Talks on astronautics history and policy
- Astronomy from Space Feb 1993, Boston NSS
- Silver Moon: Project Apollo 25 Years Later Jul 1994
- Spaceflight in the Nineties May 1994, CfA Open Night; also Retired Men's Club of Belmont, May 18
- International Cooperation and the Next Fifty Years in Space Science Space Congress, Florida, Apr 2001
- Notes on the Soviet Space Program, Yuri's Night 2001
- Columbia accident (Wellesley College, Apr 2003)
- Exploration of Mars Aug 2003
- Military Space and Public Transparency UCS talk, Beijing 2004.
- Dawn of the Space Age ISRO-Bangalore, Sep 2004
- Dawn of the Space Age Library of Congress, Dec 2004
- Science and the Military in Space AAAS talk (4pp), 2005
- Back to the Moon May 2006
- Introduction to Orbits Feb 2007, Harvard class
- 50 Years of the Space Age Oct 2007 , CfA Open Night
- The Birth of NASA, Dec 2008
- Mission Update May 2009, NERQUAM meeting
- The Race to the Moon: Part 1, Jul 2009, Boston Skeptics in the Pub
- The Race to the Moon: Part 2 - Back to Stay?, Jul 2009, Boston Skeptics in the Pub, [Extras]
- Space Astronomy in 2012 (2012 Apr)
- Africa and the Cosmos 2012, Smithsonian-NMAA, version 1
- Africa and the Cosmos 2013, Smithsonian-NMAA
- The Globalization of Space Apr 2013
- Space and Ukraine Harvard space meeting, Aug 2014
- Space and Earth: How the Search for MH370 Reveals the Ubiquity - and Limitations - of Surveillance from Space GSFC Colloquium, Nov 2014
- The Cubesat Explosion Dec 2014
- Jonathan's Space Library Jun 2015
- The Globalization of Space Feb 2016 update
- An Astronomer Nitpicks 'Gravity' CfA, Mar 2016
- Europe as a Leader in the Space Age, Mar 2017, Harvard European Conference
- Space Junk May 2017, CfA
- The Edge of Space: How Low Can You Go? Jun 2017, McGill IASL
- Jonathan's Space Library Jan 2018
- The Changing Cast of Space Actors:
Internationalization, Commercialization and Democratization CfA, Oct 2018
- Where Space Begins: Revisiting the Karman Line Galloway Symposium, DC, Dec 2018
- Space Junk Mar 2019, Harvard freshman seminar version
- The Globalization of Space: Changing Demographics of the Satellite Orbital Population Oct 2019, MIT
- Apollo Plus 50 May 2019, CfA Open Night
- Apollo Plus 50 Aug 2019, CfA summer colloquium
- Space Debris and Space Policy Nov 2019, Georgetown Medical School
- Orbital Debris Jul 2021, Harvard
- Strategic Challenges Of Large Satellite Constellations, Oct 2022, McGill
- A Sky Full of Satellites Jan 2023, Harvard
Some professional astronomy presentations
Astronomy software
- Einstein Data for the 21st Century Feb 1994
- Introduction to FITS Jun 1994
- Einstein Data Center Status - HEASARC Users Group, Feb 1994
- M33 and X-ray data analysis - Talk to CfA grad students, Nov 2001
- Chandra Extended Source Analysis - Internal CXC talk, Apr 2001
- Short History of X-ray Astronomy Missions and data Jun 2003
- Chandra Aimpoint Drifts Oct 2005
- X-ray Astronomy and the Analysis of X-ray Data 2005, ADASS, Madrid[Published version]
- X-ray Astronomy and the Analysis of X-ray Data 2005, ADASS, Madrid [Talk version]
- Astrophysics for Mathematicians, Harvard Stats Dept, Dec 2006
- CIAO update HEAD meeting, Mar 2008
- CIAO Workshop 2008
- Using Chandra and its Archive Oct 2009, Univ. of Vienna
- CIAO Workshop 2011: Introduction Aug 2011, X-ray Astron.School
- CIAO Workshop 2011: Scripts Aug 2011, X-ray Astron.School (with E. Galle)
- CIAO Workshop 2013: Introduction and Scripts Apr 2013
- Not your Advisor's CIAO HEAD conference, Apr 2013
- CIAO Workshop 2014 Nov 2014
- CIAO - IAU 2015
- CIAO Workshop 2016 Aug 2016
- CIAO Workshop 2017: Intro to X-ray Data Analysis
- CIAO Workshop 2017: Merging Data
- CIAO Workshop 2019: Intro to X-ray Data Analysis Jan 2019
- The Virtual Universe Nov 2000
- VO Data Models WG Status May 2003
- VO Data Models WG Status Aug 2003
- Spectrum Data Models for the VO Oct 2003
- VO Data Models WG Status Oct 2003
- VO Data Models WG Status Dec 2003
- VO Data Models WG 1: Models, Pune Interop Sep 2004, IUCAA Pune
- VO Data Models WG 2: STC, Pune Interop Sep 2004, IUCAA Pune
- VO Data Models WG 3: Spectrum DM, Pune Interop Sep 2004, IUCAA Pune
- VO Data Models WG Apr 2005, Tucson
- VO Data Models WG Sep 2005, Paris
- VO Data Models WG Oct 2005, Madrid
- VO Data Models WG: SED Oct 2005, Madrid
- VO Data Models and Interoperability at High Resolution COSPAR Jul 2006, Beijing
- VO Spectrum Data Model VO Sep 2006, Moscow
- SAO Data Models status VO team meeting, Jun 2008, Colorado
- Chandra Users Ctee Jan 2005
- Chandra Users Ctee Oct 2017: Source Catalog
- Chandra Senior Review 2015: CIAO
Public talks on astronomy
- A Tour of the Universe Feb 1990, Barnard College
- Astronomy from SpaceMar 1992, Arisia Con
- Astronomy Satellites Jun 1994, SAO REU program
- Planets and Galaxies and Stuff Jul 1994, to CfA PorterExch staff
- Space Astronomy in the 1990s Apr 1995, STARCON
- Quasars Nov 1995
- Space Science in the Nineties and the AXAF Observatory Feb 1996
- A Short History of X-ray Astronomy Missions and DataFeb 1997 || [Extra pages, Jul 97]
- Quasars May 1998
- Intro to CfA Sep 1999
- Chandra images (2003 Jun)
- Tour of the Universe Feb 2004
- The Chandra X-ray Observatory (2004 Sep)
- Tour of the Universe Jan 2010
- Intro to CfA Oct 2010
- The Chandra X-ray Observatory (2012 update)
- Astronomy in 2012 (2012 Feb)
- Introducing the Universe: Part 1, A Tour of the Universe, Apr 2012
- Introducing the Universe: Part 2, Fingerprinting the Cosmos, Apr 2012
- X-ray Astronomy and the Multicolored Universe, May 2012
- The Evolving Universe Exhibition (2012 Jun)
- A Universe of Data NASM, Apr 2013
- The Invisible Universe (2017 Jul)
[Variant version:Tour of the Universe (2017 Jul) ]
- The Chandra X-ray Observatory (2017 Jul)
- X-ray astronomy and the Chandra X-ray Observatory (2018 Jan)
- 170 Years of Astronomy on Observatory Hill 2018 Oct, CfA Postdoc Symp.