Event Calendar

March  2024
SMTWTFS
 1
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 1, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 1, 2024 - 12:30 pm
2
34
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 4, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • CITA-Perimeter Plasma-Astrophysics
    March 4, 2024 - 12:00 pm
  • Jonatan Jacquemin Ide (Northwestern/CIERA)
    March 4, 2024 - 12:00 pm
  • CCC Meeting
    March 4, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • Astro Tea - IN PERSON IN AB201
    March 4, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Scintillometry
    March 4, 2024 - 7:30 pm
5
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 5, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 5, 2024: 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 5, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 5, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 5, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
6
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 6, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 6, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Speaker: Prof. Catherine Zucker, Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian

    Title: Tracing Star Formation Across Scales: A Case Study in the Solar Neighborhood

    Abstract: 
    The processes regulating star formation in galaxies act across many orders of magnitude in spatial scale. Thus, a key challenge in understanding star formation is bridging the small-scale physics within molecular clouds and the large-scale structure of spiral galaxies. Fully constraining the physics of star formation across these scales requires constraints on both the 3D spatial structure and dynamical state of the interstellar medium (ISM), the combination of which has been an essentially unknown quantity in the field of star formation research. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing efforts to construct high-dimensional models of the ISM in the solar neighborhood by combining data science and visualization techniques with wide-field photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic surveys. On kiloparsec scales, I will discuss how "3D dust mapping" has enabled constraints on the global distribution of molecular clouds, revealing new links between clouds long thought to be isolated and challenging fundamental assumptions about the shape and position of a nearby spiral arm. On parsec scales, I will show how combining 3D dust mapping with the 3D space motions of young stars can explain the origin of all local star formation as being driven by the expansion of the Local Bubble, the nearest superbubble to the Sun. Finally, on au-scales, I will discuss the implications that the Sun’s trajectory through the ISM has for the properties of the heliosphere and the geological record here on Earth. I will conclude by previewing the opportunities enabled by future infrared surveys, including SDSS-V and Roman, which together will pave the way for a unified understanding of the multi-scale physical processes shaping star formation in diverse environments across the Milky Way’s disk.
  • Astro outreach meeting
    March 6, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
7
  • Galaxies Journal club
    March 7, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

    https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182 Location: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 7, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Timothy Cohen (CERN)
    March 7, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Murray Group
    March 7, 2024 - 12:30 pm
8
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 8, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Bi-Weekly Stars & Planets / Dynamics discussion
    March 8, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 8, 2024 - 12:30 pm
9
1011
12
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 12, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 12, 2024: 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 12, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 12, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 12, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
13
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 13, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 13, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Speaker: Prof. Cynthia Chiang, McGill Radio Lab

    Title: Searching for Cosmic Dawn and Beyond with Radio Observations

    Abstract: Observations of redshifted 21-cm emission of neutral hydrogen are a rapidly growing area of cosmology research.  Measurements of the radio sky at ~200 MHz and below are a promising tool for exploring cosmic dawn, and at the lowest frequencies (tens of MHz), future observations may allow us to one day probe the dark ages.  However, observations at these low frequencies are challenging because of Galactic foreground contamination, ionospheric effects, radio-frequency interference, and instrumental systematics.  I will discuss the current status of cosmic dawn measurements from ground-based global 21-cm experiments, and I will introduce two projects, MIST and PRIZM.  I will also describe ALBATROS, a companion experiment that is designed to image the low-frequency sky using an array of autonomous antenna stations.  With the combination of instrumentation advances and new radio-quiet sites, these experiments aim to open observational windows into the early history of our universe.
14
  • Training and Mentoring Committee Meeting
    March 14, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 14, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Murray Group
    March 14, 2024 - 12:30 pm
  • Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)
    March 14, 2024 - 2:00 pm
15
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 15, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 15, 2024 - 12:30 pm
16
1718
19
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 19, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 19, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 19, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 19, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 19, 2024: 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

