Summer 2020
Tues May 12th, 11am, Zoom: Evelyn Johnston (Universidad Católica)
Tues May 19th, 11am, Zoom: Paul Wiegert (Western University)
Tues June 2nd, 11am, Zoom: Decker French (Carnegie Observatories), Recording
Tues June 9th, 11am, Zoom: Raja GuhaThakurta (Santa Cruz/Lick Obs.), Recording
Tues June 16th, 11am, Zoom: Peter Brown (Western University), Recording
Tues June 23rd, 11am, Zoom: Ylva Gotberg (Carnegie Observatories), Recording
Tues June 30th, 4pm**, Zoom: Daniel Price (Monash University), Recording
Tues July 7th, 11am, Zoom: Meg Schwamb (Queen’s U Belfast), Recording
Tues July 14th, 11am, Zoom: Jan Cami (Western University), Recording
Winter 2020
Tues January 14th, 11am, LCR: Marcin Sawicki (St Mary/HAA)
Tues January 21th, 11am, LCR: Jay Melosh (Perdue University)
Tues February 4th, 3pm, LCR: David Hendel (University of Toronto)
Tues February 11th, 11am, LCR: Brian Svaboda (NRAO New Mexico)
Tues February 18th, 11am, LCR: Sarah Sadavoy (Queens University)
Tues February 25th, 11am, LCR: Gijs Mulders (University of Chicago)
Tues March 3rd, 11am, LCR: Ilse Cleeves (University of Virginia) Cancelled/Postponed due to travel restrictions
Tues March 10th, 11am, LCR: Daryl Haggard (McGill University)
Tues March 17th, 11am, LCR: Greg Mosby (NASA Goddard) Cancelled/Postponed due to travel restrictions
Tues March 24th, 11am, LCR: Fabio Pacucci (CfA/Harvard) Cancelled/Postponed due to travel restrictions
Tues March 31th, 11am, LCR: Mehrnoosh Tahani (DRAO) Cancelled/Postponed due to travel restrictions
Fall 2019
Tues September 17th, Todd Henry (Georgia State University)
Tues September 24th, Eve Lee (McGill)
Mon October 7th, Satoshi Yamamoto (University of Tokyo)
Tues October 15th Gwendolyn Eadie (University of Toronto)
Tues October 22nd, Tyrone Woods (HAA)
Tues October 29th, Isabel Santos-Santon (Univeristy of Victoria)
Tues November 5th, Library: Sarah Pearson (Flatiron institute)
Tues November 19th, Jennifer Marshall (MSE)
Tues November 26th, Brian Mason (Georgia State University)
Tues December 3th, Allison Man (Dunlap Institute)
Tues December 10th, Raphaël Errani (University of Victoria/CITA)
Spring 2019
| Date | Speaker | Title / Topic (Click for poster/abstract) |
| Tues Jan 8 | No seminar | (AAS week) |
| Tues Jan 15 | Hope How-Huan Chen (UT Austin) | Coherent Structures and Star Formation: An Updated Story of Islands of Calmness in a Sea of Turbulence |
| Tues Jan 22 | Renee Hlozek (Toronto) | The Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge |
| Tues Jan 29 | Andrew Cumming (McGill) | Formation and evolution of gas giant planets and exoplanets |
| Tues Feb 5 | Robyn Sanderson (UPenn) | Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies |
| Tues Feb 12 | — | Seminar cancelled due to weather. |
| Tues Feb 19 | — | Seminar cancelled. |
| **Thurs Feb 21** | Rory Barnes (U. Washington) | After the Habitable Zone |
| Tues Feb 26 | Laura Fissel (NRAO) | Studying star formation from the stratosphere |
