Talks and presentations
Recent invited and contributed talks are listed below. If you would like me to present this work at your institution, feel free to reach out by [email](mailto:somumassd@gmail.com).
August 21, 2026
Contributed Talk , SIAM Northeast Regional Meeting , UMass Dartmouth, North Dartmouth, Massachusetts
This talk presented radiation outer boundary conditions for the Teukolsky equation at the SIAM Northeast Regional Meeting. I highlighted boundary-kernel techniques that suppress spurious outer-boundary reflections and enable long-time stable simulations on smaller computational domains.
July 01, 2026
Contributed Talk , CAPRA 2026 , ULB, Brussels, Belgium
At CAPRA 2026, I discussed exponentially-convergent numerical simulations of circular-orbit EMRIs in black hole perturbation theory. The presentation focused on accuracy gains from discontinuous Galerkin-style discretizations and their role in robust gravitational-wave modeling pipelines.
June 22, 2026
Contributed Talk , LISA Symposium 2026 , University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
I presented recent progress on exponentially-convergent time-domain simulations for circular-orbit extreme-mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs). The talk emphasized how high-order numerical methods improve waveform accuracy and efficiency for long-duration evolutions relevant to space-based gravitational-wave observations.
March 18, 2026
Contributed Talk , APS Global Physics Summit 2026 , Denver, Colorado
This talk presents my recent work on radiation outer boundary conditions for the Bardeen-Press equation. This technique helps us to solve the BP equation in the time domain but with a much smaller computational domain. This helps in producing high resolution simulations efficiently, since we can have $\Delta x$ and $\Delta t$ small. Without this technique, a smaller computational domain would lead to spurious reflections from the outer boundary, which can contaminate the true physical solution.
January 08, 2026
Invited Talk , Extremal Black Holes and Black hole thermodynamics workshop, ICERM , Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
This invited talk presents recent developments in understanding scalar and gravitational horizon hair as observable imprints of extremal black holes, discussed at the Extremal Black Holes and Black hole thermodynamics workshop at ICERM.
July 01, 2025
Poster , Prospects in Theoretical Physics workshop, Institute of Advanced Study , Princeton, New Jersey
This talk presents work on exact boundary conditions for the Teukolsky equation, presented at the Prospects in Theoretical Physics workshop at the Institute of Advanced Study.
June 01, 2025
Poster , SciML for gravitational wave astronomy workshop, ICERM , Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
This talk discusses exact boundary conditions for the Teukolsky equation in the context of scientific machine learning applications to gravitational wave astronomy at the ICERM workshop.
March 18, 2025
Contributed Talk , APS April Meeting 2025 , Anaheim, CA
This talk presents techniques for performing long-duration simulations of extreme mass ratio inspirals (EMRIs) using solutions to the Teukolsky equation with singular source terms, presented at the APS April Meeting 2025.
April 01, 2024
Contributed Talk , APS April Meeting 2024 , Sacramento, CA
This talk discusses methods for determining the extremality of Reissner-Nordstrom black holes by analyzing late-time tail behavior at spatial infinity, presented at the APS April Meeting 2024.
--- *Last updated: August 2026*