Title: Stellar Physics: from Plasma Dynamics to Stellar Evolution Abstract: New data available from recent space-missions Kepler and GAIA, as well as up-coming missions TESS and PLATO, has introduced a … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Dr Jane Pratt"
Title: Dynamical Assembly of Black Hole Binaries in Dense Star Systems Abstract: The discovery of merging black hole (BH) binaries by the LIGO and Virgo experiments has initiated the era … Continue reading "CRA Seminar (Dr. Nicholas Stone, Columbia University)"
Title: Physics of comets after the Rosetta mission Abstract: Most comet questions revolve around whether observed properties are primordial and representative of conditions during the era of planet formation, or whether they are caused by subsequent processing. The Rosetta mission to 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko dramatically changed our understanding of comets. It allowed the most detailed study of … Continue reading "CRA Seminar: Dr. Dennis Bodewits (Auburn University)"
Title: CHIME - the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment Keith Vanderlinde (University of Toronto) URL: http://dunlap.utoronto.ca/~vanderlinde/ ABSTRACT: Among the great surprises of modern cosmology was the discovery of Dark Energy, … Continue reading "CRA Seminar (Dr. Keith Vanderlinde, University of Toronto)"