Colloquia and seminars

Université de Montréal  Université Laval  McGill University  Bishop's University

Tuesday, 16 April 2013
Regular

Advanced LIGO: a second-generation gravitational-wave detector

David Shoemaker, MIT

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 9 April 2013
Regular

Citizen Science: Getting the Best Science from Big Data

Lucy Fortson, University of Minnesota

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Friday, 5 April 2013
Special

White dwarf binaries, mergers, and explosions

Marten van Kerkwijk, University of Toronto

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 28 March 2013
Regular

Detecting Gravitational Waves with Pulsar Timing - Dealing with the Turbulent Interstellar Medium

Dan Stinebring, Oberlin College

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 105)

Tuesday, 12 March 2013
Regular

Tides in Coalescing Neutron Star Binaries

Nevin Weinberg, MIT

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Regular

Paperclips and Supercomputers: a Low-Frequency Radio Cosmology Program

Aaron Parsons, UC Berkeley

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Special

Magneto-thermal evolution of isolated neutron stars: towards the grand unification

Daniele Viganò, Universitat d'Alacant

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Regular

Crab pulsar and the nebula: paradigm shifts?

Maxim Lyutikov, Purdue University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Wednesday, 30 January 2013
Special

New Ideas on Mechanisms of Angular Momentum Transport and Variability in Boundary Layers of Accretion Disks

Roman Rafikov, Princeton University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 29 January 2013
Regular

Core-Collapse Supernovae and Other Outcomes of Stellar Collapse

Christian Ott, Caltech

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Monday, 28 January 2013
Special

Ferromagnetism in nuclear matter and its implication for the neutron star equation of state

Jacobus Diener, Stellenbosch University

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 105)

Tuesday, 15 January 2013
Regular

Synchronous X-ray and Radio Mode Changing in Pulsar B0943+10: Evidence for a Rapid Global Transformation of the Magnetosphere

Joanna Rankin, University of Vermont

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 20 December 2012
Regular

Giant black holes in clusters of galaxies

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo, Stanford University

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 104)

Thursday, 6 December 2012
Special

Toward a precise measurement of weak lensing signals with CMB and galaxy observations: A theoretical developement and its cosmological implications

Toshiya Namikawa, University of Tokyo

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Piano Room (room 211)

Tuesday, 4 December 2012
Regular

Hot Electromagnetic Outflows

Chris Thompson, CITA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Regular

Characterizing the Molecular ISM at High-resolution in High-z Galaxies

Chelsea Sharon, Rutgers University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Regular

The Carnegie Hubble Program

Victoria Scowcroft, Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Friday, 16 November 2012
Regular

Cosmic motions in the Local Universe

Guilhem Lavaux, Perimeter Institute

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Piano Room (room 211)

Tuesday, 13 November 2012
Regular

Resonant Shattering of Neutron Star Crusts

Dave Tsang, McGill University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Regular

Dynamical Tides in Binaries: Merging White Dwarfs, Kepler KOI-54 and Hot Jupiter Systems

Dong Lai, Cornell University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Regular

Deconstructing Pulsar Scintillations

Ue-Li Pen, CITA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 25 October 2012
Special

An Exploration of Diffusion Coefficients in SNR

Rebeca Danos, University of Manitoba

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 16 October 2012
Regular

Windows into our universe's history from fluctuations on widely different scales

Mathias Zaldarriaga, Princeton IAS

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 9 October 2012
Regular

The Search for Ultra-High Energy Neutrinos with ANITA

Abby Vieregg, Harvard CfA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Regular

An argument that the dark matter is axions

Pierre Sikivie, University of Florida

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 2 October 2012
Regular

À venir

Dong Lai, Cornell University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Regular

Using Swift and other Observatories to Study Blazars, Gamma Ray Bursts, and more Very High Energy Astrophysical Accelerators

Abe Falcone, PSU

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Boardroom (room 105)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Special

Occupy dark matter: Uncovering the 99% of dusty galaxies which lie beneath the confusion noise floor

Marco Viero, Caltech

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Piano Room (room 211)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 11 September 2012
Regular

Bridging the Gap: An Explosion of New Explosions

Mansi Kasliwal, Carnegie

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 4 September 2012
Regular

ALMA unveils high redshift cosmic microscopes discovered by the South Pole Telescope

Joaquin Vieira, Caltech

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 30 August 2012
Regular

Weakly coupled M-branes

Sunil Mukhi, Tata Institude

Time : 13:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Contact : Shunji Matsuura

Thursday, 23 August 2012
Regular

Einstein-Cartan Theory as an Averaged Theory of Gravity

Juliane Behrend, Utrecht University

Time : 13:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 26 June 2012
Regular

