Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics

The second day of the @CITA_ICAT Jamboree is underway! Keynote Prof. Kristen Menou discussed how far we are on the path to building an AI Physicist and the difficulty of navigating scientific discovery by AI.

“Van Gogh's depiction of the starry night closely resembles the turbulence found between the stars in our Galaxy”, explains CITA/ Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow James Beattie for CNN.  The impressionistic painting of Van Gogh is not just an artist’s rendition of a summer night’s sky. As it turns out, the scrutiny on an artist’s gaze is akin to that of a scientist observing natural phenomena. What the former expresses in colours and brushstrokes, the later describes in mathematical formulas. Read more: https://lnkd.in/eDG-YY5k 

Coming up this week, the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics National Jamboree meeting will take place on Thursday, October 3 and Friday, 4. Join us for a series of short informal presentations, a talk by Prof. Kristen Menou, social events and engaging discussions. https://lnkd.in/gA8FT76X

Join us on Monday, Sep 30 for this year's edition of the Job App Hackathon!! Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics faculty Reed Essick and the CITA mentorship committee offer a special resume writing and job application workshop for people with advanced degrees in Physics, Astrophysics and Astronomy.

Last night at the University of Toronto - University College, MIT Professor of Physics, Planetary Science, and Aeronautics and Astronautics Sara Seager gave the #NeilGrahamLecture in Science. Join us today at 2 PM at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics for a more technical discussion on the search for life beyond Earth.

Congratulations to Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics faculty Bart Ripperda and Maya Fishbach on receiving the 2023-2024 Connaught New Researcher Awards. As the largest internal university research funding program in Canada, the Connaught Fund supports the University of Toronto’s graduate students, early-career researchers, interdisciplinary teams, and innovators to meet the challenges facing our global society. The Fund traces its origins back to the Connaught Labs, which played an instrumental role in the discovery of insulin and production of other vaccines in the 1920s. Reed more at: https://lnkd.in/g2nBrMcw

Counting down to the 2024 Neil Graham Lecture in Science by Sara Seager to take place on September 25. Professor Seager is an astrophysicist and a Professor of Physics, Professor of Planetary Science, and a Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she holds the Class of 1941 Professor Chair. She has been a pioneer in the vast and unknown world of exoplanets, planets that orbit stars other than the sun. Her ground-breaking research ranges from the detection of exoplanet atmospheres to innovative theories about life on other worlds to development of novel space mission concepts.

What is the similarity between a raw egg and X-Ray Pulsar Hercules X-1? To find out, watch the recording of last week's seminar at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics led by Jeremy Heyl, faculty at The University of British Columbia. https://lnkd.in/g-fe9c6a

Great presentations today at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics by the talented SURF 2024 cohort, whose advances in Astrophysics research far surpass the timeframe of their 16 weeks internship. Andal Abro, Ana Molina Colina, Aryan Jain, Mateus Kaiber Buse, Benjamin Stadel, Nicholas Harries, Shashvat Varma got their CITA SURF 2024 Certificates. In the picture are SURF supervisors Bart Ripperda, Reed Essick, Marta Reina-Campos, Jennifer Chan, Ioana Zelko, PhD, Utkarsh Mali, and CITA Director, Peter Martin.

What are the ways stellar remnants influence the dynamical evolution of their hosts? Kyle Kremer from UC San Diego elaborated on this question during the latest Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics seminar on Monday. The recording is now available at: https://lnkd.in/ghrnjy46