University of Toronto Professor Harald Pfeiffer is a recipient of the Ontario government’s Early Researcher Award. Ontario’s Ministry of Economic Development & Innovation made the announcement May 1st, 2014.
The Early Researcher Award recognizes recently appointed, promising scientists in Ontario. The award comes with prize money to help build a team of support, including undergraduat…
“Professor Ue-Li Pen and CAASTRO Partner Investigator [have] now proven their ‘interstellar lens’ can get down to 50 picoarcseconds, or a million times more detail, resolving areas of less than 5km in the emission region.”
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The Royal Astronomical Society sent out a press release based on a paper recently published, which has two CITA National Fellows as co-authors: current National Fellow Jorge Moreno and former National Fellow Else Starkenburg.
Below is press release and t…
CITA and DI are hosting Atacama Large Millimeter Array day (ALMA) on Monday March 17, 2014. There will be
visitors coming from March 13th to March 19th 2014. A few ALMA-related seminars will be given on Monday.
Organizer: Quang Nguyen Luong
All seminars are open for CITA/DI and public in MP1318.
Monday 17 March 2014
11.00 – 12.00 ALMA observatory (Tracey Hill, ALMA…
Jammu, India –
The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh announced Monday that India intends to host the third LIGO detector. The Prime Minister made the announcement as he inaugurated the 101st Indian Science Congress at the University of Jammu on February 3rd, 2014.
“India will partner the international scientific community in the establishment of some of the world’s major R&D…
CASCA recognizes Martin with the 2014 Executive Award for Outstanding Service for his sustained contributions to astronomy in Canada
The Canadian Astronomical Society President Laura Ferrarese made the announcement today with evident pleasure. “For more than four decades, Dr. Martin has been a driving force and steadfast supporter of astronomy in Canada,” she said. “In bestowing t…
CITA announces the 16th Sackler Lecture will be delivered by Joseph Ivor Silk who has done outstanding work to understand the very early universe.
Professor Silk will visit CITA April 21-25, 2014.
His public talk entitled “From Here to Eternity” will be Tue, Apr 22, 2014, 7:30 PM in the Koffler Building, 569 Spadina Avenue, main auditorium, west of CITA offices in McLennan…
The pathfinder or prototype, proof-of-concept for CHIME is well underway. (This is 2/5th of the completed CHIME). “One cylinder is essentially finished, the second is coming along, and we’re about to attach the first set of detectors. We’ve got several months of commissioning ahead of us before the whole thing is assembled and up & running, but things are certainly coming along,”…
Applications are now being accepted here for ISIMA 2014: Gravitational Dynamics
The deadline for graduate students is January 17, 2014
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This year’s program is on Gravitational Dynamics in the formation, evolution and fate of almost all celestial bodies, from asteroids, to planets and stars, galaxies, and clusters of galaxies. The study of gravitational dynamics has been…
In his welcoming speech at the October 18th inauguration of the new Centre for Planetary Science at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Associate Professor Kristen Menou singled out Professor Charles Dyer to thank, as he had been working toward this day for a decade. But Dyer was not there to hear the remarks—he was teaching a class.
The story of the University of…