Dr. Karun Thanjuvar 7:30 PM, Wednesday, April 10th; 2019 in Room A104, Bob Wright Centre, UVic Artificial intelligence (AI), especially Deep (Machine) Learning applications, are already ubiquitous and in everyday use, and have been called the second industrial revolution. Deep
Speaker: Exploring a new world on the Edge of the Solar System, New Horizons and 2014 MU69
Dr. J.J. Kavelaars 7:30 PM Wednesday March 13th Room A104, Bob Wright Centre at UVic On January 1st, 2019 NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft executed a flawless encounter of the small world provisionally known as 2014 MU69. Our understanding of the
Speaker: Planet Nine or Planet Nein? Discoveries in the Outer Solar System
Dr. Samatha Lawler Wednesday, February 13th, 2019 At 7:30 PM In Room A104, Bob Wright Centre, UVic Abstract:Over the last couple of years, there have been many headlines about the possibility of an undiscovered giant planet in the outer reaches
Speaker: Dark Nebulae in New Light
Paul Gray, RASC Halifax Centre Wednesday, January 9th, 2019 At 7:30 PM in Room A104, Bob Wright Centre, UVic Dark Nebulae are elusive and one of the most difficult deep sky objects to observe. With the aid of larger telescopes
Speaker: History of the Hubble Space Telescope
Dr. Chris Gainor, President of RASC Wednesday, December 12th, 2018 At 7:30 PM in Room 116, Engineering and Computer Science Building, UVic Note Room Change The Hubble Space Telescope was launched 28 years ago in 1990. After overcoming problems caused
Speaker: The Formation of Planets around Stars: What We Know and What We Still Need to Learn
Dr. Doug Johnstone Saturday November 17th, 2018:~7:30 PM Following Victoria Centre AGM Banquet at Cedar Hill Golf Course, 1400 Derby Road Victoria Over the last few decades we have uncovered a great deal about the formation of stars.
October Speaker: Coronal mass ejection evolution and their effects on galactic cosmic rays and planetary magnetospheres.
Dr. Reka Winslow Wednesday October 10th, 2018 at 7:30 PM Room A104 Bob Wright Centre UVic Coronal mass ejections (CMEs) are large eruptions of plasma and magnetic field into interplanetary space originating in the Sun’s atmosphere. CMEs interact with
September Speaker – Planets Under Construction: How to Study a Million-Year Process
By Dr. Nienke van der Marel Wednesday September 12th, 2018 at 7:30 PM Room A104 Bob Wright Centre UVic Exoplanets are everywhere! In the last 25 years, thousands of exoplanets have been found throughout the Milky Way. But if they
SPEAKER: The Mysterious Death of Galaxies
By Dr. Joanna Woo Wednesday June 13th, 2018 at 7:30 PM In Room 124 Engineering and Computer Science Building, UVic Please note the Room Change Galaxies are vast collections of stars that evolve over billions of years. From surveys of
SPEAKER: Peering through Nature’s telescope – Gravitational Lensing as a window into the distant universe
by Dr. Karun Thanjavur Wednesday May 9th, 2018 at 7:30 PM Room A104 Bob Wright Centre UVic Gravitational lensing, the “bending” of light in a gravitational field is one of the many awe inspiring phenomena predicted by Einstein’s theory of General