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The Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics (WCA) looks to the cosmos to solve the greatest mysteries of the universe. Here, world-class researchers and students come together in an atmosphere of curiosity, creativity and collaboration; exploring our cosmic origin to truly understand the physical processes at work in the Universe. From black holes to cosmology, we aim to understand what lies beyond the Earth. The possibilities for new discovery are limitless.
News
WCA Public Outreach: The Story of 2024-25
As we settle into the new school year, we're taking a moment to look back at the highlights of the WCA's public outreach programming over 2024-25!
Waterloo hosts Ontario-wide galaxy evolution workshop
This week the WCA and the Department of Physics and Astronomy hosted the GEESE-ON workshop, bringing together astronomers from across Ontario studying the evolution of galaxies.
Even black holes have bad hair days
New EHT images reveal unexpected polarization flips at M87* that are giving scientists insight into the year-by-year evolution of a supermassive black hole’s ring
Events
Astroseminar - Sven Heydenreich
Sven’s (UCSC) scientific journey has been shaped by trying to ensure accurate and precise results from weak lensing surveys. His contributions to this field are both direct investigations of potential systematic biases (such as variable survey depth) as well as the establishment of higher-order lensing statistics (persistent homology and third-order shear statistics, in collaboration with Pierre) for a robust cosmological inference. As a member of DESI, he performed the validation of Galaxy Lensing measurements for subsequent cosmological analyses.