Colloquia and seminars

Thursday, 19 September 2024
Regular

Instabilité thermorésistive et oscillations magnétohydrodynamiques dans les atmosphères de Jupiter chaudes

Raphaël Hardy, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-2521

Thursday, 10 October 2024
Regular

TBA

Andra Stroe, Center for Astrophysics - Harvard & Smithsonian

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-2521

Thursday, 31 October 2024
Regular

TBA

Jonathan Fortney, UCSC

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-2521

Thursday, 5 December 2024
Regular

TBA

Victoria Kaspi, Université McGill

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-2521

Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Regular

Unraveling the mysteries of the early universe: next steps in mm-wavelength detection

Abigail Crites, Cornell University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 12 September 2024
Regular

Exoplanet Atmosphere, Formation, and Architecture

Eve J. Lee, Université McGill

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-2521

Tuesday, 10 September 2024
Regular

Antarctic Tipping Points: How Ice Shelves and the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are Shaping Our Sea-Level Future

Karen Alley, University of Manitoba

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 16 July 2024
Special

Exploring exoplanet atmospheres with the JWST MANATEE program

Thomas Green, NASA Ames

Time : 15:00

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Université de Montréal

Thursday, 16 May 2024
Regular

Differentiable Modelling, dLux, and the next generation of scientific modelling tools

Louis Desdoigts, The University of Sydney

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL local A-3521

Monday, 13 May 2024
Special

Dark Gas and Solid H2 in the Galaxy

Mark Walker, Manly Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill

Thursday, 25 April 2024
Regular

HD 45166 and Plaskett's star: two cases of binary evolution implicating magnetic fields

Gregg Wade, Royal Military College of Canada and Queen's University

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL, salle A-3521.1

Thursday, 18 April 2024
Regular

A Link Between Feeding and Feedback in FeLoBAL Quasars

Karen Leighly , The University of Oklahoma

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL, salle A-3521.1

Tuesday, 16 April 2024
Regular

Exploring the Environments of Young Planetary Systems

Christine Chen, Space Telescope Science Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 11 April 2024
Regular

Exploring the Role of Primary Mass and Star-forming Environment on the Formation of Stellar and Sub-stellar Multiple Systems

Matthew De Furio, University of Texas at Austin

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL local A-3521

Tuesday, 9 April 2024
Regular

The Deep Synoptic Array: results from the first FRB sample

Vikram Ravi, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 4 April 2024
Regular

Observatoires et instruments virtuels pour l?atmosphère du Soleil

Benoît Tremblay, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at High Altitude Observatory

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-3521.1

Tuesday, 2 April 2024
Regular

Reality Check: The Perils and Promise of Observations to Characterize Small Exoplanets

Johanna Teske, Carnegie

Time : 13:45

Place :	McGill University
	TSI Conference Room

Thursday, 28 March 2024
Regular

The substellar neighborhood: a stunningly diverse population of brown dwarfs

Federico Marocco, California Institute of Technology

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-3521.1

Tuesday, 26 March 2024
Regular

Ultra Cold Detectors to Study the Hottest Parts of the Universe

Roger O'Brient, NASA JPL

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 21 March 2024
Regular

Unveiling the Origins of Fast Radio Bursts

Mohit Bhardwaj, Postdoctoral fellow, Carnegie Mellon University

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3521

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Regular

Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles

Anson D?Aloisio, UC Riverside

Time : 13:36

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Regular

Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles

Anson D Aloisio, UC Riverside

Time : 13:36

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Regular

Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles

Anson D'Aloisio, UC Riverside

Time : 13:36

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 19 March 2024
Regular

Cosmological Reionization: New Insights, New Puzzles

Anson D'Aloisio, UC Riverside

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 14 March 2024
Regular

Search for Life in the Solar System by Mass Spectrometry and Molecular Assembly

Heather Graham, NASA - Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Time : 10:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-2521.1

Tuesday, 12 March 2024
Regular

The circumgalactic medium: What is it and how does it affect the evolution of galaxies?

Claude-Andre Faucher-Giguere, Northewestern U.

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 29 February 2024
Regular

Planetary building blocks: What are they made from? When did they form?

Amy Bonsor, Cambridge University

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-3521.1

Tuesday, 27 February 2024
Regular

The Rise and Fall of Star Formation in Galaxies

Allison Man, UBC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 22 February 2024
Regular

Exoplanet Atmospheres Revealed: Insights from JWST observations

Néstor Espinoza, Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI)

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-3521.1

Tuesday, 20 February 2024
Regular

A New Generation of Millimeter and Submillimeter Observations for Cosmology and Astrophysics

Eve Vavagiakis, Cornell

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 15 February 2024
Regular

Entre certitude et ambiguïté : perspectives critiques sur le concept de biosignature

Christophe Malaterre, UQAM

Time : 13:00

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3521

Tuesday, 13 February 2024
Regular

The Galactic Center, Sgr A*, and the Young Stars therein

Sebastiano von Fellenberg, Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 8 February 2024
Regular

How are the planets of low-mass M dwarfs different?

