schieven, G. "Magnetic Fields in Star Formation", April 21-25, 2003, Madrid, Spain

• Is the Magnetic Field Geometry Preserved During Core Fragmentation?
  Matthews, B. "Magnetic Fields in Star Formation", April 21-25, 2003, Madrid, Spain

• Probing Dust Grain Physics with Multi-wavelength Polarimetry: The OMC-1 Core
  Matthews, B.C., Chuss, D., Dotson, J., Dowell, C.D., Hildebrand, R., Johnstone, D., & Vaillancourt, J. Star Formation Workshop, June 12-16, 2002, ASIAA & Taroko, Taiwan.

• Polarimetry of Star-Forming Clouds and Cores on Multiple Spatial Scales
  Matthews, B.C., Fiege, J.D., Greaves, J.S. & Wilson, C.D. AAS Winter Meeting 2002 Washington D.C.

• Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Clouds: How Can FIRST Contribute?
  Matthews, B.C., Wilson, C.D., & Fiege, J.D. The Promise of the Herschel Space Observatory, December 2000, Toledo, Spain.

• Star Formation and Magnetic Field Structure along the OMC-3 Ridge in Orion A
  Matthews, B.C., & Wilson, C. D. CASCA 2000, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Click to view abstract, (16k).

• Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds: JCMT Polarimetry of OMC-3 in Orion A
  Matthews, B.C., & Wilson, C. D. 1999, 33rd ESLAB Symposium: Star Formation from the Small to the Large Scale. ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands, November 1-5. . Click to view abstract, (38k).

• Magnetic Fields in Star-Forming Molecular Clouds: JCMT Polarimetry of OMC-3 in Orion A
  Matthews, B.C., & Wilson, C. D. 1999, SOFIA Star Formation Workshop. University of California at Santa Cruz, July 12-17. . Click to view abstract, (39k).

• A Fantastic Polarization Map of OMC3 in Orion A
  Matthews, B.C., & Wilson, C. D. 1998, CITA Workshop, Gravitational Collapse. Toronto, ON Canada. Click to view abstract, (46k).

• Protostars in the Molecular ISM: Probing their Structure with SCUBA at the JCMT
  Matthews, B.C., & Wilson, C. D. International Workshop on the Interstellar Medium, 1998, Naramata, BC, Canada. Click to view abstract, (46k).

• Probing Protostellar Envelopes: RNO 43 and Other Class 0 Sources
  Matthews, B.C., & Wilson, C. D. Protostars & Planets IV, 1998, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A. Click to view abstract (78k).

• Mapping Protostars with SCUBA: The First Images
  Matthews, B.C., & Wilson, C.D. CASCA 1998, Quebec City, QC, Canada.

• Detection of the Spectacular Outflow Source NGC 2264G at Millimeter Wavelengths
  Matthews, B.C., & Wilson, C. D. CASCA 1997, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

• Casper: A Spooky Supernova Remnant-Pulsar Association?
  Matthews, B.C., Wallace, B.J., & Taylor, A.R. AAS Meeting #189, 1997, Toronto, ON.

• Casper: A Spooky Supernova Remnant-Pulsar Association?
  Matthews, B.C., Wallace, B.J., & Taylor, A.R. CASCA 1996, Kingston Ont. and Second Naramata Summer School on the Interstellar Medium 1996, Naramata B.C. 1996, JRASC, vol 90, no 5/6, pg 326. Click to view abstract, (size).