Cosmological Inflation and the Quantum Measurement Problem

Vincent Vennin, IAP

Time : 13:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Regular

Noble Travails: Noble Liquid Detectors Searching for Particle Dark Matter

Richard Gaitskell, Brown University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Regular

100 years of cosmic rays: present and future of cosmic-ray propagation models

Antje Putze, Oskar Klein Centre Stockholm

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 15 May 2012
Regular

Ubiquitous (and Obscured) Nuclear Activity in Star-Forming Galaxies

Stephanie Juneau, CEA-Saclay

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 9 May 2012
Regular

Neutrinos from dark matter annihilation in the Sun

Christopher Savage, Stockholm University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 8 May 2012
Regular

Titan's lakes: seasonal and climate cycles

Oded Aharonson, Weizmann Institute

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Monday, 7 May 2012
Regular

Long-term monitoring of blazars with dedicated Cherenkov telescopes? the DWARF network and the FACT telescope

Michael Backes, Technical University Dortmund

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 2 May 2012
Regular

The search for the Higgs boson at the ATLAS experiment

Dag Gillberg, Carleton University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 24 April 2012
Regular

The Power of the Galaxy Power Spectrum

Eric Linder, UC Berkeley / Institute for the Early Universe Korea / LBNL

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 18 April 2012
Regular

The Direct Detection of sub-GeV Dark Matter: First Limits and Future Prospects

Rouven Essig, Stony Brook

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 10 April 2012
Regular

Weather on Remote Worlds: The Atmospheric Circulation of the Hot Jupiters

Adam Showman, University of Arizona

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Regular

Observation of Two-Neutrino Double-Beta Decay in ^136Xe: First EXO Results in the Search for the Neutrino-less decay

Jacques A. Farine, Laurentian University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Regular

The Supernova Equation of State: Potential vs. Field-Theoretical Approaches

C. Constantinou, Stony Brook

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Regular

Highly magnetic neutron stars: bewildering astrophysical laboratories and cosmological tools

Rosalba Perna, University of Colorado at Boulder

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Particle-Astrophysics Seminar

Constraints on low-mass dark matter from CDMS-II and the development of highly-multiplexed next-generation detectors

David Moore, Caltech

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 305A/B

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Regular

Constraining Dark Matter models from a Combined Analysis of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Maja Llena-Garde, OKC Stockholm

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Regular

Looking Deep Into (and sometimes through) the Galaxy with INTEGRAL, Chandra, and NuSTAR

John Tomsick, University of California at Berkeley

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Regular

The Case For 10 GeV Dark Matter

Dan Hooper, Fermilab

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Regular

The Accelerating Universe: Probing Inflation & Dark Energy with the Radio/Microwave Sky

Keith Vanderlinde, McGill University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Regular

Nuclear Astrophysics Sensitivities

Richard Cyburt, MSU

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Regular

Supernova Remnants Stay in Shape

Laura Lopez, MIT

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Regular

The PICASSO and DEAP-3600 Dark Matter Search Experiments at SNOLAB

Tony Noble, Queen's University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Regular

Morphology of the dark matter contribution to the 511 keV gamma ray sky: constraints from INTEGRAL/SPI observations

Aaron Vincent, McGill University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Regular

Probing reionization and large-scale structure with the South Pole Telescope

Christian Reichardt, Berkeley

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Special

Searches for Exotic Physics with leptons and photons with the ATLAS Detector

Dominique Fortin, TRIUMF

Time : 00:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Regular

Putting the "Big" in "Big Bang": The Primordial Inflation Explorer

Al Kogut, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 25 January 2012
Regular

Optimizing global 21cm signal measurements with spectral and spatial information

Adrian Liu, MIT

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Special

Characterizing Super-Earths and Mini-Neptunes

Diana Valencia, MIT

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 105)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 17 January 2012
Special

HMXT: An Upcoming X-ray Telescope

Zhongxiang Wang, Shanghai Observatory

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 105)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Regular

Old Physics, New Tricks, and the Theory of Atomic Dark Matter

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, UBC

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Regular

Multi-planetary systems, Saturn's Rings and the new collisional N-body code REBOUND

Hanno Rein, IAS Princeton

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 15 November 2011
Regular

Fermi-LAT: An Amazing Pulsar Finding Machine

Paul Ray, U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 3 November 2011
Regular

Accretion Outbursts on to Young Stars and Planets

Rebecca Martin, Space Telescope Science Institute

Time : 13:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 105)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 1 November 2011
Regular

High redshift ULIRGs and the formation of massive galaxies

Scott Chapman, Dalhousie University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
Regular

