Dr. Fatemeh Lalegani Dezaki
Toronto Metropolitan University
Friday, August 1, 2025
1:30 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
Explore the night sky with astronomers from the Faculty of Science and Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. The Perseids meteor shower will be at its most spectacular, so let's gather to learn something and then enjoy the view!
This event has been cancelled due to weather, apologies for any inconvenience.
Abhay Pasupathy
Columbia University
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
2:00 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
The first three minutes after the Big Bang shaped the entire history of our Universe. In this month’s KPL astronomy talk, Encieh Erfani will take us on a journey back to these formative moments, exploring how matter, light, and the building blocks of today’s cosmos first emerged, all in just 180 seconds of cosmic history.
On October 4–5, 2025, this two-day hackathon will bring together a diverse community of technologists, scientists, engineers, designers, and storytellers in the Waterloo region to build innovative projects and prototypes that address real-world problems using NASA’s open data.
Marcos Rigol
Pennsylvania State University
Monday, October 20, 2025
2:30 p.m.
In-person: QNC 0101
Cenke Xu
University of California, Santa Barbara
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
2:00 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201
Raffi Budakian
Professor, Physics and Astronomy
Institute for Quantum Computing
University of Waterloo
Monday, October 27, 2025
2:30 p.m.
In-person: QNC 0101
Globular clusters are ancient groups of stars found in every single galaxy, and they are key tools for studying the evolution of the Universe. These dense cosmic cities contain some of the oldest stars in existence, offering us a glimpse back in time.
In this month’s KPL astronomy talk, Ana Ennis will teach us what globular clusters are, how we think they are made, and all the things we can learn from them, from black hole formation to galaxy evolution.
Joseph Maciejko
University of Alberta
Wednesday, November 12, 2025
2:00 p.m.
In-person: QNC 1201