Emily Pass, Harvard University

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3521

Tuesday, 6 February 2024
Regular

Making Sense of the Fast Radio Burst Population

Duncan Lorimer, West Virginia University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 1 February 2024
Regular

Fundamental Properties of Cool Brown Dwarfs with JWST: A Progress Report

Michael Cushing, University of Toledo

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-3521.1

Tuesday, 30 January 2024
Regular

Mapping the Cosmos with the Simons Observatory

Tanay Bhandarkar, University of Pennsylvania

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 25 January 2024
Regular

Exo-Jupiters: The Movers and Shakers of Planetary Systems

Marta Bryan, University of Toronto

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-3521.1

Tuesday, 23 January 2024
Regular

Under the Radar: Geophysical investigations of Permafrost, Snow, and Glaciers

Laura Thomson, Queen's University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Tuesday, 16 January 2024
Regular

Surveying Exoplanet Climates with Space Telescopes

Nicolas Cowan, TSI & McGill Physics/EPS

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 14 December 2023
Regular

Gas-Rich Galaxies as Cosmological Probes

Kristine Spekkens, Royal Military College of Canada

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Tuesday, 12 December 2023
Regular

Decoding Exoplanet Atmospheres: The Revolutionary Role of JWST

Luis Welbanks, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 7 December 2023
Regular

Detection and characterisation of star-planet magnetic interactions

Antoine Strugarek, CEA/Laboratoire Dynamique des Étoiles, Exoplanète et de leur Environnement

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Tuesday, 5 December 2023
Regular

Unveiling the Earliest Galaxies and Super-massive Black Holes with JWST

Steven Finkelstein, UT Austin

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 30 November 2023
Regular

Polarization: The Second Stellar Spectrum

Ken Gayley, University of Iowa

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Regular

Gravitational Waves and Primordial Black Holes from Topological Defects in the Early Universe

David Dunsky, NYU

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 23 November 2023
Regular

La variabilité des étoiles massives le long du spectre électromagnétique

Alexandre David-Uraz, The Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Special

Drone Beammapping Methods for 21cm Cosmology Experiments

Will Tyndall, Yale University

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 16 November 2023
Regular

Life Detection in the Solar System Using Molecular Assembly Theory

Cole Mathis, Arizona State University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Tuesday, 14 November 2023
Regular

Modelling high redshift structure formation and reionization

Rahul Kannan, York University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 9 November 2023
Regular

Radio transients over a wide range of time-scale

Fereshteh Rajabi, McMaster University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Tuesday, 7 November 2023
Regular

When and where does star formation stop? Stellar Mass Assembly and Quenching in Galaxies across Cosmic Time

Gourav Khullar, University of Pittsburgh

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 2 November 2023
Regular

TBA

Joost Wardenier, UdeM / iREx

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Monday, 30 October 2023
Regular

Super-Earth Formation: The View From Resonant Planets

Nick Choksi, UC Berkeley

Time : 18:13

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 26 October 2023
Regular

Lighting Up Electromagnetic Counterparts Across the Gravitational Wave Spectrum

John Ruan, Bishop's

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Thursday, 26 October 2023
Special

Radio Astronomy in Africa: From the Mauritius Radio Telescope (MRT) to the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)

Radhakrishna Somanah, Université des Mascareignes (Mauritius)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Trottier Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Special

Impact of HWP systematics on the measured CMB polarization

Marta Monelli, Max Planck Institute of Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Regular

Neutrinos from the Galaxy and beyond: astrophysics with IceCube

Justin Vandenbrouke, WIPAC/UW-Madison

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 19 October 2023
Regular

Reflecting the Universe in a Mirror

Oliver Philcox, Simons Society of Fellows, New York, USA

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	MIL A-3561

Contact : https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uY-HZ3d4qvxQi1OuCFRyfJaZdRg_AMnMnRGvOzARKJM/edit?usp=sharing

Tuesday, 17 October 2023
Regular

Astrophysical magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Jets: Observations, Theory and Simulations

Rachid Ouyed, University of Calgary

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 12 October 2023
Regular

TBA

Joshua Speagle, University of Toronto

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Thursday, 5 October 2023
Regular

Title: Planetary Systems around White Dwarfs

Siyi Xu, Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Tuesday, 3 October 2023
Regular

Inelastic Dark Matter Through The Ages

Saniya Heeba, TSI & McGill Physics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 28 September 2023
Regular

WISDOM: Molecular cloud properties and star-formation quenching

Martin Bureau, University of Oxford

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Tuesday, 26 September 2023
Regular

Tracing Extreme Events from the Ocean to the Surface of the Antarctic Ice Sheet

Rajashree Tri Datta, CU Boulder

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 21 September 2023
Regular

Can Uranus and Neptune form concurrently via pebble, gas and planetesimal accretion?

Linn Eriksson, Stony Brook University

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-3561

Thursday, 21 September 2023
Special

Integral Field Spectroscopy in Galaxies

Jorge Barrera-Ballesteros, Instituto de Astronomia Universidad Nacional AutC3moma de MC)xico

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Trottier Space Institute (3550 University)

Tuesday, 19 September 2023
Regular

Probing the Invisible: Weighing Supermassive Black Holes

Martin Bureau, Oxford University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford 103)

Thursday, 14 September 2023
Regular

Unveiling the Atmospheric Composition of Ultra-hot Giant Exoplanets

Stefan Pelletier , Institut Trottier de recherche sur les exoplanètes / UdeM

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Université de Montréal, Pavillon MIL, Local A-3561

Thursday, 7 September 2023
Regular

Optimal methods for retrieving information from upcoming surveys

Sultan Hassan , NHFP Hubble Fellow, The Center For Cosmology And Particle Physics, Department Of Physics, New York University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Université de Montréal, Pavillon MIL, Local A-3561

Monday, 17 July 2023
Special

News from Indirect Dark Matter Searches

Aion Viana, Universidade de Sao Paulo

Time : 11:00

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Friday, 9 June 2023
Regular

What the Variability of Embedded Protostars Tells Us about Accretion: Past, Present, and Future

Doug Johnstone, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-3502

Thursday, 1 June 2023
Regular

What we have learned from 3D hydrodynamical simulations of common envelope evolution

Luke Chamandy, University of Rochester

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Campus MIL, Salle B-2416

Thursday, 18 May 2023
Regular

The Stellar Contamination Survival Guide: Lessons from Interpreting JWST Transmission Spectra of Exoplanet Atmospheres

