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Past Trottier Space Institute Seminars

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024, 15:30
The Launch and Recovery of HELIX - an Arctic Adventure
David Hanna
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, November 12th, 2024, 15:30
Trials and tribulations in near-Earth Geospace: Extreme events in the Ionosphere and how they impact radio propagation
David Themens
Birmingham/UNB
Abstract
Tuesday, November 5th, 2024, 15:30
Saline Perennial Springs in the Canadian High Arctic: Why We Still Study Them
Chris Omelon
Queen's University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 29th, 2024, 15:30
Microgalaxies, or, how low can we go?
Alan McConnachie
NRC HIA / University of Victoria
Abstract
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024, 15:30
Shocking tales of structure formation: Evolving galaxies and black holes in evolving environments
Andra Stroe
Space Telescope Science Institute & Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Abstract
Tuesday, October 8th, 2024, 15:30
Why Exomoons are So Important and How We’re Going to Find Them
David Kipping
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 1st 2024, 15:30
A spin on dark matter
Mustafa Amin
Rice University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 24th 2024, 15:45
Note special time
AGN HBT OMG
Neal Dalal
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, September 17th 2024, 15:30
Unraveling the mysteries of the early universe: next steps in mm-wavelength detection
Abigail Crites
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 10th 2024, 15:30
Antarctic Tipping Points: How Ice Shelves and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are Shaping Our Sea-Level Future
Karen Alley
University of Manitoba
Abstract
Monday, May 13th 2024, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special TSI Seminar
Dark Gas and Solid H2 in the Galaxy
Mark Walker
Manly Astrophysics
Abstract
Thursday, May 2nd 2024, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special TSI Seminar
(Some) New Frontiers to Study High-energy Emissions from Compact Objects
Sujay Mate
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
Abstract
Tuesday, April 16th 2024, 15:30
Exploring the Environments of Young Planetary Systems
Christine Chen
Space Telescope Science Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, April 9th 2024, 15:30
The Deep Synoptic Array: Results from the First FRB Sample
Vikram Ravi
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, April 2nd 2024, 15:30
Reality Check: The Perils and Promise of Observations to Characterize Small Exoplanets
Johanna Teske
Carnegie Institute for Science
Abstract
Tuesday, March 26th 2024, 15:30
Ultra Cold Detectors to Study the Hottest Parts of the Universe
Roger O'Brient
NASA JPL
Abstract
Tuesday, March 19th 2024, 15:30
Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles
Anson D’Aloisio
UC Riverside
Abstract
Tuesday, March 12th 2024, 15:30
The Circumgalactic Medium: What Is It and How Does It Affect the Evolution of Galaxies?
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Northwestern University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 27th 2024, 15:30
The Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies
Alison Man
University of British Columbia
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, February 20th 2024, 15:30
A New Generation of Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations for Cosmology and Astrophysics
Eve Vavagiakis
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 13th 2024, 15:30
The Galactic Center, Sgr A*, and the Young Stars therein
Sebastiano von Fellenberg
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Abstract
Tuesday, February 6th 2024, 15:30
Making Sense of the Fast Radio Burst Population
Duncan Lorimer
West Virginia University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 30th 2024, 15:30
Mapping the Cosmos with the Simons Observatory
Tanay Bhandarkar
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Tuesday, January 23rd 2024, 15:30
Under the Radar: Geophysical investigations of Permafrost, Snow, and Glaciers
Laura Thomson
Queen's University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 16th 2024, 15:30
Surveying Exoplanet Climates with Space Telescopes
Nicolas Cowan
TSI, McGill Physics & EPS
Abstract
Tuesday, December 12th 2023, 15:30
Decoding Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Revolutionary Role of JWST
Luis Welbanks
Arizona State University
Abstract
Thursday, December 7th 2023, 15:30 (TSI Conference Room)
Special TSI Seminar
Multifaceted Understanding of Accreting Neutron Stars and Their Environments: An X-ray Polarimetric Focus
Mason Ng
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, December 5th 2023, 15:30
Unveiling the Earliest Galaxies and Super-massive Black Holes with JWST
Steven Finkelstein
UT Austin
Abstract
Tuesday, November 28th 2023, 15:30
Gravitational Waves and Primordial Black Holes from Topological Defects in the Early Universe
David Dunsky
NYU
Abstract
Wednesday, November 22nd 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special TSI Seminar
Drone Beammapping Methods for 21cm Cosmology Experiments
Will Tyndall
Yale University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 14th 2023, 15:30
Modelling High Redshift Structure Formation and Reionization
Rahul Kannan
York University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 7th 2023, 15:30
When and Where Does Star Formation Stop? Stellar Mass Assembly and Quenching in Galaxies across Cosmic Time
Gourav Khullar
University of Pittsburgh
Abstract
Tuesday, October 31st 2023, 15:30
Super-Earth Formation: The View From Resonant Planets
Nick Choksi
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, October 26th 2023, 15:30 (TSI Conference Room)
Special TSI Seminar
Radio Astronomy in Africa: From the Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT) to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)
Radhakrishna Somanah
Université des Mascareignes (Mauritius)
Abstract
Wednesday, October 25th 2023, 12:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Special TSI Seminar
Impact of HWP systematics on the measured CMB polarization
Marta Monelli
Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics
Abstract
Tuesday, October 24th 2023, 15:30
Neutrinos from the Galaxy and beyond: Astrophysics with IceCube
Justin Vandenbrouke
WIPAC/UW-Madison
Abstract
Tuesday, October 17th 2023, 15:30
Astrophysical Magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Jets: Observations, Theory and Simulations
Rachid Ouyed
University of Calgary
Abstract
Tuesday, October 3rd 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Inelastic Dark Matter Through The Ages
Saniya Heeba
TSI & McGill Physics
Abstract
Tuesday, September 26th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Tracing Extreme Events from the Ocean to the Surface of the Antarctic Ice Sheet
Rajashree Tri Datta
CU Boulder
Abstract
Thursday, September 21st 2023, 15:30 (TSI Conference Room)
Special TSI Seminar
Integral Field Spectroscopy in Galaxies
Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros
Instituto de Astronomia, Universidad Nacional Autómoma de México
Abstract
Tuesday, September 19th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Probing the Invisible: Weighing Supermassive Black Holes
Martin Bureau
Oxford University
Abstract
Tuesday, May 2nd 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time
Jason Hessels
University of Amsterdam & ASTRON
Abstract
Tuesday, April 25th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
A Case for Canadian Divestment from the Thirty Meter Telescope at Mauna Kea
Uahikea Maile
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, April 11th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Seismological Investigations of West Antarctica: From Mantle Structure to Icequakes
Erica Lucas
Trottier Space Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, March 28th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Stellar Clusters as the Nurseries of Black Holes
Sebastian Kamann
Liverpool John Moores University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 14th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Astronomical spectrographs on a chip - Getting ready for the next-generation telescopes
Pradip Gatkine
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, February 21st 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
X-ray flares from the nuclei of low-mass galaxies
Riccardo Arcodia
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, February 7th 2023, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
White dwarfs as astrophysical probes: From planetary systems to magnetic fields
Christopher Manser
Imperial College London
Abstract
Tuesday, January 10th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - 103/Online)
Lightning and Thunder: Probing the Dynamic Universe using Multiple Messengers
Ben Margalit
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, November 22nd 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Counting stars: who’s work in space science counts according to science communication
Eleanor Armstrong
Stockholm University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 8th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Insights from the Orbital Architectures of Planetary Systems
Malena Rice
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, October 25th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Illuminating the Young Universe Through mm-wave Observations and Beyond
Nicholas Huang
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, October 4th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Ironing out Life's First Breaths
Jennifer Glass
Georgia Tech
Abstract
Tuesday, September 20th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
X-ray Population Studies with eROSITA - from supermassive black holes to the circumgalactic medium
Urmila Chadayammuri
Center for Astrophysics (CfA) - Harvard & Smithsonian
Abstract
Tuesday, September 6th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - 103)
Investigating Traditional Radio Astronomy Techniques in the Context of the Epoch of Reionization
Nichole Barry
Curtin University
Abstract
Wednesday, July 27th 2022, 16:00 (MSI Conference Room/Tele-seminar)
Special MSI Seminar
Investigating Local Environments of Fast Radio Bursts
Alexandra Mannings
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, July 26th 2022, 14:30 (MSI Conference Room/Tele-seminar)
Special MSI Seminar
An algebraic approach for recovering an unknown timing solution from a list of TOAs
Barak Zackay
Weizmann Institute
Abstract
Monday, July 25th 2022, 14:00 (MSI Conference Room/Tele-seminar)
Special MSI Seminar
Precision Calibration for 21 cm Cosmology
Ruby Byrne
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, July 19th 2022, 15:00 (MSI Conference Room/Tele-seminar)
Special MSI Seminar
Immediate observational access to the post-merger environment of a neutron star collision
Aaron Tohuvavohu
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, April 12th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Zoom)
Probing the Universe with Fast Radio Bursts
Xavier Prochaska
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, March 29th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
A Stimulating Explanation of the Extragalactic Radio Excess
Hongwan Liu
NYU
Abstract
Tuesday, February 22nd 2022, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Exoplanet Legacy: Population Trends from Phase Curve Observations
Erin May
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Abstract
Tuesday, February 8th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Understanding Planetary Evolution with TESS
Joey Rodriguez
Michigan State University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 25th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Brown Dwarf Radio Emission: A Window into Substellar Magnetospheres
Melodie Kao
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, January 11th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Space microbiology: microbial interactions in extremes and their uses
Charles Cockell
University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Tuesday, December 7th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Quasi periodic oscillations from a transient ULX in M 101
Ryan Urquhart
Michigan State University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 23rd 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
New ideas for the axion dark matter program
Nick Rodd
CERN
Abstract
Tuesday, November 9th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Dust in the Wind: New Instabilities Across Astrophysical Systems
Phil Hopkins
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, October 26th 2021, 14:30 (Tele-seminar)
Tracing the building blocks of planet formation through protoplanetary discs
James Owen
Imperial College London
Abstract
Tuesday, October 5th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Modelling stellar cluster populations alongside their host galaxies in a cosmic environment
Marta Reina-Campos
McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 21st 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Small Circumbinary Planets: Do They Exist And How Do We Find Them?
David Martin
Ohio State University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 22nd 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Erin Ma
Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
Tuesday, September 7th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Gravitational Wave Sources at the Hearts of Galaxies
Smadar Naoz
UCLA
Abstract
Tuesday, April 13th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
A Predictive Theory of Star Formation and Turbulence Driving Across Cosmic Time
Blakesley Burkhart
Rutgers University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 30th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
The Emerging 5.0 Era: Law, Governance and Ethics at the Frontier
Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty
School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 23rd 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Using Earth Rotation to Detect Climate Change
Jerry X. Mitrovica
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 26th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Application of Machine Learning to Identify Stellar Feedback
Duo Xu
University of Texas, Austin
Abstract
Tuesday, January 12th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Compact Object Mergers in the Gravitational Wave Era
Rosalba Perna
Stony Brook University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 1st 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
On the Breakthrough Listen's radio technosignature searches
Vishal Gajjar, Karen Perez, Bryan Brzycki
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, November 17th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
The Discovery of Organic Matter Preserved in 3-Billion-Year-Old Lacustrine Mudstones at Gale Crater, Mars and its Astrobiological Implications
Jennifer Eigenbrode
NASA/GSFC
Abstract
Tuesday, November 3rd 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
From Grains to Landscapes: Reconstructing Martian Environments at Multiple Scales
Frances Rivera-Hernandez
Dartmouth College
Abstract
Tuesday, October 20th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Prospects and Progress in Radio Searches for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos
Stephanie Wissel
Pennsylvania State University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 6th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
A natural wind tunnel for plasma astrophysics: learning from in-situ observations of the solar wind
Jonathan Squire
University of Otago
Abstract
Tuesday, September 22nd 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Latest results from LIGO and Virgo
Jess McIver
UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, September 8th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
On the Edge of the Abyss
Niayesh Afshordi
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 28th 2020, 15:30
Jennifer Eigenbrode
NASA/GSFC
CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 14th 2020, 15:30
Jess McIver
UBC
CANCELLED: Tuesday, March 31st 2020, 15:30
Adam Showman
University of Arizona
CANCELLED: Tuesday, March 17th 2020, 15:30
Rosalba Perna
SUNY Stony Brook
Tuesday, February 25th 2020, 15:30
Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves
Will Farr
SUNY Stony Brook
Abstract
Tuesday, February 11th 2020, 15:30
Detecting Signs of Life and its Origin on Other Planets
Laurie Barge
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, January 28th 2020, 15:30
Mass ejection, compact objects, and electromagnetic transients
Rodrigo Fernandez
University of Alberta
Abstract
Tuesday, January 14th 2020, 15:30
Lunar geochemical and Galactic astronomy X-ray observations with Apollo 15 and 16
Erik Kuulkers
ESA
Abstract
Tuesday, December 10th 2019, 15:30
From ice crystals to ice caps, the climate of Mars as seen at the poles
Isaac Smith
York University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 26th 2019, 15:30
Inner Solar Systems
Rebekah (Bekki) Dawson
Penn State University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 12th 2019, 15:30
The Mystery of Methane on Mars: Fact, Folly or Figment?
