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U of T Astronomer Wins Michael Penston Prize

  The Royal Astronomical Society has awarded its 2020 Michael Penston Thesis Prize to University of Toronto Astronomer Dr. Jennifer Chan. A Postdoctoral Fellow at The Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics (CITA) and an Associate at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Chan’s research focuses on ionization and magnetism – aiming to understand how

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CHIME telescope detects more than 500 mysterious fast radio bursts in first operation year

  Observations quadruple the number of known radio bursts and reveal two types: one-offs and repeaters. Written by Jennifer Chu, MIT News Office To catch sight of a fast radio burst is to be extremely lucky in where and when you point your radio dish. Fast radio bursts, or FRBs, are oddly bright flashes of

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June Grad Student of the Month: Amanda Cook

    [one_half]   [/one_half] Amanda is a second year PhD student at the University of Toronto, specializing in Astrostatistics. Before U of T, Amanda received an Honours Mathematics and Physics degree from McGill University, and held summer research positions at NASA JPL and the University of Kyoto. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] How did you

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May Grad Student of the Month: Ryan Mckinven

    [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] Ryan is in his final year as a PhD student, specializing in observational astronomy at radio wavelengths (a.k.a. a radio astronomer!). He\’s originally from Quebec where he did his Bachelors in Physics at McGill University, before enrolling in the direct entry PhD stream program at U of T. [/one_half_last][bra_border_divider top=\’15\’

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