Ryan MacDonald, University of Michigan

Time : 11:30

Place :	All
	Pavillon MIL A-3541

Tuesday, 16 May 2023
Special

Radio exploration of the transient sky: Binary mergers and peculiar core-collapse supernovae

Dr. Arvind Balasubramanian, Tata Institute for Fundamental Research

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	TSI Conference room

Tuesday, 2 May 2023
Special

Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time

Jason Hessels, University of Amsterdam & ASTRON - Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 25 April 2023
Regular

A Case for Canadian Divestment from the Thirty Meter Telescope at Mauna Kea

Uahikea Maile, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Regular

Pulsar Science with CHIME

Chia Min Tan, TSI & McGill Physics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 13 April 2023
Regular

Finding Rings in Young Protostellar Disks: Implications for Planet Formation and Disk Evolution

Sarah Sadavoy, Queen's University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 11 April 2023
Regular

Seismological Investigations of West Antarctica: From Mantle Structure to Icequakes

Erica Lucas, TSI

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Board Room (Rutherford Physics Building)

Thursday, 6 April 2023
Regular

Phase curves of hot Jupiters: clear or cloudy atmospheres?

Brett Morris, Research Scientist at STScl

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 4 April 2023
Regular

Paving the Way for Future Space Telescopes with Theory and Simulations

Aaron Yung, Goddard Space Flight Center

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 30 March 2023
Regular

Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters

Anja von der Linden, Stony Brook University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 28 March 2023
Regular

Stellar Clusters as the Nurseries of Black Holes

Sebastian Kamann, Liverpool John Moores University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 23 March 2023
Regular

Connecting the observable to the non-observable at a crossroads of observational and computational galaxy astronomy

Connor Bottrell, University of Tokyo

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 21 March 2023
Regular

Exo-Jupiters: The Movers and Shakers of Planetary Systems

Marta Bryan, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 16 March 2023
Regular

CUISINES of the worlds

Thomas Fauchez, Research Scientist at NASA's Planetary Systems Lab

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 14 March 2023
Regular

Astronomical spectrographs on a chip - Getting ready for the next-generation telescopes

Pradip Gatkine, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 9 March 2023
Regular

Uncovering the Compositions of Sub-Neptune Exoplanets with JWST

Anjali Piette, Carnegie Earth and Planetary Lab

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 7 March 2023
Regular

Toward precision cosmology with the Lya forest: theoretical modeling with hydrodynamical simulations

Solene Chabanier, LBNL

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 23 February 2023
Regular

Gas Giant Planets: Formation and Impact on Habitability

Michael Meyer, University of Michigan

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	ON ZOOM ONLY

Tuesday, 21 February 2023
Regular

X-ray flares from the nuclei of low-mass galaxies

Riccardo Arcodia, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Regular

Gravitational attraction: dynamically enhanced formation of millisecond pulsars in globular clusters

Claire Ye, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 9 February 2023
Regular

Disentangling the Physics of Massive Star Mass Loss After the Main-Sequence

Dylan N. Kee, National Solar Observatory in Hawaii

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 7 February 2023
Regular

White dwarfs as astrophysical probes: From planetary systems to magnetic fields

Christopher Manser, Imperial College London

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 2 February 2023
Regular

The Final Fates of Stars

Tyrone Woods, Research scientist at the Herzberg Institute (Victoria, B.C.)

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A-3541

Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Regular

Testing Fundamental Physics with the Event Horizon Telescope

Lia Medeiros, IAS

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Monday, 30 January 2023
Special

The Final Fates of Stars

Tyrone Woods, NRC

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Trottier Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Regular

Connecting astrophysical observations and dark matter microphysics using neural simulation-based inference

Siddharth Mishra-Sharma, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 10 January 2023
Regular

Lightning and Thunder: Probing the Dynamic Universe using Multiple Messengers

Ben Margalit, UC Berkeley

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 13 December 2022
Regular

The atomic interstellar medium's role in the star formation lifecycle: a sharpened view of nearby galaxies from LGLBS and PHANGS-JWST

Eric Koch, CfA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 8 December 2022
Regular

Exploring the Diversity of Distant Worlds: Characterizing Exoplanets and their Atmospheres

Lisa Dang, Chercheuse Post-Doctorale à l'UdeM

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Thursday, 1 December 2022
Regular

Biosignatures through rocky planet evolution around other stars

Sarah Rugheimer, Allan I. Carswell Chair at York University in Toronto

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 29 November 2022
Regular

The MWA Long Baseline Epoch of Reionsation Survey: Improvements in the MWA EoR0 field

Christene Lynch, University of North Carolina, Asheville

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 24 November 2022
Regular

Investigating the physics of quasar outflows in broad absorption lines quasars using SimBAL

Joseph Choi, Chercheur post-doctoral à l'UdeM

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3541

Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Regular

Counting stars: who's work in space science counts according to science communication

Eleanor Armstrong, Stockholm University (Sweden)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 17 November 2022
Regular

The Origin of the Galaxy's Most Common Planets Around its Most Common Stars

Ryan Cloutier, Assistant Professor at McMaster's University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon MIL A-3541

Tuesday, 15 November 2022
Regular

Recent developments in instruments for high redshift 21cm and exoplanets

Daniel Jacobs, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 10 November 2022
Regular

Clues about the Self-Regulation of Galaxies from Studies of the Circumgalactic Medium

Megan Donahue, Distinguished Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 8 November 2022
Regular

Insights from the Orbital Architectures of Planetary Systems

Malena Rice, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 1 November 2022
Regular

