Colloquia and seminars

Université de Montréal  Université Laval  McGill University  Bishop's University

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Regular

Unraveling the mysteries of the early universe: next steps in mm-wavelength detection

Abigail Crites, Cornell University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Regular

Antarctic Tipping Points: How Ice Shelves and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are Shaping Our Sea-Level Future

Karen Alley, University of Manitoba

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Monday, 13 May 2024
Special

Dark Gas and Solid H2 in the Galaxy

Mark Walker, Manly Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill

Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Regular

Exploring the Environments of Young Planetary Systems

Christine Chen, Space Telescope Science Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Regular

The Deep Synoptic Array: results from the first FRB sample

Vikram Ravi, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Regular

Reality Check: The Perils and Promise of Observations to Characterize Small Exoplanets

Johanna Teske, Carnegie

Time : 13:45

Place :	McGill University
	TSI Conference Room

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Regular

Ultra Cold Detectors to Study the Hottest Parts of the Universe

Roger O'Brient, NASA JPL

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Regular

Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles

Anson D?Aloisio, UC Riverside

Time : 13:36

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Regular

Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles

Anson D Aloisio, UC Riverside

Time : 13:36

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Regular

Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles

Anson D'Aloisio, UC Riverside

Time : 13:36

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Regular

Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles

Anson D'Aloisio, UC Riverside

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Regular

The circumgalactic medium: What is it and how does it affect the evolution of galaxies?

Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, Northewestern U.

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Regular

The Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies

Allison Man, UBC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Regular

A New Generation of Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations for Cosmology and Astrophysics

Eve Vavagiakis, Cornell

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Regular

The Galactic Center, Sgr A*, and the Young Stars therein

Sebastiano von Fellenberg, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Regular

Making Sense of the Fast Radio Burst Population

Duncan Lorimer, West Virginia University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Regular

Mapping the Cosmos with the Simons Observatory

Tanay Bhandarkar, University of Pennsylvania

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Regular

Under the Radar: Geophysical investigations of Permafrost, Snow, and Glaciers

Laura Thomson, Queen's University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Regular

Surveying Exoplanet Climates with Space Telescopes

Nicolas Cowan, TSI & McGill Physics/EPS

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Regular

Decoding Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Revolutionary Role of JWST

Luis Welbanks, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Regular

Unveiling the Earliest Galaxies and Super-massive Black Holes with JWST

Steven Finkelstein, UT Austin

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Regular

Gravitational Waves and Primordial Black Holes from Topological Defects in the Early Universe

David Dunsky, NYU

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Special

Drone Beammapping Methods for 21cm Cosmology Experiments

Will Tyndall, Yale University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Regular

Modelling high redshift structure formation and reionization

Rahul Kannan, York University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Regular

When and where does star formation stop? Stellar Mass Assembly and Quenching in Galaxies across Cosmic Time

Gourav Khullar, University of Pittsburgh

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Monday, 30 October 2023
Regular

Super-Earth Formation: The View From Resonant Planets

Nick Choksi, UC Berkeley

Time : 18:13

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 26 October 2023
Special

Radio Astronomy in Africa: From the Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT) to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

Radhakrishna Somanah, Université des Mascareignes (Mauritius)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Trottier Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Special

Impact of HWP systematics on the measured CMB polarization

Marta Monelli, Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Regular

Neutrinos from the Galaxy and beyond: astrophysics with IceCube

Justin Vandenbrouke, WIPAC/UW-Madison

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Regular

Astrophysical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Jets: Observations, Theory and Simulations

Rachid Ouyed, University of Calgary

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Regular

Inelastic Dark Matter Through The Ages

Saniya Heeba, TSI & McGill Physics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Regular

Tracing Extreme Events from the Ocean to the Surface of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Rajashree Tri Datta, CU Boulder

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 21 September 2023
Special

Integral Field Spectroscopy in Galaxies

Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Instituto de Astronomia Universidad Nacional AutC3moma de MC)xico

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Trottier Space Institute (3550 University)

Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Regular

Probing the Invisible: Weighing Supermassive Black Holes

Martin Bureau, Oxford University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Monday, 17 July 2023
Special

News from Indirect Dark Matter Searches

Aion Viana, Universidade de Sao Paulo

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Special

Radio exploration of the transient sky: Binary mergers and peculiar core-collapse supernovae

Dr. Arvind Balasubramanian, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	TSI Conference room

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Special

Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time

Jason Hessels, University of Amsterdam & ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Regular

