Science, Seminars, Previous Seminars

Previous Seminars at CFHT

2003
July 22nd 2003, at 11:00:
    Michel Rieutord (Observatoire de Toulouse)
    "Solar convection models"
July 29th 2003, at 11:00:
    David Hanes (Queens University, Ontario)
    "Extragalactic globular clusters: A probe of galaxy mergers
July 31st 2003, at 11:00:
    Nate Mc Crady (UC, Berkeley)
    "Super Star Clusters in the M82 Starburst: A Newborn Globular Cluster Population?
Thursday, August 7th 2003, at 11:00:
    Dr. Guillaume Blanc (CEA Saclay)
    "Type Ia Supernova Explosion Rate Measurement"
Tuesday, August 12th 2003, at 11:00:
    Dr. Genevieve Soucail (Observatoire de Toulouse)
    "Mass Distribution in Clusters of Galaxies"
  • Thursday, August 28th 2003, at 11:00am:
      • Dr. Nadine Manset (CFHT)
      "Polarimetric observations of young binary stars"
    Thursday, September 11th 2003, at 11:00am:
      Dr. Eugene Magnier (CFHT)
      ""Brown Dwarf Science with Elixir"
    Thursday, September 25th 2003, at 11:00am:
      Dr. Chris Davis (JAC, Hilo)
      "Understanding molecular outflows and Herbig-Haro jets through near-IR observations"
    Thursday, October 9th 2003, at 11:00am:
      Dr. Remi Cabanac (CFHT)
      "The wonders of serendipity"
    Thursday, November 6th 2003, at 11:00am:
      Dr. Tracy Beck (Gemini North)
      "Integral field observations of Herbig-Haro shocks with GMOS"
    Wednesday, November 26th 2003, at 11:00am:
      Dr. David Valls Gabaud (CFHT)
      "Euler, Hipparcos and the five little dwarfs: Reconstructing star formation histories in the Local Group"
    Tuesday, December 23th 2003, at 14:00:
      Dr. Helene Courtois - CRAL-Observatoire de Lyon
      "Galaxy distributions at very low and very high redshift"
    2004
    Wednesday, January 14th 2004, at 14:00:
      Dr. Dr. John Greenhill - University of Tasmania
      "The PLANET microlensing collaboration"
    Thursday, January 15th 2004, at 11:00:
      Dr. David Wood- WebCT Inc.
      "Future Directions in Faint Galaxy and Galaxy Cluster Research"
    Wednesday, January 21st 2004, at 14:00:
      Dr. Marc Moniez - LAL Orsay, France
      "Does transparent hidden matter generate optical scintillation?"
    Thursday, January 22nd 2004, at 11:00:
      Stephanie Plante - Universite Laval, Quebec
      "Super Star Clusters in Low-Metallicity Starburst Galaxies: what lies beneath"
    Friday, January 23rd 2004, at 16:00:
      Dr. Eduardo Martin - Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias
      "S Ori 70: Cluster planet or ultracool brown dwarf?"
    Friday, January 30th 2004, at 14:00:
      Dr. Jean Rene Roy - GEMINI North (Hilo)
      "Science highlights with Gemini"
    Thursday, February 26th 2004, at 11:00:
      Dr. Olivier Guyon - Subaru Observatory (Hilo)
      "High performance coronagraphs for ground-based telescopes and space missions"
    Tuesday, March 9th 2004, at 11:00:
      Dr. Nadine Manset - CFHT
      "Polarimetry of binary stars"
    Thursday, March 11th 2004, at 11:00:
      Kirsty Selway - Univ. Glasgow
      "Modelling the Polarimetric Signatures of Extra Solar Planets During Microlensing Events "
    Wednesday, June 9th 2004, at 15:00:
      Dr. Chris Willmer - Lick Observatory
      "The Galaxy Luminosity Function to z = 1: Results from DEEP"
    Thursday, June 10th 2004, at 15:00:
      Philippe Delorme - University of Grenoble/CFHT
      "Searching for faint companions to solar neighborhood stars with adaptive optics "
    Wednesday, June 16th 2004, at 10:00:
      Carl Grillmair - Spitzer Science Center, Caltech
      "Galactic Structure with SIM"
    Wednesday, June 29th 2004, at 10:00:
      Marc Seigar - Joint Astronomy Center, Hilo
      "Dust Penetrated Arm Classes: A near-infrared classification scheme for spiral galaxies"
    Thursday, August 9th 2004, at 11:30
      John Mc Farland - Georgia State University
      "Rest Frame Variability Characteristics of the Blazars BL Lacertae, AO 0235+164, and PKS 1633+382"

     
      Monday, July 26th 2004, at 11:00
      John Landstreet -Univ. of Western Ontario
      "Magnetic Ap stars in clusters"
    Friday June 17th 2004, at 14:00
      Danielle Alloin - ESO Santiago
      "Very deeeply embedded stellar clusters in AGNs"
    Tuesday November 23rd 2004, at 11:00
      M. Castellanos - OMP Toulouse
      "Modelling the Diffuse Ionized Gas in spiral galaxies: a new approach"
    Monday December 20th 2004, at 11:00
      D. Barrado y Navascues - LAEFF Madrid
      "The Lambda Orionis Star Forming Region: The Initial Mass Funtion and the Effect of the Environment"
    (LAEFF, 20 Decembre) "The Lambda Orionis Star Forming Region : The Initial Mass Funtion and the Effect of the Environment"
    2005