20
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 20, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 20, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Placeholder event and description. This will be updated each week after the internal announcement is posted.
  • Astro outreach meeting
    March 20, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
21
  • Galaxies Journal club
    March 21, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

    https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182 Location: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 21, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Murray Group
    March 21, 2024 - 12:30 pm
22
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 22, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Bi-Weekly Stars & Planets / Dynamics discussion
    March 22, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 22, 2024 - 12:30 pm
23
2425
26
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 26, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Pratika Dayal (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen )
    March 26, 2024 - 11:02 am
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 26, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 26, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • GASA tea
    March 26, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 26, 2024: 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

27
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 27, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Norman Murray (CITA)
    March 27, 2024 - 11:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 27, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Placeholder event and description. This will be updated each week after the internal announcement is posted.
28
29
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 29, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 29, 2024 - 12:30 pm
30
31 

iCal Links: +CITA Local Events +CITA Seminars +CITA Special Events

March  2024
SMTWTFS
 1
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 1, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 1, 2024 - 12:30 pm
2
34
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 4, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • CITA-Perimeter Plasma-Astrophysics
    March 4, 2024 - 12:00 pm
  • Jonatan Jacquemin Ide (Northwestern/CIERA)
    March 4, 2024 - 12:00 pm
  • CCC Meeting
    March 4, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • Astro Tea - IN PERSON IN AB201
    March 4, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Scintillometry
    March 4, 2024 - 7:30 pm
5
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 5, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 5, 2024: 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 5, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 5, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 5, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
6
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 6, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 6, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Speaker: Prof. Catherine Zucker, Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian

    Title: Tracing Star Formation Across Scales: A Case Study in the Solar Neighborhood

    Abstract: 
    The processes regulating star formation in galaxies act across many orders of magnitude in spatial scale. Thus, a key challenge in understanding star formation is bridging the small-scale physics within molecular clouds and the large-scale structure of spiral galaxies. Fully constraining the physics of star formation across these scales requires constraints on both the 3D spatial structure and dynamical state of the interstellar medium (ISM), the combination of which has been an essentially unknown quantity in the field of star formation research. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing efforts to construct high-dimensional models of the ISM in the solar neighborhood by combining data science and visualization techniques with wide-field photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic surveys. On kiloparsec scales, I will discuss how "3D dust mapping" has enabled constraints on the global distribution of molecular clouds, revealing new links between clouds long thought to be isolated and challenging fundamental assumptions about the shape and position of a nearby spiral arm. On parsec scales, I will show how combining 3D dust mapping with the 3D space motions of young stars can explain the origin of all local star formation as being driven by the expansion of the Local Bubble, the nearest superbubble to the Sun. Finally, on au-scales, I will discuss the implications that the Sun’s trajectory through the ISM has for the properties of the heliosphere and the geological record here on Earth. I will conclude by previewing the opportunities enabled by future infrared surveys, including SDSS-V and Roman, which together will pave the way for a unified understanding of the multi-scale physical processes shaping star formation in diverse environments across the Milky Way’s disk.
  • Astro outreach meeting
    March 6, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
7
  • Galaxies Journal club
    March 7, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

    https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182 Location: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 7, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Timothy Cohen (CERN)
    March 7, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Murray Group
    March 7, 2024 - 12:30 pm
8
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 8, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Bi-Weekly Stars & Planets / Dynamics discussion
    March 8, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 8, 2024 - 12:30 pm
9
1011
12
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 12, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 12, 2024: 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 12, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 12, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 12, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
13
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 13, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 13, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Speaker: Prof. Cynthia Chiang, McGill Radio Lab

    Title: Searching for Cosmic Dawn and Beyond with Radio Observations

    Abstract: Observations of redshifted 21-cm emission of neutral hydrogen are a rapidly growing area of cosmology research.  Measurements of the radio sky at ~200 MHz and below are a promising tool for exploring cosmic dawn, and at the lowest frequencies (tens of MHz), future observations may allow us to one day probe the dark ages.  However, observations at these low frequencies are challenging because of Galactic foreground contamination, ionospheric effects, radio-frequency interference, and instrumental systematics.  I will discuss the current status of cosmic dawn measurements from ground-based global 21-cm experiments, and I will introduce two projects, MIST and PRIZM.  I will also describe ALBATROS, a companion experiment that is designed to image the low-frequency sky using an array of autonomous antenna stations.  With the combination of instrumentation advances and new radio-quiet sites, these experiments aim to open observational windows into the early history of our universe.
14
  • Training and Mentoring Committee Meeting
    March 14, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 14, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Murray Group
    March 14, 2024 - 12:30 pm
  • Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)
    March 14, 2024 - 2:00 pm
15
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 15, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 15, 2024 - 12:30 pm
16
1718
19
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 19, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 19, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 19, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 19, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 19, 2024: 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