John Moores
York University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 29th 2019, 15:30
The rivers and seas of Titan
Taylor Perron
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, October 15th 2019, 15:30
Black Holes in Low Mass Galaxies
Anil Seth
University of Utah
Abstract
Monday, October 7th 2019, 14:30
Special MSI Seminar
Science & Journalism: Errors = Media x Confusion2
Katia Moskvitch
Science Writer
Abstract
Tuesday, October 1st 2019, 15:30
General Relativity Stands Alone?
Christopher Smeenk
Western University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 25th 2019, 12:00 (FDA, room 233)
A look into the birth cradles of planets with ALMA: signatures of planet formation in protoplanetary disks
Nienke van der Marel
NRC Herzberg
Abstract
Tuesday, September 17th 2019, 15:30
Origin of volatiles in Earth’s mantle
Curtis Williams
UC Davis
Abstract
Friday, May 10th 2019, 12:00
Special MSI Seminar
FRBs and Radio Signatures of Gravitational Wave Merger Events
Kelly Gourdji
University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Tuesday, April 9th 2019, 15:30
What’s on the menu? Investigating the selective diet of microbes using novel isotopic tools
Nagissa Mahmoudi
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 26th 2019, 15:30
Constraining the Past and Present Distant Solar System with Real +and Simulated Trans-Neptunian Objects
Nathan Kaib
University of Oklahoma
Abstract
Tuesday, March 12th 2019, 15:30
Climate and Habitability of Tidally Locked Planets
Jun Yang
Peking University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 19th 2019, 15:30
Opportunities for Applications of Deep Learning in Cosmology
Siamak Ravanbakhsh
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Tuesday, February 5th 2019, 15:30
New Directions in Galaxy Formation and Cosmology Following the EDGES 78 MHz Detection
Jordan Mirocha
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 22nd 2019, 15:30
Studying Planetary Lithospheres Using Modern Localization Methods
Frederik J. Simons
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 8th 2019, 15:30
Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies
Robyn Sanderson
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Tuesday, December 4th 2018, 15:30
Planet 9 or Planet Nein? Discoveries in the Outer Solar System
Samantha Lawler
NRC-Herzberg
Abstract
Tuesday, November 20th 2018, 15:30
Studying the sensitivities of multimessenger signals from populations of core-collapse supernovae
MacKenzie Warren
Michigan State University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 6th 2018, 15:30
The Importance of Being Eccentric
Ann-Marie Madigan
University of Colorado Boulder
Abstract
Tuesday, October 23rd 2018, 15:30
Planetary Materials: Recorders of the Formation of the Solar System and Planets
Audrey Bouvier
University of Western Ontario
Abstract
Tuesday, October 9th 2018, 15:30
Observing the Early Universe with 21 cm Cosmology
Jonathan Pober
Brown University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 25th 2018, 15:30
Mars as a case study of an intermittently habitable planet
Robin Wordsworth
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 11th 2018, 15:30
The Missing Members of Nearby Young Associations
Jonathan Gagné
Institut de recherche sur les exoplanèes (IREX), Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, June 26th 2018, 12:00
Would we notice if dark matter just disappeared?
Torsten Bringmann
University of Oslo
Abstract
Tuesday, May 8th 2018, 15:30
Update from Australia's SkyMapper, OzDES and the DES supernova cosmology analysis
Anais Möller
Australian National University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 10th 2018, 15:30
Formation of the lunar fossil bulges and its implication for the early Earth and Moon
Shijie Zhong
University of Colorado Boulder
Abstract
Tuesday, March 27th 2018, 15:30
Hazes and Clouds in Cold and Hot Planetary Atmospheres
Xi Zhang
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, March 13th 2018, 15:30
Robots Under the Ice, and One Day, In Space?
Britney Schmidt
Georgia Tech
Abstract
Tuesday, February 20th 2018, 15:30
What are the thousands of X-ray emitting point sources in the center of the Milky Way?
Kaya Mori
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 6th 2018, 15:30
The Molecular Origins of Life
Maikel Rheinstädter
McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 23rd 2018, 15:30
Juno's first year at Jupiter
Yohai Kaspi
Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, January 23rd 2018, 11:00
Note special time
Meteorites: time capsules of the formation of the Solar System and planets
Audrey Bouvier
University of Western Ontario
Abstract
Tuesday, January 9th 2018, 15:30
Astromaterials in Accreting Neutron Stars
Matthew Caplan
McGill Space Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, November 21st 2017, 15:30
Gravitational-Wave Discoveries Driving the Promise of Multi-Messenger Astronomy
Vassiliki Kalogera
Northwestern University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 7th 2017, 15:30
Doors left ajar in storms: Insights into atmospheric planetary science
John Moores
York University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 31st 2017, 15:30
Autonomous and robotic observations of the Arctic sea ice and the associated ecosystem
Christian Katlein
Alfred Wegener Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, October 10th 2017, 15:30
Pushing Down and Out: Characterizing hot Jupiters in detail and expanding into new regimes
Emily Rauscher
University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, September 26th 2017, 15:30
Fade to Black: The Origin and Utility of Changing-Look Quasars
John Ruan
McGill Space Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, March 28th 2017, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special venue
Exotic Climates on Exo-Earths
Kristen Menou
University of Toronto, Scarborough
Abstract
Tuesday, March 14th 2017, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Note special venue
A Story of Stellar Nurseries
Nia Imara
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Abstract
Friday, February 24th 2017, 15:30 (Redpath Museum)
MSI and Earth and Planetary Science Seminar
Deep Earth volatile inventories and the formation of the Moon
Rita Parai
Washington University in St. Louis
Abstract
Tuesday, January 24th 2017, 15:30
Looking At Super-Earths Through Their Atmospheres
Diana Dragomir
MIT Kavli Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, January 10th 2017, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Joint MSI/Theory HEP Seminar
Small Scale Structure of the Universe as seen by pulsars and FRBs
Ue-Li Pen
CITA, University of Toronto & Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, November 22nd 2016, 15:30
Dust and water ice in the Martian atmosphere
Christopher Lee
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, November 8th 2016, 15:30
CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible
Blake Sherwin
University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, October 25th 2016, 15:30
Packing for Mars: Integrating biomarker and exploration field science in Earth analogue environments
Allyson Brady
McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 11th 2016, 15:30
Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres
Mercedes López-Morales
CfA/Smithsonian
Abstract
Tuesday, September 27th 2016, 15:30
From Pixels to Planets: A history of transiting extrasolar planets and first hand account of the Kepler Mission
Jason Rowe
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, September 13th 2016, 15:30
Defining and Reaching Outreach Audiences on a Budget
Michael Reid
Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, April 5th 2016, 15:30
Lessons from the Past: Synthetic Biology and Experimental Evolution for Space Exploration
Betul Kacar
Harvard University
Tuesday, March 22nd 2016, 15:30
Aomawa Shields
University of California, Los Angeles
Tuesday, March 8th 2016, 15:30
The Role of Space Law in Space Activities
Ram Jakhu
Centre for Research of Air and Space Law, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 16th 2016, 15:30
Planetary Dynamos: The Curious Case of Saturn
Sabine Stanley
University for Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, February 2nd 2016, 15:30
A tale of two fast radio bursts
Vikram Ravi
California Institute of Technology
Abstract
Tuesday, January 19th 2016, 15:30
Outbursts Around Dead Stars: How Dwarf Novae Are Testing Our Fundamental Fluid Dynamics Theory of Accretion Disks
Omer Blaes
UC Santa Barbara
Abstract
Tuesday, December 1st 2015, 15:30
Why Material From Enceladus' Ocean Keeps Getting Ejected Into Space
Edwin Kite
University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, November 17th 2015, 15:30
Exploring the Outer Solar System: now in vivid colour
Michele Bannister
NRC Herzberg
Abstract
Tuesday, November 3rd 2015, 15:30
One Photon, two photon red(shifted) photon, blue photon: Superconducting devices for Astrophysics
Roger O'Brient
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, October 6th 2015, 15:30
Seeing Through the Clouds: The Thermal Emission and Reflected Light of Super-Earths with Flat Transmission Spectra
Caroline Morley
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, September 22nd 2015, 15:30
Understanding Haze Formation in Planetary Atmospheres: Lessons from the Lab
Sarah Hörst
John Hopkins University
Abstract

Joint Astrophysics Colloquium Series
McGill University/Université de Montréal

Tuesday, April 18th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Pulsar Science with CHIME
Chia Min Tan
TSI & McGill Physics
Abstract
Tuesday, April 4th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Paving the Way for Future Space Telescopes with Theory and Simulations
Aaron Yung
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract
Tuesday, March 21st 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Exo-Jupiters: The Movers and Shakers of Planetary Systems
Marta Bryan
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, March 7th 2023, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Toward precision cosmology with the Lya forest: theoretical modeling with hydrodynamical simulations
Solene Chabanier
LBNL
Abstract
Tuesday, February 14th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Gravitational attraction: dynamically enhanced formation of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters
Claire Ye
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, January 31st 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Tele-seminar)
Testing Fundamental Physics with the Event Horizon Telescope
Lia Medeiros
IAS
Abstract
Tuesday, January 17th 2023, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Connecting astrophysical observations and dark matter microphysics using neural simulation-based inference
Siddharth Mishra-Sharma
Harvard & MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, December 13th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
The atomic interstellar medium's role in the star formation lifecycle: a sharpened view of nearby galaxies from LGLBS and PHANGS-JWST
Eric Koch
CfA
Abstract
Tuesday, November 29th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
The MWA Long Baseline Epoch of Reionsation Survey: Improvements in the MWA EoR0 field
Christene Lynch
University of North Carolina
Abstract
Tuesday, November 15th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Recent developments in instruments for high redshift 21cm an exoplanets
Daniel Jacobs
Arizona State University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 1st 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Dark Matter Searches with Celestial Bodies
Rebecca Leane
SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 18th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
The Search for Life on Mars: Challenges and Opportunities in Current and Future Mars Exploration
Amy Williams
University of Florida, Gainesville
Abstract
Tuesday, September 27th 2022, 15:30 (Livestream - R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103/Online)
Challenges to space sustainability: Space weapons
Aaron Boley
UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, September 13th 2022, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference room - room 103/Online)
To the Frontiers of Cosmic Origins - From First Black Holes to Latest Planets
Jonathan Tan
Chalmers University & University of Virginia
Abstract
Tuesday, April 19th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
The Rarest Galaxies in the First Two Billion Years
Caitlin Casey
University of Texas, Austin
Abstract
Tuesday, April 5th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Pulsar Timing Arrays See Red: Entering the Era of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection
Maura McLaughlin
West Virginia University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 22nd 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars
Carl Fields
LANL
Abstract
Tuesday, March 8th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Cosmological probe combination for current and future surveys
Andrina Nicola
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 15th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
A broad-band X-ray view of accretion disks around neutron stars
McKinley Brumback
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, February 1st 2022, 13:30 (Tele-seminar)
Note special time
Searching for extreme hadronic accelerators in our Universe with multi-messenger observations
Nahee Park
Queens University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 18th 2022, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Drone Calibration for 21cm Experiments
Emily Kuhn
Yale University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 14th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Halo-Bar Coupling: How Dark Matter Defines Galaxies
Angela Collier
University of Colorado Boulder
Abstract
Tuesday, November 30th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Cosmology with the Next Generation of Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments
Johanna Nagy
Washington University in St. Louis
Abstract
Tuesday, November 16th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
The Dark Side Of Distant Massive Galaxies, And New Light With JWST
