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[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Dr. Peter Klages, Dunlap Institute The Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) is located in a radio-quiet valley near Penticton, BC, and aims to study Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations for red-shifted hydrogen between z = 0.8 to z = 2.5.  The CHIME telescope is a computational radio telescope composed of multiple parabolic […]

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Prof. Dae-Sik Moon, Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics, U of T Near-Infrared Echelle Spectrograph (NIRES) is a cross-dispersed echellette simultaneously covering the 0.8-2.4 micron wavelength range at R ~ 2,700 developed for the Keck II 10-m telescope between Caltech and the University of Toronto. It is expected to be commissioned in

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Dr. Suresh Sivanandam, Dunlap Institute Infrared integral field spectrographs have become a very important tool in understanding the nature of high redshift Universe. But due to their small field-of-view, they are very limited when it comes to observing nearby more extended objects. The near-infrared band has many interesting spectral features that

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] The goal of this activity will be to find out what instrumentation work is going on right now and to discuss some of the associated accomplishments and challenges. The meeting will have a loosely structured format where everyone will be encouraged to bring a either picture, plot, and/or a piece of

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Dr. Duy Cuong Nguyen, Dunlap Institute The primary mission of SDSS/MARVELS was to search for exoplanets using an augmented radial velocity technique. While there are numerous ongoing radial velocity surveys, SDSS/MARVELS employs Dispersed Fixed-Delay Interferometry (DFDI), and combines interferometry with multi-object spectroscopy to allow precision monitoring of dozens of targets simultaneously.

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Geometric Phase Holograms and Multi-Twist Retarders: Surprising control of phase and polarization via patterned birefringence Dr. Michael Escuti, North Carolina State University It is well known that anisotropic materials can be used to transform polarization, but it is something of an underground insight that they can also be used to control

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Alan McConnachie, NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics Now is an exciting time in Canadian astronomy, with several large-scale projects underway. At optical-NIR wavelengths, the main focus is rightly on TMT, with construction set to begin next year. The ELTs will transform astronomy, in terms of the discoveries they enable, in terms

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] Rachel Friesen, Dunlap Institute The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a revolutionary new facility in the Chilean Andes for studying the (sub)millimeter sky at angular resolutions as small as ~6 milliarcsec at the shortest wavelengths. A joint partnership between North America (including Canada), Europe and East Asia, ALMA was inaugurated

[bra_border_divider top=\’5\’ bottom=\’15\’] [one_half] WISH is a concept being developed and will be proposed for Japanese JAXA/ISAS future space science mission whose primary goal is to study the first-generation of the galaxies beyond the epoch of Cosmic Reionization at z=8-15 as well as to conduct an extensive search and light curve monitoring of high redshift