20
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 20, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 20, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Placeholder event and description. This will be updated each week after the internal announcement is posted.
  • Astro outreach meeting
    March 20, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
21
  • Galaxies Journal club
    March 21, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

    https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182 Location: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 21, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Murray Group
    March 21, 2024 - 12:30 pm
22
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 22, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Bi-Weekly Stars & Planets / Dynamics discussion
    March 22, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 22, 2024 - 12:30 pm
23
2425
26
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 26, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Pratika Dayal (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen )
    March 26, 2024 - 11:02 am
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 26, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 26, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • GASA tea
    March 26, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 26, 2024: 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

27
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 27, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Norman Murray (CITA)
    March 27, 2024 - 11:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 27, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Placeholder event and description. This will be updated each week after the internal announcement is posted.
28
29
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 29, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 29, 2024 - 12:30 pm
30
31 

iCal Links: +CITA Local Events +CITA Seminars +CITA Special Events


March  2024
SMTWTFS
 1
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 1, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 1, 2024 - 12:30 pm
2
34
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 4, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • CITA-Perimeter Plasma-Astrophysics
    March 4, 2024 - 12:00 pm
  • Jonatan Jacquemin Ide (Northwestern/CIERA)
    March 4, 2024 - 12:00 pm
  • CCC Meeting
    March 4, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • Astro Tea - IN PERSON IN AB201
    March 4, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
  • Scintillometry
    March 4, 2024 - 7:30 pm
5
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 5, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 5, 2024: 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 5, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 5, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 5, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
6
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 6, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 6, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Speaker: Prof. Catherine Zucker, Centre for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian

    Title: Tracing Star Formation Across Scales: A Case Study in the Solar Neighborhood

    Abstract: 
    The processes regulating star formation in galaxies act across many orders of magnitude in spatial scale. Thus, a key challenge in understanding star formation is bridging the small-scale physics within molecular clouds and the large-scale structure of spiral galaxies. Fully constraining the physics of star formation across these scales requires constraints on both the 3D spatial structure and dynamical state of the interstellar medium (ISM), the combination of which has been an essentially unknown quantity in the field of star formation research. In this talk, I will discuss ongoing efforts to construct high-dimensional models of the ISM in the solar neighborhood by combining data science and visualization techniques with wide-field photometric, astrometric, and spectroscopic surveys. On kiloparsec scales, I will discuss how "3D dust mapping" has enabled constraints on the global distribution of molecular clouds, revealing new links between clouds long thought to be isolated and challenging fundamental assumptions about the shape and position of a nearby spiral arm. On parsec scales, I will show how combining 3D dust mapping with the 3D space motions of young stars can explain the origin of all local star formation as being driven by the expansion of the Local Bubble, the nearest superbubble to the Sun. Finally, on au-scales, I will discuss the implications that the Sun’s trajectory through the ISM has for the properties of the heliosphere and the geological record here on Earth. I will conclude by previewing the opportunities enabled by future infrared surveys, including SDSS-V and Roman, which together will pave the way for a unified understanding of the multi-scale physical processes shaping star formation in diverse environments across the Milky Way’s disk.
  • Astro outreach meeting
    March 6, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
7
  • Galaxies Journal club
    March 7, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

    https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182 Location: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 7, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Timothy Cohen (CERN)
    March 7, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Murray Group
    March 7, 2024 - 12:30 pm
8
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 8, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Bi-Weekly Stars & Planets / Dynamics discussion
    March 8, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 8, 2024 - 12:30 pm
9
1011
12
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 12, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 12, 2024: 2:10 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 12, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 12, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 12, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
13
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 13, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 13, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Speaker: Prof. Cynthia Chiang, McGill Radio Lab