Christina Williams
University of Arizona
Abstract
Tuesday, November 2nd 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
The atomic gas mass of galaxies during the epoch of galaxy assembly
Nissim Kanekar
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Abstract
Tuesday, October 19th 2021, 13:00 (Tele-colloquium)
Constraining the history of reionization with quasar absorption lines
Laura Keating
Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Abstract
Tuesday, September 28th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Planets are Places: Characterization of Other Worlds in the 2020s and Beyond
Laura Kreidberg
MPIA
Abstract
Tuesday, September 14th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
An ultra-long period magnetar with periodic radio emission
Natasha Hurley-Walker
Curtin University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 6th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Using Gravitational Lensing to Dissect Galaxies
Jane Rigby
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract
Tuesday, March 23rd 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Dissecting Galaxies in High-redshift Galaxy Clusters
Allison Noble
Arizona State University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 9th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Constraining the composition of exoplanetary material using white dwarf stars
Amy Steele
Space Telescope Science Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, February 16th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Protoplanetary Disks and Clouds in Substellar Atmospheres: Insights from Microphysics
Diana Powell
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, February 2nd 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Fast Transient Discoveries with realfast at the VLA
Casey Law
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, January 19th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
From Be/X-ray transients at low X-ray luminosity to bright unusual short gamma-ray bursts
Alicia Rouco Escorial
Northwestern University (CIERA)
Abstract
Tuesday, January 5th 2021, 15:30 (Tele-colloquium)
Probing the particle nature of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing
Yashar Hezaveh
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, December 8th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
The Onset of Planet Formation in Young Protostellar Disks
Sarah Sadavoy
Queen's University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 24th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Scarcity of Small Glitches in the Crab and Vela Pulsars
Cristobal Espinoza
Universidad de Santiago de Chile
Abstract
Tuesday, November 10th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Simulating optical systematics in next-generation CMB experiments
Jon Gudmundsson
Stockholm University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 27th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
Line Intensity Mapping: Modeling & Analysis in the Precision Era
Anthony Pullen
NYU
Abstract
Tuesday, October 13th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5): Overview and Latest Science Results
Ting Li
Princeton University & Carnegie Observatories
Abstract
Tuesday, September 29th 2020, 15:30 (Tele-seminar)
A Unified Picture of Fast Radio Bursts
Wenbin Lu
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, September 15th 2020, 14:30 (Tele-seminar)
Note special time
The Size, Shape, and Scattering of the Black Hole Sagittarius A*
Sara Issaoun
Radboud University
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 21st 2020, 15:30
Alicia Rouco Escorial
Northwestern University
CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 7th 2020, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Blakesley Burkhart
Rutgers University
CANCELLED: Tuesday, March 24th 2020, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Allison Noble
ASU
CANCELLED: Tuesday, March 10th 2020, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Probing the particle nature of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing
Yashar Hezaveh
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, February 18th 2020, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Astrophysics with the NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array
Michael Lam
Rochester Institute of Technology
Abstract
Tuesday, February 4th 2020, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Measuring the Epoch of Reionization with Line Intensity Mapping using TIME
Abigail Crites
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, January 21st 2020, 15:30
The CMB as a backlight
Alex van Engelen
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, January 7th 2020, 15:30
Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lensing Data with Machine Learning
Laurence Levasseur
Université de Montréal
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, December 3rd 2019, 15:30
Niayesh Afshordi
University of Waterloo
Tuesday, November 19th 2019, 15:30
Quantifying the rate of dual-AGN with BAYMAX
Adi Foord
University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, November 5th 2019, 15:30
The Magnetic Interstellar Medium in Three Dimensions
Susan Clark
IAS
Abstract
Tuesday, October 22nd 2019, 15:30
Studying Star Formation from the Stratosphere
Laura Fissel
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Abstract
Tuesday, October 8th 2019, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Deciphering the Engines of Fast Radio Bursts
Brian Metzger
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 24th 2019, 15:30
Probing Inhomogeneous Reionization with Lyman alpha Surveys: From the ground to WFIRST
James Rhoads
NASA Goddard
Abstract
Tuesday, September 10th 2019, 15:30
Relativistic Jets from Weakly Accreting Black Holes
Richard Plotkin
University of Nevada - Reno
Abstract
Tuesday, April 16th 2019, 15:30
Radiation mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts
Pawan Kumar
University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
Tuesday, April 2nd 2019, 15:30
Blast from the Past: The Evolution of Ultraviolet Emission and Flaring from Low-Mass Stars and its Implications for Habitable Zone Planets
Evgenya Shkolnik
Arizona State University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 19th 2019, 15:30
Modelling Low Mach Number Astrophysical Flows
Alice Harpole
Stony Brook University
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, February 26th 2019, 15:30
The Magnetic Interstellar Medium and the Polarized Dust Foreground
Susan Clark
IAS
Abstract
Tuesday, February 12th 2019, 15:30
Probing the Radio-Transient Universe with CHIME
Emmanuel Fonseca, Seth Siegel & Shriharsh Tendulkar
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 29th 2019, 15:30
Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, January 15th 2019, 15:30
The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM)
James Aguirre
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Tuesday, December 11th 2018, 15:30
Mapping Matter in Strong Gravity: Spectral-Timing of Black Holes and Neutron Stars
Abigail Stevens
Michigan State University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 27th 2018, 15:30
The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars: Transient Phenomena and Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Wide-Field Surveys
Maria Drout
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, November 13th 2018, 15:30
Imaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets
Greg Hallinan
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, October 30th 2018, 15:30
What Can Galaxies Tell Us About Reionization?
Charlotte Mason
Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Abstract
Tuesday, October 16th 2018, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Looking for Dark Matter off the Beaten Track
Cora Dvorkin
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 2nd 2018, 15:30
Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?
Simeon Bird
UC Riverside
Abstract
Tuesday, September 18th 2018, 15:30
Automated Physics Recovery from Galaxy Observations
Peter Behroozi
University of Arizona
Abstract
Tuesday, April 3rd 2018, 15:30
Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets
Bruce Macintosh
Stanford University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 20th 2018, 15:30
Modelling Superfluid Neutron Stars
Vanessa Graber
McGill Space Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, February 27th 2018, 15:30
Winds of Change Around Black Holes
Greg Sivakoff
University of Alberta
Abstract
Tuesday, February 13th 2018, 15:30
Obscured and reddened quasars at the peak of galaxy formation: searching for multi-scale quasar winds
Rachael Alexandroff
Dunlap/CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, January 30th 2018, 15:30
Status Report on Observational 21cm Cosmology
Lincoln Greenhill
Harvard/SAO/CfA
Abstract
Tuesday, November 28th 2017, 15:30
Setting Stellar Chronometers: The PTF(+) Open Cluster Survey
Marcel Agüeros
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 14th 2017, 15:30
Our Crowded X-ray Galactic Center
Mel Nynka
McGill Space Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, October 24th 2017, 15:30
High-energy X-rays from the Galactic Center: “zombie stars” and particle physics
Kerstin Perez
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Tuesday, October 17th 2017, 15:30
Multi-messenger monsters!
Sarah Burke-Spolaor
West Virginia University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 3rd 2017, 15:30
Using High-Mass X-ray Binaries to Probe Massive Binary Evolution
Kristen Garofali
University of Washington
Abstract
Tuesday, September 19th 2017, 15:30 (Boadroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Observing the Dynamics of Accretion Disks Around Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars
Mike Eracleous
Pennsylvania State University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 4th 2017, 15:30
Digging into the Large Scale Structure: From the galaxies to the cosmic web
Shirley Ho
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 21st 2017, 15:30
Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources
Edo Berger
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Abstract
Tuesday, March 7th 2017, 15:30
Cosmology from the Stratosphere: A search for primordial gravitational waves, and measurements of gravitational lensing from near space
William Jones
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 14th 2017, 15:30
The Puzzles of Very Faint X-ray Transients
Craig Heinke
University of Alberta
Abstract
Tuesday, January 31st 2017, 15:30
Frontiers in Massive Stellar Death
Sean Couch
Michigan State University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 17th 2017, 15:30
The Hidden Monsters: New Windows on the Cosmic Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes
Ryan Hickox
Dartmouth College
Abstract
Tuesday, November 29th 2016, 15:30
Intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters - Observations and Simulations
Nora Lützgendorf
ESA/STScI
Abstract
Tuesday, November 15th 2016, 15:30
The Enigmatic Lambda Boötis Stars
Chris Corbally
Vatican Observatory
Abstract
Tuesday, November 1st 2016, 15:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Galaxy Cluster Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years
Michael McDonald
MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Abstract
Tuesday, October 18th 2016, 15:30
I'm from the government and I'm here to help
David Loop
NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics
Abstract
Tuesday, October 4th 2016, 15:30
From Plasma Physics on Stars to Space Weather on Other Worlds: Why We Need to Understand Stars to Find the Next Earth
Rachel Osten
Space Science Telescope Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, September 20th 2016, 15:30
Cosmology and Astrophysics from Combined Probes
Joachim Harnois-Déraps
Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh
Abstract
Tuesday, April 12th 2016, 15:30
Jedidah Isler
Vanderbilt University
Tuesday, March 29th 2016, 15:30
All the X-ray binaries in the Universe: X-ray Emission from Normal and Starburst Galaxies Near and Far
Ann Hornschemeier
Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract
Tuesday, March 15th 2016, 15:30
AGN feedback in Clusters of Galaxies
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, February 23rd 2016, 15:30
Searching for Gravitational Waves with Advanced LIGO
Ben Farr
University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, February 9th 2016, 15:30
Yesterday, today and tomorrow: CMB cosmology with ACT, Planck and ACTPol
Renee Hlozek
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, January 26th 2016, 15:30
Kepler, K2, and TESS - Space-based asteroseismology
Steve Kawaler
Iowa State University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 12th 2016, 15:30
Growing black holes: from the first seeds to active galactic nuclei
Mar Mezcua
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, November 24th 2015, 15:30
Mapping dark matter on the largest and smallest scales
Gil Holder
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 10th 2015, 15:30
The habitable zone as seen through the atmosphere
Colin Goldblatt
University of Victoria
Abstract
Tuesday, October 27th 2015, 15:30
The Palomar (non)Transient Factory: Teaching an old dog new tricks
Thomas Prince
California Institute of Technology
Abstract
Tuesday, October 13th 2015, 15:30
Long-term Integrations of the Solar System
Hanno Rein
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, September 29th 2015, 15:30
Chasing proto-planetary disks and high-z galaxies with the LMT
James Lowenthal
Smith College
Abstract
Tuesday, March 31st 2015, 15:30
Radio Polarimetry and the Magnetic Universe
Bryan Gaensler
U Toronto, Dunlap
Tuesday, March 24th 2015, 15:30
Heavy element synthesis in the Universe
Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
UCSC
Abstract
Tuesday, March 10th 2015, 15:30
Triumphs and tribulations of near-field cosmology with wide-field surveys: a biased perspective
Beth Willman
Haverford
Abstract
Tuesday, February 24th 2015, 15:30
Precise Radial Velocities for the Future of Exoplanet Detection
Jason Wright
Penn State
Abstract
Tuesday, January 13th 2015, 15:30
Searches for Dark-Matter Axions
Leslie Rosenberg
Washington
