[one_half] [/one_half] Jinoo is originally from Seoul, Korea, and moved to British Columbia 10 years ago. About five years ago, he arrived at the University of Toronto. This summer, he completed an undergrad specialist degree at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics in Astronomy and Physics, and will be graduating. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] What […]
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[one_half] [/one_half] Ian is going into his last year of undergraduate studies at the University of Toronto. He has a double major in Physics and Astronomy/ Astrophysics, as well as a minor in Mathematics. Originally from the Philippines, he moved to Dubai at age six, then moved to Guelph, Ontario when he was
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[one_half] [/one_half] Maddy is a fourth year undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, specializing in Astronomy & Physics, with minors in both Mathematics and Environment & Energy. She was born and raised in Vancouver, BC and now lives full time in downtown Toronto. When Maddy isn’t neck deep in work or
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[one_half] [/one_half] Jennifer is a fifth year PhD student at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, studying the formation of exoplanets. She received an Honours Arts & Science and Physics degree from McMaster University, where she participated in research projects on stellar formation and stellar clusters. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’
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[one_half] [/one_half] Robin Wen is originally from Xi’an, China, and he moved to Saskatoon, SK when he was 16. He just completed his undergraduate studies majoring in mathematical physics and statistics at the University of Waterloo. During his time in Waterloo, he conducted research in cosmology and quantum information.[bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] What
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[one_half] [/one_half] Henry is in his second year as a PhD candidate in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, specializing in using deep learning to further the understanding of our Milky Way Galaxy. He completed an honours BSc majoring in physics and astronomy and MSc in astronomy and
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CHIME\’s new siblings will pinpoint where bursts detected by Canada’s world-renowned telescope come from. By Meaghan Thurston and Fergus Grieve, with notes from Meaghan MacSween In the quest to identify the origins of one of astronomy’s biggest mysteries – fast radio bursts (FRBs) – Canada’s world-renowned telescope, the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME),
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Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellows Dr. Kathryn Neugent and Dr. Karthiek Iyer have been awarded the prestigious NASA Hubble Fellowship beginning in the fall of 2022. The NASA Hubble Fellowship Program supports promising postdoctoral scientists to pursue research that will contribute to NASA Astrophysics. The grant, which is administered by NASA, can be taken to any participating
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By James Shelton, with notes from Meaghan MacSween The Dragonfly telescope is undergoing a metamorphosis. For the past decade, the Dragonfly Telephoto Array — designed by The University of Toronto\’s Roberto Abraham and Yale’s Pieter van Dokkum — has conducted groundbreaking science by detecting faint starlight within dimly lit parts of the night sky.
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[one_half] [/one_half] Do Astronomers believe that aliens exist? The Dunlap Institute has launched a new video series that explores some big astronomy questions like this one. The series title and content was inspired, in part, by the first COVID-19 lockdown in early 2020. \”Even though we couldn\’t host events in person, we wanted to
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