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Thursday, November 9, 2023 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar - Norbert Werner - IN PERSON

Norbert Werner is a professor of Physics & Astronomy and leader of the high energy astrophysics group at Masaryk University at Brno in the Czech Republic.

Wednesday, November 15, 2023 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar Series - Pierre Burger - IN PERSON

Pierre Burger is a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Mike Hudson. He obtained his PhD degree from the University of Bonn in Germany. His research focuses on observational cosmology and the large-scale structure of the Universe concentrating on the information content beyond Gaussian statistics.

Tuesday, November 21, 2023 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar Series - Sara Ellison - IN PERSON

Sara Ellison received her PhD in 2000 from the University of Cambridge. After a postdoctoral fellowship at the European Southern Observatory in Chile, she moved to the University of Victoria in 2003 to take up a Canada Research Chair where she has been a full professor since 2014. 

Wednesday, November 22, 2023 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar Series - Xinyi Chen - IN PERSON

Xinyi Chen is a graduate student at Yale University, working on large-scale structure cosmology with Prof. Nikhil Padmanabhan. Her research combines machine learning, statistics and theoretical modeling to probe the nature of dark energy and inflation via large galaxy surveys such as Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI).

Wednesday, January 17, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar Series - Lammim Ahad - IN PERSON

Syeda Lammim Ahad started as a WCA Postdoctoral Fellow in December 2023. She completed her PhD in Astrophysics from Leiden Observatory, the Netherlands, in November 2023, where she studied galaxy groups and clusters and galaxy evolution within these systems by detailed comparison of cosmological hydrodynamic simulations with recent observational data.

Wednesday, January 24, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar Series - Harry Desmond - ZOOM

Harry Desmond is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth. He completed his PhD at Stanford in 2017 and then held postdoctoral fellowships at Oxford and CMU.

Wednesday, January 31, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar - Jerome Quintin - IN PERSON

Jerome Quintin completed his PhD at McGill University in 2019, and after that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute) in Potsdam, Germany. Jerome has been at the University of Waterloo since 2022, holding the Faculty of Mathematics Prestigious Postdoctoral Fellowship. 

Wednesday, February 7, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar - Marta Bryan - IN PERSON

Marta Bryan received a BA in astrophysics from Harvard in 2012 and a PhD in astrophysics from Caltech in 2018.  She then held a 51 Pegasi b postdoctoral fellowship followed by a NASA Hubble Fellowship Program Sagan fellowship at UC Berkeley.  Since January 2023, she has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar - Hyunseop (Joseph) Choi - IN PERSON

Hyunseop (Joseph) Choi earned his PhD at the University of Oklahoma in 2022, and he is currently a postdoctoral researcher at l'Université de Montréal. Collaborating with Dr. Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, his work focuses on observational studies of AGN feedback.

Wednesday, February 21, 2024 11:30 am - 12:30 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

Astroseminar - Alexandra Amon - VIA ZOOM

Alexandra Amon, based at Princeton University, is primarily interested in understanding the evolution and composition of the Universe, including its dark components. She is an expert in weak lensing, working very closely with data and has a keen interest in the intersection with large-scale structure surveys.