| Tues Mar 5 | Sam Lawler (NRC/DAO) | Discoveries and Observation Biases in the Outer Solar System: Don’t Count Your Planets Before They Hatch |
| Tues Mar 12 | Angie Wolfgang (Penn State) | What’s Next for Super-Earths? Population Demographics To Probabilistic Planetary Physics |
| Tues Mar 19 | John Tobin (NRAO) | Revolutionizing our View of Disk and Multiple Star Formation: New Frontiers Explored by ALMA and the VLA |
| **Wed Mar 20** | Yuan-Sen Ting (Princeton) | Milky Way, machine learning, big data |
| Tues Mar 26 | Will Percival (Waterloo) | Making cosmological measurements with standard rulers and standard shapes |
| Tues Apr 2 | Ruobing Dong (UVic) | Observational planet formation |
| Tues Apr 9 | Wes Fraser (NRC) | |
| Tues Apr 16 | No seminar | — |
| Tues Apr 23 | Abedin Abedin (NRC) | |
| Tues Apr 30 | TBD |
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
| Date | Speaker | Title / Topic (Click for poster/abstract) |
| Tues Jan 9 | Nienke van der Marel (NRC/DAO) | “The ALMA revolution of planet formation: structures of gas and dust in planet-forming disks” |
| Tues Jan 16 | Rebecca Jensen-Clem (UC Berkeley) | “Probing the atmospheres of exoplanets and brown dwarfs with near-IR polarimetry” |
| Tues Jan 23 | Alex Hill (UBC/DRAO) | “Ionization of the warm (magneto)ionized medium” |
| Tues Jan 30 | Adrian Price-Whelan (Princeton) | “Very wide binaries and comoving stars in the Gaia era” |
| Tues Feb 6 | Jocelyn Read (Cal State Fullerton) | “Measuring the neutron-star equation of state with GW170817” |
| Tues Feb 13 | Reka Winslow (U. New Hampshire) | “Coronal mass ejection evolution and effects on galactic cosmic rays and planetary magnetospheres” |
| Tues Feb 20 | Leslie Rogers (U. Chicago) | “The diversity and demographics of distant rocky worlds” |
| Tues Feb 27 | Kelsi Singer (SwRI) | “From craters to cyrovolcanoes—Recent results from the New Horizons mission to Pluto and the Kuiper Belt” |
| Tues Mar 6 | Evan Scannapieco (ASU) | “The rise and fall of galaxies” |
| Tues Mar 13 | Tessa Vernstrom (Dunlap) | “The faint extragalactic radio background” |
| Tues Mar 20 | Brenda Matthews (NRC/DAO) | “Debris disks and their connection to planets: Surveys and resolved imaging” |
| Tues Mar 27 | Louise Edwards (Cal Poly SLO) | “Today’s largest galaxies: Examining the growth of local brightest cluster galaxies using IFU kinematics and stellar populations” |
| Tues Apr 3 | Vincent Henault-Brunet (NRC/DAO) | “Mass modelling globular clusters: from black holes to low-mass stars” |
| Tues Apr 10 | Guillaume Thomas (NRC/DAO) | “Testing the dark matter and alternative gravity theories with the stellar streams of the Milky Way” |
| Tues Apr 17 | Lisa Locke (NRC/DAO) | “Phased Array Feeds etc.: Musings from the mm Instrumentation Group” |
Fall 2017
| Date | Speaker | Title / Topic |
| Tues. Sep. 5 | Henry Ngo (NRC/DAO) | “Planet Formation and Migration in Extreme Planetary Systems” |
| Tues. Sep. 12 | Jessica Werk (UW) | “Circumgalactic Matter Matters” |
| Tues. Sep. 19 | Dan Werthimer (UC Berkeley/SETI) | “Is Anyone Out There? SETI@home and the Breakthrough Listen Project” |