A Case for Canadian Divestment from the Thirty Meter Telescope at Mauna Kea

Uahikea Maile, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Regular

Pulsar Science with CHIME

Chia Min Tan, TSI & McGill Physics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Regular

Seismological Investigations of West Antarctica: From Mantle Structure to Icequakes

Erica Lucas, TSI

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Board Room (Rutherford Physics Building)

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Regular

Paving the Way for Future Space Telescopes with Theory and Simulations

Aaron Yung, Goddard Space Flight Center

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Regular

Stellar Clusters as the Nurseries of Black Holes

Sebastian Kamann, Liverpool John Moores University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Regular

Exo-Jupiters: The Movers and Shakers of Planetary Systems

Marta Bryan, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Regular

Astronomical spectrographs on a chip - Getting ready for the next-generation telescopes

Pradip Gatkine, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Regular

Toward precision cosmology with the Lya forest: theoretical modeling with hydrodynamical simulations

Solene Chabanier, LBNL

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Regular

X-ray flares from the nuclei of low-mass galaxies

Riccardo Arcodia, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Regular

Gravitational attraction: dynamically enhanced formation of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters

Claire Ye, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Regular

White dwarfs as astrophysical probes: From planetary systems to magnetic fields

Christopher Manser, Imperial College London

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Regular

Testing Fundamental Physics with the Event Horizon Telescope

Lia Medeiros, IAS

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Monday, 30 January 2023
Special

The Final Fates of Stars

Tyrone Woods, NRC

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Trottier Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Regular

Connecting astrophysical observations and dark matter microphysics using neural simulation-based inference

Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Regular

Lightning and Thunder: Probing the Dynamic Universe using Multiple Messengers

Ben Margalit, UC Berkeley

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Regular

The atomic interstellar medium's role in the star formation lifecycle: a sharpened view of nearby galaxies from LGLBS and PHANGS-JWST

Eric Koch, CfA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Regular

The MWA Long Baseline Epoch of Reionsation Survey: Improvements in the MWA EoR0 field

Christene Lynch, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Regular

Counting stars: who's work in space science counts according to science communication

Eleanor Armstrong, Stockholm University (Sweden)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Regular

Recent developments in instruments for high redshift 21cm and exoplanets

Daniel Jacobs, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernert Rutherford Physics, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Regular

Insights from the Orbital Architectures of Planetary Systems

Malena Rice, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 1 November 2022
Regular

Dark Matter Searches with Celestial Bodies

Rebecca Leane, SLAC/Stanford KIPAC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Regular

Illuminating the Young Universe Through mm-wave Observations and Beyond

Nicholas Huang, Berkeley

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Regular

The Search for Life on Mars: Challenges and Opportunities in Current and Future Mars Exploration

Amy Williams, University of Florida Gainesville

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Regular

Ironing out Life?s First Breaths

Jennifer Glass, Georgia Tech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernert Rutherford Physics, R.E. Bell Conference Room (103)

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Regular

Challenges to space sustainability: Space weapons

Aaron Boley, UBC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernert Rutherford Physics, R.E. Bell Conference Room (103)

Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Regular

X-ray Population Studies with eROSITA - from supermassive black holes to the circumgalactic medium

Urmila Chadayammuri, CfA (Harvard & Smithsonian)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Regular

To the Frontiers of Cosmic Origins - From First Black Holes to Latest Planets

Jonathan Tan, Chalmers University & University of Virginia

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference room (room 103)/Zoom

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Regular

Investigating Traditional Radio Astronomy Techniques in the Context of the Epoch of Reionization

Nichole Barry, Curtin University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Special

Investigating Local Environments of Fast Radio Bursts

Alexandra Mannings, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University, Conference Room / Tele-seminar)

Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Special

An algebraic approach for recovering an unknown timing solution from a list of TOAs

Barak Zackay, Weizmann Institute

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University, Conference Room / Tele-seminar)

Monday, 25 July 2022
Special

Precision Calibration for 21 cm Cosmology

Ruby Byrne, Caltech

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University, Conference Room / Tele-seminar)

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Regular

Immediate observational access to the post-merger environment of a neutron star collision

Aaron Tohuvavohu, University of Toronto

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University, Conference Room / Tele-seminar)

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Regular

A Stimulating Explanation of the Extragalactic Radio Excess

Hongwan Liu, NYU

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Regular

Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars

Carl Fields, LANL

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Regular

Cosmological probe combination for current and future surveys

Andrina Nicola, Princeton University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Regular

