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
SPEAKER: Hot Jupiters, super-Earths, and mini-Neptunes! Oh my!
by Dr. Henry Ngo Wednesday April 11th 2018 at 7:30 PM Room 167, Elliot Building No, the lions and tigers and bears have not rebranded! These are categories of exoplanets (planets around other stars). At first, we only knew about
SPEAKER: The Hunt for Black Holes in Globular Clusters
by Dr. Vincent Hénault-Brunet Wednesday March 14th 2017 at 7:30 PM Room A104, Bob Wright Centre Globular clusters have long been used to test theories of stellar evolution, stellar dynamics, and galaxy formation. In recent years, these old clusters have
SPEAKER: The Mystery of Dark Matter. by Dr. Guillaume Thomas
Wednesday February 14th 2017 at 7:30 PM Room A104, Bob Wright Centre. During the past two decades, the standard model of the cosmology ΛCDM has commonly been accepted by the astrophysical community and successfully reproduced and even predicted many observational
Speaker: Quasars: Black Holes That You Can “See” by Dr. Patrick Hall
Monthly Meeting of RASC Victoria Centre 7:30PM Wednesday January 10th 2018 Room A104, Bob Wright Centre, UVic Quasars are the brightest objects in our Universe. A quasar is a rotating disk as big as our solar system and hotter than
Speaker: Supernovae and the Meaning of Life: Dr. Chris Pritchet
Wednesday, December 13th, 2017 at 7:30 PM Room A104, Bob Wright Centre, University of Victoria RASC Victoria Centre’s Monthly Meeting Supernovae are among the most energetic, extreme and interesting objects in the Universe. This talk will focus on the nature
Victoria Centre’s AGM 2017
Victoria Centre held our Annual General Meeting on Saturday, November 18, 2017 at the Cedar Hill Golf Course in Victoria, BC, Canada. An excellent dinner was served by the golf course staff and some pre-dinner drinks; a fascinating speaker; awards
Annual General Meeting & Dinner
The November meeting of the Victoria Centre is the Annual General Meeting and Dinner. It will take place at the Cedar Hill Golf Course on Saturday, November 18. The doors open at 6 p.m. The dinner consists of a buffet
Speaker: Historical Supernovae: Wendell Shuster
Wednesday, October 11th, 2017 at 7:30 PM Room A104, Bob Wright Centre, University of Victoria RASC Victoria Centre’s Monthly Meeting This talk will focus on how various cultures around the world were influenced by the sudden appearance of Supernovae. Further