Tuesday, December 2nd 2014, 15:30
Primordial non-Gaussianity in the CMB and Large-Scale Structure
Kendrick Smith
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, November 25th 2014, 15:30
Galaxy mergers in the nearby universe
Sara Ellison
University of Victoria
Tuesday, November 18th 2014, 15:30
Blasting an accretion disk with X-ray superbursts from neutron stars
Laurens Keek
Georgia Institute of Technology
Tuesday, November 11th 2014, 15:30
The Connection between Planets and White Dwarf Stars
Gilles Fontaine
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, November 4th 2014, 15:30
Uncovering the Nature of Inflation
Dan Green
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, October 14th 2014, 15:30 (3550 University, Conference Room)
Astrobiology and the Search for Little Green Bugs on Other Very Cold Worlds
Lyle White
McGill / Natural Resource Sciences
Tuesday, September 30th 2014, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Galaxy Clusters and Cosmology with MUSTANG on the Green Bank Telescope
Mark Devlin
University of Pennsylvania
Abstract
Tuesday, April 22nd 2014, 16:00
Fast Radio Bursts on the Horizon
Sarah Burke-Spolaor
California Institute of Technology
Abstract
Tuesday, April 15th 2014, 16:00
Lemming Black Holes
M. Coleman Miller
University of Maryland
Abstract
Tuesday, April 8th 2014, 16:00
Andromeda's Dust
Bruce T. Draine
Princeton
Abstract
Tuesday, April 1st 2014, 16:00
Glimpsing the Compositions of Sub-Neptune-Size Exoplanets
Leslie Rogers
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, March 25th 2014, 16:00
Reconstructing the Formation Histories of Massive Galaxies
Mariska Kriek
Department of Astronomy, University of California, Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, March 18th 2014, 16:00
Tracing the mass flow in clustered star forming regions
Rachel Friesen
Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, February 18th 2014, 16:00
Mapping the Primordial Universe and Large Scale Structure with ACTPol
Jeff McMahon
University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, January 28th 2014, 16:00
From the first galaxies to water on Europa, how the Hubble Space Telescope informs a modified Drake Equation and lays the foundations for the James Webb Space Telescope and the search for life
Matt Mountain
Space Telescope Science Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, January 21st 2014, 16:00
From building blocks to large galaxies: towards understanding the formation of the Milky Way using metal-poor star
Anna Frebel
Massachusetts Institute of technology
Abstract
Tuesday, December 10th 2013, 16:00
Resolved Stellar Populations, Bulge Growth and Quenching since Cosmic Noon
Stijn Wuyts
MPE
Tuesday, November 26th 2013, 16:00
Cosmology & Astrophysics with Galaxy Clusters
Daisuke Nagai
Yale
Tuesday, November 12th 2013, 16:00
How to do Cosmology with the Lyman-alpha forest
Anže Slosar
BNL
Abstract
Tuesday, October 29th 2013, 16:00
Results from the Planck Satellite
Douglas Scott
UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, October 22nd 2013, 16:00
Adventures into the Kuiper Belt: Accretion, Composition, and the Proto-planetary Disc
Wesley Fraser
NRC-HIA
Abstract
Tuesday, October 15th 2013, 16:00
What Binaries tell us about the Luminous Blue Variable Phenomenon
Noel Richardson
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, October 8th 2013, 16:00
Close-in planets and stellar wind magnetic torques
Antoine Strugarek
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, October 1st 2013, 16:00
Small Stars with Small Planets and Big Consequences
Philip Muirhead
Boston University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 24th 2013, 16:00
Radio Pulsars: Cosmic Electrical Generators
Andrey Timokhin
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract
Tuesday, September 10th 2013, 16:00
Cosmic Dust: Friend or Foe? New Insights into Galactic evolution from the Planck Surveyor and the Herschel Space Observatory
Peter Martin
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, April 16th 2013, 16:00
Advanced LIGO: a second-generation gravitational-wave detector
David Shoemaker
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, April 9th 2013, 16:00
Citizen Science: Getting the Best Science from Big Data
Lucy Fortson
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Thursday, March 28th 2013, 15:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special day, time and venue
Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing - Dealing with the Turbulent Interstellar Medium
Dan Stinebring
Oberlin College
Abstract
Tuesday, March 12th 2013, 16:00
Tides in Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries
Nevin Weinberg
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, February 26th 2013, 16:00
Paperclips and Supercomputers: a Low-Frequency Radio Cosmology Program
Aaron Parsons
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, February 5th 2013, 16:15
Note special time
Crab pulsar and the nebula: paradigm shifts?
Maxim Lyutikov
Purdue University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 29th 2013, 16:00
Core-Collapse Supernovae and Other Outcomes of Stellar Collapse
Christian Ott
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, January 15th 2013, 16:00
Synchronous X-ray and Radio Mode Changing in Pulsar B0943+10: Evidence for a Rapid Global Transformation of the Magnetosphere
Joanna Rankin
University of Vermont
Abstract
Tuesday, December 4th 2012, 16:00
Hot Electromagnetic Outflows
Chris Thompson
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, November 27th 2012, 16:00
Characterizing the Molecular ISM at High-resolution in High-z Galaxies
Chelsea Sharon
Rutgers University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 20th 2012, 16:00
The Carnegie Hubble Program
Victoria Scowcroft
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
Abstract
Tuesday, November 13th 2012, 16:00
Resonant Shattering of Neutron Star Crusts
Dave Tsang
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 6th 2012, 16:00
Dynamical Tides in Binaries: Merging White Dwarfs, Kepler KOI-54 and Hot Jupiter Systems
Dong Lai
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 30th 2012, 16:00
Deconstructing Pulsar Scintillations
Ue-Li Pen
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, October 16th 2012, 16:00
Windows into our universe's history from fluctuations on widely different scales
Matias Zaldarriaga
Princeton IAS
Abstract
Tuesday, October 9th 2012, 16:00
The Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos with ANITA
Abby Vieregg
Harvard CfA
Abstract
Tuesday, September 18th 2012, 16:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Note special venue
Using Swift and other Observatories to Study Blazars, Gamma Ray Bursts, and more Very High Energy Astrophysical Accelerators
Abe Falcone
PSU
Abstract
Tuesday, September 11th 2012, 16:00
Bridging the Gap: An Explosion of New Explosions
Mansi Kasliwal
Carnegie
Abstract
Tuesday, September 4th 2012, 16:00
ALMA unveils high redshift cosmic microscopes discovered by the South Pole Telescope
Joaquin Vieira
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, May 8th 2012, 16:00
Titan's lakes: seasonal and climate cycles
Oded Aharonson
Weizmann Institute
Abstract
Tuesday, April 24th 2012, 16:00
The Power of the Galaxy Power Spectrum
Eric Linder
UC Berkeley / Institute for the Early Universe Korea / LBNL
Abstract
Tuesday, April 10th 2012, 16:00
Weather on Remote Worlds: The Atmospheric Circulation of the Hot Jupiters
Adam Showman
University of Arizona
Abstract
Tuesday, April 3rd 2012, 16:00
Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools
Rosalba Perna
University of Colorado at Boulder
Abstract
Tuesday, March 27th 2012, 16:00
Looking Deep Into (and sometimes through) the Galaxy with INTEGRAL, Chandra, and NuSTAR
John Tomsick
University of California at Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, March 13th 2012, 16:00
The Accelerating Universe: Probing Inflation & Dark Energy with the Radio/Microwave Sky
Keith Vanderlinde
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 6th 2012, 16:00
Nuclear Astrophysics Sensitivities
Richard Cyburt
MSU
Abstract
Tuesday, February 28th 2012, 16:00
Supernova Remnants Stay in Shape
Laura Lopez
MIT
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, February 14th 2012, 16:00
Indirect searches for dark matter with the VERITAS very high energy gamma-ray observatory
Matthieu Vivier
Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of Delaware
Abstract
Tuesday, February 7th 2012, 16:00
Probing reionization and large-scale structure with the South Pole Telescope
Christian Reichardt
Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, January 31st 2012, 16:00
Putting the “Big” in “Big Bang”: The Primordial Inflation Explorer
Al Kogut
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA
Abstract
Tuesday, January 24th 2012, 16:00
Special Joint Astrophysics/Astrobiology Seminar
Characterizing Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes
Diana Valencia
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, November 29th 2011, 16:00
Multi-planetary systems, Saturn's Rings and the new collisional N-body code REBOUND
Hanno Rein
IAS Princeton
Abstract
Tuesday, November 15th 2011, 16:00
Fermi-LAT: An Amazing Pulsar Finding Machine
Paul Ray
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, November 1st 2011, 16:00
High redshift ULIRGs and the formation of massive galaxies
Scott Chapman
Dalhousie University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 25th 2011, 16:00
Dust-obscured activity in high redshift galaxies
Alex Pope
University of Massachusetts
Abstract
Tuesday, October 18th 2011, 16:00
Three years of GBM science highlights
Valerie Connaughton
National Space Science & Technology Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville
Abstract
Tuesday, October 11th 2011, 16:00
CCAT: submm Astronomy from as High as you can Drive a Truck
Riccardo Giovanelli
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 4th 2011, 16:00
The X-ray Polarization Signature of Quiescent Magnetars
Rodrigo Fernandez
IAS
Abstract
Tuesday, September 27th 2011, 16:00
Deep underground physics: facility and experiment developments at SNOLAB
Nigel Smith
SNOLAB
Abstract
Tuesday, September 20th 2011, 16:00
21 cm Cosmology
Miguel Morales
University of Washington
Abstract
Tuesday, September 13th 2011, 16:00
21cm Intensity Mapping: Progress and Challenges
Richard Shaw
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, April 12th 2011, 16:00
First Results from the Planck Mission: Early Science Results on Clusters
Jean-Baptiste Melin
CEA (Saclay)
Abstract
Tuesday, April 5th 2011, 16:00
Recent Measurements of Radio Pulsar Masses
Scott Ransom
NRAO
Abstract
Tuesday, March 29th 2011, 16:00
What More Can We Learn from the Cosmic Microwave Background?
Sudeep Das
Berkeley
Tuesday, March 22nd 2011, 16:00
Low-frequency gravitational wave telescopes
Latham Boyle
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
CANCELLED:Tuesday, March 15th 2011, 16:00
Charged Particle Astronomy, Coming of Age
Alexander Kusenko
UCLA & IPMU at University of Tokyo
Tuesday, March 8th 2011, 16:00
Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets Using High Contrast Imaging
James R. Graham
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, February 15th 2011, 16:00
Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound
Daniel Eisenstein
Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 8th 2011, 16:00
The Strengths and Weaknesses of Star Formation Rate Measurements
Daniela Calzetti
University of Massachusetts
Tuesday, February 1st 2011, 16:00
Probing the Accretion of Gas onto Galaxies: Opportunities and Pitfalls
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, January 25th 2011, 16:00
How Do Galaxies in Massive Clusters Form Their Stars?
Kim-Vy Tran
Texas A&M University/University of Zurich
Abstract
Tuesday, January 18th 2011, 16:00
Gravitational Waves: Adding Soundtrack (and Special Effects) to a Wonderful Movie
Luis Lehner
University of Guelph
Abstract
Tuesday, January 11th 2011, 16:00
Dark Matter in Faint Galactic Satellites
Louis Strigari
KIPAC, Stanford
Abstract
Tuesday, November 16th 2010, 16:00
Cluster Cosmology and the Dark Energy Survey
Tim McKay
University of Michigan
Tuesday, October 26th 2010, 16:00
Astrophysical Signatures of Particle Dark Matter
Rene Ong
UCLA
Tuesday, October 19 2010, 16:00
Cassiopeia A: The Youngest Neutron Star
Craig Heinke
University of Alberta
Tuesday, October 12th 2010, 16:00
Search for the Origin of Cosmic Rays with IceCube
Stefan Westerhoff
University of Wisconsin
Tuesday, October 5th 2010, 16:00
Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles in the Inner Galaxy: AGN Activity or Bipolar Galactic Wind?
D. Finkbeiner
Harvard CFA
Abstract
Tuesday, September 28th 2010, 16:00
Characterizing Exoplanets
Ray Jayawardhana
University of Toronto
Tuesday, September 14th 2010, 16:00
Formation of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries with a Black Hole Accretor: Challenging the Paradigm
Natasha Ivanova
University of Alberta
Tuesday, April 13th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Neutron rich matter in the laboratory and in the cosmos
Charles Horowitz
Indiana University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 6th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Observing galaxy mass assembly at high redshift
Mark Dickinson
NOAO
Tuesday, March 30th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Unraveling the Cosmic-ray Spectrum: Measurements with high altitude Balloons
Patrick (Jojo) Boyle
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 23rd 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Fingering convection in geophysics and Astrophysics
Pascale Garaud
University of California at Sant Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, March 16th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
The Cosmic Microwave Background: Its B-modes and Ns
Lyman Page
Princeton University
CANCELLED: Tuesday, March 9th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect, in Detail
Dan Marrone
University of Chicago
Tuesday, March 2nd 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
A near-infrared excess in the continuum of high-redshift galaxies: a tracer of star formation, circumstellar disks, and (maybe) extra-galactic planets?
