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
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