Past Events - McGill Space Institute

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

Erik Kuulkers (ESA)

Date: Jan 14, 2020 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
MSI Seminar
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EPOD Discussion

Date: Jan 14, 2020 2:00 PM
Location: MSI Lounge
Other Event
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Astro Seminar - "Analysis of Strong Gravitational Lensing Data with Machine Learning"

Laurence Levasseur (UdeM)

Date: Jan 7, 2020 3:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
Astro Seminar
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MSI Seminar - "From ice crystals to ice caps, the climate of Mars as seen at the poles"

Isaac Smith (York University)

Date: Dec 10, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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Public AstroPhysics Night - "The Oldest Light in the Universe"

John Sievers (McGill Space Institute)

Date: Dec 5, 2019 7:00 PM
Location: McIntyre Medical Building, Room 522
Public Lecture
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MSI Seminar - Inner Solar Systems

Rebekah (Bekki) Dawson (Penn State University)

Date: Nov 26, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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Public AstroPhysics Night - "String Theory: How the Universe Speaks in Numbers"

Anh-Khoi Trinh (McGill University)

Date: Nov 21, 2019 7:00 PM
Location: Frank Dawson Adams Auditorium, FDA
Public Lecture
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Astro Seminar - Quantifying the rate of dual-AGN with BAYMAX

Adi Foord (University of Michigan)

Date: Nov 19, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
Astro Seminar
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MSI Seminar - "The Mystery of Methane on Mars: Fact, Folly or Figment?"

John Moores (York University)

Date: Nov 12, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture -

Donna Strickland (University of Waterloo)

Date: Nov 7, 2019 6:30 PM
Location: Leacock Auditorium (Room 132), Leacock Building
Anna I. McPherson Public Lecture
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Astro Seminar - "The Magnetic Interstellar Medium in Three Dimensions"

Susan Clark (IAS)

Date: Nov 5, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
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MSI Seminar - "The rivers and seas of Titan"

Taylor Perron (MIT)

Date: Oct 29, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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Astro Seminar - "Studying Star Formation from the Stratosphere"

Laura Fissel (National Radio Astronomy Observatory)

Date: Oct 22, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
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MSI Seminar - "Black Holes in Low Mass Galaxies"

Anil Seth (University of Utah)

Date: Oct 15, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
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Public AstroPhysics Night - "Cosmic Dawn: The Search for the First Stars"

Jeff Peterson (Carnegie Mellon)

Date: Oct 9, 2019 6:00 PM
Location: McIntyre Medical Building, Room 552
Public Lecture
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2nd Global 21cm Workshop

Date: Oct 9, 2019 8:45 AM to 5:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
Workshop
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Astro Seminar - "Deciphering the Engines of Fast Radio Bursts"

Brian Metzger (Columbia University)

Date: Oct 8, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: Boardroom, Rutherford Physics Building
Astro Seminar
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2nd Global 21 cm Workshop

Date: Oct 8, 2019 8:45 AM to 5:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
Workshop
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Special Seminar - "Science & Journalism: Errors = Media x Confusion ^2"

Katia Moskvitch (Science Writer)

Date: Oct 7, 2019 2:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
Special MSI Seminar
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2nd Global 21cm Workshop

Date: Oct 7, 2019 8:45 AM to 5:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
Workshop
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MSI Seminar - "General Relativity Stands Alone?"

Christopher Smeenk (Western University)

Date: Oct 1, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
MSI Seminar
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Special Seminar -

Nienke van der Marel (NRC Herzberg)

Date: Sep 25, 2019 12:00 PM
Location: FDA 233
Special MSI Seminar
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Astro Seminar - "Probing Inhomogeneous Reionization with Lyman alpha Surveys: From the ground to WFIRST"

James Rhoads (NASA Goddard)

Date: Sep 24, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
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Public Astro Night - "Origins: How the Earth Shaped Human History"

Lewis Dartnell (University of Westminster)

Date: Sep 18, 2019 6:00 PM
Location: McIntyre Medical Building, Room 504
Public Lecture
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MSI Seminar - "Origin of volatiles in Earth’s mantle"

Curtis Williams (UC Davis)

Date: Sep 17, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
MSI Seminar
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EPOD Discussion - Accessible Astronomy

Date: Sep 17, 2019 2:00 PM
Location: MSI Lounge
Other Event
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Special Seminar - "High-redshift astrophysics using every photon"

Patrick Breysse (CITA)

Date: Sep 16, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: MSI Conference Room (3550 University)
Special MSI Seminar
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Special Event - "Cosmology Research at McGill"

Date: Sep 11, 2019 9:30 AM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
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Astro Seminar - "Relativistic Jets from Weakly Accreting Black Holes"

Richard Plotkin (University of Nevada - Reno)

Date: Sep 10, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
Astro Seminar
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MSI Jamboree 2019

MSI Faculty

Date: Sep 5, 2019 3:00 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
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Special Seminar - "Navigating the New Epoch of FRB Discovery"

Liam Connor (Anton Pannekoek Institute for Astronomy, University of Amsterdam)

Date: Sep 3, 2019 3:30 PM
Location: Bell Room (room 103), Rutherford Physics
Special Astro Seminar
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