Exoplanet Legacy: Population Trends from Phase Curve Observations

Erin May, John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Regular

A broad-band X-ray view of accretion disks around neutron stars

McKinley Brumback, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Regular

Understanding Planetary Evolution with TESS

Joey Rodriguez, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Regular

Searching for extreme hadronic accelerators in our Universe with multi-messenger observations

Nahee Park, Queen's University

Time : 13:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Regular

Brown Dwarf Radio Emission: A Window into Substellar Magnetospheres

Melodie Kao, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Regular

Drone Calibration for 21cm Experiments

Emily Kuhn, Yale University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Regular

Space microbiology: microbial interactions in extremes and their uses

Charles Cockell, University of Edinburgh

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Regular

Halo-Bar Coupling: How Dark Matter Defines Galaxies

Angela Collier, University of Colorado Boulder

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Regular

Quasi periodic oscillations from a transient ULX in M 101

Ryan Urquhart, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Regular

Cosmology with the Next Generation of Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments

Johanna Nagy, Washington University in St. Louis

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Regular

New ideas for the axion dark matter program

Nick Rodd, CERN

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Regular

The Dark Side Of Distant Massive Galaxies, And New Light With JWST

Christina Williams, University of Arizona

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Regular

Dust in the Wind: New Instabilities Across Astrophysical Systems

Phil Hopkins, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Regular

The atomic gas mass of galaxies during the epoch of galaxy assembly

Nissim Kanekar, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Regular

Tracing the building blocks of planet formation through protoplanetary discs

James Owen, Imperial College London

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Regular

Constraining the history of reionization with quasar absorption lines

Laura Keating, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Regular

Modelling stellar cluster populations alongside their host galaxies in a cosmic environment

Marta Reina-Campos, McMaster University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Regular

Planets are Places: Characterization of Other Worlds in the 2020s and Beyond

Laura Kreidberg, MPIA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Regular

Small Circumbinary Planets: Do They Exist And How Do We Find Them?

David Martin, Ohio State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Regular

An ultra-long period magnetar with periodic radio emission

Natasha Hurley-Walker, Curtin University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Regular

Gravitational Wave Sources at the Hearts of Galaxies

Smadar Naoz , UCLA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSQK9l4T2Cs

Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Regular

A Predictive Theory of Star Formation and Turbulence Driving Across Cosmic Time

Blakesley Burkhart, Rutgers University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 6 April 2021
Regular

Using Gravitational Lensing to Dissect Galaxies

Jane Rigby, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Regular

The Emerging 5.0 Era: Law, Governance and Ethics at the Frontier

Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Regular

The Emerging 5.0 Era: Law, Governance and Ethics at the Frontier

Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Regular

Dissecting Galaxies in High-redshift Galaxy Clusters

Allison Noble, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Regular

Constraining the composition of exoplanetary material using white dwarf stars

Amy Steele, Space Telescope Science Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Regular

Using Earth Rotation to Detect Climate Change

Jerry X. Mitrovica, Harvard University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Regular

Protoplanetary Disks and Clouds in Substellar Atmospheres: Insights from Microphysics

Diana Powell, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Regular

Fast Transient Discoveries with realfast at the VLA

Casey Law, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 26 January 2021
Regular

Application of Machine Learning to Identify Stellar Feedback

Duo Xu, University of Texas, Austin

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Regular

From Be/X-ray transients at low X-ray luminosity to bright unusual short gamma-ray bursts

Alicia Rouco Escorial, Northwestern University (Ciera)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Regular

Compact Object Mergers in the Gravitational Wave Era

Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 5 January 2021
Regular

Probing the particle nature of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing

Yashar Hezaveh, Université de Montréal

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Regular

À venir

Sarah Sadavoy, Queen's University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Regular

Small glitches and timing noise

Cristobal Espinoza, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Regular

The Discovery of Organic Matter Preserved in 3-Billion-Year-Old Lacustrine Mudstones at Gale Crater, Mars and its Astrobiological Implications

Jennifer Eigenbrode, NASA/GSFC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Regular

Optical systematics in next generation CMB experiments

Jon Gudmundsson, Stockholm University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 3 November 2020
Regular

From Grains to Landscapes: Reconstructing Martian Environments at Multiple Scales

Frances Rivera-Hernandez, Dartmouth College

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Regular

Line Intensity Mapping: Modeling & Analysis in the Precision Era

Anthony Pullen, NYU

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Regular

Prospects and Progress in Radio Searches for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos

Stephanie Wissel, Penn State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Regular

The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5): Overview and Latest Science Results

Ting Li, Princeton University & Carnegie Observatories

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Friday, 2 October 2020
Special