Dark Matter Searches with Celestial Bodies

Rebecca Leane, SLAC/Stanford KIPAC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Tuesday, 25 October 2022
Regular

Illuminating the Young Universe Through mm-wave Observations and Beyond

Nicholas Huang, Berkeley

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 20 October 2022
Regular

Anticipating biosignatures false positives in the 2020s

Joshua Krissansen-Totton, University of Washington

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541 - Diffusion sur Zoom

Tuesday, 18 October 2022
Regular

The Search for Life on Mars: Challenges and Opportunities in Current and Future Mars Exploration

Amy Williams, University of Florida Gainesville

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Bell Room (Rutherford Physics Building, room 103)

Thursday, 13 October 2022
Regular

La cristallisation des naines blanches à l?ère de Gaia

Simon Blouin, University of Victoria

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Thursday, 6 October 2022
Regular

New insights about the magneto-rotational evolution of solar-type stars

Quentin Noraz, CEA/Saclay

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL salle A3541

Tuesday, 4 October 2022
Regular

Ironing out Life?s First Breaths

Jennifer Glass, Georgia Tech

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 27 September 2022
Regular

Challenges to space sustainability: Space weapons

Aaron Boley, UBC

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 22 September 2022
Regular

Observations, modélisation, évolution et origines des naines blanches magnétiques

Francois Hardy, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL A3541

Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Regular

X-ray Population Studies with eROSITA - from supermassive black holes to the circumgalactic medium

Urmila Chadayammuri, CfA (Harvard & Smithsonian)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 15 September 2022
Regular

Open Questions in Massive Star and Star Cluster Formation

Jonathan C. Tan, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Virginia

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL A3541

Tuesday, 13 September 2022
Regular

To the Frontiers of Cosmic Origins - From First Black Holes to Latest Planets

Jonathan Tan, Chalmers University & University of Virginia

Time : 15:30

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

Friday, 9 September 2022
Conférence du vendredi

Les premiers résultats du télescope spatial James Webb

René Doyon, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL Salle A3521.1

Tuesday, 6 September 2022
Regular

Investigating Traditional Radio Astronomy Techniques in the Context of the Epoch of Reionization

Nichole Barry, Curtin University

Time : 15:30

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

Wednesday, 27 July 2022
Special

Investigating Local Environments of Fast Radio Bursts

Alexandra Mannings, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 16:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University, Conference Room / Tele-seminar)

Tuesday, 26 July 2022
Special

An algebraic approach for recovering an unknown timing solution from a list of TOAs

Barak Zackay, Weizmann Institute

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University, Conference Room / Tele-seminar)

Monday, 25 July 2022
Special

Precision Calibration for 21 cm Cosmology

Ruby Byrne, Caltech

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University, Conference Room / Tele-seminar)

Tuesday, 19 July 2022
Regular

Immediate observational access to the post-merger environment of a neutron star collision

Aaron Tohuvavohu, University of Toronto

Time : 15:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University, Conference Room / Tele-seminar)

Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Special

The seeds of the first supermassive black holes

Mar Mezcua, Institute of Space Sciences (Barcelona, Spain)

Time : 14:00

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL - B-2061

Thursday, 7 April 2022
Regular

Observing Planet Formation

Sean Andrews, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Thursday, 31 March 2022
Regular

L'évolution spectrale des étoiles naines blanches: une fenêtre unique sur le transport des éléments dans les étoiles

Antoine Bédard, Université de Montréal

Time : 12:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL, Local A-4502.1

Tuesday, 29 March 2022
Regular

A Stimulating Explanation of the Extragalactic Radio Excess

Hongwan Liu, NYU

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 24 March 2022
Regular

Non-solar scaled abundances for massive stars: the chemical abundance breakthrough for galaxy evolution

Kathryn Grasha, Australian National University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 22 March 2022
Regular

Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars

Carl Fields, LANL

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 17 March 2022
Regular

The Ages of Galaxy Clusters: A New (or Old?) Cosmological Test

James Taylor, University of Waterloo

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Thursday, 10 March 2022
Regular

Measuring dark matter halos in strong gravitational lenses with machine learning

Adam Coogan, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 8 March 2022
Regular

Cosmological probe combination for current and future surveys

Andrina Nicola, Princeton University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 24 February 2022
Regular

Sparse identification of variable star dynamics

Mario Pasquato, UdeM/University of Padua

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 22 February 2022
Regular

Exoplanet Legacy: Population Trends from Phase Curve Observations

Erin May, John Hopkins Applied Physics Lab

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 17 February 2022
Regular

A 100 kpc Galactic Wind Feeding the Circumgalactic Medium

Alison Coil, UC San Diego

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Regular

A broad-band X-ray view of accretion disks around neutron stars

McKinley Brumback, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Regular

Understanding Planetary Evolution with TESS

Joey Rodriguez, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 3 February 2022
Regular

5 Years of Juno Prime Mission at Jupiter: Main Discoveries and Extended Mission

Vincent Hue, Southwest Research Institute

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 1 February 2022
Regular

Searching for extreme hadronic accelerators in our Universe with multi-messenger observations

Nahee Park, Queen's University

Time : 13:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 27 January 2022
Regular

The Importance of Being Interpretable

Michelle Ntampaka, STScI

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 25 January 2022
Regular

Brown Dwarf Radio Emission: A Window into Substellar Magnetospheres

Melodie Kao, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 20 January 2022
Regular

Globular Cluster Systems and Their Relationship to Galaxy Stellar Mass

Gwendolyn Eadie, University of Toronto

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 18 January 2022
Regular

Drone Calibration for 21cm Experiments

Emily Kuhn, Yale University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 13 January 2022
Regular

What are the magnetic switchbacks observed by the mission Parker Solar Probe?

