Seminars, Journal Clubs and other regular events

We have an active program of seminars and journal clubs and everyone is encouraged to attend and participate as much as possible. Everyone is welcome to everything but attendance at the WCA Astroseminars, journal clubs and coffee times in your field is expected (so far as class and meeting schedules allow).

Our weekly program is summarised here, please see below for more details.

Day	Time	Location	Meeting
Monday	15:00	PHY 218	LSS/Pec-Vel/Galaxies and Clusters journal clubs
Tuesday	10:00	PHY 218	Planets astro-cophee
Wednesday	10:00	PHY 218	Galaxies astro-cophee
	11:30	PHY 308	Astroseminar
	15:00	PHY 352	Cosmology astro-cophee/journal club
Thursday	10:00	PHY 218	Retro journal club/Grad student journal club
Friday	13:00	PHY 218	EDI coffee

Seminars and colloquia

WCA Astroseminars

Wednesdays from 11:30am - 12:30pm in Physics (PHY) 308 and via Zoom. Pizza from 12:30-1:00pm.
Seminar information can be found on:
- our google astroseminar calendar (date and name only)
- our events page (date, name, location, talk title, talk abstract, speaker photo and short biography)
- by email announcement (usually the Friday before)
Watch Zoom recordings of previous virtual astroseminars.
Astroseminars are intended for WCA members and their affiliates and are aimed at the graduate level. If you think you should be on the mailing list for the astroseminar but are not receiving emails, please email us at wca@uwaterloo.ca.

Perimeter Institute seminars

There are a number of talks held at the Perimeter Institute (31 Caroline St. N.):
Tuesdays 11:00 AM (Cosmology)
Wednesdays 2:00 PM (Colloquium)
Thursdays 11:00 AM (Cosmology Group - informal)

University of Waterloo Department of Physics & Astronomy Colloquium

Thursdays 4:00pm - 5:00pm in Physics (PHY) 150
Refreshments 3:30pm

Colloquia outside Waterloo

Journal Clubs and Astro-cophees

Large-scale structure / Peculiar Velocities (LSS/Pec Vel) journal club

Once per month on Mondays at 3pm in the WCA board room. For informal sharing of your own and others recent in-progress results (1-2 slides).

Currently being organized Alex Krolewski akrolews@uwaterloo.ca. Email him to be added to the mailing list

Galaxies and Clusters journal club

Every two weeks on Mondays at 3 pm in the WCA board room.

For informal sharing of your own and others recent in-progress results (1-2 slides).
Currently being organized by Michael Balogh. Please email him to be added to the mailing list.

Retro journal club

Every two weeks on Thursdays at 10 am in the WCA board room (with coffee)

Reviews highly cited seminal papers, often from pre-2000
Organised by Roan Haggar. There is a schedule and sign up in the astro cophee slack channel bookmarks.

Grad student journal club

Every two weeks on Thursdays at 10 am in the WCA board room (with coffee and cookies)

for Grad Students only
Organised by Cam Morgan.

Astro-cophees

Reviews of recent papers from astro-ph, with coffee! At 10:00-10:30 am in the WCA board room unless noted otherwise. The paper is announced in advance on the astro-cophee slack channel. Look for schedules and sign up in the astro cophee slack channel bookmarks.

Planets (Tuesdays) is organised by Michael Balogh.
Galaxies (Wednesdays) is organised by Liza Sazonova
Cosmology (Wednesdays at 3 pm in PHY 352) is organised by Pierre Burger.
EDI coffee (Fridays at 1 pm) alternates sessions on EDI topics, wellness and astro-life skills, and is organised by Marie-Joelle Gingras.

WCA Monthly Meeting

3 pm every third Friday in the WCA board room or by zoom.
Attended by Faculty, Outreach Coordinator, Postdoc rep, Grad student rep, EDI rep.
Minutes are sent around after approval.
Zoom link available for anyone wanting to listen in.