Astro Summer Seminar Series
Every summer the astronomy graduate students host a series of seminars highlighting the novel and diverse research being conducted by astronomers at UVic and the NRC-HAA. Not only does this allow local astronomers to present the depth and range of their current research, but it gives the audience the opportunity to learn about cutting-edge research being done in Victoria.
Interested in presenting? We invite all astronomers from UVic and NRC-HAA (faculty, post-docs, research personnel, graduate students, co-op students) to present for 30-45 minutes on a current research project. We also welcome external collaborators of UVic and NRC-HAA personnel to present as well. If you are interested in presenting, reach out to anyone on our organizing committee.
Organizing Committee: Mallory Thorp (mallorythorp@uvic.ca), Vida Saeedzadeh (vidasaeedzadeh@uvic.ca)
Interested in attending? The 2022 astronomy seminar series will be held from 12pm – 1pm on Wednesdays (with some flexibility for certain speakers). We will be providing the option to attend the seminar virtually over zoom. See the table below for scheduled seminars.
Upcoming Seminars
Date |
Speaker |
Seminar Title |
Location/Link |
1 – 6 – 2022 | Sara Ellison | Gas and star formation in the nearby universe with the ALMA-MaNGA QUEnching and STar formation (ALMaQUEST) survey. | Elliott 167 |
8 – 6 – 2022 | William Thompson | TBD | Elliott 167 |
15 – 6 – 2022 | Shoshannah Byrne-Mamahit | Enhanced Supermassive Black Hole Accretion Rates in Post-Merger Galaxies from Cosmological Simulations | Elliott 167 |
22 – 6 – 2022 | Kim Venn | TBD | Elliott 167 |
29 – 6 – 2022 | Mallory Thorp | TBD | Elliott 167 |
6 – 7 – 2022 | Federico Sestito | TBD | Elliott 167 |
13 – 7 – 2022 | Spencer Bialek | TBD | Elliott 167 |
20 – 7 – 2022 | Logan Francis | Things that go Bump in the Night – Accretion Burst Echoes as Probes of Protostellar Environments | Elliott 167 |
27 – 7 – 2022 | Katie Crotts | TBD | Elliott 167 |
3 – 8 – 2022 | Elliott 167 | ||
10 – 8 – 2022 | Elliott 167 | ||
17 – 8 – 2022 | Elliott 167 | ||
24 – 8 – 2022 | Elliott 167 | ||
31 – 8 – 2022 | Elliott 167 |
Past Seminars – 2021
The organizing committee thanks all the volunteer speakers at the 2020 Summer Seminar Series for their engaging presentations.
Date |
Speaker |
Seminar Title |
Link / Location |
17 – 05 – 2021 | Jon Willis | Discovering the first cosmic cities: Distant galaxy clusters and the growth of large-scale structure in the Universe. | |
07 – 06 – 2021 | Doug Rennehan | Mixing Matters | Postponed |
14 – 06 – 2021 | Robert Bickley | Machine vision-based studies of post-merger galaxies in observations & simulations | Recording |
21 – 06 – 2021 | Alan McConnachie | The Milky Way, its satellites, and their analogs in the Local Universe | Recording |
28 – 06 – 2021 | Cancelled for Extreme Heat | ||
05 – 07 – 2021 | Nienke van der Marel | Ice pebble chemistry in a dust trap and its influence on the C/O ratio in a planet-forming disk | Recording |
12 – 07 – 2021 | Isabel Santos | Magellanic satellites in LCDM cosmological hydrodynamical simulations of the Local Group | Recording |
19 – 07 – 2021 | Austin Davis | Turbulent convective mixing at the end of a massive stars life: Motivation for multi-physics code validation | Recording |
26 – 07 – 2021 | Dhruv Muley | Observational Signatures of Planets in Protoplanetary Disks: Temperature structures in spiral arms | Recording Coming Soon |
02 – 08 – 2021 | No Seminar | Happy British Columbia Day! | |
09 – 08 – 2021 | Megan Donahue | Quenching of Star Formation in Massive Galaxies: Insights from X-ray Observations of their Gas Halos | Recording Coming Soon |
16 – 08 – 2021 | Asya Borukhovetskaya | The tidal evolution of the Fornax and Crater II dwarf spheroidals | Recording Coming Soon |
23 – 08 – 2021 | Salvatore Quai | The rarity of quenching in simulated post-merger galaxies | Recording Coming Soon |
30 – 08 – 2021 | Jess Speedie | Observing planet-driven spiral arms in the dust with ALMA | https://uvic.zoom.us/j/86420210010 |
2020
Date |
Speaker |
Seminar Title |
Link / Location |
05 – 05 – 2021 | Jon Willis | All These Worlds Are Yours – The Scientific Search for Alien Life. | Recorded Seminar |
06 – 05 – 2020 | Falk Herwig | 3D hydrodynamic simulations of core-convection in massive stars: new solutions to an old problem | No Recording |
13 – 05 – 2020 | Alan McConnachie | Pushing Gaia to the limits: new insights into the outer Galaxy and the Local Group | Recorded Seminar |
20 – 05 – 2020 | JJ Kavelaars | TBD | Recorded Seminar |
03 – 06 – 2020 | Arif Babul | Cosmology with Galaxy Clusters | Recorded Seminar |
17 – 06 – 2020 | Kim Venn | The Metal Poor Galaxy | Recorded Seminar |
24 – 06 – 2020 | Raphael Errani | Tidal stripping 101: substructure abundance and the dark matter halos of Milky Way dwarfs | Recorded Seminar |
08 – 07 – 2020 | Clare Higgs | The Stellar Structure of Isolated Local Group Dwarf Galaxies with the Solo Survey | Recorded Seminar |
15 – 07 – 2020 | Guillaume Thomas | Reconstructing the history of the Milky Way and probing the dark matter nature with our stellar halo and its structures | Recorded Seminar |
22 – 07 – 2020 | Doug Johnstone | Steady Wind-Blown Cavities within Infalling Rotating Envelopes: Application to the Broad Velocity Component in Young Protostars Observed by the Herschel Space Observatory | Recorded Seminar |
29 – 07 – 2020 | Maan Hani | The spatially resolved effects of galaxy mergers on star formation and metallicities in IllustrisTNG | No Recording |
05 – 08 – 2020 | Nienke van der Marel | On the origin, diversity and fate of gapped protoplanetary disks | Recorded Seminar |
19 – 08 – 2020 | Toby Brown | Early Results from VERTICO, the Virgo Environment Traced in CO Survey | No Recording |
02 – 09 – 2020 | Katie Crotts | A Deep Polarimetric Analysis of the Debris Disk HD 106906 | Recorded Seminar |