| Tues. Sep. 26 | Yashar Hezaveh (Stanford) | “The Future of Mapping Dark Matter Structures with Strong Gravitational Lensing, New Surveys, and Machine Learning” |
| Tues. Oct. 3 | Yancy Shirley (U. Arizona) | “Studying the Earliest Phase of Massive Star and Cluster Formation – the Properties of Massive Starless Clump Candidates in the Milky Way” |
| Tues. Oct. 10 | *** No seminar *** | *** No seminar *** |
| Tues. Oct. 17 | Hannah Jang-Condell (U. Wyoming) | “From Protoplanetary Disks to Exoplanets: How Do Planets Form and Evolve?” |
| Tues. Oct. 24 | Karin Sandstrom (UC San Diego) | “Interstellar Dust at Low Metallicity” |
| Tues. Oct. 31 | Charli Sakari (UW) | “Unraveling the Chemical Evolution of Galaxies Beyond the Milky Way with Integrated Light Spectroscopy of Globular Clusters” |
| Tues. Nov. 7 | Courtney Dressing (UC Berkeley) | “Exploring Planetary Systems Orbiting Cool Dwarfs” |
| Tues. Nov. 14 | Alessandro Boselli (LAM) | “The role of the environment on galaxy evolution and the VESTIGE survey” |
| Tues. Nov. 21 | Bruce Macintosh (Stanford) | “The Gemini Planet Imager” |
| Tues. Nov. 28 | Kevin Covey (Western Washington) | “Surveying the kinematics, multiplicity, and star formation histories of low-mass stars & Milky Way clusters with APOGEE” |
Spring 2017
| Date | Speaker |
| Jan 10 | Gary Mamon (IAP) |
| Jan 17 | Alina Kiessling (JPL) |
| Jan 24 | Chris Pritchet (UVic) |
| Jan 31 | Cameron Yozin (UVic) ** cancelled ** |
| Feb 7 | Karin Sandstrom (UC San Diego) |
| Feb 14 | Erik Rosolowsky (U. Alberta) |
| Feb 21 | Ian Shelton (Mount Allison) |
| Feb 28 | Marc Buie (SwRI) |
| Mar 7 | Sean Couch (Michigan State) |
| Mar 14 | Catherine Espaillat (Boston) |
| Mar 21 | Jessica Werk (UW) |
| Mar 28 | Tim Davidge (NRC/DAO) |
| Apr 4 | Matthew Payne (CfA/Harvard) |
| Apr 11 | Jaime Pineda (MPE) |
| Apr 18 | Dan Weisz (UC Berkeley) |
| Apr 25 | Renu Malhotra (U. Arizona) |
Fall 2016
| Date | Speaker |
| Sep 06 | Gwen Eadie (McMaster) |
| Sep 13 | Matthew Taylor (Universidad Catolica) |
| Sep 20 | Quinn Konopacky (UC San Diego) |
| Sep 27 | Lucas Macri (Texas A&M) |
| Oct 04 | Jo Bovy (Toronto) |
| Oct 11 | Keith Vanderlinde (Dunlap) |
| Oct 18 | Tuan Do (UCLA) |
| Oct 25 | Sean Andrews (CfA/Smithsonian) |
| Nov 01 | Marta Volonteri (IAP) ** cancelled ** |
| Nov 08 | Daniel Tamayo (Toronto) |
| Nov 15 | Adam Ginsburg (NRAO) |
| Nov 22 | Benoit Cote (UVic) ** cancelled ** |
| Nov 29 | Katherine Kretke (SwRI) |
| Dec 06 | Meredith Rawls (UW) |
| Dec 13 | Paul Scholz (NRC/DRAO) |
Spring 2016
| Date | Speaker |
| Jan 19 | Karin Oberg (CfA) |
| Jan 26 | Etsuko Mieda (NRC/DAO) |
| Feb 02 | Nitya Kalliayalil (U. Virginia) |
| Feb 09 | Richard Shaw (UBC) |
| Feb 16 | David Nesvorny (SwRI) |
| Feb 23 | Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (UdM) |
| Mar 01 | Cara Battersby (CfA) |
| Mar 08 | Laura Sales (UC Riverside) |
| Mar 15 | Michael Cooper (UC Irvine) |
| Mar 22 | Betsy Mills (U. Arizona) |
| Mar 29 | Emily Levesque (UW) |