Bob Abraham
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, February 16th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Studies on Cosmic Ray Acceleration and Dark Matter Signals with Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Tuneyoshi (Tune) Kamae
Stanford University/SLAC
Abstract
Tuesday, February 9th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Exploding Supermassive White Dwarfs from the Nearby Supernova Factory
Richard Scalzo
Yale University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 2nd 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Staring into the Abyss: Imaging Black Hole Horizons
Avery Broderick
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, January 26th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
MHD Turbulence and Transport in Accretion Disks
Jim Stone
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 19th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Having a BLAST in Antarctica, and resolving the Cosmic Infrared Background
Mark Halpern
UBC
Tuesday, January 12th 2010, 16:00 (ERP)
Gamma-Ray Pulsars in the Light of New Fermi Discoveries
Alice Harding
NASA/GSFC
Abstract
Tuesday, December 1st 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The First Images of Exoplanets
Réné Doyon
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, November 24th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The Aquarius Project: Dark Matter under a Numerical Microscope
Julio Navarro
University of Victoria
Abstract
Tuesday, November 17th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The Generation & Evolution of Cosmic Magnetic Fields
Ellen Zweibel
University of Wisconsin
Abstract
Tuesday, November 10th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The Dynamic Neutron Star Crust
Bennett Link
Montana State University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Hunting the Cosmic Electron
Scott Wakely
University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, October 27th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The Role of Tides for Extrasolar Planets and Their Satellites
Phil Arras
University of Virginia
Abstract
Tuesday, October 20th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Radio observations of cosmic reionization and first (new) light in the Universe
Chris Carilli
NRAO
Tuesday, October 13th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
X-ray observations of active galaxies
Luigi Gallo
St Mary's University
Tuesday, October 6th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Resolving New Aspects of the Cosmic Microwave Background
Joe Fowler
Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, September 29th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
A First Year View of the Galaxy with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Elizabeth Hays
GSFC
Abstract
Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
ALFALFA: HI cosmology at z=0
Martha Haynes
Cornell University
Abstract
Tuesday, July 21st 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The EBEX Experiment
Hannes Hubmayr
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Tuesday, April 14th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Habitable Worlds
Sara Seager
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, April 7th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
New View of the High Energy Gamma-ray Sky with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Julie McEnery
GSFC
Abstract
Tuesday, March 31st 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Observation of Very High Energy Gamma-ray Sources Below 100 GeV from Ground: The Detection of the Crab Pulsar at 25 GeV
Nepomuk Otte
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
Tuesday, March 24th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos
Jim Beatty
Ohio State University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 17th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
CMB Polarimetry and the Search for Inflationary Gravitational Waves
John Kovac
JPL / Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, March 10th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Cosmology in the Dark Sector
Kris Sigurdson
UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, March 3rd 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The Transient Revolution in Astrophysics
Eliot Quataert
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, February 17th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Lighting the Standard Candle
Ed Brown
MSU/JINA
Abstract
Tuesday, February 10th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries with the Swift Mission
Neil Gehrels
GSFC
Abstract
Tuesday, February 3rd 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Convection and Magnetism in Stars: How magnetic fields are built, and what they can do
Matt Browning
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, January 27th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Observing an Event Horizon: Submm-VLBI of SgrA*
Shepard Doeleman
MIT Haystack Observatory
Abstract
Tuesday, January 20th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Astronomy at photon energies beyond 100 GeV - Recent results from VERITAS
Gernot Maier
McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, January 13th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
The Extravagant Lives of the First Stars
Alexander Heger
University of Minnesota
Abstract
Tuesday, January 6th 2009, 16:00 (ERP)
Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars
Andrei Beloborodov
Department of Physics, Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 2nd 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
The Origin of Magnetic Fields in Galaxies: What Should We Expect to See at High Redshifts?
Ethan Vishniac
McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 18th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Cosmology with Clusters of Galaxies? Yes We Can!
Gus Evrard
Departments of Physics and Astronomy, Michigan Center for Theoretical Physics, University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, November 11th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Constraining Dark Energy by Counting X-ray Galaxy Clusters
Alexey Vikhlinin
CfA, Harvard University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 4th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Galactic Diversity: The Many Colors of Brown Dwarfs
Adam Burgasser
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, October 28th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Pulsar Timing and Gravitational Wave Detection
Rick Jenet
University of Texas
Tuesday, October 21st 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Low-mass, Low-SFR Galaxies at z>2: How the Working Class Are Living
Marcin Sawicki
St. Mary's University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 14th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Circumstellar Debris Disks — What Can Be Learned?
Yanqin Wu
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, October 7th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Cosmology from Gravitational-wave Standard Sirens
Dan Holz
LANL
Abstract
Tuesday, September 23rd 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
White Dwarf Stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Pierre Bergeron
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, September 16th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
The Biggest Dark Matter Halos
Neal Dalal
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, September 9th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Accreting Binaries Billions of Light Years Away: X-ray Emission from Distant Galaxies
Ann Hornschemeier
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Abstract
Wednesday, April 16th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
How the environment drives galaxy evolution
Sadegh Khochfar
University of Oxford
Abstract
Tuesday, April 8th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
The Metallicities and Physical Conditions in Star-forming Galaxies at High-Redshift
Alice Shapley
Department of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 1st 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Stellar Feedback in Dwarf Galaxy Formation and the Structure of Dark Matter Halos
James Wadsley
Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 11th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Cluster Detection in SZ Surveys
Laurie Shaw
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, March 4th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Dynamical Blueprints for Disk Galaxies
Larry Widrow
Queen's University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 26th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Strong Lensing by Optically-Selected Galaxy Clusters
Mike Gladders
Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, February 12th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
What do presolar grains tell us about what's happening inside low-mass stars?
Ken Nollet
Argonne National Laboratory
Abstract
Tuesday, January 22nd 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Searching for Debris Disks around Young Neutron Stars
Zhongxiang Wang
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, January 8th 2008, 16:00 (ERP)
Where are the baryons? Hide and seek in the Universe
Smita Mathur
Astronomy Department, Ohio State University
Abstract
Tuesday, December 4th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Luminous Infrared Galaxies with the Submillimeter Array: Probing the Extremes of Star Formation
Christine Wilson
Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 27th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Secrets from the Stellar Nursery
Alison Sills
Department of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 20th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background on Small Scales
Jon Sievers
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, November 6th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Atmospheric Dynamics in Short-Period Extrasolar Planets
Ian Dobbs-Dixon
McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 30th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Gamma-ray bursts in the light of the Swift satellite, and some ultra-high energy prospects
Peter Mészáros
Astronomy & Astrophysics Department, Pennsylvania State University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 16th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Fossil fields: stable magnetic equilibria in stars
Jon Braithwaite
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, October 9th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Multiplicity Among Young Stars and Brown Dwarfs
Ray Jayawardhana
Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, October 2nd 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Measuring the Polarized CMB with CAPMAP and QUIET
Keith Vanderlinde
University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, September 25th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Galactic Outflows and Evolution of the Intergalactic Medium
Hugo Martel
Université Laval
Abstract
Tuesday, September 18th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
The Search for Distant Galaxy Clusters - Results from the Red Sequence Cluster Surveys
Erica Ellingson
University of Colorado at Boulder
Abstract
Tuesday, September 11th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Galaxy Clusters at 0 < z < 2 in the IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey
Mark Brodwin
NOAO
Abstract
Tuesday, April 10th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Probing the nature of dark matter and dark energy using gravitational lensing
Priya Natarajan
Yale University
Abstract
Tuesday, April 3rd 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Probing the reionization of the universe with quasars
Chris Willott
University of Ottawa
Abstract
Tuesday, March 27th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars: Laboratories for Extreme Physics
David Kaplan
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, March 20th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Promise and Problems in Precision Detection of the Polarization of the CMB
Bruce Winstein
University of Chicago
Abstract
Friday, March 9th 2007, 11:00 (ERP, Board Room - room 105)
Understanding How Star Formation Proceeds in the Perseus and Ophiuchus Molecular Clouds
Doug Johnstone
HIA-NRC & University of Victoria
Abstract
Tuesday, February 27th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
The Era of Comparative Exoplanetology
David Charbonneau
Harvard (CfA)
Abstract
Tuesday, February 20th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
The answer is blowing in the wind - The AGN-ICM connection
Marcus Bruggen
International University Bremen
Abstract
Tuesday, February 13th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
XTEJ1810-197: The Amazing “Radio” Magnetar
Scott Ransom
NRAO
Abstract
Tuesday, February 6th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
On the Maximum Luminosity of Galaxies and Massive Black Holes
Norm Murray
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, January 30th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
Magnetars: New Puzzles
Chris Thompson
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, January 16th 2007, 16:00 (ERP)
The Gemini Deep Planet Survey
René Doyon
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, November 28th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Studies of the Submm Galaxy Population with AzTEC
Grant Wilson
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Abstract
Tuesday, November 21st 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
The Inner Workings of Early-Type Galaxies: Supermassive Black Holes and Stellar Nuclei
Laura Ferrarese
HIA NRC Victoria
Abstract
Tuesday, November 14th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Puzzles in the Structure of Spiral Galaxies
Stéphane Courteau
Queen's University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 7th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Hot Jupiters: Atmospheres and Circulation Regimes
Kristen Menou
Columbia
Abstract
Tuesday, October 31st 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Understanding Type 1a Supernovae
Michael Zingale
SUNY Stony Brook
Abstract
Tuesday, October 24th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
The Canadian Space Science Program and Opportunities
David Kendall
CSA
Abstract
Tuesday, October 17th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era
Rosalba Perna
JILA/U. Colorado, Bolder
Abstract
Tuesday, October 3rd 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Cosmology from the Stratosphere
Barth Netterfield
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, September 26th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Informal Talk with Miguel Roth
Miguel Roth
Director of Las Campanas Observatory
Abstract
Tuesday, September 19th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Mapping the polarized sky with WMAP: methods and cosmological implications
Olivier Doré
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, September 5th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Cosmic Reionization
Ue-Li Pen
CITA
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, April 4th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Lars Hernquist
Harvard/CFA
Tuesday, March 28th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Accretion Disks and Black Hole Spin
Omer Blaes
UC Santa Barbara
Abstract
Tuesday, March 21st 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Seeing cosmic sound
Martin White
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, March 14th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Dark Matter Substructures and Centers of Elliptical Galaxies
Chung-Pei Ma
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Inflation, Gravity waves, and the Cosmic Microwave Background
John Ruhl
Case Western Reserve University
Abstract
Tuesday, February 28th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Gravitational Lenses, the Hubble Constant, and Moderate-Redshift Galaxy Groups
Chris Fassnacht
UC Davis
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, February 21st 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
The Detection and Characterization of Extrasolar Planets
Greg Laughlin
UC Santa Cruz
Abstract
CANCELLED: Tuesday, February 14th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Dark Energy and the Cosmic Expansion History from Supernovae at z>1
Adam Riess
StSCI
CANCELLED: Tuesday, February 7th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Olivier Dore
CITA
Tuesday, January 31st 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Peeking in Ancient Holes and Seeking the Holy Grail
Amber Miller
Columbia
Abstract
Tuesday, January 24th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
Origin of Giant Planets
Roman Rafikov
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, January 17th 2006, 16:00 (ERP)
The Circumstellar Environment of Young Stars from Their Polarization
Pierre Bastien
Université de Montréal
Tuesday, November 29th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
An Excursion in the Dark Side of the Universe
Ludo van Waerbeke
UBC
Abstract
Tuesday, November 15th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
Probing the End of the Cosmic Dark Age
Zoltan Haiman
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, November 8th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
Cosmic Explosions: Gamma-Ray Bursts and Supernovae
Andrew MacFadyen
Institute for Advanced Study
Abstract
Tuesday, November 1st 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
Using FUSE to probe the deuterium abundance in the local interstellar medium
Jean Dupuis
CSA
Abstract
Tuesday, October 25th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
Imprecision Cosmology - Aspects of Dark Energy Measurements
Lam Hui
Columbia University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 18th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
Magnetic Field of Mars
Jafar Arkani-Hamed
EPS, McGill University
Abstract
Tuesday, October 4th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
Stellar Evolution: Open and Globular Clusters
Georges Michaud
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Tuesday, September 27th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
Spectroscopy of Black Hole Binaries in the Chandra and XMM-Newton Era
Jon Miller
University of Michigan
Abstract
Tuesday, September 20th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
Detecting Gravitational-Waves with Interferometers
Nergis Mavalvala
MIT
Abstract
Tuesday, September 13th 2005, 16:00 (ERP)
New Insights into the Physics of Supernovae and their Remnants: A Comprehensive X-ray Study of SN 1572
John Hughes
Rutgers
Abstract
Thursday, April 14th 2005, 12:30 (ERP)
Dusty Corners of the Universe
Douglas Scott
UBC
Abstract
Thursday, April 7th 2005, 12:30 (ERP)
Mapping accretion in ultra-compact white dwarf binaries
Danny Steeghs
Harvard/CFA
Abstract
Thursday, March 31st 2005, 12:30 (ERP)
Mapping Cosmic Hydrogen In the Infant Universe
Avi Loeb
Harvard/CFA
Abstract
Thursday, March 24th 2005, 12:30 (ERP)
Pendulum, Solar Neutrinos and Polarized X-rays: Modeling Radiation from Neutron Star Atmospheres
Dong Lai
Cornell University
Abstract
Thursday, March 10th 2005, 12:30 (ERP)
Relativistic Outflows: The Mystery of Pulsar Winds
Anatoly Spitkovsky
Kavli Institute, SLAC
Abstract
Thursday, March 3rd 2005, 12:30 (ERP)
X-Ray Binaries in Distant Elliptical Galaxies and Galactic Millisecond Radio Pulsars
Lars Bildsten
Kavli Institute, UCSB
Abstract
Thursday, February 24th 2005, 12:30 (ERP)
Recent X-ray observations of isolated neutron stars and atmosphere modelling
Kaya Mori
CITA
Thursday, February 10th 2005, 12:30 (ERP)
Galaxy formation events at low redshift
David Hogg
New York University

2003/04

Thurday, December 4th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Le projet TRIDENT: développement d'une technique d'imagerie multi-bandes pour la recherche de planètes extrasolaires
Christian Marois
Université de Montréal
Thursday, November 27th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Résultats impressionnants de la polarimétrie à haute résolution temporelle de systèmes WR+O éclipsants
Alfredo Villar-Sbaffi
Université de Montréal
Thursday, November 20th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Absorption of ascoustic p-modes by sunspots
Ashley Crouch
Thursday, November 13th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Spectroscopie 3-D en Astrophysique
Jacques Boulesteix
Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Marseille
Thursday, November 6th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
L'origine des fluctuations du cycle solaire
Paul Carbonneau
Université de Montréal
Thurday, October 23rd 2003, 15:00 (ERP)
Note special time
Particle acceleration in AGN jets
Martin Pohl
Iowa State University
Thurday, October 23rd 2003, 12:30 (UdM, room D-225)
Please note special room
Recherches sur la nature des masses et des énergies sombres (suite)
Hubert Reeves
Saclay & Université de Montréal
Thursday, October 9th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Recherches sur la nature des masses et des énergies sombres
Hubert Reeves
Saclay & Université de Montréal
Thursday, October 2nd 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Imagerie directe des planètes extrasolaires par optique adaptative
Anne-Marie Lagrange
Grenoble

2002/03

Monday, June 16th 2003, 14:30 (ERP, room 305)
Pulsar surveys and timing at Arecibo
Paulo Freire
Arecibo Observatory
Abstract
Thursday, May 15th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Are AGN jets driven by UHE neutral beams?