Listening for gravitational waves above the quantum din

Nergis Mavalvala, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 1 October 2020
Conférence publique

Gravitational waves: a new window to the Universe

Nergis Mavalvala, MIT

Time : 18:30

Place :	McGill University
	Diffusion en direct : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmnq65MjKk

Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Regular

A Unified Understanding of Fast Radio Bursts

Wenbin Lu, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom: URL: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/92574500164?pwd=WTVWU3hPQ0NZZFFhT25aNERTOTlMZz09 Meeting ID: 925 7450 0164 Passcode: 230063

Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Regular

The Size, Shape, and Scattering of the Black Hole Sagittarius A*

Sara Issaoun, Radboud University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Regular

Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves

Will Farr, SUNY Stony Brook

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Regular

Astrophysics with the NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array

Michael Lam, Rochester Institute of Technology

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Boardroom (room 105)

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Special

Multiwavelength Studies of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in Extragalactic Globular Clusters

Kristen Dage, Michigan State University

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Boardroom (room 105)

Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Regular

Detecting Signs of Life and its Origin on Other Planets

Laurie Barge, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Monday, 10 February 2020
Special

Fast radio burst updates from the Apertif telescope

Emily Petroff, University of Amsterdam

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 4 February 2020
Regular

Measuring the Epoch of Reionization with Line Intensity Mapping using TIME

Abby Crites, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Regular

Mass ejection, compact objects, and electromagnetic transients

Rodrigo Fernandez, University of Alberta

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Regular

The CMB as a backlight

Alex von Engelen, CITA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Regular

Lunar geochemical and Galactic astronomy X-ray observations with Apollo 15 and 16

Erik Kuulkers, ESA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 7 January 2020
Regular

À venir

Laurence Levasseur, Université de Montréal

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Regular

From ice crystals to ice caps, the climate of Mars as seen at the poles

Isaac Smith, York University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Regular

Quantifying the rate of dual-AGN with BAYMAX

Adi Foord, University of Michigan

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 12 November 2019
Regular

The Mystery of Methane on Mars: Fact, Folly or Figment?

John Moores, York University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Regular

The Magnetic Interstellar Medium in Three Dimensions

Susan Clark, IAS

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Regular

The rivers and seas of Titan

Taylor Perron, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Regular

Studying Star Formation from the Stratosphere

Laura Fissel, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Regular

Deciphering the Engines of Fast Radio Bursts

Brian Metzger, Columbia University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Boardroom (room 105)

Tuesday, 1 October 2019
Regular

General Relativity Stands Alone?

Christopher Smeenk, Western University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Regular

Probing Inhomogeneous Reionization with Lyman alpha Surveys: From the ground to WFIRST

James Rhoads, NASA Goddard

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Regular

Origin of volatiles in Earth's mantle

Curtis Williams, UC Davis

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 10 September 2019
Regular

Relativistic Jets from Weakly Accreting Black Holes

Richard Plotkin, University of Nevada - Reno

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 3 September 2019
Special

Navigating the new epoch of FRB discovery

Liam Connor, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy University of Amsterdam

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 18 July 2019
Special

Targeted Searches for FRBs Using the EVN

Kenzie Nimmo, University of Amsterdam

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Lounge

Friday, 28 June 2019
Special

CLASS: Large Angular Scale cosmology from the ground

Ivan Padilla, John Hopkins University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Lounge

Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Special

Mapping the Baryonic Universe: From Reionization to Present-Day Galaxies

Hamsa Padmanabhan, CITA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Special

The Event Horizon Telescope - Seeing the Unseeable

Shep Doeleman, Harvard Center for Astrophysics & Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	McConnell Engineering Building, room 304

Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Special

The Event Horizon Telescope - Seeing the Unseeable

Shep Doeleman, Harvard Center for Astrophysics & Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	McConnell Engineering Building, room 304

Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Regular

Radiation mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts

Pawan Kumar, University of Texas at Austin

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Regular

What's on the menu? Investigating the selective diet of microbes using novel isotopic tools

Nagissa Mahmoudi , McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 4 April 2019
Special

Self-Induced Irradiation Cycles in Neutron Star Binaries

Lorne Nelson, Bishop's University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Regular

Blast from the Past: The Evolution of Ultraviolet Emission and Flaring from Low-Mass Stars and its Implications for Habitable Zone Planets

Evgenya Shkolnik , Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Regular

Constraining the Past and Present Distant Solar System with Real +and Simulated Trans-Neptunian Objects

