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Friday, September 13, 2019 11:30 pm - 11:30 pm EDT (GMT -04:00)

Astro Seminar Series

Norbert Werner
Norbert Werner is the leader of the “Lendület Hot Universe” research group at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Hungary, an associate professor (Docent) in the Department of Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics at the Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic, and a specially appointed associate professor in the School of Science at Hiroshima University, Japan. 

Wednesday, September 18, 2019 11:15 am - 11:15 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Astro Seminar Series

Elena Massara

Elena is a postdoctoral fellow in the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics.  Talk title:  Exploring novel probes and methods for cosmology.

Friday, October 4, 2019 10:00 am - 10:00 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics Launch Event - The Future of Astronomy

On October 4th, we formally launch the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics. Between 10:00am - 4:00pm we will host a scientific meeting with the theme, The Future of Astronomy. Speakers include Neil Turok, Director Emeritus of the Perimeter Institute, Waterloo and Scott Tremaine, Richard Black Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, members of the WCA governing board.  From 4:00 pm, we will host a reception formally opening the new centre, which will provide a chance to meet and talk to the members.

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 9, 2019 11:15 am - 11:15 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Astro Seminar Series

Lindy Blackburn
Lindy Blackburn is a Radio Astronomer and EHT Data Scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He works on data statistics and calibration for the Event Horizon Telescope, toward the goal of obtaining high-resolution images of supermassive black holes.

Wednesday, October 16, 2019 11:15 am - 11:15 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Astro Seminar Series

James Wadsley
James was born in Australia and has been in North America (primarily Canada) since 1992, when he started Graduate work in Astronomy at the University of Toronto. Working with his supervisor Dick Bond at CITA he applied gasdynamical simulations to the Lyman alpha forest problem.

Wednesday, October 23, 2019 11:15 am - 11:15 am EDT (GMT -04:00)

Astro Seminar Series

Dragan Huterer
Dragan is a theoretical cosmologist, and works as a professor of Physics at the University of Michigan.