Past Events - McGill Space Institute

EPOD Discussion

Aug 31, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Weekly, Other Event
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EPOD Discussion

Aug 24, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Other, Weekly Event
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Astro-PH Discussion

Aug 23, 2022 3:30 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Aug 17, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Weekly, Other Event
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Astro-PH Discussion

Aug 16, 2022 3:30 PM
Weekly, Other Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Aug 11, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Aug 10, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Other, Weekly Event
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Astro-PH Discussion

Aug 9, 2022 3:30 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Aug 4, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Aug 3, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Weekly, Other Event
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Astro-PH Discussion

Aug 2, 2022 3:30 PM
Weekly, Other Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jul 28, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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Special MSI Seminar - "Investigating Local Environments of Fast Radio Bursts'

Alexandra Mannings (UC Santa Cruz)

Jul 27, 2022 4:00 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room + Zoom
Special Seminar
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EPOD Discussion

Jul 27, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Other, Weekly Event
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Astro-PH Discussion

Jul 26, 2022 3:30 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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Special MSI Seminar - An algebraic approach for recovering an unknown timing solution from a list of TOAs

Barak Zackay (Weizmann Institute)

Jul 26, 2022 2:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room + Zoom
Special Seminar
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Special MSI Seminar - "Precision Calibration for 21 cm Cosmology"

Ruby Byrne (Caltech)

Jul 25, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room + Zoom
Special Seminar
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jul 21, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Jul 20, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Weekly, Other Event
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Cosmic Dawn: How the first stars formed and burned off the fog of the Early Universe

Patrick Breyesse (New York University)

Jul 19, 2022 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Hybrid - McConnell Engineering 204
Public Talk
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Astro-PH Discussion

Jul 19, 2022 3:30 PM
Weekly, Other Event
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Special MSI Seminar - Immediate observational access to the post-merger environment of a neutron star collision

Aaron Tohuvavohu (University of Toronto)

Jul 19, 2022 3:00 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room + Zoom
Special Seminar
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jul 14, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Jul 13, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Other, Weekly Event
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Astro-PH Discussion

Jul 12, 2022 3:30 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jul 7, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Jul 6, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Weekly, Other Event
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Astro-PH Discussion

Jul 5, 2022 3:30 PM
Weekly, Other Event
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Special AstroPhysics Seminar - "Event Horizon Telescope Imaging of Sagittarius A*"

Geoffrey Bower (Event Horizon Telescope)

Jul 1, 2022 2:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Special Astrophysics Seminar
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Special AstroPhysics Seminar - "Pinpointing fast radio bursts in space and time"

Jason Hessels (University of Amsterdam)

Jul 1, 2022 10:00 AM
Location: Zoom
Special Astrophysics Seminar
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jun 30, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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Special Astrophysics Seminar - "Relativistic transients in the era of multi-messenger astronomy"

Alessandra Corsi (Texas Tech University)

Jun 30, 2022 11:00 AM
Location: Zoom
Special Astrophysics Seminar
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Organelles Without Borders: How Liquid Droplets Organize the Cell

Stephanie Weber (McGill University, Department of Biology)

Jun 29, 2022 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: McGill Downtown Campus McConnell Engineering Building (3480 University St) Room 204
Hybrid in-person/livestream
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EPOD Discussion

Jun 29, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Other, Weekly Event
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Special AstroPhysics Seminar - "Observing neutron stars with gravitational-wave astronomy"

Jocelyn Read (Cal State Fullerton)

Jun 29, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Special Astrophysics Seminar
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Astro-PH Discussion

Jun 28, 2022 3:30 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jun 23, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Jun 22, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Weekly, Other Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jun 16, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Jun 15, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Other, Weekly Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jun 9, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Jun 8, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Weekly, Other Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

Jun 2, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

Jun 1, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Other, Weekly Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

May 26, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

May 25, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Weekly, Other Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Session

May 19, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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EPOD Discussion

