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Teaching telescopes to multitask may be key to finding extraterrestrial intelligence

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  A new telescope strategy may bring astronomers closer to figuring out whether we’re alone in the universe. Along with her team, Dr. Cherry Ng of the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto has published a detailed plan on how to use a promising new telescope to its maximum capacity,

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U of T Astro October Grad Student of the Month: Polina Zavyalova

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  [one_half]   [/one_half] [one_half_last] Polina Zavyalova is a 4th year PhD student in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, specializing in astrophotonics. Photonics studies the interaction of light and matter. Instead of operating in free space, photonic devices confine and manipulate light in fibres and integrated optical circuits. She is co-supervised by Professor

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Dunlap researchers help reveal galaxy sparkling with universe’s oldest star clusters

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September 29, 2022 by Josslyn Johnstone – A&S News Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers from the Canadian NIRISS Unbiased Cluster Survey (CANUCS) team — including observational astronomers from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics in the Faculty of Arts & Science — have identified the most distant globular clusters ever discovered. These

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U of T\’s Renée Hložek Elected to College of New Scholars 

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  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  – The University of Toronto’s Professor Renée Hložek has been elected to the prestigious College of New Scholars of the Royal Society of Canada. The College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists recognizes emerging intellectual leadership within Canada, of scholars in their early post-doctoral career. Hložek is an Associate Professor at the Dunlap Institute

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U of T Astro September Grad Student of the Month: Harrison Winch

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  [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last]     Harrison is starting their fifth year as a PhD student at the University of Toronto\’s David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, specializing in theoretical cosmology and dark matter research. Harrison grew up in Toronto, and graduated from the interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences program at McMaster University with

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U of T Astro August Grad Student of the Month: Samantha Berek

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  [one_half] [/one_half] [one_half_last] Sam is a second-year PhD student in the David A. Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. She works in the field of astrostatistics, applying statistical models and methods to better understand the relationship between galaxies and their star cluster populations. Before starting her PhD at U of T,

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