The Jamboree is an annual gathering of the CITA community from all over Canada, which provides an opportunity for new members to share their research with everyone. This year’s Jamboree will include a series of short informal presentations, social events, contributed talks and discussion.
Schedule of Events:
Virtual presenters are denoted with an asterisk…
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The CITA mentorship committee is once again hosting a Job App Hackathon! The CITA Job App Hackathon is an opportunity to prepare job application materials and get feedback from peers and mentors, including several CITA, Dunlap, and Physics faculty. In addition to co-writing sessions in the morning and afternoon, attendees will be able to sign-up for short one-on-one meetings wit…
CITA extends a warm welcome to our incoming Fellows and National Fellows. In September, we will be joined by four Fellows at our flagship at the University of Toronto and two national fellows at McGill University and the University of Victoria. We are committed to providing post-doctoral training for early career researchers in the field of Theoretical Astrophysics and are excited about t…
By Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
In June the International Astronomical Union [IAU] announced the 2024 winners of three IAU prizes – the IAU Astronomy Outreach Prize, the IAU Astronomy Development Prize, and the IAU Astronomy Education Prize. The three awards recognize individuals and organizations who have made outstanding contributions to the fields of…
Today the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration released information on one of the events detected during its current fourth observing run – a gravitational-wave signal from the collision of what is most likely a neutron star with a compact object that is 2.5 to 4.5 times the mass of our Sun. What makes this signal, called GW230529, intriguing is the mass of the heavier object. It falls within a…
By Milan P. Ilnyckyj, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Research published in Nature by CITA National Fellow Simon Blouin grants new understanding of delayed white dwarfs.
Your astronomy textbook might describe white dwarfs as the cool and comparatively uninteresting remnants of dead stars. This perspective is challenged by the previously unexplained existence of delayed whit…
By: Lyuba Encheva, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
Assistant Professor Maya Fishback, one of the newest additions to the faculty of the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, has been awarded the 2023 John Charles Polanyi Prize for “excellence and potential of research in Physics”. The prestigious honour recognises Fishbach’s pioneering research as…
February 20, 2024 by A&S News
Two researchers from the Faculty of Arts & Science have been awarded prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Maya Fishbach is an assistant professor with the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) whose gravitational wave research is helping revolutionize our understanding of stellar evolution, t…
By Lyuba Encheva, Communications and Events, CITA
CITA faculty Bart Ripperda and postdoctoral fellow Gibwa Musoke have been awarded 250,000 computing hours at Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) for research on processes that power the extremely bright emissions that we see from neutron stars. The research project, which is a collaboration between CITA, University of Maryland,…
Recent deep imaging data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows a spectacular panoramic view of the Pandora Cluster, a remote, giant cluster of galaxies located 3.5 billion years ago. Marta Reina-Campos, who did this work while a CITA National Fellow based at McMaster, and William Harris, a McMaster emeritus professor, combined forces to analyse the exceptionally deep space images…