Armen Atoyan
Université de Montréal
Thursday, May 8th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Toward a deeper understanding of stellar interiors
Travis S. Metcalfe
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Abstract
Thursday, May 1st 2003, 12:00 (ERP)
Ground-based Gamma-ray Astronomy with the Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Technique
John Kildea
Physics Department, McGill
Abstract
Tuesday, April 22nd 2003, 12:30 (ERP, R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Very high energy gamma-ray astronomy with HESS
Jim Hinton
Max Planck Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
Abstract
Thursday, April 17th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Promiscuity, Violence, SNIa and Planets in Star Clusters
Mike Shara
Curator and Director of the Astrophysics Group, American Museum of Natural History, NY
Abstract
Thursday, April 10th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
La turbulence dans le milieu interstellaire diffus et son impact sur l'évolution de la poussière
Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes
CITA
Abstract
Thursday, March 20th 2003, 12:00 (UdM)
Apparence des Étoiles Chaudes dans l'Ultraviolet Lointain
Pierre Chayer
Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
Thursday, March 6th 2003, 12:00
Recent Discoveries of Young and Energetic Pulsars
Dunc Lorimer
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Thursday, February 20th 2003 (ERP)
Astrophysical Bipolarity: An Analysis of MHD Flow
R.N. Henricksen
Queen's University
Thursday, February 6th 2003, 12:00 (ERP)
Informal Astrophysics Seminar
Recent Results in Globular Cluster Astrophysics
Scott Ransom
McGill
Abstract
Thursday, January 30th 2003, 12:00 (ERP
Detection Experiments for Terrestrial WIMPs and Galactic MACHOs
Larry Widrow
Queen's University
Abstract
Thursday, January 16th 2003, 12:30 (UdM)
Properties of the Close Binary and Circumbinary Torus of the Red Rectangle
Alexander Menshchikov
Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Abstract
Thursday, December 19th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
La modélisation d'étoiles entières en 3D a LLNL
Sylvain Turcotte
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, December 12th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Numerical simulations for the collapse of a rotating cloud with Godunov-type Particle Hydrodynamics
Seung-Hoon Cha
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 28th 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
Stars That Go Bump-Bump-Bump in the Night
Tony Moffat
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 21st 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
Flares, Avalanches, and Coronal Heating
Paul Charbonneau
Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, November 14th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Les projets canadiens en astronomie spatiale
Steve Torchinsky
Agence Spatiale Canadienne
Thursday, November 7th 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
VERITAS: The Choice of the Next Generation
Jojo Boyle
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, October 31st 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Numerical simulations of turbulent flows
Piotr Smolarkiewicz
NCAR
Thursday, October 24th 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
Subbeam Circulation and the Physics of Pulsar Emission
Joanna Rankin
U. Vermont
Abstract
Thursday, October 17th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
La croissance de l'entropie dans un univers en expansion
Hubert Reeves
Saclay & Université de Montréal
Thursday, October 10th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Diffusion anisotropique dans un milieu stratifié en température
Nathalie Toque
Université de Montréal
Thurday, October 3rd 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Between Giant Planets and Small Stars: Brown Dwarfs
Jim Liebert
University of Arizona
Thursday, September 26th 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
Ultra high energy cosmic rays: The quest continues
Ubi Wichoski
LPS, Université de Montréal
Abstract
Thursday, September 19th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Carbon stars: a powerful tool for extragalactic astronomy
Paolo Battinelli
Osservatorio di Roma
Thursday, September 5th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Quoi de neuf au Centre Canadien de Données Astronomiques?
Luc Simard
CCDA (Victoria)
Wednesday, September 4th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Résultats de la phase de l'eau lourde de l'Observatoire de neutrinos à Sudbury: mesure intégrale des neutrinos solaires
Bryce Moffat
Queen's & TU Muenchen

2001/02

Thursday, June 6th 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
Hot accretion flows
Mikhail Medvedev
CITA
CANCELLED: Thursday, May 23rd 2002, 12:30 (ERP)
VERITAS - The choice of the Next Generation
Jojo Boyle
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, May 9th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
La diffusion des éléments dans l'atmosphère des étoiles Ap magnétiques
Georges Alecian
Observatoire de Meudon
Abstract
Thursday, May 2nd 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
Ultracompact X-Ray Binaries with Neon-Rich Degenerate Donors
Deepto Chakrabarty
MIT
Thursday, April 25th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Influence de la diffusion thermique sur la dynamique des zones radiatives stellaires
François Lignière
Pic du Midi
Abstract
Friday, April 12th 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
Note unusual day
SGR 1806-20, a Wolf-Rayet Cluster, and the Most Luminous Star(?)
Steve Eikenberry
Cornell
Abstract
Thursday, April 11th 2002, 12:00 (ERP)
X-ray Timing with the USA Experiment
Paul S. Ray
NRL
Abstract
Thursday, March 28th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Street-lights and Smoke-Detectors: Stellar Early Warning Systems
Debra Wallace
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Georgia State University
Abstract
Monday, March 18th 2002, 16:00 (ERP)
Note special day and time
High temperature matter from microscopic black holes
Joe Kapusta
School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Minnesota
Abstract
Monday, February 11th 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Étude de la variabilité des vents d'étoiles chaudes basée sur des modèles d'hydrodynamique radiative
Luc Dessart
Utrecht
Thursday, January 31st 2002, 12:30 (UdM)
Note special time
Perfect Fluid Cosmologies in Null (Observational) Coordinates
Mustapha Ishak
Queen's University
Abstract
Thursday, January 24th 2002, 12:00 (ERP, Boardroom - room 104)
Special Physics Seminar
Accretion in Compact X-ray Sources
Andrei M. Beloborodov
CITA
Abstract
Thursday, December 13th 2001, 12:00 (UdM)
Signatures de la matière sombre dans les galaxies spirales
Stephane Courteau
UBC
Thursday, December 6th 2001, 12:00 (ERP)
The HiRes Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray Experiment
Stefan Westerhoff
Columbia University
Monday, December 3rd 2001, 14:00 (ERP)
Note special time and day
Pulse Properties of Soft Gamma Repeaters
Pete Woods
Marshall Space Flight Center, NASA
Abstract
Friday, November 30th 2001, 15:30 (UdM)
Special Astrophysics Seminar
Note special time and day
Radioactive Beams: A new Frontier
Alan Shotter
Triumf
Abstract
Thursday, November 29th 2001, 12:00 (UdM)
Migration verticale d'un espèce atomique non réactive dans un écoulement horizontal
Nathalie Toque
Université de Montréal
Thursday, November 22nd 2001, 12:00 (UdM)
The nearby neutron star RX J1856.5-3754 and its peculiar H alpha nebula
Marten van Kerkwijk
University of Amsterdam
Thursday, November 15th 2001, 12:00 (ERP)
Solar Luminosity Variation, Possible Climate Effects, and the SBI Experiment
Peter Foukal
CRI Inc.
Thursday, November 8th 2001, 12:00 (UdM)
Une nouvelle façon d'observer pour les futurs astronomes: les [A, N, I, G, ...] VO
Luc Turbide
Université de Montréal
Thursday, November 1st 2001, 12:00(ERP)
Gravitational Wave Astronomy with LIGO
Julien Sylvestre
MIT
Abstract
Thursday, October 25th 2001, 12:00 (UdM)
Mais oû sont passés tous les baryons?
