Title:
Forward-modeling tidal disruption events and their detections 
in surveys to understand selection effects and their implications

Abstract:
Surveys are detecting TDEs at ever-increasing rates. 
It is now possible to use these samples to characterize 
our detection rates as a function of galaxy properties such as 
central black hole mass, galaxy stellar mass, and star formation rate. 
Past work already indicates that the TDEs we detect are 
over-represented in a particular subclass of post-starburst galaxies, 
and that these host galaxies primarily reside in the “green valley” of 
galaxy color-luminosity space. However, the reason for 
this host galaxy preference remains mysterious, and is affected to 
an uncertain degree by a number of selection effects. 
I will present forward modeling of stellar disruption rates and 
survey selection effects that will help to disentangle 
the roles of SMBH demographics, stellar dynamics, and 
nuclear obscuration in shaping the distribution of the galaxies 
in which observable TDEs reside.