AstroMcGill Episode 1 – Laura Lopez
Guest: Laura Lopez, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We discussed her research on supernova remnants and massive stars, as well as her involvement in public outreach. Hosts: James...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 2 – Richard Cyburt
Guest: Richard Cyburt, assistant professor at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics (JINA) of Michigan State University. We discussed his research on nuclear astrophysics, and how it bridges...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 3 – George Helou
Guest: George Helou, Executive director of the Infrared Processing and Analysis Center at CalTech, and deputy director of the Spitzer Infrared Telescope Science team. We discussed his scientific...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 4 – Keith Vanderlinde
Guest: Keith Vanderlinde, CIFAR Junior Fellow at McGill University. We discussed his research on cosmology and galaxy clusters, as part of the South Pole Telescope collaboration. Hosts: James Kennedy,...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 5 – John Tomsick
Guest: John Tomsick, Assistant Research Scientist at the Space Sciences Laboratory (UC Berkeley). We discussed his research in the field of X-ray astrophysics, namely, observations of X-ray binaries...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 6 – Adam Showman
Guest: Adam Showman, professor at the Lunar and Planetary Lab (University of Arizona). We discussed different aspects related to his research on exoplanets. Hosts: James Kennedy, Sebastien Guillot and...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 7 – Rosalba Perna
Guest: Rosalba Perna, associate professor at University of Colorado in Boulder. We discussed her research focused on the modelisation of various astrophysical phenomena, including magnetars and hot...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 8 – Eric Linder
Guest: Eric Linder, Co-director of the INPA at the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. We talked about cosmology and particularly the composition of the Universe (Dark energy, dark matter, normal matter,...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 9 — Oded Aharonson
Guest: Oded Aharonson (Center for Planetary Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel). We discussed the study of Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, as well as his interests in other planets of...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 10 — Stephanie Juneau
Guest: Stephanie Juneau (CEA Saclay, France). We talked about supermassive black-holes, in other galaxies and in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot. Duration: 16...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 11 – Kristen Coppin & James Geach
Guest: Kristen Coppin and James Geach (both post-doctoral researchers at McGill University). We interviewed Kristen and Jim to discuss their results, recently published in a press release. They...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 12 – Joaquin Viera
Guest: Joaquin Viera (CalTech). We discussed his research focused on bright and distant galaxies discovered with the South Pole Telescope and observed with the ALMA telescope. Hosts: James Kennedy and...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 13 – Mansi Kasliwal
Guest: Mansi Kasliwal (Carnegie Institution for Science). Her research aims at the discovery and the understanding of new types of stellar explosions. We discussed what these explosions are and how she...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 14 – Marco Viero
Guest: Marco Viero (CalTech). He studies the cosmic infrared background and dark matter. We discussed these topics with him. Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Ryan Lynch. Duration: 20 minutes.
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 15 – Abe Falcone
Guest: Abe Falcone (Penn State). The discussion was about cosmic rays, very energetic particles with cosmic origin. Hosts: James Kennedy and Ryan Lynch. Duration: 30 minutes.
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 16 – Abby Vieregg
Guest: Abby Vieregg (Harvard CFA). We talked about her work on the detection of neutrinos (hard-to-detect fundamental particles) with the balloon-borne instrument ANITA at the South Pole. Hosts: James...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 17 – Mathias Zaldarriaga
Guest: Mathias Zaldarriaga (IAS/Princeton). We discussed various topics of cosmology (the Big Bang, inflation, the Cosmic Microwave Background, etc…). Hosts: James Kennedy, Ryan Lynch and Sebastien...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 18 – Ue-Li Pen
Guest: Ue-Li Pen (CITA, U of Toronto). We talked about his involvement with the rehabilitation of the Algonquin Radio Observatory, and how it was used for radio pulsar scattering observations. Hosts:...
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 19 – Dong Lai
Guest: Dong Lai (Cornell). We discussed his research on hot Jupiters, a type of exoplanets on which tidal forces play an important role. Hosts: James Kennedy and Sebastien Guillot. Duration: 22 minutes.
View ArticleAstroMcGill Episode 20 – David Tsang
Guest: David Tsang (McGill). We talked about neutron star mergers as emitters of gravitational waves. These waves are ripples in the curvature of space-time. Hosts: James Kennedy, Ryan Lynch and...
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