| Apr 05 | Will Grundy (Lowell) |
| Apr 12 | Brett Gladman (UBC) |
| Apr 19 | Linda Strubbe (UBC) |
| Apr 26 | Anil Seth (U. Utah) |
| May 03 | David Reitze (Caltech) |
| May 24 | Sun Kwok (Hong Kong) |
Fall 2015
| Date | Speaker |
| Sep 15 | Mary Beth Laychak (CFHT) |
| Sep 17 | Melissa Graham (UC Berkeley) |
| Sep 22 | Dennis Crabtree (NRC/DAO) |
| Sep 29 | Dustin Lang (CMU/Waterloo) |
| Oct 06 | Elisabeth Mills (NRAO) |
| Oct 13 | Roberto Abraham (Toronto) |
| Oct 20 | David Gerdes (U. Michigan) |
| Oct 27 | Ruth Murray-Clay (UC Santa Barbara) |
| Nov 03 | Andrew Connolly (UW) |
| Nov 10 | Jake Vanderplas (UW) |
| Nov 17 | Jeffrey Fung (UC Berkeley) |
| Nov 24 | Nicholas McConnell (NRC/DAO) |
| Dec 01 | Gurtina Besla (U. Arizona) |
| Dec 08 | Sarah Martell (UNSW) |
Spring 2015
| Date | Speaker |
| Jan 27 | Mark Krumholz (UCSC) |
| Feb 03 | Jessica Lu (IfA) |
| Feb 10 | Josh Eisner (U. Arizona) |
| Feb 17 | Aaron Boley (UBC) |
| Feb 24 | Michael Rupen (NRC/DAO) ** cancelled ** |
| Mar 03 | Scott Chapman (Dalhousie) |
| Mar 09 | Joe Masiero (JPL) |
| Mar 17 | Meredith Hughes (Wesleyan) |
| Mar 24 | Paul Schechter (MIT) |
| Mar 31 | Lynne Hillenbrand (Caltech) |
| Apr 07 | Mariska Kriek (UC Berkeley) |
| Apr 14 | Kaitlin Kratter (U. Arizona) |
| Apr 21 | Karun Thanjavur (UVic) |
| Apr 28 | Chat Hull (CfA) |
Fall 2014
| Date | Speaker |
| Sep 02 | Elisa Toloba (UCO/Lick) |
| Sep 03 | Guillermo Barro (UCO/Lick) |
| Sep 09 | Luca Ricci (Caltech) |
| Sep 16 | – |
| Sep 23 | Eric Ford (Penn State) |
| Sep 30 | Luc Simard (NRC/DAO) |
| Oct 09 | Steve Majewski (U. Virginia) |
| Oct 14 | Jon Swift (Caltech) |
| Oct 21 | Luke Dones (SwRI) |
| Oct 23 | Herzberg Jamboree |
| Oct 28 | – |
| Nov 04 | Florian Beutler (LBNL) |
| Nov 11 | No seminar scheduled (holiday) |
| Nov 18 | Alis Deason (UCO/Lick) |
| Nov 20 | Shep Doeleman (MIT Haystack) |
| Nov 25 | Claire Chandler (NRAO) |
| Dec 02 | Rachel Friesen (Dunlap) |
| Dec 09 | Kristine Spekkens (Queen’s) |
| Dec 15 | cancelled |
Spring 2014
| Date | Speaker |
| Jan 14 | Arianna Di Cintio |
| Jan 21 | John Wise |
| Jan 28 | Alyson Brooks |
| Feb 04 | Mike Landry |
| Feb 11 | Rita Mann (NRC/DAO) |
| Feb 18 | Luisa Rebull |
| Feb 25 | Chris Friar |
| Mar 04 | Christine Wilson (McMaster) |
| Mar 11 | Rachel Mason |
| Mar 18 | Juan Collar |
| Mar 25 | Sam Lawler (NRC/DAO) |
| Apr 01 | Karun Thanjavur (UVic) |
| Apr 15 | Rachel Mason |
| Apr 17 | Nienke van der Marel |
| Apr 22 | Scott Sheppard |
| May 06 | Philip Kronberg |
| May 20 | Kevin Steels |
Fall 2013
Sep 17 Chris Stubbs
Sep 24 Hilke Schlichting
Oct 01 Donald Morton
Oct 08 Helen Kirk (NRC/DAO)
Oct 17 James Bullock (UC Irvine)
Oct 22 Riccardo Giovanelli
Oct 29 Ruben Sanchez-Janssen (NRC/DAO)
Nov 05 Michele Bannister (UVic)
Nov 12 Katherine Alatalo
Nov 19 Nitya Kallivayalil ** cancelled **
Nov 26 Diana Dragomir
Dec 03 Andy Becker
Dec 10 Inger Jorgensen
Spring 2013
Jan 29 Asa Bluck (UVic)
Feb 05 Miguel Morales
Feb 12 Jorge Moreno (UVic)
Feb 19 Erin Bonning
Feb 26 Jonathan Williams
