CITA and Perimeter Institute gathered for CITA + PI Day on Friday May 19, 2023. These gatherings aim to foster interaction, collaboration, and sharing of new ideas in our common fields of interest through a series of informal talks followed by discussion.
CITA + PI Days are 1-day workshops that bring together students, postdocs, and faculty from CITA, the Perimeter Institute, and other…
CITA and the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics are excited to be welcoming Dr. Sara Seager to campus on June 15th and 16th to accept an honorary doctorate and meet with our students. Dr. Seager is an expert in the field of exoplanets. She completed her undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Physics at UofT before pursing graduate work at Harvard. Dr. Seager is currently a…
Science reporter for the Globe and Mail, Ivan Seminiuk, met with Juna Kollmeier, CITA Director, last week to discuss her initiative to tackle global issues and ambitions for the School of Cosmic Future.
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Researchers from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) collaboration have submitted a set of papers to the Astrophysical Journal, featuring a groundbreaking new map of dark matter distributed across a quarter of the entire sky and extending deep into the cosmos.
The result confirms Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity which predicts how…
Faculty and Postdocs join to form CITA’s membership to this esteemed collaboration
Collaboration and discovery go hand in hand at the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC). Working with the Virgo and KAGRA observatories – together forming the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration –, the group represents 4 observatories, 19 countries, 127 institutions, and over 1400 researchers. This scale is…
CITA is in the midst of welcoming three new faculty, a first in our history. This is an exciting moment for us as our new faculty broaden the expertise at CITA and expand the work that we do. From gravitational wave astronomy and cosmology to plasma physics, these three CITAzens are asking new questions about the universe and discovering novel ways to answer them. Welcome Profs. Maya Fischbach,…
Professor Dick Bond was featured in Curt Jaimungal’s Theories of Everything on February 1st. Watch Bond discuss multiverse, Hubble Tension, and dark…
A cross-Canada collaboration including the University of Toronto has won the prestigious Brockhouse Canada Prize for Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Engineering from the National Science and Engineering Research Council (NSERC).
The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is a groundbreaking radio telescope — one of the most novel and…
The CITA National Jamboree is an annual event with short presentations from all CITA faculty, postdocs, and grad students describing their research. It is an opportunity for incoming postdocs and students and anyone who wants to learn more about CITA and the research done here.
Tuesday, October 4, 2022 @12-5pm EST (in-person/zoom)
McLennan Physical Laboratories (MP) 1318A
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