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).

Radiation outer boundary conditions for the Teukolsky equation

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.

Exponentially-convergent simulations of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals for circular orbits

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.

Exponentially-convergent simulations of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals for circular orbits

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.

Radiation Outer Boundary Conditions for the Teukolsky equation

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.

Scalar and gravitational horizon hair as observable imprints of extremal black holes

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.

Exact boundary conditions for the Teukolsky equation

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.

Exact boundary conditions for the Teukolsky equation

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.

--- *Last updated: August 2026*