Naïs Fargette, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 11 January 2022
Regular

Space microbiology: microbial interactions in extremes and their uses

Charles Cockell, University of Edinburgh

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 14 December 2021
Regular

Halo-Bar Coupling: How Dark Matter Defines Galaxies

Angela Collier, University of Colorado Boulder

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 9 December 2021
Regular

Vers une nouvelle ère d'exploration lunaire

Myriam Lemelin, Université de Sherbrooke

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL, Local A-3502.1 et Zoom

Tuesday, 7 December 2021
Regular

Quasi periodic oscillations from a transient ULX in M 101

Ryan Urquhart, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 30 November 2021
Regular

Cosmology with the Next Generation of Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments

Johanna Nagy, Washington University in St. Louis

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 25 November 2021
Regular

Carving Super-Earths From Sub-Neptunes With Mass-Loss

James Sikora, Bishop's University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL, Local A-3502.1 et Zoom

Tuesday, 23 November 2021
Regular

New ideas for the axion dark matter program

Nick Rodd, CERN

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 18 November 2021
Regular

Planetary Systems Biochemistry: Inferring the laws of life at a Planetary Scale

Sara Walker, Arizona State University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 16 November 2021
Regular

The Dark Side Of Distant Massive Galaxies, And New Light With JWST

Christina Williams, University of Arizona

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Friday, 12 November 2021
Special

L'études des amas stellaires ouverts: Des portraits de famille qui en disent long

André-Nicolas Chené, Observatoire Gemini - NSF's NOIRLab

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL, Local A-3502.1

Tuesday, 9 November 2021
Regular

Dust in the Wind: New Instabilities Across Astrophysical Systems

Phil Hopkins, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Thursday, 4 November 2021
Regular

Plasmon phase space and millicharged particles

Katelin Schutz, McGill University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL, Local A-3502.1 et Zoom

Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Regular

The atomic gas mass of galaxies during the epoch of galaxy assembly

Nissim Kanekar, National Centre for Radio Astrophysics of Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 28 October 2021
Regular

SIGNALS: Learning on the Birth of the Stars with SITELLE

Laurie Rousseau-Nepton, CFHT

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 26 October 2021
Regular

Tracing the building blocks of planet formation through protoplanetary discs

James Owen, Imperial College London

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 19 October 2021
Regular

Constraining the history of reionization with quasar absorption lines

Laura Keating, Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Thursday, 14 October 2021
Regular

Feedback from Nuclear Black Holes and the Origins of Molecular Clouds in Elliptical Galaxies & Clusters

Brian McNamara, Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics, University of Waterloo

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Thursday, 7 October 2021
Regular

Engineering the Cosmological Measurements with Old Stellar Populations

Rachael Beaton, Princeton University/Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 5 October 2021
Regular

Modelling stellar cluster populations alongside their host galaxies in a cosmic environment

Marta Reina-Campos, McMaster University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Thursday, 30 September 2021
Regular

Vos données : comment c'est fait?

André-Nicolas Chené, Observatoire Gemini

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Campus MIL, Local A-3502.1 et Zoom

Tuesday, 28 September 2021
Regular

Planets are Places: Characterization of Other Worlds in the 2020s and Beyond

Laura Kreidberg, MPIA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Thursday, 23 September 2021
Regular

Une symétrie cosmologique et une constante de Hubble élevée comme indicateur d'un monde miroir sombre

Francis-Yan Cyr-Racine, University of New Mexico

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 21 September 2021
Regular

Small Circumbinary Planets: Do They Exist And How Do We Find Them?

David Martin, Ohio State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Thursday, 16 September 2021
Regular

Planets are Places: Characterization of Other Worlds in the 2020s and Beyond

Laura Kreidberg, MPIA

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Regular

An ultra-long period magnetar with periodic radio emission

Natasha Hurley-Walker, Curtin University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill - Zoom

Tuesday, 7 September 2021
Regular

Gravitational Wave Sources at the Hearts of Galaxies

Smadar Naoz , UCLA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSQK9l4T2Cs

Friday, 3 September 2021
Special

Galileo and science deniers

Mario Livio, STScI

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-1501.1 du MIL et Zoom

Contact : A. Moffat

Thursday, 22 April 2021
Regular

Deep learning insights on galaxy formation and evolution

John Wu, STScI

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Thursday, 15 April 2021
Regular

Tales from Old Friends: Single and Double White Dwarfs in the Gaia Era

Mukremin Kilic, University of Oklahoma

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Contact : Pierre Bergeron

Tuesday, 13 April 2021
Regular

A Predictive Theory of Star Formation and Turbulence Driving Across Cosmic Time

Blakesley Burkhart, Rutgers University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 6 April 2021
Regular

Using Gravitational Lensing to Dissect Galaxies

Jane Rigby, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Regular

The Emerging 5.0 Era: Law, Governance and Ethics at the Frontier

Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 30 March 2021
Regular

The Emerging 5.0 Era: Law, Governance and Ethics at the Frontier

Timiebi Aganaba-Jeanty, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 25 March 2021
Regular

Mega-constellations Risk Multiple Tragedies of the Commons

Aaron Boley, UBC

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Contact : Ren? Doyon

Tuesday, 23 March 2021
Regular

Dissecting Galaxies in High-redshift Galaxy Clusters

Allison Noble, Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 18 March 2021
Regular

Exoplanet Atmospheric Studies At High Spectral Resolution: from visible to near-infrared wavelengths

Romain Allart, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Thursday, 11 March 2021
Regular