Dust-obscured activity in high redshift galaxies

Alex Pope, University of Massachusetts

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Monday, 24 October 2011
Regular

The Curious Case of 4U 1820-30: On the Resonant Trapping and Tidal Dissipation Rate of the White Dwarf Secondary

Snezana Prodan, University of Toronto

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Regular

Three years of GBM science highlights

Valerie Connaughton, National Space Science & Technology Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 11 October 2011
Regular

CCAT: submm Astronomy from as High as you can Drive a Truck

Riccardo Giovanelli, Cornell University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 4 October 2011
Regular

The X-ray Polarization Signature of Quiescent Magnetars

Rodrigo Fernandez, IAS

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Monday, 3 October 2011
Special

Highlights from the southern High Time Resolution Universe survey

Lina Levin, Swinburne University of Technology

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 27 September 2011
Regular

Deep underground physics: facility and experiment developments at SNOLAB

Nigel Smith, SNOLAB

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 20 September 2011
Joint Astrophysics Seminar/Séminaire Commun en Astrophysique

21 cm Cosmology

Miguel Morales, University of Washington

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 13 September 2011
Joint Astrophysics Seminar/Séminaire Commun en Astrophysique

21cm Intensity Mapping: Progress and Challenges

Richard Shaw, CITA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Special

HEFT measurement of the hard X-ray size of the Crab Nebula and the hard X-ray optics of the Nuclelar spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)

Hongjun An, Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Monday, 20 June 2011
Special

Studying Galaxies, Clusters, and Cosmology with Weak Lensing Magnification

Hendrik Hildebrandt, University of British Columbia

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Special

Pathfinding a Neutral Hydrogen Dark Energy Survey

Kevin Bandura, Carnegie Mellon University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Room 326

Contact : Matt Dobbs

Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Special

Neutron stars and strong interactions

Aleksi Kurkela, McGill University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 17 May 2011
Special

Phenomenology and detection of nuclear cosmic rays

Antje Putze, Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Pat Scott

Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Regular

First Results from the Planck Mission: Early Science Results on Clusters

Jean-Baptiste Melin, CEA (Saclay)

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 5 April 2011
Regular

Recent Measurements of Radio Pulsar Masses

Scott Ransom, NRAO

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 29 March 2011
Regular

What More Can We Learn from the Cosmic Microwave Background?

Sudeep Das, Berkeley

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 23 March 2011
Special

Pulsars Down Under

Matthew Bailes, Swinburne University

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Piano Room (room 211)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 22 March 2011
Regular

Low-frequency gravitational wave telescopes

Latham Boyle, Perimeter Institute

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 17 March 2011
Special

The Keck Array: Continuing the search for inflationary relics through degree-scale CMB polarimetry

Martin Lueker, Caltech

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Room 305A/B

Contact : Matt Dobbs

Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Regular

Direct Detection of Extra-solar Planets Using High Contrast Imaging

James R. Graham, University of Toronto

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Regular

Dark Energy and Cosmic Sound

Daniel Eisenstein, Harvard University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 1 February 2011
Regular

Probing the Accretion of Gas onto Galaxies:Opportunities and Pitfalls

Claude-André Faucher-Giguère, UC Berkeley

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Regular

How Do Galaxies in Massive Clusters Form Their Stars?

Kim-Vy Tran, Texas A&M University/University of Zurich

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 18 January 2011
Regular

Gravitational Waves: Adding Soundtrack (and Special Effects) to a Wonderful Movie

Luis Lehner, University of Guelph

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 11 January 2011
Regular

Dark Matter in Faint Galactic Satellites

Louis Strigari, KIPAC, Stanford

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Friday, 7 January 2011
Special

Model-Independent Constraints on Inflation from the CMB

Cora Dvorkin, University of Chicago

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 9 December 2010
Special

Recent Results from Radio Pulsar Searches in Globular Clusters

Ryan Lynch, University of Virginia

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 30 November 2010
Special

Rare objects in Globular Clusters: from dwarf novae to intermediate mass black holes

Mathieu Servillat, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 16 November 2010
Regular

Cluster Cosmology and the Dark Energy Survey

Tim McKay, University of Michigan

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Wednesday, 10 November 2010
Regular

Mass and Radius of Neutron Stars from Modeling Pulse Shapes of Millisecond Pulsars

Denis Leahy, University of Calgary

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 2 November 2010
Regular

The growth of galaxies at z ~ 2: insights from IFU surveys

Natascha Förster, Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 26 October 2010
Regular

Astrophysical Signatures of Particle Dark Matter

Rene Ong, UCLA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Regular

Cassiopeia A: The Youngest Neutron Star

Craig Heinke, University of Alberta

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Regular

Search for the Origin of Cosmic Rays with IceCube

Stefan Westerhoff, University of Wisconsin

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 5 October 2010
Regular

Giant Gamma-ray Bubbles in the Inner Galaxy: AGN Activity or Bipolar Galactic Wind?

