Past Colloquia
Colloquia with Lamiya Mowla and Keir Rogers
Zoom
Local Postdoctoral Fellows, University of Toronto
February 10, 2021
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Making it Big: The Effect of Dust on Galaxy Morphology – by Lamiya Mowla Galaxy morphology is one of the fundamental and oldest observational tools used to study the formation and evolution of galaxies. Decades of observations from the ground and thousands of orbits of…
Exoplanet Host Star Age Inferences and Their Impacts on Models of Planet Formation and Evolution
Zoom
Kevin Schlaufman, Johns Hopkins
February 03, 2021
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Precise ages for exoplanet host stars have among their many uses the potential to reveal the origin and fate of short-period planets, the effect of host star mass on giant planet formation, the structure and role of atmospheric escape in the evolution of low-mass planets,…
Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time
Zoom
Jason Hessels, University of Amsterdam
January 27, 2021
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
In the past decade we have started to explore extragalactic and intergalactic space using millisecond-duration radio flashes called `fast radio bursts’ (FRBs). These cosmological signals are surprisingly abundant: there is likely an FRB occurring somewhere on the sky at least once every minute. But what…
Beyond the Gaussian: A Higher-Order Correlation Statistic for the Interstellar Medium
Zoom
Douglas Finkbeiner, Harvard University
January 20, 2021
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Our project to map Milky Way dust has produced 3-D maps of dust density and precise cloud distances, leading to the discovery of the structure known as the Radcliffe Wave. However, these advances have not yet allowed us to do something the CMB community takes…
Colloquium with Conny Aerts
Zoom
Conny Aerts, Institute of Astronomy, KU Leuven
December 16, 2020
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Colloquium with Krzysztof Stanek
Zoom
Krzysztof Stanek, Ohio State University
December 09, 2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Colloquium with Jarita Holbrook
Zoom
Jarita Holbrook, University of Edinburgh/UWC
December 02, 2020
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
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Colloquium with Louise Edwards
Zoom
Louise Edwards, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
November 11, 2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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Exoplanets and The Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Zoom
Ignas Snellen, University of Leiden
November 04, 2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Placing the solar system in the context of other planetary systems is one of the central objectives driving the study of extrasolar planets. One of the most fascinating questions in modern science is whether other life-bearing planets exist. In this talk I will review the…
Hα Imaging Spectroscopy of Galaxy Clusters Using SITELLE
Zoom
Howard Yee, University of Toronto
October 28, 2020
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
SITELLE is an 11’x11′ field-of-view imaging Fourier Transform Spectrograph (iFTS) on CFHT. I will briefly describe the history of iFTS and the capability of this new, unique, IFU-like instrument. We are carrying out a program to use SITELLE to study Hα emission in star-forming galaxies…