Seminar

Dr. Eve J. Lee is an Assistant Professor and William Dawson Scholar in the Department of Physics at McGill, and a member of the Trottier Space Institute and the Trottier Institute for Research on Exoplanets. She leads a theoretical astrophysics group focusing on the formation of planets and stars.

Luciano Combi is an astrophysicist interested in gravitation, compact objects, high-energy astrophysics, and foundations of science.  He is doing his first postdoc at Perimeter Institute with a joint appointment as a CITA National Fellow (U of Guelph).

Tanveer Karim is an Arts & Sciences Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Toronto and obtained his PhD from Harvard University in 2023. He is currently a co-lead of the Lyman-Break Galaxies Topical Team in the Dark Energy Science Collaboration (DESC) and has led efforts related to the Emission-Line Galaxies in the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) Collaboration. 

Hunter Martin, Rashaad Reid and Neo Dizdar start off the fall term WCA astroseminars.

Ralph Pudritz is a theoretical astrophysicist at McMaster University, whose research focuses on star and planet formation, and origins of life. Ralph is the founding (2004-2015) Director of McMaster's Origins Institute (OI).

Scott Tremaine received his BSc degree from McMaster University and his PhD degree from Princeton. He has been on the faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Toronto, Princeton University, and the Institute for Advanced Study. He was the first Director of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics from 1985 to 1997 and the Chair of the Department of Astrophysical Sciences of Princeton University from 1998 to 2008.

Scott will receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Waterloo on June 14.

Special Grad student practice talk session!

Cam Morgan will talk about "Decoding quenching in the Virgo cluster and infalling groups with spatially resolved star formation".

Darshak Patel will talk about "Early UNIONS Results: Dependence of Halo Mass on Galaxy Size at Fixed Stellar Mass, Colour, and Redshift".

Alice Chen will present her poster titled "Predicting Halo Location on Non-linear Scales using Galaxies and Neighbouring Halos".

Lucas Valenzuela is interested in galaxy formation and evolution, and how present-day properties of galaxies can be used as indicators for their formation history. To study these, he works on cosmological hydrodynamical simulations and models of globular clusters and planetary nebulae, which he also uses to compare with observations. 

Niko Šarčević is a cosmologist working at Newcastle University, and is part of the LSST DESC. Her research focuses on modelling and mitigating the intrinsic alignment of galaxies in weak lensing measurements. Niko is also interested in the statistical problems for late-time cosmology.

Shokoufeh Faraji is a Postdoc in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Waterloo Center for Astrophysics at the University of Waterloo. She finished her PhD at ZARM Institute at the University of Bremen, Germany. Her research areas include but not limited to the general theory of relativity, accretion discs, and quasi-periodic oscillations with (semi-) analytical methods.