DAO Science Tea


LCR, Victoria

Thursday 3 PM unless indicated with (*)

Organizer: Nienke van der Marel (astro@nienkevandermarel.com)

Spring 2019

DateNameTitle
10 January
17 January
24 JanuaryBen Gerard (UVic)The Gemini Planet Imager Exoplanet Survey and Beyond: Status, Results, and Upgrades
31 JanuaryAidan Pine and Anna Kazantseva (HAA)Language Technology for Indigenous Languages in Canada

7 February
14 FebruaryIvo van der Marel (Under the GUI)Virtual reality
21 FebruaryNo Science TeaRory Barnes (UW) will be giving a special DAO Colloquium at this time instead
28 FebruaryMichael Wong (U. Washington)A Planetary Perspective of Life
7 March
14 MarchCancelled
21 MarchReka Winslow (New Hampshire)Coronal mass ejection compressing Mercury’s magnetosphere to the surface; Implications for exoplanets
28 March
4 April
11 April
18 AprilMichelle Kunimoto (UBC)Exploring exoplanet populations with Kepler
25 AprilCoop students (HAA)Various
2 May
9 MayMin-Kai Lin (ASIAA)A rocky road from dust to planets 
16 May
23 MayBerta Margalef (University of Nottingham)Anomaly detection methods for astronomical images
30 May
6 June
13 JuneTrystyn Berg (ESO)
20 June