The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR) supports a number of programs chosen for their high intellectual promise and interdisciplinary character. Several CITA faculty are CIFAR Fellows, Scholars or Associates.

The CIFAR Cosmology and Gravity Program connects CIFAR Fellows, Scholars and Associates at nodes across Canada, with a distinguished group of international Associates and Advisory Board members. The interests of Program members span a broad range of interconnected fields: string theory and quantum gravity, early universe physics, physical cosmology (including observations, theory and phenomenology of the CMB, large scale structure and galaxy formation), computational cosmology, numerical relativity, high energy astrophyics, neutrino astrophyics, and black holes.

The support of CIFAR of the years, and the administrative cooperation between CITA and CIFAR in attracting excellent researchers, has been fundamental to CITA's success -- locally, nationally, and internationally. The Program fields covered and the cross-Canada networking mesh extremely well with the aims of CITA, and the strong interaction between CIFAR Program members, other CITAzens, and visitors make Toronto and Canada a lively place for cosmological and gravitational research.

Cosmology & Gravity Program Members

Program Director:
J. Richard Bond, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Director

Fellows

Dick Bond, University of Toronto
Ray Carlberg, University of Toronto
Matt Choptuik, University of British Columbia
Hugh Couchman, McMaster University
Vicky Kaspi, McGill University
Lev Kofman, University of Toronto
Rob Myers, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Julio Navarro, University of Victoria
Bill Unruh, University of British Columbia

Scholars

Barth Netterfield, University of Toronto
Mark Chen, Queen's University
Amanda Peet, University of Toronto
Ue-Li Pen, University of Toronto

Advisory committee

Roger Blandford, Caltech
Gary Horowitz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Art McDonald, Queen's University, CHAIR
Chris Pritchet, University of Victoria
Paul Steinhardt, Princeton University
Scott Tremaine, Princeton University
Simon White, Max-Planck-Institut for Astrophysik