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1) AstroMcGill Episode 70 – Tom Prince
Tom Prince visited McGill as part of the opening of the new McGill Space Institute. We talk to Tom about his work with the Palomar Transient Factory and the upcoming Zwicky Transient Facility. Guest: ...Show More
2) AstroMcGill Episode 69 – Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell
We were visited by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars during her graduate studies in the 1960s. She talks to us about the still highly active field of pulsar astronomy and her varied ca...Show More
3) AstroMcGill Episode 68 – Chiara Mingarelli
Chiara talks to us about how timing the rotation of pulsars can be used to detect gravitational waves–ripples in the very fabric of the cosmos. Guest: Chiara Mingarelli (California Institute of ...Show More
4) AstroMcGill Episode 67 – Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
Enrico talks to us about the formation of heavy elements in the Universe through processes such as neutron star mergers. Guest: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (University of California Santa Cruz). Hosts: Robert...Show More
5) AstroMcGill Episode 66 – Bryan Gaensler
Bryan talks to us about magnetic fields in the Universe (and a little bit about cows). Guest: Bryan Gaensler (University of Toronto, Dunlap Institute). Hosts: Erik Madsen and Gabrielle Simard. Duratio...Show More
6) AstroMcGill Episode 65 – Beth Wilman
We discussed how astronomers can studied cosmology, the formation and evolution of the Universe, by observing nearby dwarfs galaxies, instead of extremely distant galaxies at the edge of the Universe....Show More
7) AstroMcGill Episode 64 – Jason Wright
We talked about exoplanets, detecting exoplanets through measurements of radial velocities, and what we can look forward to from this field in the near future. The two websites mentioned during the po...Show More
8) AstroMcGill Episode 63 – Kendrick Smith
We discussed the large-scale structure of the Universe and how we can understand it from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background emission, the relic light from the formation of the Universe. G...Show More
9) AstroMcGill Episode 62 – Sara Ellison
The topic of this week’s podacst with Sara Ellison was the merging of galaxies. Guest: Sara Ellison Hosts: Sean Griffin and Gabrielle Simard Duration: 19 minutes Production: James O’Callag...Show More
10) AstroMcGill Episode 61 – Laurens Keek
In this podcast, we talked about the nuclear explosion happening on the surface of neutron star, and how these objects located thousands of light years away can be used to better understand nuclear ph...Show More