SPOTLIGHT TALKS
Location: Cody Hall, AB107
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Part 1 - Tue, June 27 09:30am - 10:30am
Chair: Prof. Bryan Gaensler
Shine: exploring the properties of light with science, music and art
Speaker: Dr. Anne-Marie Weijmans, Dunlap Fellow, 2009-2013; Reader in Astrophysics, University of St. Andrew
Speaker: Prof. Suresh Sivanandam, Dunlap Fellow, 2010-2015; Associate Professor, Dunlap Institute, and David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
Growing with the Institute: Learning to Exploit Opportunities in Optical Instrumentation
IFU Spectroscopy for a New Generation
Speaker: Dr. David R. Law, Dunlap Fellow, 2011-2014; Associate Astronomer, Space Telescope Science Institute
Supermassive black holes, fundamental physics, machine learning, and beyond
Speaker: Prof. Tuan Do, Dunlap Fellow, 2012-2014; Assistant Professor, UCLA
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Part 2 - Tue, June 27 11:00am - 12:00pm
Chair: Prof. Keith Vanderlinde
Speaker: Prof. Michael Reid, Associate Professor, 2011 – 2022; Associate Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Past and Future of Outreach at Dunlap
Careers Beyond Academia: Industry
Speaker: Dr. Thai Duy Cuong Nguyen, Postdoctoral Fellow 2013 – 2015; Manager, Algorithms, Kinaxis
One year of observations with JWST MIRI: A few highlights
Speaker: Dr. Nicolas Crouzet, Dunlap Fellow, 2014 – 2016; Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden Observatory/ Leiden University
Beyond the Ivory Tower: Reenvisioning how we do Science
Speaker: Dr. Mubdi Rahman, Research Associate, 2019 – 2021; Principal, Sidrat Research
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Part 3 - Wed, June 28 11:00am - 12:30pm
Chair: Prof. Suresh Sivanandam
Optical Astronomical Instrumentation Development for the Next Generation
Speaker: Dr. Shaojie Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate 2014 – 2021; Senior Research Associate, Dunlap Institute
Revealing Exoplanets through High-Contrast Imaging
Speaker: Prof. Jeffrey Chilcote, Dunlap Fellow, 2014 – 2017; Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
Large CMB Telescopes at the South Pole: Present & Future
Speaker: Dr. Tyler Natoli, Dunlap Fellow, 2015 – 2018; Scientist, University of Chicago
Our Galaxy in motion: Ripples, ridges and spirals in the Milky Way
Speaker: Dr. Jason Hunt, Dunlap Fellow, 2016 – 2019, Flatiron Research Fellow, Center for Computational Astrophysics
From Auroras to the Universe
Speaker: Dr. Jennifer West, Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Associate, 2016 – 2022; Covington Fellowship, National Research Council of Canada
Upcoming CMB Polarization Measurements
Speaker: Prof. Johanna Nagy, Dunlap Fellow, 2017 – 2020; Assistant Professor, Case Western Reserve University
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Part 4 - Wed, June 28 2:00pm - 3:15pm
Chair: Prof. Suresh Sivanandam
Speaker: Prof. Maria Drout, Dunlap Fellow, 2016 – 2018; Assistant Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics
The Evolution, Influence, and Ultimate Fate of Massive Stars
Digitizing the radio transient sky
Speaker: Dr. Cherry Ng, SOSCIP TalentEdge Fellow, Research Associate, 2017 – 2023; Astronomer, CNRS
The wilds beyond the first light: JWST, SFHs and an evolving tale of galaxy evolution
Speaker: Dr. Kartheik Iyer, Dunlap Fellow, 2019 – 2022; NHFP Hubble Fellow, Columbia University
Building mm-wavelength instruments to probe the evolution of the universe across cosmic time
Speaker: Prof. Abigail Crites, Assistant Professor, 2020 – 2021; Assistant Professor, Cornell University
Speaker: Prof. Joshua Speagle, Banting-Dunlap Fellow, 2020 – 2022; Assistant Professor, David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, and Department of Statistical Science
Uncovering Galaxy Evolution through the Eyes of the Milky Way at the Dunlap Institute