Mar 05 Mike Boylan-Kolchin
Mar 12 Alex Kim
Mar 21 Tony Tyson
Mar 26 David Wilner
Apr 09 Joern Geisbeusch
Apr 16 Wes Traub
Apr 23 Paul Kalas
Apr 25 Yin-Zhe MA
Apr 30 Graca Roca
May 14 Brian McNamara (U. Waterloo)
May 21 Mubdi Rahman
Fall 2012
Aug 28 Andrea Kunder (CTIO)
Sep 04 Jennifer Karr (ASIAA) / Hiro Takami (ASIAA)
Sep 11 No Seminar Scheduled
Sep 18 Nicholas Ball (NRC/DAO)
Sep 25 Chris Reynolds (U. Maryland)
Oct 02 Ben Mazin (UC Santa Barbera)
Oct 09 Matthijs van der Wiel (U. Lethbridge)
Oct 16 Charlie Conroy (UC Santa Cruz)
Oct 23 Sarah Ballard (UW)
Oct 30 Susan Terebey (California State)
Nov 07 Shelley Wright (Dunlap)
Nov 13 Wesley Traub (JPL)
Nov 20 Norman Murray (CITA)
Nov 27 Tim Beers (NOAO)
Dec 04 Tim Robishaw (NRC/DRAO)
Spring 2012
Jan 17 David Tsang (Caltech)
Jan 24 Else Starkenburg (UVic)
Jan 31 Tommaso Treu (UC Santa Barbara)
Feb 07 Federica Bianco (LCOGT)
Feb 14 No Seminar Scheduled
Feb 23 Crystal Martin (UC Santa Barbara)
Feb 28 Scott Schnee (NRAO)
Mar 06 Trevor Mendel (UVic)
Mar 14 Stephen Kane (Caltech)
Mar 22 Peter Yoachim (UW)
Mar 27 Martin Bureau (U. Oxford)
Apr 03 Lynne Jones (UW)
Apr 10 Wes Fraser (NRC/DAO)
Apr 17 John Tobin (NRAO)
Apr 24 James Graham (Dunlap)
May 11 Faith Vilas (U. Arizona)
Jun 11 Giuseppina Battaglia (ESO/INAF)
Jun 14 Jeremy Mould (NOAO)
Fall 2011
Sep 13 Sarah Loebman (UW)
Sep 20 Bob Rood (U. Virginia)
Sep 27 Kate Su (Steward)
Oct 04 Sarah Brough (AAO)
Oct 05 Gary Sanders (TMT Project Manager)
Oct 11 Uma Gorti (SETI)
Oct 17 James Truran (U. Chicago) ** cancelled **
Oct 18 Henrik Beuther (MPIA)
Oct 25 Gregory Sivakoff (U. Alberta)
Nov 01 Steven Allen (Stanford)
Nov 08 Ray Jayawardhana (U. Toronto) ** cancelled **
Nov 15 Pascale Jablonka (EPFL / Observatoire de Paris)
Nov 22 Gunther Hasinger (IfA)
Nov 29 Andrew Youdin (CfA)
Dec 06 Beth Willman (Haverford)
Dec 13 Chung-Pei Ma (UC Berkeley)
Spring 2011
Jan 05 Preethi Nair (U. Toronto/INAF)
Jan 17 Danilo Marchesini (Tufts)
Jan 26 Evgenya Shkolnik (DTM)
Feb 01 Charles Lawrence (JPL)
Feb 08 Cassie Fallscheer (UVic/NRC)
Feb 15 Rita Mann (NRC/DAO)
Feb 22 Ingrid Stairs (UBC)
Mar 08 Matt Walker (CfA)
Mar 15 Ata Sarajedini (U. Florida)
Mar 22 Sean M. Andrews (CfA)
Apr 05 John Dubinski (U. Toronto)
Apr 12 Eric Bell (U. Michigan)
Apr 19 Jon Willis (UVic)
Apr 26 John Carpenter (Caltech)
May 03 Bill McKinnon (St. Louis)
May 10 Richard de Grijs (UPeking/KIAA)
Fall 2010
Sep 14 Emily Schaller (U. Arizona)
Sep 20 Hendrik Hildebrandt (UBC)
Sep 21 Carol Lonsdale & Mark McKinnon (ALMA)
Sep 28 David Jewitt (UCLA)
Oct 05 Meridith Hughes (UC Berkeley)
Oct 07 Ricardo Munoz (Yale)
Oct 12 Mark Booth (Cambridge/DAO)
Oct 19 Jason Rowe (NASA Ames)
Oct 26 Andrew Benson (Caltech)
Nov 02 Lee Hartmann (U. Michigan)
Nov 09 Michele Cantiello (INAF)
Nov 16 No Seminar Schedule (CFHT Users Meeting in Taipei)
Nov 23 Guy Worthey (WSU)
Nov 30 Lisa Kewley (U. Hawaii)
Dec 07 Kristin Woodley (UBC)
Dec 09 James Di Francesco (NRC/DAO)
Dec 14 Sean Dougherty (NRC/DRAO)
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