D. Finkbeiner, Harvard CFA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Regular

Characterizing Exoplanets

Ray Jayawardhana, University of Toronto

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 14 September 2010
Regular

Formation of Low-Mass X-ray Binaries with a Black Hole Accretor: Challenging the Paradigm

Natasha Ivanova, University of Alberta

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Monday, 23 August 2010
Special

NASA Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)

Bob Gehrz, University of Minnesota

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Monday, 19 July 2010
Special

Gravitational radiation from the pulsar glitch recovery phase

Mark Bennett, University of Melbourne

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 29 June 2010
Special

21cm Cylindrical Radio Telescope Design and Simulation

David McGinnis, Fermilab

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 13 April 2010
Regular

Neutron rich matter in the laboratory and in the cosmos

Charles Horowitz, Indiana University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Thursday, 8 April 2010
Special

A New Twist on Black-Hole Spin: The Triggering and Cosmological Impact of Radio-Loud and Radio-Quiet AGN

Dan Evans, MIT

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Piano room (room 211)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 6 April 2010
Regular

Observing galaxy mass assembly at high redshift

Mark Dickinson, NOAO

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 30 March 2010
Regular

Unraveling the Cosmic-ray Spectrum: Measurements with high altitude Balloons

Patrick (Jojo) Boyle, McGill University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 23 March 2010
Regular

Fingering convection in geophysics and Astrophysics

Pascale Garaud, University of California at Santa Cruz

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Regular

The Cosmic Microwave Background: Its B-modes and Ns

Lyman Page, Princeton University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Regular

The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect, in Detail

Dan Marrone, University of Chicago

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 2 March 2010
Regular

A near-infrared excess in the continuum of high-redshift galaxies: a tracer of star formation, circumstellar disks, and (maybe) extra-galactic planets?

Bob Abraham, University of Toronto

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 16 February 2010
Regular

Recent Results of the Fermi Large Area Telescope

Tune Kamae, Stanford University/SLAC

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 9 February 2010
Regular

Exploding Supermassive White Dwarfs from the Nearby Supernova Factory

Richard Scalzo, Yale University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 2 February 2010
Regular

Staring into the Abyss: Imaging Black Hole Horizons

Avery Broderick, CITA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 26 January 2010
Regular

MHD Turbulence and Transport in Accretion Disks

Jim Stone, Princeton University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Regular

Having a BLAST in Antarctica, and resolving the Cosmic Infrared Background

Mark Halpern, UBC

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 12 January 2010
Regular

Gamma-Ray Pulsars in the Light of New Fermi Discoveries

Alice Harding, NASA/GSFC

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Regular

The First Images of Exoplanets

René Doyon, Université de Montréal

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Andrew Cumming

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Regular

The Aquarius Project: Dark Matter under a Numerical Microscope

Julio Navarro, University of Victoria

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Gil Holder

Tuesday, 17 November 2009
Regular

The Generation & Evolution of Astrophysical Magnetic Fields

Ellen Zweibel , University of Wisconsin

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Andrew Cumming

Tuesday, 10 November 2009
Regular

Neutron Stars as Dense Matter Laboratories

Bennett Link , Montana State University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Vicky Kaspi

Tuesday, 3 November 2009
Regular

Hunting the Cosmic Electron

Scott Wakely, University of Chicago

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : David Hanna

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Regular

Thermal and Gravitational Tides in the Hot Jupiters

Phil Arras, University of Virginia

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Andrew Cumming

Tuesday, 20 October 2009
Regular

Radio observations of cosmic reionization and first (new) light in the Universe

Chris Carilli, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Tracy Webb

Tuesday, 13 October 2009
Regular

X-ray observations of active galaxies

Luigi Gallo, St Mary's University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Robert Rutledge

Tuesday, 6 October 2009
Regular

The Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and the ACT Experiment

Joe Fowler, Princeton University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Matt Dobbs

Tuesday, 29 September 2009
Regular

A First Year View of the Galaxy with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Elizabeth Hays, Goddard Space Flight Center

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Ken Ragan

Tuesday, 15 September 2009
Regular

ALFALFA: HI cosmology at z=0

Martha Haynes, Cornell University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Vicky Kaspi