Hubert Reeves
Saclay
Thursday, October 18th 2001, 12:00 (ERP)
High Energy Neutrinos from Blazars, and the Evolution of Quasars
Charles Dermer
Naval Research Laboratory
Abstract
Thursday, October 11th 2001, 12:00 (ERP)
The Haverah Park Array and the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
James Hinton
Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, October 4th 2001, 15:00 (UdM)
Note special time
Contemplating Original Spin
David Helfand
Columbia University
Thursday, September 27th 2001, 12:00 (UdM)
The Rocket Science of Launching Stellar Disks
Stan Owocki
Bartol, Delaware
Thursday, September 20th 2001, 12:00 (ERP)
Latest Results from the STACEE Gamma-ray Detector
David Hanna
McGill University
Thursday, September 13th 2001, 12:00 (ERP)
L'étoile Mystérieuse
Laurent Drissen
Université Laval

2000/01

Thursday, March 29th 2001, 12:30 (ERP)
Gravitational waves from spinning neutron stars
Yury Levin
UC Berkeley
Abstract
Thursday, March 22nd 2001, 12:30 (ERP)
Unveiling the Center of the Milky Way with the Chandra X-ray Observatory
Frederick K. Baganoff
MIT Center for Space Research
Abstract
Thursday, March 15th 2001
Rencontre du centre observatoire Mont Megantic à la Forêt Montmorency
Tuesday, March 6th 2001, 12:30 (UdM)
Note special day
Le lithium dans les étoiles du halo et la densité baryonique de l'univers
Sylvie Vauclair
Thursday, March 1st 2001, 12:30 (ERP)
Supernova Remnants: A key to probe energetic explosions, the interstellar medium, and the birth of compact objects
Samar Safi-Harb
NSERC/University of Manitoba
Abstract
Thursday, February 22nd 2001, 12:30 (UdM)
Phénoménes à haute énergie dans les régions de formation d'étoiles
Thierry Montmerle
Saclay
Thursday, February 15 2001, 12:30 (UdM)
X-ray Variations in the Colliding Wind Binary WR 140 on Approach to Periastron
Michael Corcoran
Goddard Space Flight Center
Thursday, February 8th 2001, 12:30 (ERP)
Star Formation in Magnetized Molecular Clouds. Filaments, Cores, and Protostellar Collapse
Jason Fiege
CITA
Abstract
Thursday, February 1st 2001, 12:30 (ERP)
Stellar Pollution in the Solar Neighborhood
Norm Murray
CITA
Abstract
Thursday, January 25th 2001, 12:30 (ERP)
Stellar Hydrodynamics: problems and hints of solutions
Suzanne Talon
CERCA
Abstract
Thursday, January 18th 2001, 12:30 (UdM)
TBA
Robert Brandenberger
Brown University
Friday, December 15th 2000, 12:30 (UdM)
Note special day
The Globular Cluster Age Problem
Don Vandenberg
University of Victoria
Thursday, December 7th 2000, 12:30 (ERP)
Breaking the waves: unstable magnetized flows in Gamma-Ray Bursts
Maxim Lyutikov
McGill
Thursday, November 30th 2000, 12:30 (UdM)
Detection and Interpretation of Photospheric Emission Lines from Chemically Peculiar Stars
Aaron Sigut
University of Western Ontario
Thursday, November 23rd 2000, 12:30 (ERP)
Neutron Star Spins: R-modes, Plerions and Natal Kicks
Yanqin Wu
CITA
Thursday, November 16th 2000, 12:30 (ERP)
Modeling the Transport of Photons in Strong Gravitational Fields
Dimitrios Psaltis
MIT
Tuesday, November 7th 2000, 12:30 (UdM)
La relativité d'échelle: unification de la mécanique quantique et la relativité generale
Laurent Nottale
Obs. de Paris Meudon
Thursday, November 2nd 2000, 12:30 (UdM)
Introduction a la conference de Laurent Nottale
Cedric Foellmi
Université de Montréal
Thursday, October 26th 2000, 12:30 (UdM)
Cosmologie: dernires nouvelles du front
Hubert Reeves
Saclay
Thursday, October 19th 2000, 12:30 (UdM)
High Energy Processes in Young Stars
Eric Feigelson
Penn State University
Abstract
Thursday, October 12th 2000, 11:00 (ERP)
Getting at the Dark Energy: What is it and how do we find out?
Mike Turner
University of Chicago
Thursday, October 5th 2000 (ERP)
ITP Conference on Spin and Magnetism in Young Neutron Stars
(Video Conference at McGill)
12:00-12:45: Vicky Kaspi (McGill): The Anomalous X-ray Pulsars
12:45-13:30: Marten van Kerkwijk (Utrecht): Multiwavelength Observations of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars
Thursday, September 28th 2000, 12:30 (ERP)
X-Ray and Radio Investigations of Unidentified Galactic Sources of High-Energy Gamma-Rays"
Mallory Roberts
McGill
Thursday, September 21st 2000, 12:30 (UdM)
Discovery of a Young Pulsar in a Relativistic Binary Orbit
Vicky Kaspi
McGill
Thursday, September 7th 2000, 12:30 (UdM)
Evidence for Free Precession in a Neutron Star
Ingrid Stairs
NRAO, Green Bank

Past Special Astrophysics Seminars

Monday, July 17th 2023, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
News from Indirect Dark Matter Searches
Aion Viana
Universidade de Sāo Paulo
Abstract
Tuesday, May 16th 2023, 15:30 (TSI Conference Room)
Radio exploration of the transient sky: Binary mergers and peculiar core-collapse supernovae
Arvind Balasubramanian
Tata Institute for Fundamental Research
Abstract
Monday, January 30th 2023, 14:30 (TSI conference room)
The Final Fates of Stars
Tyrone Woods
NRC
Abstract
CANCELLED: Thursday, February 20th 2020, 12:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
RAISIN: Type IA SN in the Near-IR
Robert P. Kirshner
Chief Program Officer, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Clowes Research Professor of Science, Harvard University
Abstract
Wedenesday, February 12th 2020, 12:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Multiwavelength Studies of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in Extragalactic Globular Clusters
Kristen Dage
Michigan State University
Abstract
Monday, February 10th 2020, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Fast radio burst updates from the Apertif telescope
Emily Petroff
University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Monday, September 16th 2019, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
High-redshift astrophysics using every photon
Patrick Breysse
CITA
Abstract
Tuesday, September 3rd 2019, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Navigating the new epoch of FRB discovery
Liam Connor
Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Thursday, August 29th 2019, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Electric currents in the crust and the magnetosphere of neutron stars
Kostas Gourgouliatos
Durham University
Abstract
Thursday, July 18th 2019, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Targeted Searches for FRBs Using the EVN
Kenzie Nimmo
University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Tueday, July 2nd 2019, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Physics at the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters
Chihway Chang
University of Chicago
Abstract
Friday, June 28th 2019, 14:30 (MSI Lounge)
CLASS: Large Angular Scale cosmology from the ground
Ivan Padilla
Johns Hopkins
Abstract
Tuesday, June 25th 2019, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Mapping the Baryonic Universe: From Reionization to Present-Day Galaxies
Hamsa Padmanabhan
CITA
Abstract
Wednesdays, May 1st 2019, 12:00 (McConnell Engineering Building, room 304)
The Event Horizon Telescope - Seeing the Unseeable
Shep Doeleman
Harvard Center for Astrophysics & Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration
Abstract
Thursday, April 4th 2019, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Self-Induced Irradiation Cycles in Neutron Star Binaries
Lorne Nelson
Bishop's University
Abstract
Thursday, February 14th 2019, 12:00 (MSI Conference Room)
The X-Ray Aurora
Edgar A. Bering III
University of Houston
Abstract
Tuesday, December 18th 2018, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
An Absorption Feature in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum
Raul Monsalve
McGill University
Abstract
Friday, November 23rd 2018, 13:00 (MSI Conference Room)
Explosions in Binaries: Widowed Stars and Consequences for GW Astronomy
Mathieu Renzo
University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Thursday, November 8th 2018, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Reconstructing complex pulsar scattering environments with global VLBI
Dana Simard
University of Toronto
Abstract
Thursday, October 18th 2018, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Recent Advances In Computational cosmology
Romain Teyssier
University of Zurich
Abstract
Thursday, September 13th 2018, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
What XMM X-ray and Arecibo Radio Observations of Pulsar B0823+26 Have to Teach Us
Joanna Rankin
University of Vermont
Abstract
Wednesday, July 4th 2018, 12:00 (MSI Conference Room)
Resolving the Origins of the Soft X-ray Background: A Spectral Approach
Dallas Wulf
University of Wisconsin
Abstract
Thursday, January 25th 2018, 16:00 (MSI Conference Room)
Foregrounds in 21 cm Cosmology: All-Sky Maps of the VHF Radio Sky from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA)
Michael Eastwood
Abstract
Thursday, January 18th 2018, 16:00 (MSI Conference Room)
The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)
Katie Harrington
John Hopkins
Abstract
Wednesday, January 17th 2018, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Observational Properties of Simulated Galaxies: Computational Cosmology as Seen through a Telescope
Connor Bottrell
Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victorian
Abstract
Wednesday, October 25th 2017, 16:00 (MSI Conference Room)
Strong field tests of gravity with PSR J1141-6545
Vivek V. Krishnan
University in Melbourne
Abstract
Friday, June 16th 2017, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103
Probing Dark Energy with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mappin Experiment (CHIME)
Richard Shaw
Department of Physics & Astronomy, UBC
Abstract
Monday, June 12th 2017, 14:00 (MSI Conference Room)
How to add, how to subtract, and how to despeckle
Eran Ofek
Weizmann Institute of Science
Abstract
Tuesday, February 28th 2017, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Direct mass measurements of trans-fermium nuclei with MRTOF-MS: Toward identification of superheavy elements via mass spectroscopy
Yuta Ito
Riken Research Institute
Abstract
Thursday, February 2nd 2017, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
The Crab Nebula: The Inner Knot and flares
Maxim Lyutikov
Purdue University
Abstract
Wednesday, February 1st 2017, 11:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Mapping the Birth and Growth of the Universe
Jonathan Sievers
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Abstract
Wednesday, October 19th 2016, 12:00 (MSI Conference Room)
Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres
Lisa Esteves
University of Toronto
Abstract
Friday, July 29th 2016, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Development of instrumentation for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) measurements with the SPT-3G and CMB Stage-4 experiments
Ritoban Basu Thakur
University of Chicago
Abstract
Tuesday, May 31st 2016, 15:30 (McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room)
The Gravitational-Wave Universe seen by Pulsar Timing Arrays
Chiara Mingarelli
California Institute of Technology
Abstract
Tuesday, May 24th 2016, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Where and how were the heaviest nuclei produced?