The SPHEREx All-Sky Infrared Spectral Survey Satellite

Olivier Doré, JPL

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Contact : Y. Hezaveh

Tuesday, 9 March 2021
Regular

Constraining the composition of exoplanetary material using white dwarf stars

Amy Steele, Space Telescope Science Institute

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 25 February 2021
Regular

Demystifying impossible supernovae using astrophysics, statistics, and machine learning

Wolfgang Kerzendorf, Michigan State University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Contact : Laurence Perrault Levasseur

Tuesday, 23 February 2021
Regular

Using Earth Rotation to Detect Climate Change

Jerry X. Mitrovica, Harvard University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 18 February 2021
Regular

A Holistic View of Exoplanets, their Environments, and their Potential to Host Life

Evgenya Shkolnik, Arizona State University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Contact : Ren? Doyon

Tuesday, 16 February 2021
Regular

Protoplanetary Disks and Clouds in Substellar Atmospheres: Insights from Microphysics

Diana Powell, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 11 February 2021
Regular

Merging deep learning with physical models, for the analysis of modern cosmological surveys

François Lanusse, CEA Saclay

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Contact : Laurence Perrault Levasseur

Tuesday, 2 February 2021
Regular

Fast Transient Discoveries with realfast at the VLA

Casey Law, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 26 January 2021
Regular

Application of Machine Learning to Identify Stellar Feedback

Duo Xu, University of Texas, Austin

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Friday, 22 January 2021
Special

Les exoplanètes: De la découverte de 51 Pegasi b au prix Nobel de la physique 2019

Francesco Pepe, Université de Genève

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Thursday, 21 January 2021
Regular

A Song of Ice and Fire: the Fate of Planetary Systems After Stellar Death

Andrew Vanderburg, UT Texas & Madison/Wisconsin

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 19 January 2021
Regular

From Be/X-ray transients at low X-ray luminosity to bright unusual short gamma-ray bursts

Alicia Rouco Escorial, Northwestern University (Ciera)

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 12 January 2021
Regular

Compact Object Mergers in the Gravitational Wave Era

Rosalba Perna, Stony Brook University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 5 January 2021
Regular

Probing the particle nature of dark matter with strong gravitational lensing

Yashar Hezaveh, Université de Montréal

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 8 December 2020
Regular

À venir

Sarah Sadavoy, Queen's University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Regular

On the Breakthrough Listen's radio technosignature searches

Vishal Gajjar, Karen Perez, Bryan Brzycki, University of California, Berkeley

Time : 15:30

Place :	All
	Zoom

Tuesday, 24 November 2020
Regular

Small glitches and timing noise

Cristobal Espinoza, Universidad de Santiago de Chile

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 17 November 2020
Regular

The Discovery of Organic Matter Preserved in 3-Billion-Year-Old Lacustrine Mudstones at Gale Crater, Mars and its Astrobiological Implications

Jennifer Eigenbrode, NASA/GSFC

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 10 November 2020
Regular

Optical systematics in next generation CMB experiments

Jon Gudmundsson, Stockholm University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Friday, 6 November 2020
Special

What can Deep Learning help in addressing Astrophysical Challenges

Shirley Ho, Flatiron Institute

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Friday, 6 November 2020
Special

What can Deep Learning help in addressing Astrophysical Challenges

Shirley Ho, Flatiron Institute

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Tuesday, 3 November 2020
Regular

From Grains to Landscapes: Reconstructing Martian Environments at Multiple Scales

Frances Rivera-Hernandez, Dartmouth College

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 27 October 2020
Regular

Line Intensity Mapping: Modeling & Analysis in the Precision Era

Anthony Pullen, NYU

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 20 October 2020
Regular

Prospects and Progress in Radio Searches for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos

Stephanie Wissel, Penn State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Tuesday, 13 October 2020
Regular

The Southern Stellar Stream Spectroscopic Survey (S5): Overview and Latest Science Results

Ting Li, Princeton University & Carnegie Observatories

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Friday, 9 October 2020
Conférence départementale

Sonder la nature de la matière noire grâce aux lentilles gravitationnelles

Yashar Hezaveh, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Zoom

Friday, 2 October 2020
Special

Listening for gravitational waves above the quantum din

Nergis Mavalvala, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Thursday, 1 October 2020
Conférence publique

Gravitational waves: a new window to the Universe

Nergis Mavalvala, MIT

Time : 18:30

Place :	McGill University
	Diffusion en direct : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqmnq65MjKk

Tuesday, 29 September 2020
Regular

A Unified Understanding of Fast Radio Bursts

Wenbin Lu, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom: URL: https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/92574500164?pwd=WTVWU3hPQ0NZZFFhT25aNERTOTlMZz09 Meeting ID: 925 7450 0164 Passcode: 230063

Tuesday, 15 September 2020
Regular

The Size, Shape, and Scattering of the Black Hole Sagittarius A*

Sara Issaoun, Radboud University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	Zoom

Monday, 9 March 2020
Special

Highlights from the very-high-energy gamma-ray sky as seen with VERITAS

Kenneth Ragan, McGill University

Time : 13:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	B-1007 - Campus MIL

Tuesday, 25 February 2020
Regular

Cosmography and Black Hole Spectroscopy with Gravitational Waves

Will Farr, SUNY Stony Brook

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 20 February 2020
Regular

How to Build a Big Galaxy

Adam Muzzin, York University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-2553 - Campus MIL

Contact : Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo

Tuesday, 18 February 2020
Regular

Astrophysics with the NANOGrav Pulsar Timing Array

Michael Lam, Rochester Institute of Technology

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 13 February 2020
Regular

The Gemini Infra-Red Multi-Object Spectrograph (GIRMOS), and Massive Galaxy Protoclusters in the Early Universe

Scott Chapman, Dalhousie

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-2553 - Campus MIL

Contact : René Doyon

Wednesday, 12 February 2020
Special

Multiwavelength Studies of Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in Extragalactic Globular Clusters

