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Liza Sazonova is a an incoming postdoctoral fellow at uWaterloo, working on structural evolution of galaxies using the upcoming Rubin LSST survey. She received her PhD from Johns Hopkins University, where she worked as part of the SPOGs collaboration on trying to understand the life and death of post-starburst galaxies.

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Stefano Camera is an Associate Professor at the University of Turin (Italy), where he returned after having been postdoc and research fellow at the High Technical Institute of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and at the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics of The University of Manchester (UK). His research spans various areas of cosmology with surveys of the large-scale structure of the Universe, with a definite predilection for innova

Mohaddesseh Azimlu completed her PhD dissertation on studying star-forming regions at University of Waterloo in 2009. Then continued her research on star formation in other galaxies at Western University in London, Ontario and later joined Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in 2011. She left academia and joined Ontario Public Services in 2015, but continued outreach activities in science and astronomy since then.

Celebrate Dark Matter Day with some Dark Matter Trivia!

Hypothetically speaking, what is believed to account for 85% of matter in the Universe? If you answered, DARK MATTER, then you’re exactly the person we’re looking for! If you didn’t… then join us anyway for a fun evening playing online trivia and pretend like you know the answers!

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Sara Issaoun is an NHFP Einstein Fellow at the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian and a member of the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration. Her research centers around the collection, calibration, and imaging of millimeter-wave radio observations of supermassive black holes.

Emery Trott is a Physics PhD candidate at the University of Michigan advised by Dragan Huterer. Emery is interested in tensions in the LCDM model of the Universe, and is currently working on how gravitational waves can inform us about the Hubble constant.

Dark Siren Gravitational Waves and the Hubble Constant

Jon Carrick is a CFA® charterholder who has focused his career on development finance initiatives across the globe. He is Senior Investment Manager at InfraCo Africa, and has led investments in the water, transport, and power sectors including for renewable grid-tied independent power projects. Jon is a Non-Executive Director for Bboxx, an off-grid service provider who designs, manufactures and sells solar home

It's Almost here: Put it in your Calendars!

Giving Tuesday is an annual tradition of philanthropy happening IN ONE DAY where we all chip in to donate to some worthwhile funds that support our UW science students. All donations made on TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29th, 2022 will be counted towards our one day total!

Ana Ennis is currently a PhD fellow from CONICET, Argentina, who will soon be joining the University of Waterloo as a postdoctoral fellow. Her main research interests are the formation and evolution of galaxies, and she has mainly worked on studying the evolutionary history of early-type galaxies using discrete tracers such as globular clusters and planetary nebulae.

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Dark Matter Trivia

Celebrate Dark Matter Day with some Dark Matter Trivia!

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

Giving Tuesday

It's Almost here: Put it in your Calendars!

Astro Seminar Series - VIA ZOOM

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