    Title: Searching for Cosmic Dawn and Beyond with Radio Observations

    Abstract: Observations of redshifted 21-cm emission of neutral hydrogen are a rapidly growing area of cosmology research.  Measurements of the radio sky at ~200 MHz and below are a promising tool for exploring cosmic dawn, and at the lowest frequencies (tens of MHz), future observations may allow us to one day probe the dark ages.  However, observations at these low frequencies are challenging because of Galactic foreground contamination, ionospheric effects, radio-frequency interference, and instrumental systematics.  I will discuss the current status of cosmic dawn measurements from ground-based global 21-cm experiments, and I will introduce two projects, MIST and PRIZM.  I will also describe ALBATROS, a companion experiment that is designed to image the low-frequency sky using an array of autonomous antenna stations.  With the combination of instrumentation advances and new radio-quiet sites, these experiments aim to open observational windows into the early history of our universe.
14
  • Training and Mentoring Committee Meeting
    March 14, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 14, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Murray Group
    March 14, 2024 - 12:30 pm
  • Joel Meyers (Southern Methodist University)
    March 14, 2024 - 2:00 pm
15
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 15, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 15, 2024 - 12:30 pm
16
1718
19
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 19, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 19, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 19, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • GASA tea
    March 19, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 19, 2024: 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

20
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 20, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 20, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Placeholder event and description. This will be updated each week after the internal announcement is posted.
  • Astro outreach meeting
    March 20, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
21
  • Galaxies Journal club
    March 21, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

    Info

    https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182 Location: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88922379182
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 21, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Murray Group
    March 21, 2024 - 12:30 pm
22
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 22, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Bi-Weekly Stars & Planets / Dynamics discussion
    March 22, 2024 - 11:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 22, 2024 - 12:30 pm
23
2425
26
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 26, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Pratika Dayal (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen )
    March 26, 2024 - 11:02 am
  • Gravitational Waves
    March 26, 2024 - 3:00 pm
  • CITA focus group on GWs
    March 26, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

    Info

    Weekly group meeting on gravitational waves, compact objects and strong gravity. Contact plandry@cita.utoronto.ca to get on the mailing list and for remote connection info. Location: MP 15th floor meeting room
  • GASA tea
    March 26, 2024: 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

    Location: AB lounge
  • Astrophysical Transients journal club
    March 26, 2024: 4:10 pm - 5:00 pm

    Info

27
  • CITA astrocoffee
    March 27, 2024 - 10:30 am
  • Norman Murray (CITA)
    March 27, 2024 - 11:30 am
  • DADDAA & Dunlap Institute Astronomy Colloquium
    March 27, 2024: 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

    Info

    Placeholder event and description. This will be updated each week after the internal announcement is posted.
28
29
  • Pulsar Coffee
    March 29, 2024 - 10:00 am
  • Cosmology Discussion
    March 29, 2024 - 12:30 pm
30
31 

iCal Links: +CITA Local Events +CITA Seminars +CITA Special Events


CITA EVENTS
CITA astrocoffee
March 18, 2024: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Location: MP1422
CITA-Perimeter Plasma-Astrophysics
March 18, 2024: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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Rich Teague (MIT)
March 18, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Title: From Pebbles to Planets: New Frontiers in Planet Formation

Abstract: There has been a tremendous leap forward in our understanding of the formation of planetary systems thanks to substantial advances in our observational capabilities. Observatories like ALMA are routinely revealing the presence of complex structures in the gas and dust which are forming planets, much of which has been associated with young, embedded protoplanets. Such observations are unpinning sigificant developments in the theory of how, and from what, planets form. In this talk I will provide an overview of our current understanding of the physical, chemical and dynamical structure of protoplanetary disks with a particular focus on how we are beginning to detect the presence of young planets, only recently formed. I will present new results from the exoALMA program, an ALMA Large Program that is undertaking an extensive planet-hunting campaign in the sub-mm, and the related projects on facilities like JWST, VLT and Magellan. To conclude, I will discuss future facilitiies, and detail how, in the coming decade, we will begin to push into the terrestrail planet forming regions of these disks and understand the formation of Earth-like planets.