Kristen Dage, Michigan State University

Time : 12:00

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

Tuesday, 11 February 2020
Regular

Detecting Signs of Life and its Origin on Other Planets

Laurie Barge, Caltech

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Monday, 10 February 2020
Special

Fast radio burst updates from the Apertif telescope

Emily Petroff, University of Amsterdam

Time : 14:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 6 February 2020
Regular

Illuminating the Dark Universe with Radio Observations

Cynthia Chang, McGill University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	A-2553 - Campus MIL

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 4 February 2020
Regular

Measuring the Epoch of Reionization with Line Intensity Mapping using TIME

Abby Crites, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 28 January 2020
Regular

Mass ejection, compact objects, and electromagnetic transients

Rodrigo Fernandez, University of Alberta

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 21 January 2020
Regular

The CMB as a backlight

Alex von Engelen, CITA

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 14 January 2020
Regular

Lunar geochemical and Galactic astronomy X-ray observations with Apollo 15 and 16

Erik Kuulkers, ESA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 7 January 2020
Regular

À venir

Laurence Levasseur, Université de Montréal

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 10 December 2019
Regular

From ice crystals to ice caps, the climate of Mars as seen at the poles

Isaac Smith, York University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 5 December 2019
Regular

The Past, Present, and Future of 21cm Cosmology

Adrian Liu, McGill University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Roger-Gaudry, D-460

Contact : Y. Hezaveh

Tuesday, 26 November 2019
Regular

Inner Solar Systems

Rebekah (Bekki) Dawson, Penn State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	All
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 21 November 2019
Regular

Finding an Alien Biosphere with Computational Chemistry

Clara Sousa-Silva, MIT

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Roger-Gaudry, D-460

Tuesday, 19 November 2019
Regular

Quantifying the rate of dual-AGN with BAYMAX

Adi Foord, University of Michigan

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 12 November 2019
Regular

The Mystery of Methane on Mars: Fact, Folly or Figment?

John Moores, York University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 5 November 2019
Regular

The Magnetic Interstellar Medium in Three Dimensions

Susan Clark, IAS

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Regular

The rivers and seas of Titan

Taylor Perron, MIT

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 24 October 2019
Regular

Metamorphosis: New views of supernovae and progenitors

Jennifer Hofmann, University of Denver

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Roger-Gaudry, D-460

Contact : Moffat/St-Louis

Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Regular

Studying Star Formation from the Stratosphere

Laura Fissel, National Radio Astronomy Observatory

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 17 October 2019
Regular

Planets in a bottle: Exploring planetary atmospheres in the lab

Sarah Hörst, John Hopkins University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Roger-Gaudry, D-460

Contact : René Doyon

Tuesday, 15 October 2019
Regular

Black Holes in Low Mass Galaxies

Anil Seth, University of Utah

Time : 15:30

Place :	All
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Regular

Deciphering the Engines of Fast Radio Bursts

Brian Metzger, Columbia University

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 3 October 2019
Regular

Connecting planetary properties with formation in evolving protoplanetary disks

Ralph Pudritz, McMaster University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Roger-Gaudry, D-460

Contact : René Doyon

Tuesday, 1 October 2019
Regular

General Relativity Stands Alone?

Christopher Smeenk, Western University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 26 September 2019
Regular

A look into the birth cradles of planets with ALMA: signatures of planet formation in protoplanetary disks

Nienke van der Marel, NRC-Herzberg

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Roger-Gaudry, D-460

Contact : Talens

Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Regular

Probing Inhomogeneous Reionization with Lyman alpha Surveys: From the ground to WFIRST

James Rhoads, NASA Goddard

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 17 September 2019
Regular

Origin of volatiles in Earth's mantle

Curtis Williams, UC Davis

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Monday, 16 September 2019
Special

High-redshift astrophysics using every photon

Patrick Breysse, CITA

Time : 15:30

Place :	All
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 12 September 2019
Regular

Relativistic Jets from Weakly Accreting Black Holes

Rich Plotkin, ICRAR

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Roger-Gaudry, D-460

Contact : Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo

Tuesday, 10 September 2019
Regular

Relativistic Jets from Weakly Accreting Black Holes

Richard Plotkin, University of Nevada - Reno

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 3 September 2019
Special

Navigating the new epoch of FRB discovery

Liam Connor, Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy University of Amsterdam

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 18 July 2019
Special

Targeted Searches for FRBs Using the EVN

Kenzie Nimmo, University of Amsterdam

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Lounge

Tuesday, 2 July 2019
Regular

Physics at the Outskirts of Galaxy Clusters

Chihway Chang, University of Chicago

Time : 15:30

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

Friday, 28 June 2019
Special

CLASS: Large Angular Scale cosmology from the ground

Ivan Padilla, John Hopkins University

Time : 14:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Lounge

Tuesday, 25 June 2019
Special

Mapping the Baryonic Universe: From Reionization to Present-Day Galaxies

Hamsa Padmanabhan, CITA

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Special

The Event Horizon Telescope - Seeing the Unseeable

Shep Doeleman, Harvard Center for Astrophysics & Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	McConnell Engineering Building, room 304

Wednesday, 1 May 2019
Special

The Event Horizon Telescope - Seeing the Unseeable

Shep Doeleman, Harvard Center for Astrophysics & Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Time : 12:00

Place :	McGill University
	McConnell Engineering Building, room 304

Thursday, 18 April 2019
Regular

Adventures in X-ray Studies of Massive Stars

Richard Ignace, East Tennessee State University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Nicole St-Louis

