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<a href="index.html" class="nav-brand">Marcus Lower</a>
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<div class="sidebar-name">Dr. Marcus Lower</div>
<div class="sidebar-title">ARC DECRA Fellow | Astrophysicist</div>
<div class="sidebar-inst"><a href="https://www.swinburne.edu.au/" style="color: #f0a83a;">Swinburne University of Technology</a></div>
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<p>Below is a list of talks and presentations that I have given throughout my research career.</p>
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<div class="talk-date">Nov 2025</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Magnetars: The magnetic monsters of the neutron star zoo</div>
<div class="talk-conf">Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics colloquium</div>
<div class="talk-loc">The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Sep 2025</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Jewels in the pulsar casket</div>
<div class="talk-conf">Pulsar 2025</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Geremeas, Italy</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Invited</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Aug 2025</div>
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<div class="talk-title">The most extreme pulsars in the Galaxy and their links to FRB progenitors</div>
<div class="talk-conf">Dynamic Radio Skies 2025</div>
<div class="talk-loc">University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia,</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jul 2025</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Transient FRB-like emission from an extraordinary radio-loud magnetar</div>
<div class="talk-conf">FRB 2025</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Montreal, Canada</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jun 2025</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Shining a light through a neutron star magnetosphere</div>
<div class="talk-conf">A New era in astrophysics: Preparing for early science with the SKAO</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Görlitz, Germany</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Mar 2025</div>
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<div class="talk-title">The long- and short-term rotational evolution of radio pulsars</div>
<div class="talk-conf">Astrophysics Colloquium</div>
<div class="talk-loc">University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Aug 2024</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Untangling the magnetic fields of radio pulsars</div>
<div class="talk-conf">CAS Astrophysics Colloquium</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia,</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jul 2024</div>
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<div class="talk-title">The irregular spin-down evolution of radio pulsars</div>
<div class="talk-conf">Physics and Astronomy Seminar</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Monash University, Melbourne, Australia,</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jun 2024</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Discovery of the first millisecond pulsar in the Galactic Centre</div>
<div class="talk-conf">2024 Astronomical Society of Australia ASM</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Held online</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Mar 2024</div>
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<div class="talk-title">A MeerKAT perspective of the double pulsar eclipses: precession, predictions and polarimetry</div>
<div class="talk-conf">CGCA Seminar (virtual)</div>
<div class="talk-loc">University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, USA</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Feb 2024</div>
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<div class="talk-title">A MeerKAT view of the double pulsar eclipses: precession, predictions and polarimetry</div>
<div class="talk-conf">MeerKAT@5</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Stellenbosch, South Africa</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Oct 2023</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Pulsar timing with the UTMOST East-West array</div>
<div class="talk-conf">Molonglo Symposium</div>
<div class="talk-loc">University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jul 2023</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Rocks around the clock? A case study of pulsar-asteroid interactions with PSR J0738-4042</div>
<div class="talk-conf">2023 Astronomical Society of Australia ASM</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jun 2023</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Faraday conversion in the magnetosphere of a magnetar</div>
<div class="talk-conf">JBCA Seminar</div>
<div class="talk-loc">University of Manchester, Manchester, UK</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jun 2023</div>
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<div class="talk-title">How do young pulsars spin down?</div>
<div class="talk-conf">Timing and imaging of compact sources with SKA pathfinders</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Kerastari, Greece</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Invited</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Dec 2022</div>
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<div class="talk-title">The Parkes magnetar monitoring programme</div>
<div class="talk-conf">MQAAAstro Seminar</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Nov 2022</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Magnetars@Murriyang</div>
<div class="talk-conf">2022 Australasian (Orange) Pulsar Workshop</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Parkes Observatory, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Aug 2022</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Radio-loud magnetars as Galactic fast radio burst analogues</div>
<div class="talk-conf">IAU Symposium 369, IAU General Assembly 2022</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Busan, South Korea</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jul 2022</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Untangling the twisted polarised emission of a radio-loud magnetar</div>
<div class="talk-conf">2022 Astronomical Society of Australia ASM</div>
<div class="talk-loc">University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Mar 2022</div>
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<div class="talk-title">A radio-loud magnetar with an identity crisis</div>
<div class="talk-conf">ATNF Colloquium,</div>
<div class="talk-loc">CSIRO Marsfield, Sydney, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Feb 2022</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Modelling radio birefringence in neutron star magnetospheres</div>
<div class="talk-conf">ANITA 2022 workshop</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jul 2021</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Timing an invisible neutron star and testing General Relativity via the eclipses of its pulsar companion</div>
<div class="talk-conf">14th Edoardo Amaldi conference on gravitational waves</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Held online</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jun 2021</div>
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<div class="talk-title">A MeerKAT's perspective of the Double Pulsar eclipses</div>
<div class="talk-conf">11th IPTA scientific meeting</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Held online</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jul 2020</div>
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<div class="talk-title">The radio magnetar XTE J1810-197: A Galactic FRB analogue?</div>
<div class="talk-conf">2020 Astronomical Society of Australia ASM</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Held online</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-meta">
<div class="talk-date">Feb 2020</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Massive scale pulsar timing with the Molonglo Observatory Synthesis Telescope</div>
<div class="talk-conf">ATNF Colloquium</div>
<div class="talk-loc">CSIRO Marsfield, Sydney, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge invited">Colloquium</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Jun 2019</div>
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<div class="talk-title">The UTMOST pulsar timing programme</div>
<div class="talk-conf">10th IPTA scientific meeting</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Pune, India</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-meta">
<div class="talk-date">Feb 2019</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Measuring rotational instabilities in pulsars with the Molonglo telescope</div>
<div class="talk-conf">ANITA 2019 workshop</div>
<div class="talk-loc">Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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<div class="talk-date">Feb 2018</div>
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<div class="talk-title">Distinguishing eccentricity in binary black hole mergers with aLIGO</div>
<div class="talk-conf">ANITA 2018 workshop</div>
<div class="talk-loc">ICRAR Curtin University, Perth, Australia</div>
<span class="talk-badge">Contributed</span>
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