Location: MP1318A
Scintillometry
March 18, 2024: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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NOTE: July 25th meeting will be in MP1318A

Topic: Scintillometry Meeting
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Location: MP 15th Floor Conference Room
CITA astrocoffee
March 19, 2024: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Location: MP1422
Gravitational Waves
March 19, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
CITA astrocoffee
March 20, 2024: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Location: MP1422
CITA astrocoffee
March 21, 2024: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Location: MP1422
Murray Group
March 21, 2024: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

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Location: Virtual
Pulsar Coffee
March 22, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

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Meeting ID: 880 0211 2316
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Meeting ID: 880 0211 2316
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Bi-Weekly Stars & Planets / Dynamics discussion
March 22, 2024: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

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Open discussion of stars- and planets-related topics or more specialized discussion of dynamics-related papers on alternating weeks. See here for details. Location: MP 1318A
Cosmology Discussion
March 22, 2024: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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The schedule of speakers: https://tinyurl.com/cosmo-rota  
Location: MP1318A
CITA astrocoffee
March 25, 2024: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Location: MP1422
CITA-Perimeter Plasma-Astrophysics
March 25, 2024: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

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Virtual
Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)
March 25, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm

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Title: The Hubble Tension and Primordial Magnetic Fields

Abstract: The Hubble tension hints at a missing ingredient in our model describing the universe around the epoch of recombination. A stochastic magnetic fields, if present in the plasma prior to last scattering, would induce baryon inhomogeneities and speed up the recombination process, reducing the sound horizon at last scattering and potentially helping to relieve the Hubble tension. Intriguingly, the strength of the magnetic field required to alleviate the Hubble tension happens to be of the right order of magnitude to explain the origin of magnetic fields in galaxies, clusters of galaxies and the intergalactic space. I will review this proposal and provide an update on its current status.

Location: MP1318A
Scintillometry
March 25, 2024: 7:30 pm - 8:30 pm

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NOTE: July 25th meeting will be in MP1318A

Topic: Scintillometry Meeting
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CITA astrocoffee
March 26, 2024: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Location: MP1422
Pratika Dayal (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen )
March 26, 2024: 11:02 am - 12:02 pm

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Title: The emergence of galaxies in the first billion years: implications for reionization, cosmology and gravitational wave astronomy

Abstract: Galaxy formation in the first billion years marks a time of great upheaval in our cosmic history: the first sources of light in the Universe, these galaxies ended the 'cosmic dark ages' and produced the first photons that could break apart the hydrogen atoms suffusing all of space starting the process of 'cosmic reionization'. The past few years have seen cutting-edge instruments such as the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) provide tantalising glimpses of such galaxies assembling in an infant Universe. Puzzlingly, these observations are also yielding a sample of unexpectedly numerous and large black holes (up to a 100 million solar masses) within the first 600 million years, posing an enormous challenge for galaxy formation models. I will show how this data is providing an unprecedented opportunity to pin down the reionization state of the Universe in addition to providing an unrivalled resource for understanding the reionization topology in the forthcoming era of 21cm cosmology. I will also show how these early systems provide a powerful testbed for Dark Matter models beyond "Cold Dark Matter". Finally, I will try to give a flavour of the gravitational wave event rates expected from such early black holes in the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna Array (LISA) era.

Host: Bart Ripperda

Location: 1318A
Gravitational Waves
March 26, 2024: 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
CITA astrocoffee
March 27, 2024: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Location: MP1422
Norman Murray (CITA)
March 27, 2024: 11:30 am - 12:30 pm

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Title: TBA

Abstract: TBA

Host: Rimpei Chiba

Location: IdeaLab
CITA astrocoffee
March 28, 2024: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

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Location: MP1422
Murray Group
March 28, 2024: 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm

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Location: Virtual
Pulsar Coffee
March 29, 2024: 10:00 am - 11:00 am

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Cosmology Discussion
March 29, 2024: 12:30 pm - 2:00 pm

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The schedule of speakers: https://tinyurl.com/cosmo-rota  
Location: MP1318A