Nathan Kaib , University of Oklahoma

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Regular

Modelling Low Mach Number Astrophysical Flows

Alice Harpole , Stony Brook University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Regular

Opportunities for Applications of Deep Learning in Cosmology

Siamak Ravanbakhsh, University of British Columbia

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Special

Probing the Radio-Transient Universe with CHIME

Emmanuel Fonseca, Seth Siegel & Shriharsh Tendulkar, McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Regular

New Directions in Galaxy Formation and Cosmology Following the EDGES 78 MHz Detection

Jordan Mirocha, McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Regular

Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Regular

Studying Planetary Lithospheres Using Modern Localization Methods

Frederik J. Simons, Princeton University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Regular

The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM)

James Aguirre, University of Pennsylvania

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 8 January 2019
Special

Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies

Robyn Sanderson, University of Pennsylvania

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Special

An Absorption Feature in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum

Raul Monsalve, McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	MSI (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Regular

Mapping Matter in Strong Gravity: Spectral-Timing of Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Abigail Stevens, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Regular

Planet 9 or Planet Nein? Discoveries in the Outer Solar System

Samantha Lawler, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Friday, 23 November 2018
Special

Explosions in Binaries: Widowed Stars and Consequences for GW Astronomy

Mathieu Renzo, University of Amsterdam

Time : 13:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Regular

Studying the sensitivities of multimessenger signals from populations of core-collapse supernovae

MacKenzie Warren, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Special

Reconstructing complex pulsar scattering environments with global VLBI

Dana Simard, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 6 November 2018
Regular

The Importance of Being Eccentric

Ann-Marie Madigan, University of Colorado Boulder

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 30 October 2018
Regular

What Can Galaxies Tell Us About Reionization?

Charlotte Mason, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 23 October 2018
Regular

Planetary Materials: Recorders of the Formation of the Solar System and Planets

Audrey Bouvier, University of Western Ontario

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 18 October 2018
Special

Recent Advances In Computational cosmology

Romain Teyssier, University of Zurich

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 16 October 2018
Regular

Looking for Dark Matter off the Beaten Track

Cora Dvorkin , Harvard University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 9 October 2018
Regular

Observing the Early Universe with 21 cm Cosmology

Jonathan Pober, Brown University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 2 October 2018
Regular

Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?

Simeon Bird, UC Riverside

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 25 September 2018
Regular

Mars as a case study of an intermittently habitable planet

Robin Wordsworth, Harvard University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 18 September 2018
Regular

Automated Physics Recovery from Galaxy Observations

Peter Behroozi, University of Arizona

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 13 September 2018
Special

What XMM X-ray and Arecibo Radio Observations of Pulsar B0823+26 Have to Teach Us

Joanna Rankin, University of Vermont

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Special

The Missing Members of Nearby Young Associations

Jonathan Gagné, Université de Montréal (iREx)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Wednesday, 4 July 2018
Special

Resolving the Origins of the Soft X-ray Background: A Spectral Approach

Dallas Wulf, University of Wisconsin

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 10 April 2018
Regular

Formation of the lunar fossil bulges and its implication for the early Earth and Moon

Shijie Zhong, University of Colorado Boulder

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 3 April 2018
Regular

Direct Imaging of Extrasolar Planets

Bruce Macintosh, Stanford University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Regular

Hazes and Clouds in Cold and Hot Planetary Atmospheres

Xi Zhang, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 20 March 2018
Regular

Modelling Superfluid Neutron Stars

Vanessa Graber, McGill Space Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 13 March 2018
Regular

Robots Under the Ice, and One Day, In Space?

Britney Schmidt, Georgia Tech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Regular

Winds of Change Around Black Holes

Greg Sivakoff, University of Alberta

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 20 February 2018
Regular

What are the thousands of X-ray emitting point sources in the center of the Milky Way?

Kaya Mori, Columbia University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 13 February 2018
Regular

Obscured and reddened quasars at the peak of galaxy formation: searching for multi-scale quasar winds

Rachael Alexandroff, Dunlap/CITA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 6 February 2018
Regular

The Molecular Origins of Life

Maikel Rheinstädter, McMaster University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 30 January 2018
Regular

Status Report on Observational 21cm Cosmology

Lincoln Greenhill, Harvard/SAO/CfA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Friday, 26 January 2018
Special

Unleashing the full potential of direct imaging of exoplanetary systems

Élodie Choquet, Caltech/JPL

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 25 January 2018
Special

Planets Close-in and Far-out

Eve Lee, Caltech

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 25 January 2018
Special

Foregrounds in 21 cm Cosmology: All-Sky Maps of the VHF Radio Sky from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA)

