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DESI opens its 5,000 eyes to capture the colours of the cosmos

Congratulations to Avery Broderick and other team members of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration for winning the 2020 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics!  Read more: https://breakthroughprize.org/News/54

I just spent the past week at the Dunlap Institute Summer School for Astronomical Instrumentation. Students came from all over the world - five continents in total!

Chandra's 20th anniversary image release

Exploring a physics lab as an undergraduate student, Crystal Senko didn’t realize she was about to set forth on a future career path in quantum research. Intrigued by a forest of optics on the table of an atomic physics lab, she entered the world of experimental research and hasn’t looked back. Read more.

The Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics unveils logo for its new Centre.

We are proud to be launching a new visual identity for the Centre that will help steward future conversations for building a Centre, recruiting talent and providing a unique identify on the global stage.

Prof Mike Hudson was recently appointed as the Canadian member of the Euclid Consortium Board. Euclid is an international mission, led by the European Space Agency, with significant interest from a number of international partners including Canada, and is planned for launch in 2022. 

It is with great sadness that we share the news of the passing of Dr. Chiamaka Okoli, a brilliant astrophysicist and former PhD student at our department. Dr. Okoli successfully defended her PhD with the title “Dark Matter and Neutrinos in the Foggy universe” last December. Her PhD convocation at the University of Waterloo was scheduled for last week, on June 13th.

Professor Michel Fich speaks to the Royal City Men's Club this Thursday, June 13.