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Katie Mack is a theoretical cosmologist specializing in the connections between astrophysics and particle physics. She is currently an Assistant Professor at North Carolina State University and a Simons Emmy Noether Fellow at Perimeter. She completed her PhD in Astrophysical Sciences at Princeton before doing two postdoctoral fellowships, one at Cambridge's Kavli Institute for Cosmology and one at Melbourne University.

I received a PhD in physics from Princeton University in 2008. My advisor was Scott Tremaine (Institute for Advanced Study). I was a Moore postdoctoral fellow at Caltech 2008-2010, and a McCue postdoctoral fellow at UC Irvine 2011-2013. Since 2013, I have been a faculty member in the physics and astronomy departments at The Ohio State University, and a member of the CCAPP Science Board. I received tenure in 2019. My work straddles the line of physics and astronomy: I use the tools of astronomy and astrophysics to reveal the fundamental physics of dark matter.

I got my PhD from SISSA in 2015, then I moved to UC Berkeley where I have been the Fellow of the Berkeley Center for Cosmological Physics for 4 years. In 2019 I joined the Theory Department at CERN as a Senior Fellow. In the fall of 2020 I will start as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Milan.

Peter uses computational statistics to study links between dark matter halo assembly, galaxy formation, and the growth of supermassive black holes. His research involves generating simulated universes for millions of different physical models, with the aim of constraining which physics best describes current observations and which new observations would best improve our current understanding of galaxy and black hole formation. These methods are especially powerful as they allow combining many disparate observations (across different redshifts, environments, and formation tracers) into a self-consistent description of the Universe.

Mario Juric is the WRF Term Chair Professor in the Department of Astronomy at the University of Washington, and the Director of UW's Institute for Data-Intensive Research in Astronomy and Cosmology (DiRAC).

Dan Scolnic is an assistant professor of physics at Duke University. He received his B.S. from MIT and PhD from Johns Hopkins University. He received a NASA Hubble Fellowship as well as a Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics Fellowship for his postdoctoral work at The University of Chicago. This year, Dan won the prestigious Packard Fellowship. Dan leads work in multiple collaborations on using Type Ia Supernovae to measure cosmological parameters.

David Weinberg is a Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of Astronomy at Ohio State University. His research interests include large scale structure, weak lensing, and observational constraints on cosmic acceleration; the physics of galaxy formation, the intergalactic medium, and circumgalactic medium; and the chemical evolution of the Milky Way. Prior to joining the Ohio State faculty, he received his PhD from Princeton University (1989) and held postdoctoral positions at Cambridge University, U.C. Berkeley, and the Institute for Advanced Study.

Laurence Perreault-Levasseur is an assistant professor at the University of Montréal and an Associate Member of Mila, where she conducts research in the development and application of machine learning methods to cosmology. She is also a Visiting Scholar at the Flatiron Institute in New York City.

Katie Bouman is an assistant professor in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department at the California Institute of Technology. Before joining Caltech, she was a postdoctoral fellow in the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She received her Ph.D. in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at MIT in EECS. Before coming to MIT, she received her bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan. The focus of her research is on using emerging computational methods to push the boundaries of interdisciplinary imaging.

We are pleased to announce a virtual meeting for the presentation of the first GOGREEN Data release and science results, hosted by the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics. The public portion of the meeting will run from 10am-2pm EDT on Monday Aug 24, and 10am-12pm EDT on Tuesday Aug 25.

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Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

GOGREEN Data Release and Science Workshop

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