May 18, 2022 1:00 PM
Location: Hybrid
Other, Weekly Event
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MSI/Physics Summer Program Welcome Session

May 16, 2022 12:00 PM
MSI/Physics Summer Program
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Window Into the Life of an Astrophysicist

Lisa Dang, Lawrence Herman, Maclean Rouble (McGill University)

May 5, 2022 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Leacock Room 132/Youtube Live
Hybrid
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Space Debris Removal: Technologies, Missions, and Science

Inna Sharf (McGill University, Department of Mechanical Engineering)

Apr 28, 2022 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Youtube Live
Livestream
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Astro Seminar - "The Rarest Galaxies in the First Two Billion Years"

Caitlin Casey (University of Texas, Austin)

Apr 19, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
MSI Seminar
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MSI Seminar - "Probing the Universe with Fast Radio Bursts"

Xavier Prochaska (UC Santa Cruz)

Apr 12, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Hybrid! Rutherford Bell Room & Online
Hybrid Seminar
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Talking Telescopes: Then & Now

Apr 7, 2022 7:00 PM
Location: YouTube Live
Virtual Panel
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Astro Seminar - "Pulsar Timing Arrays See Red: Entering the Era of Low-Frequency Gravitational Wave Detection"

Maura McLaughlin (West Virginia University)

Apr 5, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
Astro Seminar
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Les plus gros trous noirs de l'univers / The Largest Black Holes in the Universe

Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (Université de Montréal)

Mar 31, 2022 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Youtube Live
Livestream
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MSI Seminar - "A Stimulating Explanation of the Extragalactic Radio Excess"

Hongwan Liu (NYU)

Mar 29, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
MSI Seminar
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Astro Seminar - "Next-Generation Simulations of The Remarkable Deaths of Massive Stars"

Carl Fields (LANL)

Mar 22, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
Astro Seminar
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Astro Seminar

Andrina Nicola (Princeton University)

Mar 8, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
Astro Seminar
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Virtual Astronomy Trivia Night

Feb 22, 2022 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Outreach Event
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MSI Seminar - "Spitzer’s Exoplanet Legacy: Population Trends from Phase Curve Observations"

Erin May (Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab)

Feb 22, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
MSI Seminar
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Info Session - MSI Summer Undergrad Research Awards

Feb 17, 2022 6:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Virtual Info Session
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Green Chemistry: A Story of Shellfish, Synthesis, and Sustainability

Audrey Moores (McGill University)

Feb 15, 2022 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Location: Youtube Live
Livestream
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Astro Seminar - "A broad-band X-ray view of accretion disks around neutron stars"

McKinley Brumback (Caltech)

Feb 15, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
Astro Seminar
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MSI Seminar - "Understanding Planetary Evolution with TESS"

Joey Rodriguez (Michigan State University)

Feb 8, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
MSI Seminar
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Astro Seminar - "Searching for extreme hadronic accelerators in our Universe with multi-messenger observations"

Nahee Park (Queen's University)

Feb 1, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
MSI Seminar
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A Qubit Quandary: A Panel on Quantum Information

Professors Bill Coish, Kartiek Agarwal, and Lilian Childress (McGill University)

Jan 27, 2022 7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Location: Youtube Live
Livestream
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MSI Seminar - "Brown Dwarf Radio Emission: A Window into Substellar Magnetospheres"

Melodie Kao (UC Santa Cruz)

Jan 25, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
MSI Seminar
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Astro Seminar - "Drone Calibration for 21cm Experiments"

Emily Kuhn (Yale University)

Jan 18, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
Astro Seminar
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MSI Seminar - "Space microbiology: microbial interactions in extremes and their uses"

Charles Cockell (University of Edinburgh)

Jan 11, 2022 3:30 PM
Location: YouTube Live
MSI Seminar
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EPOD Discussion

Dec 15, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Enabling new probes of the cosmos with novel technology

Matt Dobbs (McGill University)

