CITA Jamboree 2025
You are kindly invited to this year’s CITA National Jamboree meeting, scheduled on October 2-3! 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, a poster session, as well as social events.
Dates: Thursday, October 2 (1pm-5pm + 6pm dinner), Friday, October 3 (10am-3pm)
Location: MP1318A, 60 St. George St., Toronto.
Schedule:
| Oct 2 | 1:00 – 1:20 | Welcome and Introduction: Professor Norman Murray |
| Thursday | 1:20 – 1:40 | Lightning talks: Marta Reina Campos, Denis Leahy*, Yiqi Xie, Pavan Vynatheya |
| 1:40 – 2:00 | Lightning talks: Sam Hadden, Mike Willensky, Aryanna Schiebelbein-Zwack, Alicia Savelli | |
| 2:00 – 2:20 | Lightning talks: Fereshteh Rajabi, Rachid Ouyed*, Norman Murray, Vasily Pustovoit | |
| 2:20 – 2:40 | Long talk: Radhika Achikanath Chirakkara, ‘Magnetic field amplification in weakly-collisional plasma’ | |
| 2:40 – 3:00 | Long talk: Utkarsh Mali, ‘From Populations to Classifications: untangling uncertainty in the lower mass gap’ | |
| 3:00 – 3:20 | Coffee: IdeaLab | |
| 3:20 – 3:40 | Long talk: Alex Krolewski, ‘Robust Hubble constant measurements from background energy densities’ | |
| 3:40 – 4:00 | Long talk: Vera Delfavero, Recovering Injected Astrophysics from the LISA Double White Dwarf Binaries’ | |
| 4:00 – 4:20 | Lightning talks: Maya Fishbach, Rahul Khanna*, Anna Tsai, Sean Ressler*, Jeremy Heyl | |
| 4:20 – 4:40 | Lightning talks: Sebastiano von Fallenberg, Dick Bond, Levon Pogosian*, Rohan Dahale, Chris Matzner | |
| 6:00 – 8:00 | Dinner: MP125 | |
| Oct 3 | 10:00 – 10:20 | Coffee: IdeaLab |
| Friday | 10:20 – 10:40 | Long talk: Meng-Xiang Lin, ‘Estimates of Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background Anisotropy Signals for Pulsar Timing Arrays’ |
| 10:40 – 11:00 | Long talk: Cheng Chen, ‘Planet formation and evolution around misaligned circumbinary disks’ | |
| 11:00 – 11:20 | Long talk: Haowen Zhang, ‘Empirical connection between dark matter halos, galaxies, and supermassive black holes from z=0-10, and what we can do with it’ | |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | Lightning talks: Gibwa Musoke, Doğa Tolgay, Thomas Morrison, Charles Liao, Ioana Zelko | |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | Lightning talks: Neige Frankel, Chris Thompson, Aditya Vijaykumar, Bart Ripperda, Majd Noel | |
| 12:00 – 12:20 | Lightning talks: Claire Ye, Peter Martin, Jonathan Zhang, Rahul Kannan, Nathan Carlson | |
| 12:20 – 12:40 | Lightning talks: Reed Essick, Dany Yaacoub, Diego Montalvo, Ue-Li Pen | |
| 12:40 – 1:00 | Closing remarks |
Contacts for questions: Sam Hadden (hadden@cita.utoronto.ca), Pavan Vynatheya (pavanvyn@cita.utoronto.ca), Lyuba Encheva (lyuba@cita.utoronto.ca)