CITA received a generous gift from the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Foundation to endow the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Visiting Astrophysicist Program. Each year CITA invites an internationally distinguished scholar conducting research in theoretical astrophysics to give two lectures at the University of Toronto. The researcher also meets informally with faculty and postdoctoral fellows at CITA as well as researchers and students in the Department of Astronomy and other departments. The visit is intended to be the highlight of the academic year at CITA.
The seventh Sackler lecture, titled `The Fate of the Universe', delivered by Prof. George Efstathiou of Cambridge University on 8 April 2004 to an enthusiastic audience of students and faculty. Prof. Efstathiou summarized his work on the theory of cosmic structure formation and cosmic microwave background anisotropies. He also delivered a technical talk entitled ``Testing Fundamental Physics with the CMB''. For over 25 years, Efstathiou has combined deep theoretical insights with major observational campaigns to understand the large-scale cosmic web of galaxies. He is a principle architect of the current paradigm for how all of the structure formed in our universe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and of the Institute of Physics.
| 2002-2003 | Andrei Linde | Professor of Physics, Stanford University |
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| 2001-2002 | John N. Bahcall | Black Professor of Natural Sciences, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton |
| 2000-2001 | P.J.E. Peebles | Einstein Professor of Science, Princeton University |
| 1999-2000 | Frank Shu | University Professor, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1998-1999 | Peter Goldreich | Lee A. DuBridge Professor of Astrophysics and Planetary Physics, Caltech |
| 1997-1998 | Martin J. Rees | Royal Society Research Professor, Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge; Astronomer Royal |
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