Tuesday, 16 April 2019
Regular

Radiation mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts

Pawan Kumar, University of Texas at Austin

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 11 April 2019
Regular

The New Era of Stellar Physics

Matteo Cantiello, Flat Iron Institute

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Paul Charbonneau

Tuesday, 9 April 2019
Regular

What's on the menu? Investigating the selective diet of microbes using novel isotopic tools

Nagissa Mahmoudi , McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 4 April 2019
Regular

High-resolution spectroscopy: A powerful tool for characterizing exoplanets and their atmospheres

Henriette Schwarz, University of California Santa Cruz

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Thursday, 4 April 2019
Special

Self-Induced Irradiation Cycles in Neutron Star Binaries

Lorne Nelson, Bishop's University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 2 April 2019
Regular

Blast from the Past: The Evolution of Ultraviolet Emission and Flaring from Low-Mass Stars and its Implications for Habitable Zone Planets

Evgenya Shkolnik , Arizona State University

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 28 March 2019
Regular

Des milliers de naines blanches solides (l'histoire d'une collaboration Warwick-Montréal)

Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Warwick University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Pierre Bergeron

Tuesday, 26 March 2019
Regular

Constraining the Past and Present Distant Solar System with Real +and Simulated Trans-Neptunian Objects

Nathan Kaib , University of Oklahoma

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 21 March 2019
Regular

Ejections de masse coronale: nature et interactions

Noé Lugaz, University of New Hampshire

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Tuesday, 19 March 2019
Regular

Modelling Low Mach Number Astrophysical Flows

Alice Harpole , Stony Brook University

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 14 March 2019
Regular

Entering a new, data-driven era for precision cosmology: opportunities and challenges for machine learning.

Laurence Perreault-Levasseur, Stanford University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 12 March 2019
Regular

Climate and Habitability of Tidally Locked Planets

Jun Yang, Peking University

Time : 15:30

Place :	All
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 28 February 2019
Regular

L'évolution spectrale des étoiles naines blanches riches en hélium et le problème de l'origine de l'hydrogène

Benoit Rolland, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Thursday, 21 February 2019
Regular

Les étoiles naines blanches à l'ère du Sloan Digital Sky Survey et de Gaia

Cynthia Genest-Beaulieu, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 19 February 2019
Regular

Opportunities for Applications of Deep Learning in Cosmology

Siamak Ravanbakhsh, University of British Columbia

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 14 February 2019
Regular

Optical to near-infrared transmission spectra of three cool gas giants

Ian Wong, MIT

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 12 February 2019
Special

Probing the Radio-Transient Universe with CHIME

Emmanuel Fonseca, Seth Siegel & Shriharsh Tendulkar, McGill University

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 7 February 2019
Regular

What is the chemical composition of giant planets telling us about their formation ?

Mohamad Ali-Dib, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Regular

New Directions in Galaxy Formation and Cosmology Following the EDGES 78 MHz Detection

Jordan Mirocha, McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 31 January 2019
Regular

Planetary Physics from Population Statistics

Daniel Thorngren, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 29 January 2019
Regular

Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz, UC Santa Cruz

Time : 15:30

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

Tuesday, 22 January 2019
Regular

Studying Planetary Lithospheres Using Modern Localization Methods

Frederik J. Simons, Princeton University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 15 January 2019
Regular

The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM)

James Aguirre, University of Pennsylvania

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 10 January 2019
Regular

KROSS: The KMOS Redshift One Spectroscopic Survey

Martin Bureau, Oxford University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : René Doyon

Tuesday, 8 January 2019
Special

Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies

Robyn Sanderson, University of Pennsylvania

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 18 December 2018
Special

An Absorption Feature in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum

Raul Monsalve, McGill University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	MSI (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 11 December 2018
Regular

Mapping Matter in Strong Gravity: Spectral-Timing of Black Holes and Neutron Stars

Abigail Stevens, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 6 December 2018
Regular

Contraindre la distribution de planètes géantes à grandes séparations (séminaire PhD)

Frédérique Baron, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Tuesday, 4 December 2018
Regular

Planet 9 or Planet Nein? Discoveries in the Outer Solar System

Samantha Lawler, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Monday, 3 December 2018
Regular

Planet 9 or Planet Nein? Discoveries in the Outer Solar System

Samantha Lawler, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics

Time : 14:00

Place :	Bishop's University
	Bishop’s University, Hamilton 304

Contact : Lorne Nelson

Thursday, 29 November 2018
Regular

The Hydrogen Intensity and Real-time Analysis eXperiment

Jonathan Sievers, McGill University

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 27 November 2018
Regular

The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars: Transient Phenomena and Stellar Astrophysics in the Era of Wide-Field Surveys

Maria Drout, University of Toronto

Time : 15:30

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

Friday, 23 November 2018
Special

Explosions in Binaries: Widowed Stars and Consequences for GW Astronomy

Mathieu Renzo, University of Amsterdam

Time : 13:00

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Tuesday, 20 November 2018
Regular

Studying the sensitivities of multimessenger signals from populations of core-collapse supernovae

MacKenzie Warren, Michigan State University

Time : 15:30

Place :	McGill University
	McGill Space Institute (3550 University), Conference Room

Thursday, 15 November 2018
Regular

Don't Blink: detecting transiting exoplanets with MASCARA

Geert-Jan Talen, Université de Montréal

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Björn Benneke

Tuesday, 13 November 2018
Regular

Imaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets

Greg Hallinan, Caltech

Time : 15:30

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

Thursday, 8 November 2018
Regular

Using Deep Learning to Plug an Observational Gap in EUV Irradiance Observations

Andres Munoz-Jaramillo, SouthWest Research Institute

Time : 11:30

Place :	Université de Montréal
	Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, Local D-460

Contact : Paul Charbonneau