Events

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. 

This workshop aims to summarise and expand our knowledge of AGN feedback, and celebrate Brian McNamara's landmark achievements in our field. More than twenty experts in the field will speak about the hot topics and future directions of AGN feedback in clusters and galaxies.

Dark energy is a strange and enigmatic form of energy, causing our Universe to grow and expand at an increasingly fast rate. While the exact nature of this energy remains a total mystery, new astronomical instruments are shedding light on dark energy like never before. Join us at this month's KPL astronomy talk, when Dr. Enrique Paillas will speak about the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), and what its newest results tell us about the dark Universe.

This month we'll hear from two guest speakers: Ana Ennis, from the Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, will speak about the death of stars like our Sun, and how these produce the stuff that we are made from! Perimeter Institute researcher Luciano Combi will then share how we can observe and model the deaths of stars, to understand the origin of heavy elements like gold.

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.

Galaxies change and evolve over hundreds of millions of years, and while we can gain clues about their evolution by looking at galaxies, this evolution is too slow to watch in real time. However, by running simulations of galaxies, astronomers can unlock this additional dimension, tracking how galaxies form and evolve through time. At this month's KPL astronomy talk, Cam Lawlor-Forsyth will discuss the combination of observations and simulations as a powerful tool in understanding galaxy evolution.

We are excited to announce a landmark conference that plans to delve into the forefront of research on modified theories of gravity and brings together leading experts from different disciplines, including observational astrophysicists, numerical relativists, cosmologists and mathematical physicists to explore the present status of modified theories of gravity and envision their future theoretical development and implications for observations.

This conference is also timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of pioneering work in this area carried out by Gregory Horndeski in the Waterloo Mathematical Physics Community. Hosted jointly by Perimeter Institute and the University of Waterloo, this conference will serve as a forum for researchers from different disciplines to exchange ideas at the cuttingnedge of gravitational physics.

Astronomy on Tap 8 August 2024.

Sit back, relax, and learn about the Universe, while also having a couple of drinks and a bit of fun. This month we learn about planets with Jake Ferguson and Michael Balogh!

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