Outreach

I enjoy sharing my enthusiasm in Astronomy with the public. Below are some examples of events or talks I have given.

Animations / images I made 

Below is a video that I made showing the different sizes and masses of Black Holes as detected with gravitational waves by LIGO and Virgo in their O3a catalog. A dutch version is available through https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1A99afBk7yk

List of public talks 

  1. October 2022, Talk at North Shore Amateur Astronomy Club
  2. Podcast Astrophiz 150: Floor Broekgaarden, Gravitational Waves, June 2022
  3. September 2021 Talk for Astronomical Society of the Palm Beaches
  4. May 2021: Invited talk for the Monthly Gloucester Area Astronomy Club (GAAC) meeting  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZBto3gyo2o&t=3582s
  5. April 2021: Talk for Beacon Hill Seminar Science 
  6. February 2021: Talk for Science in the News (SITN)  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjoM0AjbNwY&t=3300s
  7. February 2021: Talk for Beacon Hill Seminar Astronomy 
  8. May 2020: Talk for AstroChats with YouthAstroNet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvD5F4gfH34
  9. April 2020: Lunch talk for Ortec consulting company 
  10. February 2020: Beacon Hill Astronomy talk
  11. 2019: Talk for Mount Burnett Observatory, Australia
  12. 2019: Interview on the Dutch Amsterdam radio on the Lunar eclipse
  13. 2018: talk for Girl’s day, University of Amsterdam
Showing a quote to introduce that I love using cabbages to represent stars during a talk
Discussing scales in stellar evolution and gravitational wave astronomy using cabbages

Photo gallery of several outreach activities I participated in 

 


Floor Broekgaarden
Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows at Columbia University and CCA | Research Professor at JHU | Ph.D. in Astrophysics