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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/wca-kpl-public-talk-bla
 ck-holes-and-beyond-lucy-pothier
LOCATION:Kitchener Public Library (Central)\, Meeting rooms D+E 85 Queen St
 reet\, N Kitchener ON Canada
SUMMARY:WCA-KPL Public Talk: Black Holes and Beyond (Lucy Pothier-Bogoslows
 ki)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Black holes are massive objects from which even light cannot es
 cape --\nso how can we \"see\" them? In this month's KPL astronomy talk\, 
 Lucy\nPothier-Bogoslowski  will discuss several observational techniques\
 nand properties of black holes that allow us to observe them and their\nim
 pact on their environments from small to large scales.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260408T200000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/astronomy-tap-everett-p
 atterson-and-kiana-salehi
LOCATION:The Crazy Canuck Kitchener 141 Ontario Street North Kitchener ON N
 2H 4Y5 Canada
SUMMARY:Astronomy on Tap - Everett Patterson and Kiana Salehi
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:At Astronomy on Tap this month\, we'll be hearing all about t
 he\nscience of black holes from two experts studying these\nstructures. E
 verett Patterson will tell us how astronomers and\ncosmologists reached o
 ur modern understanding of black holes from\ntheir theoretical origins\, a
 nd Kiana Salehi\, a member of the Event\nHorizon Telescope collaboration\
 , will discuss what we can learn about\nour Universe from photographing a 
 black hole.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260408T113000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/astroseminar-mayukh-bag
 chi-and-felix-thiel
LOCATION:PHY - 308 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Astroseminar - Mayukh Bagchi and Felix Thiel
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:\"Observing Black Holes from the Stratosphere\"\n\nMayukh is cu
 rrently a PhD candidate in Astronomy at Queen's\nUniversity\, Canada\, wor
 king with Prof. Laura Fissel on the\nBalloon-borne VLBI Experiment (BVEX).
  His research focuses on\ndeveloping balloon-borne radio telescopes for Ve
 ry Long Baseline\nInterferometry. \n\nFelix Thiel currently is a PhD stude
 nt in the Department of Physics at\nQueen's University in Kingston\, Ontar
 io Canada and a member of the\nBalloon-borne VLBI Experiment (BVEX) collab
 oration under the\nsupervision of Laura Fissel.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260325T190000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/wca-kpl-public-talk-pro
 bing-alien-skies-lisa-dang
LOCATION:Kitchener Public Library (Central)\, meeting rooms D+E 85 Queen St
 reet Kitchener ON Canada
SUMMARY:WCA-KPL Public talk: Probing Alien Skies (Lisa Dang)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Among the diversity of exoplanets discovered in the last few de
 cades\nare a particularly intriguing type called lava worlds. In this mont
 h's\nKPL astronomy talk\, Dr. Lisa Dang will share how we find these\nscor
 ching hot rocky planets\, and discuss how we can study them and\nwhat you 
 could experience if you were to visit a lava world.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260325T113000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/astroseminar-margaret-b
 uhariwalla
LOCATION:PHY - 308 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Astroseminar - Margaret Buhariwalla
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Margaret Buhariwalla (She/They) recently graduated with the
 ir PhD\nfrom St. Mary's University in 2025. Her research focuses on hot\np
 lasmas associated with actively accreting supermassive black\nholes. Marg
 aret has a passion for (and several years of experience\nin) science commu
 nication and is particularly interested in sharing\nthe human perspective 
 on space science.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260401T113000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/astroseminar-emily-deib
 ert
LOCATION:PHY - 308 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Astroseminar - Emily Deibert
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Emily Deibert is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at the Universit
 y of\nWaterloo\, where her research focuses on characterizing the atmosphe
 res\nof ultra-hot Jupiters and other exoplanets. Prior to starting at\nWat
 erloo\, Emily was a Gemini Science Fellow and NSERC Postdoctoral\nFellow a
 t the Gemini South Observatory in La Serena\, Chile\, where she\nworked as
  a member of the instrument science team for the\nobservatory's new high-r
 esolution optical spectrograph\, GHOST. Emily\ncompleted a PhD in Astronom
 y & Astrophysics\, and an undergraduate\ndegree in Astronomy\, English\, a
 nd Mathematics\, from the University of\nToronto's St George campus. 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260318T113000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/astroseminar-michael-ba
 logh-0
LOCATION:PHY - 308 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Astroseminar - Michael Balogh
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:\"Atmospheric compositions of hot Jupiters as tracers of planet
 \nformation history\"
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260311T113000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/astroseminar-elisa-dong
LOCATION:PHY - 308 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Astroseminar - Elisa Dong
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:\"The Mystery of Martian Methane and A Potential Solution\"\n\n
 Elisa Dong is a final year PhD candidate at York University\nresearching p
 lanetary atmospheres trying to understand how and why\nthings move from po
 int A to point B\, or don’t. Her favourite\nresearch question is\, \"wha
 t if?\". She completed her BSc in Geophysics\nat the University of Waterlo
 o\, and an MSc at Western University. 
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260304T113000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/astroseminar-charlie-mp
 etha
LOCATION:PHY - 308 200 University Avenue West Waterloo ON N2L 3G1 Canada
SUMMARY:Astroseminar - Charlie Mpetha
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:\"Cluster Lensing in the Stage-IV Era\"\n\nCharlie Mpetha did h
 is undergraduate at Lancaster University\, then\nmoved to a PhD in gravita
 tional wave cosmology at the University of\nEdinburgh. Mid-way through his
  PhD\, in 2023\, he won a Leverhulme\nStudy-Abroad scholarship to work at 
 the WCA for a year with James\nTaylor on topics in cluster cosmology. Now\
 , Charlie is in his first\nyear as a NASA Postdoctoral Fellow at Goddard\,
  working on cluster\nscience for the Nancy Grace Roman space telescope.
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20260225T190000
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URL:https://uwaterloo.ca/astrophysics-centre/events/wca-kpl-public-talk-bat
 tle-big-bang-new-tales-our-cosmic
LOCATION:Kitchener Public Library (Central Library) Meeting room D+E 85 Que
 en St N Kitchener ON N2H 2H1 Canada
SUMMARY:WCA-KPL Public Talk -Battle of the Big Bang: The new tales of our\n
 cosmic origins (Niayesh Afshordi)
CLASS:PUBLIC
DESCRIPTION:Most of us are taught that the universe began with a giant expl
 osion\ncalled the Big Bang. But what if that picture is incomplete—or ev
 en\nwrong? In this month's KPL astronomy talk\, Niayesh Afshordi will\nexp
 lore the growing cracks in our standard cosmic origin story and\nintroduce
  rival ideas that challenge the very notion of a beginning of\ntime.
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