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Christine Jones Forman
UW welcomes world-renowned astrophysicist Dr. Christine Jones Forman as she presents "Black Holes, Dark Matter and Dark Energy: Exploring the Invisible Universe". Dr. Forman is a senior astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Wednesday, October 20, 2021 11:30 am - 11:30 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

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Megan Donahue is a professor of physics and astronomy at Michigan State University (MSU) in East Lansing, Michigan. She is interested in astrophysical questions relating to intergalactic baryons, particularly those surrounding galaxies. Those questions range from cosmology and dark matter to galaxy evolution. Her PhD in astrophysics is from the University of Colorado at Boulder. 

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Wednesday, November 10, 2021 11:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

Dr. Andrew Pontzen is a Royal Society University Research Fellow and Professor of Cosmology at the University College London (UCL). He obtained his PhD from the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge in 2009.  His work focuses on understanding dark matter – a mysterious component of the universe that is hypothesised to drive the formation of galaxies and other structures.

Wednesday, November 17, 2021 11:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Undergrad Presentations - Aviv Padawer-Blatt, Lauren Foster and Justin Marchioni

Lauren Foster

Lauren Foster is a fourth-year undergraduate student in the Physics and Astronomy program at Waterloo. She started working with Dr. Percival in May 2021 on a project exploring the use of machine learning to identify dark matter halos in redshift-space.

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Wednesday, December 1, 2021 11:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

Professor Laura Fissel is an astrophysicist in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Astronomy at Queen's University.  Her research focuses on building stratospheric balloon-borne telescopes, which operate above 99.5% of the Earth's atmosphere, allowing astronomers to observe radiation that would otherwise require a much more expensive space telescope.

Wednesday, February 15, 2023 11:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

Astro Seminar Series - HYBRID

Simone Paradiso is a postdoc at the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics at University of Waterloo. Originally from Rome, in 2016 he completed his Bachelors and Masters degree at University of Rome “La Sapienza” in Astrophysics. He completed his PhD in Physics and Astrophysics in 2021 at University of Milan.