Michael Eastwood, Caltech

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 23 January 2018
Regular

Juno's first year at Jupiter

Yohai Kaspi, Weizmann Institute of Science

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Monday, 22 January 2018
Special

Making the Most of Exoplanet Searches

Ben Montet, University of Chicago

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 18 January 2018
Special

The Cosmology Large Angular Scale Surveyor (CLASS)

Katie Harrington, John Hopkins

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Special

Probing Space and Time in Exoplanet Atmospheres

Nikole Lewis, STScI

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Wednesday, 17 January 2018
Special

Observational Properties of Simulated Galaxies: Computational Cosmology as Seen through a Telescope

Connor Bottrell, University of Victoria

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 16 January 2018
Special

Directly Imaging Exoplanetary Systems: What have we learned and where are we going?

Max Millar-Blanchaer, JPL

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Monday, 15 January 2018
Special

Atmosphere-Mantle feedbacks: importance of mantle oxidation state

Laura Schaefer , Arizona State University

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 9 January 2018
Regular

Astromaterials in Accreting Neutron Stars

Matthew Caplan, McGill Space Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Regular

Setting Stellar Chronometers: The PTF(+) Open Cluster Survey

Marcel Agueros, Columbia University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 21 November 2017
Regular

Gravitational-Wave Discoveries Driving the Promise of Multi-Messenger Astronomy

Vassiliki Kalogera, Northwestern University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 14 November 2017
Regular

Our Crowded X-ray Galactic Center

Melania Nynka, McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 7 November 2017
Regular

Doors left ajar in storms: Insights into atmospheric planetary science

John Moores, York University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 31 October 2017
Regular

Autonomous and robotic observations of the Arctic sea ice and the associated ecosystem

Christian Katlein, Alfred Wegener Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Wednesday, 25 October 2017
Special

Strong field tests of gravity with PSR J1141-6545

Vivek V. Krishnan, University in Melbourne

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 24 October 2017
Regular

High-energy X-rays from the Galactic Center: “zombie stars” and particle physics

Kerstin Perez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Regular

Multi-messenger monsters!

Sarah Burke-Spolaor, West Virginia University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 10 October 2017
Regular

Pushing Down and Out: Characterizing hot Jupiters in detail and expanding into new regimes

Emily Rauscher, University of Michigan

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 3 October 2017
Regular

Using High-Mass X-ray Binaries to Probe Massive Binary Evolution

Kristen Garofali, University of Washington

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 26 September 2017
Regular

Fade to Black: The Origin and Utility of Changing-Look Quasars

John Ruan , McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 19 September 2017
Regular

Observing the Dynamics of Accretion Disks Around Supermassive Black Holes in Quasars

Mike Eracleous, Pennsylvania State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Boardroom (room 105)

Friday, 16 June 2017
Special

Probing Dark Energy with the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)

Richard Shaw, Department of Physics & Astronomy UBC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Monday, 12 June 2017
Special

How to add, how to subtract, and how to de-speckle

Eran Ofek, Weizmann Institute of Science

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 4 April 2017
Regular

Digging into the Large Scale Structure: From the galaxies to the cosmic web

Shirley Ho, Carnegie Mellon University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 28 March 2017
Regular

Exotic Climates on Exo-Earths

Kristen Menou, University of Toronto, Scarborough

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 21 March 2017
Regular

Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Electromagnetic Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Sources

Edo Berger, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 14 March 2017
Regular

A Story of Stellar Nurseries

Nia Imara, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Friday, 10 March 2017
Special

Observation of the merger of binary black holes: The opening of gravitational wave astronomy

Rainer Weiss, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)

Tuesday, 7 March 2017
Regular

A search for primordial gravitational waves, and measurements of gravitational lensing from near space

William Jones, Princeton University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Friday, 24 February 2017
Regular

Deep Earth volatile inventories and the formation of the Moon

Rita Parai, Washington University in St. Louis

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Redpath Museum

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 14 February 2017
Regular

The Puzzles of Very Faint X-ray Transients

Craig Heinke, University of Alberta

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Thursday, 2 February 2017
Special

The Crab Nebula: The Inner Knot and flares

Maxim Lyutikov, Purdue University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Wednesday, 1 February 2017
Special

Mapping the Birth and Growth of the Universe

Jonathan Sievers, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 31 January 2017
Regular

Frontiers in Massive Stellar Death

Sean Couch, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 24 January 2017
Regular