Tuesday, 21 July 2009
Special

The EBEX Experiment

Hannes Hubmayr , University of Minnesota

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Monday, 25 May 2009
Special

Binary radio pulsars in globular clusters: their orbital eccentricities and interaction with other stars

Alak Ray , Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Friday, 24 April 2009
Special

Cataclysmic Variables: The Most Common Gravity Powered Stars

John Thorstensen , Dartmouth College

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Tuesday, 14 April 2009
Regular

Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Habitable Worlds

Sara Seager, MIT

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 7 April 2009
Regular

New View of the High Energy Gamma-ray Sky with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope

Julie McEnery, GSFC

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 24 March 2009
Regular

The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos

Jim Beatty, Ohio State University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Regular

CMB Polarimetry and the Search for Inflationary Gravitational Waves

John Kovac, JPL / Caltech

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Special

From milliKelvin to MegaKelvin: The connection between superconductivity and cosmology

Tarek Saab , University of Florida

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 305

Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Regular

Cosmology in the Dark Sector

Kris Sigurdson, UBC

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 3 March 2009
Regular

The Transient Revolution in Astrophysics

Eliot Quataert, UC Berkeley

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 17 February 2009
Regular

Lighting the Standard Candle

Ed Brown, MSU/JINA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 10 February 2009
Regular

Gamma Ray Burst Discoveries with the Swift Mission

Neil Gehrels, GSFC

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 3 February 2009
Regular

Convection and Magnetism in Stars: How magnetic fields are built, and what they can do

Matt Browning, CITA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 27 January 2009
Regular

Observing an Event Horizon: Submm-VLBI of SgrA*

Shepard Doeleman, MIT Haystack Observatory

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Monday, 26 January 2009
Special

Accreting neutron stars

Manuel Linares , Astronomical Institute Anton Pannekoek, Universiteit van Amsterdam

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 20 January 2009
Regular

Astronomy at photon energies beyond 100 GeV ? Recent results from VERITAS

Gernot Maier , Univeristé McGill

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Friday, 16 January 2009
Special

Study of Very High Energy Gamma Ray Emission from TeV Blazars

Debanjan Bose , Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 15 January 2009
Special

Axions from String Theory and Inflation

Katie Mack , Princeton University

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 13 January 2009
Regular

The Extravagant Lives of the First Stars

Alexander Heger, University of Minnesota

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Thursday, 8 January 2009
Special

Galaxy evolution at high-redshift: millimeter-wavelength surveys with AzTEC

Kimberly Scott , University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Time : 11:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 6 January 2009
Regular

Magnetospheres of Neutron Stars

Andrei Beloborodov , Columbia University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 2 December 2008
Regular

The Origin of Magnetic Fields in Galaxies: What Should to See at High Redshifts?

Ethan Vishniac, McMaster University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Monday, 1 December 2008
Special

Black-Hole Binaries As Relics Of Long-Soft Gamma-Ray Burst And Hypernova Explosions

Enrique Moreno-Mendez , State University of New York

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, room 326

Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Regular

Why is a Cluster of Galaxies like a Supernova?

Gus Evrard, University of Michigan

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Regular

Cosmology Using Growth of Structure — Measuring Dark Energy by Counting Galaxy Clusters

Alexey Vikhlinin, Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics , Harvard

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 4 November 2008
Regular

Galactic Diversity: The Many Colors of Brown Dwarfs

Adam Burgasser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Special

First results from the South Pole Telescope

Joaquin Vieira, University of Chicago

Time : 13:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Board Room (room 104)

Contact : Gil Holder

Wednesday, 29 October 2008
Special

Mapping Exoplanets

Nick Cowan , University of Washington, Seattle

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Contact : Ian Dobbs-Dixon

Tuesday, 28 October 2008
Regular

Pulsar Timing and Gravitational Wave Detection

Rick Jenet, University of Texas

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Special

X-rays Mark the Spot: the Birth of a Supernova

Alicia Soderberg, Princeton University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 21 October 2008
Regular

Low-mass, Low-SFR Galaxies at z>2: How the Working Class Are Living

Marcin Sawicki, St. Mary's University

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 14 October 2008
Regular

Circumstellar Debris Disks — What Can Be Learned?

Yanqin Wu, University of Toronto

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 7 October 2008
Regular

Cosmology from Gravitational-wave Standard Sirens

Dan Holz, LANL

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 23 September 2008
Regular

White Dwarf Stars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Pierre Bergeron, Université de Montréal

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Regular

The Biggest Dark Matter Halos

Neal Dalal, CITA

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)

Monday, 15 September 2008
Special

Gravitational radiation from accreting neutron stars

Andrew Melatos, University of Melbourne

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, R.E. Bell Conference Room (room 103)