Dec 14, 2021 7:00 PM
Livestream
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Astro Seminar - "Halo-Bar Coupling: How Dark Matter Defines Galaxies"

Angela Collier (University of Colorado Boulder)

Dec 14, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
Astro Seminar
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EPOD Discussion

Dec 8, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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MSI Seminar - "Quasi periodic oscillations from a transient ULX in M 101"

Ryan Urquhart (Michigan State University)

Dec 7, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
MSI Seminar
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EPOD Discussion

Dec 1, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Astro Seminar - Cosmology with the Next Generation of Cosmic Microwave Background Experiments

Johanna Nagy (Washington University in St. Louis)

Nov 30, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
Astro Seminar
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Planet Lunch

Nov 25, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Nov 24, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Virtual Astronomy Trivia Night #3

Nov 23, 2021 7:00 PM
Livestream
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MSI Seminar - New ideas for the axion dark matter program

Nick Rodd (CERN)

Nov 23, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
MSI Seminar
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Planet Lunch

Nov 18, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Nov 17, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Planet Lunch

Nov 11, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Nov 10, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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MSI Seminar - Dust in the Wind: New Instabilities Across Astrophysical Systems

Phil Hopkins (Caltech)

Nov 9, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Zoom
Virtual Seminar
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Planet Lunch

Nov 4, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Nov 3, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Astro Seminar - "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)

Nov 2, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
Astro Seminar
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Planet Lunch

Oct 28, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Oct 27, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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MSI Seminar - "Tracing the building blocks of planet formation through protoplanetary discs"

James Owen (Imperial College London)

Oct 26, 2021 2:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
MSI Seminar
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Planet Lunch

Oct 21, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Oct 20, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Astro Seminar - "Constraining the history of reionization with quasar absorption lines"

Laura Keating (Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam)

Oct 19, 2021 1:00 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar - YouTube LIVE
Astro Seminar
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Planet Lunch

Oct 14, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Oct 13, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Planet Lunch

Oct 7, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Oct 6, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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An Evening with Webb: Canadian Astronomers Using the Next Great Space Telescope

Oct 5, 2021 7:30 PM
Location: YouTube Live
Virtual Panel
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MSI Seminar - "Modelling stellar cluster populations alongside their host galaxies in a cosmic environment"

Marta Reina-Campos (McMaster University)

Oct 5, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
MSI Seminar
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Planet Lunch

Sep 30, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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EPOD Discussion

Sep 29, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Astro Seminar - "Planets are Places: Characterization of Other Worlds in the 2020s and Beyond"

Laura Kreidberg (MPIA)

Sep 28, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
Astro Seminar
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Planet Lunch

Sep 23, 2021 12:00 PM
Other, Weekly Event
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Talking with Martians: A panel on red-planet research

Erin Gibbons, Debarati Das, Richard Léveillé (McGill University)

Sep 22, 2021 7:00 PM
Livestream
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EPOD Discussion

Sep 22, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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MSI Seminar - "Small Circumbinary Planets: Do They Exist And How Do We Find Them?"

David Martin (Ohio State University)

Sep 21, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
MSI Seminar
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MSI Jamboree 2021

MSI Postodcs & Faculty (MSI)

Sep 20, 2021 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Zoom
Other Event
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EPOD Discussion

Sep 15, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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Astro Seminar - "An ultra-long period magnetar with periodic radio emission"

Natasha Hurley-Walker (Curtin University)

Sep 14, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: Virtual Seminar
Astro Seminar
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EPOD Discussion

Sep 8, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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MSI Seminar - "Gravitational Wave Sources at the Hearts of Galaxies"

Smadar Naoz (UCLA)

Sep 7, 2021 3:30 PM
Location: YouTube Live
MSI Seminar
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EPOD Discussion

Sep 1, 2021 2:00 PM
Other Event
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MSI & Physics Summer Undergraduate Research Showcase

Aug 30, 2021 1:00 PM
Other Event
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