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Date: 2009-08-10 to 2009-08-12 |
Site: Caltech, Pasadena, USA |
Web: www.nustar.caltech.edu/uploads/updates/NuSTAR_2009oct_update.pdf |
Organisator: Vicky Kaspi |
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The NuSTAR Galactic Science
team met at Caltech in early August to discuss the baseline Galactic observations for
NuSTAR, including optimal survey strategies near the Galactic center, identification /
confirmation of new supernova remnants in our Galaxy, and survey strategies for
historical supernova remnants. The workshop was organized by Vicky Kaspi, who spent
the Summer on sabbatical at Caltech. A similar extragalactic workshop is being
organized by Daniel Stern and will be held this Winter at Caltech. |
CIFAR Gravity & Cosmology Annual General Meeting |
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Date: 2009-03-05 to 2009-03-08 |
Site: Mont-Tremblant, QC, Canada |
Web: www2.cifar.ca/research/cosmology-and-gravity-program/ |
Organisator: Vicky Kaspi |
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Neutron stars. Event horizons. Quasars. Dark energy. The language of cosmology is compelling and provocative, a step beyond our familiar world. CIFARs Cosmology and Gravity program acquaints us with massive celestial objects, like black holes and galaxy clusters, and also with minute particles, like neutrinos and quarks, particles so small they seem to teeter on the brink of non-existence.
CIFARs Cosmology and Gravity program members ask the most fundamental questions about our universe: what is our universe really like? How did it get that way? What did it look like at its creation? How will it end? In just over two decades, CIFAR researchers have vastly improved our understanding of the history and geography of our universe and of existence.
CIFARs Cosmology and Gravity program researchers have made tremendous strides towards the Theory of Everything and have transformed the way people understand the universe. It has also transformed Canada and has earned a reputation as a global leader in this fundamental area of research.
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