Looking At Super-Earths Through Their Atmospheres

Diana Dragomir, MIT Kavli Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 17 January 2017
Regular

The Hidden Monsters: New Windows on the Cosmic Evolution of Supermassive Black Holes

Ryan Hickox, Dartmouth College

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 10 January 2017
Regular

Small Scale Structure of the Universe as seen by pulsars and FRBs

Ue-Li Pen, CITA, University of Toronto & Perimeter Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Regular

Intermediate-mass black holes in globular clusters - Observations and Simulations

Nora Lützgendorf , ESA/STScI

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 22 November 2016
Regular

Dust and water ice in the Martian atmosphere

Christopher Lee, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	MSI (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 15 November 2016
Regular

The Enigmatic Lambda Boötis Stars

Chris Corbally , Vatican Observatory

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 8 November 2016
Regular

CMB Lensing: Fundamental Physics from Maps of the Invisible

Blake Sherwin, University of California, Berkeley

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	MSI (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Regular

Galaxy Cluster Evolution over the Past 10 Billion Years

Michael McDonald , MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 25 October 2016
Regular

Packing for Mars: Integrating biomarker and exploration field science in Earth analogue environments

ALLYSON BRADY, MCMASTER UNIVERSITY

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	MSI (3550 University), Conference Room

Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Special

Observing Exoplanet Atmospheres

Lisa Esteves, University of Toronto

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Tuesday, 18 October 2016
Regular

I'm from the government and I'm here to help

David Loop , NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 11 October 2016
Regular

Breaking Through Exoplanetary Atmospheres

Mercedes Lopez-Morales, CfA/Smithsonian

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	MSI (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 4 October 2016
Regular

From Plasma Physics on Stars to Space Weather on Other Worlds: Why We Need to Understand Stars to Find the Next Earth

Rachel Osten , Space Telescope Science Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 27 September 2016
Regular

From Pixels to Planets: A history of transiting extrasolar planets and first hand account of the Kepler Mission

Jason Rowe, Université de Montréal

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	MSI (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 20 September 2016
Regular

Cosmology and Astrophysics from Combined Probes

Joachim Harnois-Déraps, Institute for Astronomy, University of Edinburgh

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 13 September 2016
Regular

Defining and reaching outreach audiences on a budget

Michael Reid, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Kelly Lepo

Friday, 29 July 2016
Special

Development of instrumentation for Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB measurements with the SPT-3G and CMB Stage-4 experiments

Ritoban Thakur, University of Chicago

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 31 May 2016
Special

The Gravitational-Wave Universe seen by Pulsar Timing Arrays

Chiara Mingarelli, California Institute of Technology

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Special

Where and how were the heaviest nuclei produced?

Maxime Brodeur, Notre Dame University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Friday, 13 May 2016
Special

The measurement of stellar masses in = 0.5 galaxies using the micro-lensing of quasars

Paul Schechter, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 12 April 2016
Regular

Understanding the Long-term Optical/Near-Infrared Color Variability in Fermi Blazars

Jedidah Isler, Vanderbilt University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 5 April 2016
Regular

Lessons from the past: Synthetic biology and experimental evolution for space exploration

Betul Kacar, Harvard University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 29 March 2016
Regular

All the X-ray binaries in the Universe: X-ray Emission from Normal and Starburst Galaxies Near and Far

Ann Hornschemeier, Goddard Space Flight Center

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 22 March 2016
Regular

À venir

Aomawa Shields, University of California, Los Angeles

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 15 March 2016
Regular

AGN feedback in Clusters of Galaxies

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo , Université de Montréal

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 8 March 2016
Regular

The Role of Space Law in Space Activities

Ram Jakhu , Centre for Research of Air and Space Law, McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 23 February 2016
Regular

Searching for Gravitational Waves with Advanced LIGO

Ben Farr, University of Chicago

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 16 February 2016
Regular

Planetary Dynamos: The Curious Case of Saturn

Sabine Stanley , University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 9 February 2016
Regular

Yesterday, today and tomorrow: CMB cosmology with ACT, Planck and ACTPol

Renee Hlozek , University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 26 January 2016
Regular

Kepler, K2, and TESS - Space-based asteroseismology

Steve Kawaler, Iowa State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 12 January 2016
Regular

Growing black holes: from the first seeds to active galactic nuclei

Mar Mezcua, Université de Montréal

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Regular

Mapping dark matter on the largest and smallest scales

Gil Holder, McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 19 November 2015
Special