Maxime Brodeur
Notre Dame University
Abstract
Friday, May 13th 2016, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
The measurement of stellar masses in <z> = 0.5 galaxies using the micro-lensing of quasars
Paul Schechter
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Abstract
Thursday, November 19th 2015, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
New Probes of Large-scale CMB Anomalies
Simone Aiola
University of Pittsburgh
Abstract
Wednesday, November 18th 2015, 16:00 (MSI Conference Room)
Mysterious Magnetars: Maximum Stars
Vikram Soni
Centre for Theoretical Physics, New Delhi
Abstract
Thursday, October 29th 2015, 15:30 (MSI, Conference Room)
Subhalos in the real Universe: satellite galaxy-galaxy lensing
Cristobal Sifon
Leiden University
Abstract
Thursday, October 1st 2015, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Cross correlations with CMB secondaries: constraining cosmological parameters and cluster astrophysics
Nick Battaglia
Princeton
Abstract
Thursday, July 30th 2015, 11:00 (MSI Conference Room)
On Spiders and Binary Pulsars
René Breton
University of Manchester
Abstract
Thursday, April 30th 2015, 11:30 (MSI Conference Room)
High energy neutrino astronomy at the South Pole: Status and prospects
Hagar Landsman
Weizmann Institute
Abstract
Wednesday, April 22nd 2015, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
A comprehensive look at a mysterious X-ray binary
Tullio Bagnoli
University of Amsterdam
Abstract
Tuesday, April 21st 2015, 13:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Pulsar Timing Arrays: a tool for astrophysics and cosmology
Chiara Mingarelli
Caltech
Abstract
Thursday, April 16th 2015, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Systems in transition from X-ray binary to millisecond pulsar
Anne Archibald
ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for Astronomy
Abstract
Wednesday, April 15th 2015, 12:00 (MSI Conference Room)
PSR J0337+1715: pulsar timing reveals all
Anne Archibald
ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for Astronomy
Abstract
Wednesday, March 11th 2015, 14:00 (3550 University, Conference room)
CMB polarimetry with BICEP/Keck Array
Grant Teply
Caltech
Abstract
Thursday, January 29th 2015, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
Multiwavelength Analysis of Galaxy Clusters
Seth Siegel
Caltech
Abstract
Thursday, January 29th 2015, 13:30 (Boardroom - room 105)
Special Astro/Theory HEP Seminar
Eccentric compact object mergers
Frans Pretorius
Department of Physics, Princeton University
Thursday, January 22nd 2015, 15:30 (MSI Conference Room)
The NANOGrav PTA Experiment: Overview and Developments
Tim Pennucci
University of Virginia
Abstract
Monday, November 24th 2014, 12:00 (3550 University, Conference Room)
The 21-cm line as a new probe of magnetic fields in the pre-reionization epoch
Teja Venumadhav
Caltech
Abstract
Thursday, October 23rd 2014, 13:00 (3550 University, Conference Room)
Digging for buried quasars with WISE and Planck
Michael DiPompeo
University of Wyoming
Abstract
Tuesday, September 23rd 2014, 16:00 (3550 University Conference Room)
Gravitational lensing of CMB polarization with SPTpol
Kyle Story
University of Chicago
Abstract
Friday, September 5th 2014, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Evolution of circumstellar disks and planet formation
Wladimir Lyra
Caltech
Abstract
Wednesday, August 20th 2014, 12:00 (room 326)
Planck Polarization Data
Jean-Loup Puget
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay
Abstract
Wednesday, August 13th 2014, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Dynamical Studies and Strong-field Tests using Radio Pulsars
Emmanuel Fonseca
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Wednesday, June 25:00 2014, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Systematics Effects on Neutron Star Mass and Radius Measurements Using Thermonuclear Bursts
Tolga Güver
Sabanci University
Tuesday, June 17th 2014, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Pulsars and Gravity
Richard N. Manchester
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, Epping NSW Australia
Abstract
Thursday, April 10th 2014, 16:00 (room 326)
Detecting Gravitational Waves with NANOGrav/IPTA Pulsars: The Astrophysics of Precision Timing
Timothy Dolch
Cornell University
Abstract
Friday, January 31st 2014, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Evolution of the cosmological equation of state with SNeIa, BAO and high redshift GRBs
Sergey Postnikov
Indiana University
Abstract
Monday, December 9th 2013, 14:30
The Age and Helium Abundance of the Galactic Bulge
David Nataf
ANU
Abstract
Friday, November 29th 2013, 11:00 (room 305a)
The BLAST-pol and Spider Balloon-borne Telescopes
Steve Benton
University of Toronto
Abstract
Tuesday, June 11th 2013, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The galaxy-halo connection at z=1.6
Jesus Martinez
University of Florida
Abstract
Friday, April 5th 2013, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
White dwarf binaries, mergers, and explosions
Marten van Kerkwijk
University of Toronto
Abstract
Wednesday, February 6th 2013, 13:30 (Boardroom - 105)
Magneto-thermal evolution of isolated neutron stars: towards the grand unification
Daniele Viganò
Universitat d'Alacant
Abstract
Wednesday, January 30th 2013, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
New Ideas on Mechanisms of Angular Momentum Transport and Variability in Boundary Layers of Accretion Disks
Roman Rafikov
Princeton University
Abstract
Monday, January 28th 2013, 14:00 (Boardroom - room 105)
Ferromagnetism in nuclear matter and its implication for the neutron star equation of state
Jacobus Diener
Stellenbosch University
Abstract
Thursday, December 20th 2012, 11:00 (Board Room - room 104)
Giant black holes in clusters of galaxies
Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo
Stanford University
Abstract
Thursday, December 6th 2012, 15:30 (Piano Room - room 211)
Toward a precise measurement of weak lensing signals with CMB and galaxy observations: A theoretical developement and its cosmological implications
Toshiya Namikawa
University of Tokyo
Abstract
Friday, November 16th 2012, 11:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Cosmic motions in the Local Universe
Guilhem Lavaux
Perimeter Institute
Abstract
Thursday, October 25th 2012, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
An Exploration of Diffusion Coefficients in SNR
Rebeca Danos
University of Manitoba
Wednesday, September 12th 2012, 12:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Occupy dark matter: Uncovering the 99% of dusty galaxies which lie beneath the confusion noise floor
Marco Viero
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, May 15th 2012, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Ubiquitous (and Obscured) Nuclear Activity in Star-Forming Galaxies
Stephanie Juneau
CEA-Saclay
Abstract
Wednesday, March 28th 2012, 12:00 (room 305A/B)
Special Particle-Astrophysics Seminar (bring your lunch)
Constraints on low-mass dark matter from CDMS-II and the development of highly-multiplexed next-generation detectors
David Moore
Caltech
Abstract
Tuesday, January 17th 2012, 16:00 (Board Room - room 105)
HMXT: An Upcoming X-ray Telescope
Zhongxiang Wang
Shanghai Observatory
Thursday, November 3rd 2011, 13:30 (Board Room - room 105)
Accretion Outbursts on to Young Stars and Planets
Rebecca Martin
Space Telescope Science Institute
Abstract
Monday, October 24th 2011, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The Curious Case of 4U 1820-30: On the Resonant Trapping and Tidal Dissipation Rate of the White Dwarf Secondary
Snezana Prodan
University of Toronto
Abstract
Monday, October 3rd 2011, 12:00 (room 326)
Highlights from the southern High Time Resolution Universe survey
Lina Levin
Swinburne University of Technology
Abstract
Wednesday, August 10th 2011, 12:00 (room 326)
HEFT measurement of the hard X-ray size of the Crab Nebula and the hard X-ray optics of the Nucelar Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)
Hongjun An
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University
Abstract
Monday, June 20th 2011, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Studying Galaxies, Clusters, and Cosmology with Weak Lensing Magnification
Hendrik Hildebrandt
University of British Columbia
Abstract
Wednesday, June 1st 2011, 14:30 (room 326)
Pathfinding a Neutral Hydrogen Dark Energy Survey
Kevin Bandura
Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
Tuesday, May 31st 2011, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Neutron stars and strong interactions
Aleksi Kurkela
Department of Physics, McGill University
Abstract
Wednesday, March 23rd 2011, 12:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Pulsars Down Under
Matthew Bailes
Swinburne University
Abstract
Thursday, March 17th 2011, 12:00 (room 305A/B)
The Keck Array: Continuing the search for inflationary relics through degree-scale CMB polarimetry
Martin Lueker
Caltech
Abstract
Thursday, December 9th 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Recent Results from Radio Pulsar Searches in Globular Clusters
Ryan Lynch
University of Virginia
Abstract
Tuesday, November 30th 2010, 16:00
Rare objects in Globular Clusters: from dwarf novae to intermediate mass black holes
Mathieu Servillat
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Abstract
Wednesday, November 10th 2010, 14:00 (room 326)
Mass and Radius of Neutron Stars from Modeling Pulse Shapes of Millisecond Pulsars
Denis Leahy
University of Calgary
Abstract
Tuesday, November 2nd 2010, 16:00
The growth of galaxies at z ~ 2: insights from IFU surveys
Natascha Förster
Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik
Monday, August 23rd 2010, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference room - room 103)
NASA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)
Bob Gehrz
University of Minnesota
Monday, July 19th 2010, 15:00 (Room 326)
Gravitational radiation from the pulsar glitch recovery phase
Mark Bennett
University of Melbourne
Abstract
Tuesday, June 29th 2010, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference room - room 103)
21cm Cylindrical Radio Telescope Design and Simulation
David McGinnis
Fermilab
Abstract
Thursday, April 8th 2010, 15:00 (Piano room - room 211)
A New Twist on Black-Hole Spin: The Triggering and Cosmological Impact of Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet AGN Outflows
Dan Evans
MIT
Abstract
Monday, May 25th 2009, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Binary radio pulsars in globular clusters: their orbital eccentricities and interaction with other stars
Alak Ray
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Abstract
Friday, April 24th 2009, 14:00 (Room 326)
Cataclysmic Variables: The Most Common Gravity Powered Stars
John Thorstensen
Dartmouth College
Abstract
Tuesday, March 10th 2009, 15:00 (room 305)
From milliKelvin to MegaKelvin : The connection between superconductivity and cosmology
Tarek Saab
University of Florida
Abstract
Monday, January 26th 2009, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Accreting neutron stars
Manuel Linares
Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, Universiteit van Amsterdam
Abstract
Friday, January 16th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Study of Very High Energy Gamma Ray Emission from TeV Blazars
Debanjan Bose
Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Abstract
Thursday, January 15th 2009, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Axions from String Theory and Inflation
Katie Mack
Princeton University
Abstract
Thursday, January 8th 2009, 11:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - 103)
Galaxy evolution at high-redshift: millimeter-wavelength surveys with AzTEC
Kimberly Scott
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Abstract
Monday, December 1st 2008, 12:00 (Room 326)
Black-Hole Binaries As Relics Of Long-Soft Gamma-Ray Burst And Hypernova Explosions
Enrique Moreno-Mendez
SUNY
Abstract
Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Mapping Exoplanets
Nick Cowan
University of Washington
Abstract
Wednesday, October 29th 2008, 13:00 (Board Room - room 105)
First results from the South Pole Telescope
Joaquin Vieira
University of Chicago
Abstract
Wednesday, October 22nd 2008, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
X-rays Mark the Spot: the Birth of a Supernova
Alicia Soderberg
Princeton University
Abstract
Wednesday, September 17th 2008, 12:00 (room 326)
Special Astrophysics BYOL Seminar
Gravitational radiation from pulsar glitches: nuclear physics with LIGO
Andrew Melatos
University of Melbourne
Abstract
Monday, September 15th 2008, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Gravitational radiation from accreting neutron stars
Andrew Melatos
University of Melbourne
Abstract
Thursday, September 11th 2008, 16:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Tracing dusty star formation across redshift and environment with Spitzer/MIPS imaging
Amélie Saintonge
ETH Zürich
Abstract
Wednesday, September 10th 2008, 14:00 (Piano Room - room 211)
Detecting Extra-solar Planets with a Bayesian hybrid MCMC Kepler periodogram
Phil Gregory
Department of Physics & Astronomy, UBC
Abstract
Thursday, July 24th 2008, 12:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
The Deployment and First Season of the South Pole Telescope
Steve Padin
University of Chicago
Abstract
Thursday, July 10th 2008, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in high magnetic field X-ray pulsars
Ramanpreet Kaur
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Science
Abstract
Monday, July 7th 2008, 14:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Accreting millisecond pulsars as sources of gravitational waves... and more
Christine Chung
University of Melbourne
Abstract
Monday, October 15th 2007, 15:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Ultra-compact binary stars
Gijs Nelemans
Radboud University Nijmegen
Abstract
Tuesday, May 8th 2007, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Connecting Radio Pulsar Phenomena with the Emission Physics
Joanna Rankin
University of Vermont
Abstract
Wednesday, April 25th 2007, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Cosmology with Sunyaev-Zel'dovich cluster counts
Jochen Weller
University College London
Abstract
Friday, February 2nd 2007, 12:30 (Board Room - room 105)
The CADC: 20 years of archiving. What's next?
Daniel Durand
Canadian Astronomy Data Centre, NRC
Abstract
Wednesday, December 13th 2006, 15:30 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Evidence for a Binary Companion to the Central Compact Object 1E 1207.4-5209
Peter Woods
Dynetics Inc.
Abstract
Thursday, December 7th 2006, 12:00 (ERP - Board Room - room 105)
Origin of the Two Minor Moons in the Pluto-Charon System
Yoram Lithwick
CITA
Abstract
Monday, November 13th 2006, 16:00 (ERP - R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Turbulent, Magnetized, MRI-driven Accretion Disks: Beyond the alpha-disk
Martin Pessah
University of Arizona
Abstract
Thursday, November 9th 2006, 13:00 (ERP - room 326)
Turbulence from the Streaming Instability and Planetesimal Formation
Andrew Youdin
CITA
Abstract
Wednesday, October 25th 2006, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference - room 103)
Gravitational Faraday rotation of the CMB by the large-scale structure
Björn Malte Schaefer
Institute for Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth
Abstract
Monday, August 14th 2006, 16:00 (R.E. Bell Conference Room - room 103)
Accreting Binaries and the Neutron Star Equation of State
Duncan Galloway
University of Melbourne
Abstract
Thursday, February 12th 2004, 14:45 (room 326)
Asymmetries in Stellar Collapse
Christopher Fryer
Los Alamos National Laboratories
Abstract
Monday, February 9th 2004, 13:00 (Room 326)
Gamma-ray emission mechanism from pulsar magnetospheres
Kouichi Hirotani
Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik
Abstract
Thursday, October 9th 2003, 15:30
Searching for pulsars, neutron star demographics
Fernando Camilo
Columbia University
Abstract
Friday, June 20th 2003, 12:00
The Birth Properties of Radio Pulsars
Zaven Arzoumanian
USRA/NASA-GSFC
Abstract
Thursday, June 19th 2003, 15:30
Design and Performance of the Tethered Aerostat Subsystem of the Large Adaptive Reflector (LAR)
M. Nahon
Mechanical Engineering, McGill University
Abstract
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