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#AstronomyonTapTO is this Friday! Meet Michael Poon, who will be giving a talk about looking for invisible planets! Join us at The Great Hall on March 13 to hear more! Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm!
Learn more here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/18Tazk4Ti1/
Meet our third speaker, Gustavo Medina Toledo! At #AstronomyonTapTO, he will be telling us about how variable stars allow us to take measurements of the distant universe! π
Join Gustavo, Ronan, and Michael next week at The Great Hall Toronto on March 13th!
https://www.facebook.com/share/1DgBxPtYqn/
Join us at The Great Hall on March 13th for #AstronomyonTapTO, where our second speaker, Ronan Kerr, will tell us about how our galaxy produces stars!
Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/share/1DgBxPtYqn/
Meet our first speaker for #AstronomyonTapTO on Mar. 13! Michael Poon will be giving a talk about seeing "invisible" planets with infrared light!
See https://www.facebook.com/share/1DgBxPtYqn/ for more details!
Learn about finding intelligent life in the universe with PhD student Pinchen Fan at this month's AstroTours!
Location: PB150, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, 144 College St
Time: Talk starts at 7pm. Activities to follow from 8-9pm.
Learn more: https://www.astro.utoronto.ca/astrotours/index.html
On Friday, March 13th, Astronomy on Tap returns to The Great Hall! Join us for an evening of great talks, fun games, awesome prizes, and the chance to hang out with real astronomers!
Doors open at 7pm and the show starts at 8pm! https://www.facebook.com/share/1DgBxPtYqn/
#astronomyontapTO
π£ The Dunlap Institute is hiring for the position of Lead Software Developer! This two-year term position will involve developing software for CanDIAPL, or the Canadian Data Intensive Astrophysics Platform.
Closing date is February 27. More information: https://uoft.me/CanDIAPL-developer-2026
Check out tomorrow's Astrotour! Graduate student Nolan Koblischke will be talking about how AI helps astronomers learn about the Universe!
Date: Thu, Feb 5
Time: Lecture at 7pm, activities to follow at 8pm
Location: Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, rm 150, 144 College St
Free, no registration needed!
π£ The deadline to apply to the 2026 Dunlap Summer School has been extended to Friday, February 6! To learn more and to apply, please visit: https://uoft.me/dss2026
No one can deny that 2025 has been a whirlwind of a year! Between Astronomy on Tap, the Dunlap Summer School, incredible celestial events and astronomical discoveries, there was certainly enough to keep us busy. Happy holidays from all of us at the Dunlap Institute, and all the best in 2026!
π£ Applications are open for the Summer Undergraduate Research Program (SURP), which runs from May to August! This is a great opportunity for undergraduate students to prepare for a career in scientific research. Apply by Jan. 30!
To learn more & apply: https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/training/surp/
π£ Applications are now open for the 2026 Dunlap Institute Summer School, which this year will have a focus on optical astronomy!
Summer School dates: July 20-24, 2026
Application deadline: January 30, 2026
Learn more and apply at www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/training/sum...
Meet our third speaker, Alicia Savelli! At #AstronomyonTapTO, she will be telling us about how you can see a black hole! β«
Join Alicia, Mairead, and Simran next week at The Great Hall Toronto on November 21st!
More info: https://www.facebook.com/share/1CqzNYxZDk/
Join us at The Great Hall on November 21st for #AstronomyonTapTO, where our second speaker, Mairead Heiger, will tell us about where (some of) the elements come from!
Learn more at https://www.facebook.com/share/1CqzNYxZDk/
Welcome to Prof. Sara Seager, who is joining CITA this September! She will be cross-appointed with the David A. Dunlap Department for Astronomy & Astrophysics, the Departments of Physics and Chemistry, with funding from the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics.
https://uoft.me/saraseager
From left: Jacquelyn Pless, Mark Duggan and Sara Seager will join U of T for the start of the 2026-27 academic year
New constellation of academic stars headed to #UofT.
Innovation scholar Jacquelyn Pless, economist Mark Duggan & astrophysicist Sara Seager will join the university next year β‘οΈ uoft.me/bZu
π£ We're hiring! Seeking a postdoctoral researcher to work on scientific and technical problems related to the Polarization Sky Survey of the Universeβs Magnetism (POSSUM), a new wide-field polarimetry survey on the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP).
https://uoft.me/postdocradiopol
Meet our first speaker for #AstronomyonTapTO on Nov. 21! Simran Nerval will be giving a talk about how we can learn about the Universe from the oldest light we can see!
See https://www.facebook.com/share/1CqzNYxZDk/ for more details!
Congratulations to Prof. RenΓ©e HloΕΎek who was awarded the #NSERC Arthur B. McDonald Fellowship at a ceremony in Ottawa yesterday!
Read more about Prof. HloΕΎek and the award here: https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/professor-renee-hlozek-awarded-2025-arthur-b-mcdonald-fellowship/
β¨Happy 15th anniversary to Dunlap Institute Director Suresh Sivanandam!β¨ On October 25, 2010, Suresh started as a Dunlap Fellow at the Institute, was hired as an assistant professor in July, 2015, and took up the mantle of director in January, 2024. Congratulations for 15 years with the Institute!
Congratulations to Aishani Chaudhuri for winning this year's Mercedes T. Richards Award for Excellence in Summer Undergraduate Research!
Read more: https://www.dunlap.utoronto.ca/utsc-astronomy-student-is-the-2025-mercedes-t-richards-award-for-excellence-in-summer-undergraduate-research-recipient/
Dr. Hannah Diamond-Lowe joins AstroTours this month for their annual Keynote Lecture to talk about planets detected by JWST! Stick around for tours and activities after the talk!
ποΈ: Oct. 23
β°: 7 PM
π: Rm. 1050, 22 Ursula Franklin st.
πΈ: Free and no registration!
More info: UofT.me/AstroTours
CHORD is the next-generation radio telescope that will leverage Canadian astronomical leadership to unveil the mysteries of the cosmos.
Details: perimeterinstitute.ca/news/chord-w...
@dunlapinstitute.bsky.social @mcgillscience.bsky.social
Learn more about the research here: http://www.dunlap.ut...
#CHIME #CHIMEOutriggers #JWST #AstronomyResearch #FastRadioBurst
π£ New research alert! An international collaboration of astronomers, including members from the University of Toronto, have detected the brightest Fast Radio Burst (FRB) to date, and using the network of CHIME Outrigger telescopes, have been able to pinpoint its location in a nearby galaxy.
Date: Wednesday, May 7, 2025
Time: 6:00 - 6:45pm
Location: Innis College Town Hall, 2 Sussex Ave, Toronto
RSVP by Friday, May 2nd: forms.office.com/r/h...
This year's Steacie Prize lecture features Prof. Jo Bovy who will delve into the new view of the Milky Wayβcomplex, dynamic, and very much in the process of evolvingβand what it implies about galaxy formation, galaxy evolution, and the nature of dark matter.
Professor Emeritus John Percy explores the question of whether or not life can exist on other worlds in his talk next week at the Runnymede @torontolibrary branch!
Date: Wednesday April 16
Time: 2 - 3:30pm
Location: Runnymede Toronto Public Library, 2178 Bloor Street West
β¨Learn about the first stars in the universe at tomorrow night's AstroTour with PhD candidate Sam Berek! This free lecture will be followed by telescope and lab tours, and hands-on demos.
- Thu Apr 3, Lecture at 8-9pm, demos and tours at 9-10pm
- Rm 102, 60 St. George st
www.astro.utoronto.c...
