[one_half] [/one_half] As a second year PhD student in the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Bolin focuses on applying new statistical methods from other disciplines to astronomy – as well as utilizing astronomy methods in other disciplines. Bolin completed an honours biological physics degree and an ecology and […]
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[one_half] [/one_half] Victor focuses on applying new methods and statistics to cosmological studies as a fifth year PhD candidate at the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto. Originally from Toronto, Victor also completed an Honours Astronomy and Astrophysics specialist degree from U of T. [bra_border_divider top=\’15\’ bottom=\’15\’][one_half] How did
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Astronomers are one step closer to revealing the properties of dark matter enveloping our Milky Way galaxy, thanks to a new map of twelve streams of stars orbiting within our Galactic halo. Understanding these star streams is very important for astronomers. As well as revealing the dark matter that holds the stars in their
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The CHIME/FRB Team, which includes many researchers within the U of T Astronomy community – will be awarded the prestigious 2022 Berkeley prize by the American Astronomical Society (AAS). The team is being honoured with the award for their noteworthy progress on fast radio burst (FRB) detections. They’ve discovered more than 500 in the
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[one_half] [/one_half] Ashley is in her third year as a PhD student at the University of Toronto. She received her undergraduate degrees in Honours Physics and Engineering Physics at the University of Saskatchewan. Before starting at the University of Toronto, Ashley did summer research projects at the University of Saskatchewan, SNOLAB/Laurentian University, and Mullard
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A Dunlap Institute astronomer has discovered that our solar system may be surrounded by what she describes as a magnetic tunnel that can be seen in radio waves. Dr. Jennifer West, Research Associate at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, is making a scientific case that two bright structures that are seen on
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE  – U of T Assistant Professor Renée Hložek is this year’s winner of the prestigious McLean Award. The award recognizes an emerging research leader at the University of Toronto. Hložek is an Assistant Professor at the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics and the David A. Dunlap Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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By Blaine Friedlander, with notes from Meaghan MacSween Considered an ultra-hot Jupiter – a place where iron gets vaporized, condenses on the night-side and then falls from the sky like rain – the fiery, inferno-like WASP-76b exoplanet may be even more sizzling than scientists had realized. An international team, led by researchers at
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[one_half] [/one_half] Aarya is in her fourth year as a PhD candidate in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of Toronto, specializing in the interdisciplinary fields of astrostatistics and astroinformatics. She is originally from Pune, India, where she received her Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering at the S. P. Pune University.
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