A Dunlap Postdoc has created a new way to visualize and interpret the stars in the Milky Way, centred around the Sun. With the help of his colleagues, Banting & Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Josh Speagle used publicly available datasets and statistical methods to map out the distances to, and properties of, 170 million
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[one_half] [/one_half] Alicia is thrilled to be part of the SURP program, studying Milky Way-like galaxies in simulations alongside Dr. Ted Mackereth and Dr. Josh Speagle. Having concurrently completed a B.Sc. in Mathematics with a minor in Physics and a B.Ed. at Brock University, Alicia is now upgrading her physics minor to a major
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The Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics is pleased to announce a successful start to its astronomical instrumentation summer school. Early Monday afternoon, the 2021 Dunlap Instrumentation Virtual Summer School kicked off with a greeting from Dunlap Institute’s Acting Director and Professor Suresh Sivanandam. “The Dunlap Summer School is the largest event offered by
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[one_half] [/one_half] Nicole just completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto with a double major in Astronomy and Physics and a minor in Chemistry. Living in Mississauga, she studies the polarization of supernova remnants at radio wavelengths alongside supervisor Dr. Jennifer West. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] What made you decide to participate
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They may not look like much — just metal disks 80 centimetres (30 inches) across with some etched markings and hundreds of small holes — but round aluminum “plates” like this one from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) have been vital to mapping our Universe for more than 20 years. “The large number
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[one_half] [/one_half] Max is going into his fourth year of undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto. He is specializing in physics & astrophysics. Max is originally from St. Augustine, Florida, and moved to Toronto for school in 2018. Working with supervisor Dr. Cameron Van Eck, he is working on the data pipeline
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A U of T graduate student has discovered that the largest magnetic fields in the Universe are weaker than a fridge magnet – in fact, about three billion times weaker. PhD student Ariel Amaral from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the University of Toronto has led a team of researchers that
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[one_half] [/one_half] Ishika is originally from New Delhi, India. She\’s heading into her third year at U of T, specializing in Astronomy and Physics.[bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] What made you decide to participate in SURP? I wanted to participate in SURP to explore what research in astrophysics looks like. In particular, I wanted to
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[one_half] [/one_half] Shannon is in her second year as a PhD student at the University of Toronto, with a focus on radio astronomy and magnetism. She completed her Honours Physics and Astronomy specialist degree at the University of Toronto, and received the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada Gold Medal Award from the RASC,
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[one_half] [/one_half] Niharika is a third year undergraduate student majoring in Mathematical Physics at Trent University. Currently living in Peterborough, she is originally from India. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] What made you decide to participate in SURP? I\’ve always had an interest in research. Even throughout my previous undergrad, research and the collaborative nature
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