“Teaching Physics a New Way: What Yale Can Tell Harvard about Innovative Teaching,” Harvard Colloquium, Cambridge (December 2009)
“Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe” Association of Yale Alumni, Honolulu (December 2009)
“The Interplay of Black Hole Growth and Galaxy Evolution,” University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy Colloquium (December 2009)
“The Future of X-ray Astronomy: The Past is Prologue,” Proceedings of X-Ray Astronomy 2010, Bologna, Italy, eds. A. Comastri, M. Cappi, L. Angelini, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1248, p. 597 (2010)
“Women in Science – Why So Few?” Director’s Science of Diversity Lecture, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, New York, NY (September 2009)
“Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of Galaxies” University of North Carolina, Physics & Astronomy Department (March 2009)
“Falling Into a Black Hole” Women and Science Distinguished Speaker Series University of North Carolina, (March 2009)
“Supermassive Black Holes and Galaxy Evolution” Joint Physics and Astronomy Colloquium Indiana University, (March 2009)
“Women in Physics - Why So Few?” National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, Michigan State University (March 2009)
“Women in (European) Astronomy,” in Reviews Modern Astronomy, vol. 21, p. 249 (2009)
“Dark Energy and the Accelerating Universe”Association of Yale Alumni, Greenwich (October 2008)
“Black Holes, Relativistic Jets, and Einstein’s Dreams” Public Dialogue Aspen Center for Physics, (July 2008)
“Obscured Accretion and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes” Brera Observatory, Milan (June 2008)
“A Report from the Gender Equity Conference for Physics” AAPT/APS Physics Department Chairs Conference (June 2008)
“Black Holes, Galaxies, and the Evolution of the Universe” Yale College Reunion Lecture (June 2008)
“Closing the Gender Gap” Brookhaven RHIC/AGS User’s Meeting Forum on Women in Physics (May 2008)
“Astrophysics in an Age of Discovery” Connect with Yale event, San Jose, CA (May 2008)
“A Multiwavelength Perspective on AGN” (Invited Review) International Astroparticle Physics Symposium, Golden, CO (May 2008)
“Cosmic Accretion and the Growth of Supermassive Black Holes” Department of Astronomy Colloquium University of Massachusetts,(May 2008)
“Keeping Women in Physics” American Physical Society (April 2008)
“Black Holes, Galaxies, and the Evolution of the Universe” Connect with Yale event, Cambridge, MA (April 2008)
“A Census of AGN with INTEGRAL” (Invited Talk) AAS High Energy Astrophysics Division meeting (March/April 2008)
“The Growth of Supermassive Black Holes in Distant Galaxies” Department of Physics, University of California at Riverside (March 2008)
“In Search of Supermassive Black Holes” (Invited Talk) National Society of Black Physicists /National Society of Hispanic Physicists Annual Conference, Washington, DC (February 2008)