New Probes of Large-scale CMB Anomalies

Simone Aiola, University of Pittsburgh

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 18 November 2015
Special

Mysterious Magnetars: Maximum Stars

Vikram Soni, Centre for Theoretical Physics, New Delhi

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 10 November 2015
Regular

The habitable zone as seen through the atmosphere

Colin Goldblatt, University of Victoria

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 29 October 2015
Special

Subhalos in the real Universe: satellite galaxy-galaxy lensing

Cristobal Sifon, Leiden University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 27 October 2015
Regular

The Palomar (non)Transient Factory: Teaching an old dog new tricks

Thomas Prince, California Institute of Technology

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 13 October 2015
Regular

Long-term Integrations of the Solar System

Hanno Rein, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 1 October 2015
Special

Cross correlations with CMB secondaries: constraining cosmological parameters and cluster astrophysics

Nick Battaglia, Princeton

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 29 September 2015
Regular

Chasing proto-planetary disks and high-z galaxies with the LMT

James Lowenthal, Smith College

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 30 July 2015
Special

On Spiders and Binary Pulsars

René Breton, University of Manchester

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 30 April 2015
Special

High energy neutrino astronomy at the South Pole: Status and prospects

Hagar Landsman, Weizmann Institute

Time : 11:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 22 April 2015
Special

A comprehensive look at a mysterious X-ray binary

Tullio Bagnoli, University of Amsterdam

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 21 April 2015
Special

Pulsar Timing Arrays: a tool for astrophysics and cosmology

Chiara Mingarelli, Caltech

Time : 13:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 16 April 2015
Special

Systems in transition from X-ray binary to millisecond pulsar

Anne Archibald, ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for Astronomy

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 15 April 2015
Special

PSR J0337+1715: pulsar timing reveals all

Anne Archibald, ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for Astronomy

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 9 April 2015
Regular

From precision to accuracy: cosmology with large imaging surveys

Hiranya Peiris, University College London

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 31 March 2015
Regular

N/A

Bryan Gaensler, University of Toronto / Dunlap

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 24 March 2015
Regular

Heavy element synthesis in the Universe

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UCSC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Special

CMB polarimetry with BICEP/Keck Array

Grant Teply, Caltech

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 10 March 2015
Regular

Triumphs and tribulations of near-field cosmology with wide-field surveys: a biased perspective

Beth Willman, Haverford

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledga

Tuesday, 24 February 2015
Regular

Precise Radial Velocities for the Future of Exoplanet Detection

Jason Wright, Penn State

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 29 January 2015
Regular

Multiwavelength Analysis of Galaxy Clusters

Seth Siegel, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 22 January 2015
Special

The NANOGrav PTA Experiment: Overview and Developments

Tim Pennucci, University of Virginia

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 13 January 2015
Regular

Searches for Dark-Matter Axions

Leslie Rosenberg, Washington

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 2 December 2014
Regular

First Results from the Planck Full-Mission Dataset

Kendrick Smith, Perimeter Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Regular

Galaxy mergers in the nearby universe

Sara Ellison, University of Victoria

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Monday, 24 November 2014
Special

The 21-cm line as a new probe of magnetic fields in the pre-reionization epoch

Teja Venumadhav, Caltech

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	3550 University, Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 18 November 2014
Regular

Blasting an accretion disk with X-ray superbursts from neutron stars

Laurens Keek, Georgia Institute of Technology

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 11 November 2014
Regular

The Connection between Planets and White Dwarf Stars

Gilles Fontaine, Université de Montréal

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Gilles Fontaine

Tuesday, 4 November 2014
Regular

Uncovering the Nature of Inflation

Dan Green, CITA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 23 October 2014
Special

Digging for buried quasars with WISE and Planck

Michael DiPompeo, University of Wyoming

Time : 13:00

Place :	McGill University
	3550 University, Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 14 October 2014
Regular

Astrobiology and the Search for Little Green Bugs on Other Very Cold Worlds

Lyle White, McGill / Natural Resource Sciences

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	3550 University, Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 30 September 2014
Regular

Galaxy Clusters and Cosmology with MUSTANG on the Green Bank Telescope

Mark Devlin, University of Pennsylvania

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Special

Gravitational lensing of CMB polarization with SPTpol

Kyle Story, University of Chicago

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	3550 University, Conference Room

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Friday, 5 September 2014
Special

Evolution of circumstellar disks and planet formation

Wladimir Lyra, Caltech

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 20 August 2014
Special

Planck Polarization Data

Jean-Loup Puget, Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Special

Dynamical Studies and Strong-field Tests using Radio Pulsars

Emmanuel Fonseca, University of British Columbia

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge