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    Summer Student Lunch Discussion #2

    Date: May 21, 2019 12:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
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    Public Astro Night - "Melting Ice in a Warming Climate"

    Event Poster

    Natalya Gomez (McGill University (EPS/MSI))

    Date: May 16, 2019 7:00 PM
     Location: Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium (3450 University St.)
    Public Lecture
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    Summer Student Lunch Discussion #1

    Date: May 14, 2019 12:30 PM
     Other Event
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    Special MSI Seminar - "FRBs and Radio Signatures of Gravitational Wave Merger Events"

    Event Poster

    Kelly Gourdji (University of Amsterdam)

    Date: May 10, 2019 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Special MSI Seminar
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    Special Public Talk - "The Event Horizon Telescope: Seeing the Unseeable"

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    Shep Doeleman (Harvard Center for Astrophysics & Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration)

    Date: May 1, 2019 6:15 PM
     Location: Leacock 132
    Public Lecture
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    Special Seminar - Dr. Shep Doeleman, EHT Collaboration

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    Shep Doeleman (Harvard Center for Astrophysics & Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration)

    Date: May 1, 2019 12:00 PM
     Location: McConnell Engineering, Room 304
    Special MSI Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Date: Apr 29, 2019 12:00 PM
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    Public Astro Night

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    Shriharsh Tendulkar (McGill University (McGill Space Institute))

    Date: Apr 18, 2019 7:00 PM
     Location: Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium (3450 University St.)
    Public Lecture
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    Astro Seminar - "Radiation mechanism of Fast Radio Bursts"

    Event Poster

    Pawan Kumar (University of Texas at Austin)

    Date: Apr 16, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Keavin Moore & Shriharsh Tendulkar

    Date: Apr 15, 2019 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    Watch Party - Event Horizon Telescope Results

    Event Poster
    Date: Apr 10, 2019 8:45 AM
     Location: MSI Lounge
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    MSI Seminar - "What’s on the menu? Investigating the selective diet of microbes using novel isotopic tools"

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    Nagissa Mahmoudi (McGill University)

    Date: Apr 9, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    Special Seminar - "Self-Induced Irradiation Cycles in Neutron Star Binaries"

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    Lorne Nelson (Bishop's University)

    Date: Apr 4, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Special MSI Seminar
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    Astro Seminar - "Blast from the Past: The Evolution of Ultraviolet Emission and Flaring from Low-Mass Stars and its Implications for Habitable Zone Planets"

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    Evgenya Shkolnik (Arizona State University)

    Date: Apr 2, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Connor Bottrel & Simon Guichandut

    Date: Apr 1, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Other Event
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    Astronomie en fût MTL #22 (FR)

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    Émilie Parent & Annabelle Richard-Laferrière (McGill University & Université de Montreal)

    Date: Mar 26, 2019 7:00 PM
     Location: Pub L'île Noire, 1649 Rue St-Denis, Montreal, Quebec
    Outreach Event
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    MSI Seminar - "Constraining the Past and Present Distant Solar System with Real and Simulated Trans-Neptunian Objects"

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    Nathan Kaib (University of Oklahoma)

    Date: Mar 26, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Hack Session

    Date: Mar 26, 2019 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge (3550 University)
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    Public AstroNight - "Black Holes at Cosmic Dawn"

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    Jordan Mirocha (McGill University (McGill Space Institute))

    Date: Mar 21, 2019 7:00 PM
     Location: McConnell Engineering Building, Room 204
    Public Lecture
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    Astro Seminar - "Modelling Low Mach Number Astrophysical Flows"

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    Alice Harpole (Stony Brook University)

    Date: Mar 19, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion

    Date: Mar 19, 2019 2:00 PM
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Emmanuel Fonseca & Heath Shipley

    Date: Mar 18, 2019 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    MSI Seminar - "Climate and Habitability of Tidally Locked Planets"

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    Jun Yang (Peking University)

    Date: Mar 12, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Hack Session

    Date: Mar 12, 2019 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    EPOD Hack Session

    Date: Mar 5, 2019 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge, 3550 University
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    Astronomy on Tap MTL #21

    Date: Feb 26, 2019 7:30 PM
     Location: McLean's Pub (1210 Peel Street)
    Astro on Tap
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    Astro Seminar - "The Magnetic Interstellar Medium and the Polarized Dust Foreground"

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    Susan Clark (Institute for Advanced Learning (IAS))

    Date: Feb 26, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    TBD (McGill University)

    Date: Feb 25, 2019 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Other Event
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    Public AstroNight - "Searching for Cosmic Dawn"

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    Cynthia Chiang (McGill University (MSI))

    Date: Feb 21, 2019 7:00 PM
     Location: McConnell Engineering Building, Room 204
    Public Lecture
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    MSI Seminar - "Opportunities for Applications of Deep Learning in Cosmology"

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    Siamak Ravanbakhsh (University of British Columbia (UBC))

    Date: Feb 19, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion

    Date: Feb 19, 2019 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Other Event
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    Special Seminar - "The X-Ray Aurora"

    Event Poster

    Edgar A. Bering III (University of Houston)

    Date: Feb 14, 2019 12:00 PM
     Special Seminar
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    Astro Seminar - "Probing the Radio-Transient Universe with CHIME"

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    Emmanuel Fonseca, Seth Siegel & Shriharsh Tendulkar (McGill University)

    Date: Feb 12, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics Building
    Seminar Event
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    EPOD Hack Session

    Date: Feb 12, 2019 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    Other Event
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Brady O'Connor & Vanessa Graber (McGill University)

    Date: Feb 11, 2019 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Other Event
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    MSI Seminar - "New Directions in Galaxy Formation and Cosmology Following the EDGES 78 MHz Detection"

    Event Poster

    Jordan Mirocha (McGill University)

    Date: Feb 5, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion

    Date: Feb 5, 2019 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    Public AstroNight - "Psyche: Journey to a Metal World"

    Event Poster

    Lindy Elkins-Tanton (Arizona State University)

    Date: Jan 31, 2019 7:00 PM
     Location: Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium, 3450 University St.
    Public Lecture
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    Astronomie en fût MTL #20 (FR)

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    Cynthia Genest-Beaulieu & Carter Rhea (Universite de Montreal)

    Date: Jan 29, 2019 7:00 PM
     Location: Pub l'Ile Noire
    Astro on Tap
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    Astro Seminar - "Heavy Element Synthesis in the Universe"

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    Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (UC Santa Cruz)

    Date: Jan 29, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    EPOD Hack Session

    Date: Jan 29, 2019 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge (3550 University)
    Other Event
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    TBD

    Date: Jan 28, 2019 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    Anna I. McPherson Scientific Lecture 2019 - "Tension in the Hubble Constant"

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    Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago)

    Date: Jan 25, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: Ernest Rutherford Physics Building, Keys Auditorium (room 112)
    Anna I. McPherson Lecture
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    Anna McPherson Public Lecture 2019 - "New Windows on the Cosmos"

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    Wendy Freedman (University of Chicago)

    Date: Jan 24, 2019 6:30 PM
     Location: Leacock Auditorium (room 132), McGill University, 845 rue Sherbrooke O, Montreal
    Anna McPherson Public Lecture 2019
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    MSI Seminar - "Studying Planetary Lithospheres Using Modern Localization Methods"

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    Frederik J. Simons (Princeton University)

    Date: Jan 22, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    Workshop: Know your rights: What to consider before you submit to a journal and sign a copyright transfer agreement

    Jessica Lange (McGill University)

    Date: Jan 22, 2019 1:15 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    EPOD Workshop
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    Astro Seminar - The Terahertz Intensity Mapper (TIM)

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    James Aguirre (University of Pennsylvania)

    Date: Jan 15, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    EPOD

    Date: Jan 15, 2019 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge (3550 University)
    Other Event
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Jeremie Choquette & Paul Charlton (McGill University)

    Date: Jan 14, 2019 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    MSI Seminar - "Insights into dark matter from the stellar halos of galaxies"

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    Robyn Sanderson (University of Pennsylvania)

    Date: Jan 8, 2019 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    MSI Seminar
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    Special Seminar - "An Absorption Feature in the Sky-Averaged Radio Spectrum"

    Raul Monsalve (McGill University)

    Date: Dec 18, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    Special Seminar
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    Public AstroPhysics Night - Neutron Stars: Extraordinary Cosmic Laboratories for Physicists

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    Vanessa Graber (MSI & McGill Physics)

    Date: Dec 13, 2018 7:00 PM
     Location: McConnell Engineering Building, Room 204
    Public Lecture
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    Astro Seminar - Mapping Matter in Strong Gravity: Spectral-Timing of Black Holes and Neutron Stars

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    Abigail Stevens (Michigan State University & University of Michigan)

    Date: Dec 11, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    John Ruan & Matt Caplan (McGill University)

    Date: Dec 10, 2018 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    MSI Seminar - Planet 9 or Planet Nein? Discoveries in the Outer Solar System

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    Samantha Lawler (NRC-Herzberg)

    Date: Dec 4, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion Group

    Date: Dec 4, 2018 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge, 3550 University
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    Astronomy on Tap MTL #19

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    Bryce Cyr & Claire Guimond (MSI)

    Date: Nov 27, 2018 7:30 PM
     Location: McLean's Pub (1210 Peel Street)
    Astro on Tap
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    Astro Seminar - The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars

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    Maria Drout (University of Toronto)

    Date: Nov 27, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Erik Chan & Lisa Dang (McGill University)

    Date: Nov 26, 2018 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    Special Seminar - Explosions in Binaries: Widowed Stars and Consequences for GW Astronomy

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    Mathieu Renzo (University of Amsterdam)

    Date: Nov 23, 2018 1:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Special Seminar
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    Public AstroNight - The Search for Life on Mars is About to Get Serious

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    Dr. Lyle Whyte & Dr. Richard Léveillé (McGill University)

    Date: Nov 22, 2018 7:00 PM
     Location: Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium, 3450 University St.
    Public Lecture
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    MSI Seminar - Studying the sensitivities of multimessenger signals from populations of core-collapse supernovae

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    MacKenzie Warren (Michigan State University)

    Date: Nov 20, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion Group

    Date: Nov 20, 2018 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge, 3550 University
    Other Event
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    Astro Seminar - Imaging All the Sky All the Time in Search of Radio Exoplanets

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    Greg Hallinan (Caltech)

    Date: Nov 13, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Catherine Maggiori & Disrael Cunha (McGill University)

    Date: Nov 12, 2018 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Other Event
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    Special Astrophysics Seminar - Reconstructing complex pulsar scattering environments with global VLBI

    Event Poster

    Dana Simard (University of Toronto)

    Date: Nov 8, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Special Astrophysics Seminar
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    MSI Seminar - The Importance of Being Eccentric

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    Ann-Marie Madigan (University of Colorado Boulder)

    Date: Nov 6, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion Group

    Date: Nov 6, 2018 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge, 3550 University
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    Astronomie en fût MTL #18

    Event Poster

    Nathalie Ouellete & Marcel Sévigny

    Date: Oct 30, 2018 7:00 PM
     Location: Pub L'île Noire, 1649 rue St-Denis
    Outreach Event
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    Astro Seminar - Charlotte Mason

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    Charlotte Mason (Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)

    Date: Oct 30, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Emilie Parent & Bryce Cyr (McGill University)

    Date: Oct 29, 2018 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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    MSI Seminar - Planetary Materials: Recorders of the Formation of the Solar System and Planets

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    Audrey Bouvier (University of Western Ontario)

    Date: Oct 23, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion Group

    Date: Oct 23, 2018 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge, 3550 University
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    Physical Society Colloquium - "Cosmology with Strong Gravitational Lensing"

    Sherry Suyu (Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics)

    Date: Oct 19, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics Building
    Physical Society Colloquium
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    Special Seminar - Recent Advances In Computational cosmology

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    Romain Teyssier (University of Zurich)

    Date: Oct 18, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Special Seminar
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    Astro Seminar - Looking for Dark Matter off the Beaten Track

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    Cora Dvorkin (Harvard University)

    Date: Oct 16, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: Boardroom, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Kelly Lepo & Claire Guimond (McGill University)

    Date: Oct 15, 2018 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
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    Public AstroNight - À la recherche de neutrinos et de l’origine des rayons cosmiques

    Event Poster

    Étienne Bourbeau

    Date: Oct 11, 2018 7:00 PM
     Location: Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium (3450 University)
    Outreach Event
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    MSI Seminar - Observing the Early Universe with 21 cm Cosmology

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    Jonathan Pober (Brown University)

    Date: Oct 9, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion Group

    Date: Oct 9, 2018 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge, 3550 University
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    Astro Seminar - Did LIGO Detect Dark Matter?

    Event Poster

    Simeon Bird (University of California - Riverside)

    Date: Oct 2, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    MSI Lunch Talks

    Jordan Mirocha & Thomas Rosin (McGill University)

    Date: Oct 1, 2018 12:00 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    Other Event
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    HEP Theory Seminar - Neutrino Torquing

    Prof. Ue-Li Pen (CITA)

    Date: Sep 26, 2018 2:00 PM
     Location: Bell Room (room 103) - Rutherford Physics Building
    HEP Thoery Seminar
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    Astronomy on Tap MTL #17

    Event Poster

    Gabriel Kocher & Mohit Bhardwaj

    Date: Sep 25, 2018 7:30 PM
     Location: McLean's Pub, 1210 Peel Street, Montreal, QC
    Outreach Event
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    MSI Seminar - Mars as a case study of an intermittently habitable planet

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    Robin Wordsworth (Harvard University)

    Date: Sep 25, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room, 3550 University
    MSI Seminar
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    EPOD Discussion Group

    Date: Sep 25, 2018 2:00 PM
     Location: MSI Lounge, 3550 University
    Other Event
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    Public AstroNight - Pinging space rocks at the Arecibo Observatory

    Event Poster

    Dr. Flaviane Venditti (Arecibo Observatory/Planetary Radar)

    Date: Sep 20, 2018 7:00 PM
     Location: Room 204, McConnell Engineering, McGill University, 3480 Rue University
    Outreach Event
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    Astro Seminar - Automated Physics Recovery from Galaxy Observations

    Event Poster

    Peter Behroozi (University of Arizona)

    Date: Sep 18, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: Bell Room, Rutherford Physics
    Astro Seminar
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    Special Astrophysics Seminar - What XMM X-ray and Arecibo Radio Observations of Pulsar B0823+26 Have to Teach Us

    Event Poster

    Joanna Rankin (University of Vermont)

    Date: Sep 13, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    Special Astrophysics Seminar
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    MSI Seminar - The Missing Members of Nearby Young Associations

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    Jonathan Gagné (IREX (Institut de recherche sur les exoplanètes), Université de Montréal)

    Date: Sep 11, 2018 3:30 PM
     Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
    MSI Seminar
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    McGill Space Institute Jamboree

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    MSI Faculty Members

    Date: Sep 6, 2018 3:30 PM
     MSI Special Seminar
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    Public AstroNight - Watching Our Universe Grow: Radio Snapshots Through Cosmic Time

    Event Poster

    Dr. Adrian Liu (McGill University)

    Date: Aug 23, 2018 7:00 PM
     Location: Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium (3450 University)
    Outreach Event
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    MSI Monday Lunch Talks - John Ruan and Matt Caplan

    Date: Jul 23, 2018 12:00 PM
     Other Event
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