      Wednesday, January 19th 2005, at 11:00
      Glenn Morrison - NOAO Tucson
      "Multiwavelength observations of a very rich cluster, CL0939+471"

      Wednesday, January 26th 2005, at 11:00
      Jean Louis Lemaire - Observatoire de Meudon
      "From star forming regions to laboratory astrophysics"

      Thursday February 10th 2005, at 11:00
      Jean Arnaud - OMP-Toulouse
      "The Hanle effect as a solar (and stellar?) magnetic field probe"

      Wednesday March 9th 2005, at 11:00
      Simona Mei - Johns Hopkins University
      "Cluster evolution at z=1 with ACS/HST"

      Thursday March 10th 2005, at 11:00
      Brad Holden - Lick Observatory
      "The fundamental plane and the ages of elliptical galaxies"

      Thursday, April 28th 2005, at 11:00
      Stephane Courteau - Queens University
      "The Mass Distribution, Structure, and Stellar Content of Spiral Galaxies"

      Tuesday August 1st 2005, at 14:00
      Jason Kalirai - UCO/Lick Observatory
      "The CFHT Open Star Cluster Survey: Constraining Stellar Evolution "

      Monday October 10th 2005, at 14:00
      Susan Hojnacki - Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York)
      "A Source Classification Algorithm for Astronomical X-ray Imagery of Stellar Clusters"

      Tuesday November 8th 2005, at 11:00
      Jean Francois Gonzalez - CRAL (Lyon, France)
      "Dust distribution in protoplanetary disks"
    2006

      Thursday January 12th 2006, at 14:00
      Greg Wade - RMC (Ontario, Canada)
      "Are magnetic fields in A stars fossils?"

      Wednesday February 15th 2006, at 11:00
      Bernard Fort - IAP (Paris, France)
      "S2LS: the Strong Lensing Legacy Survey"

     
      Tuesday Aug 8th 2006, at 11:00am
      Jean-Rene Roy - Gemini Observatory
      "Traffic at the Galactic Center and the nature of IRS-8"
    Friday Aug 11th 2006, at 3:00pm
      Evgenya Shkolnik - Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii
      "From Gecko to ESPaDOnS: An Evolution of Spectrographs for Exoplanet Studies"

      Thursday Aug 17th 2006, at 3:00pm
      Aurelien Bocquet - Ecole Polytechnique
      "OHANA and the CFHT-Gemini connection"

      Wednesday Sept. 20th 2006, at 11:00am
      Jeff Cooke, University of California, Irvine
      "The Mass of Systems at 2.5 < z < 5.0 "

      Friday Sept. 29th 2006, at 11:00am
      Eiichi Egami, Steward Observatory
      "Spitzer Observations of the Brightest Galaxies in X-Ray-Luminous Clusters: Implications for Cluster Cooling Flows "

     
     
      Tuesday Dec. 12th 2006, at 11:00am
      David Schiminovich - Columbia University
      "From B&W to RGB to UV+IR: Tuning into the physics of galaxy formation and evolution"
    2007
    Tuesday Jan. 9th 2007, at 11:00am
      Chihiro Tokoku - Subaru Telescope
      "A new NIR multi-object spectrograph for the Subaru Telescope"
    Tuesday Feb. 27th 2007, at 11:00am
      Andy Adamson - Associate Director, UKIRT
      "UKIRT's multiple roles and science highlights"
    Friday Mar. 30th 2007, at 11:00am
      Etienne Artigau (Gemini-South)
      "The widest Very Low-Mass binary system."
    Friday April 13th 2007, at 11:00am
      Glen Petitpas SMA- Hilo
      "SMA Observations of Galaxies Near and Far"
    Friday July 13th 2007, at 11:00am
      Jean Eilek (New Mexico Tech)
      "Magnetism on Megaparsec Scales"
    Friday July 20th 2007, at 11:00am
      Frazer Owen (NRAO)
      "What can Deep Radio Surveys tell us about Galaxy Evolution?"
    Friday August 03th 2007, at 11:00am
      Nicolas Clerc (CFHT)
      "OHANA phase II : Optical path difference model for the CFHT-Gemini link"
    Friday September 14th 2007, at 11:00am
      Hiroko Shinnaga (CSO)
      "Submillimeter Observations of An Isolated Massive Dense Core"
    Friday October 26th 2007, at 11:00am
      Rachel Mason (Gemini-North)
      "The role of the torus in AGN unification"
    Friday November 9nd 2007, at 11:00am
      Daniel Devost (CFHT)
      "Infrared Abundances of Nearby Galaxies from CFHT WIRCam and Spitzer. "
    Tues. November 20 2007, at 11:00am
      Jean Cave (French novelist - CFHT Visitor)
      ""My dear friend Martian" or Passion, illusion, science, the secrets of Percival Lowell"
    Wed. November 28 2007, at 11:00am
      Sebastien Foucaud (University of Nottingham)
      "UKIDSS-UDS: Formation and evolution of massive galaxies"
    Wednesday December 19th 2007, at 11:00am
      Bo Reipurth (UHawaii/IfA- Hilo)
      "Dynamical Evolution of Young Binaries: New Results"
    Friday December 28th 2007, at 11:00am
      Andisheh Mahdavi (UVIC)
      "The Canadian Cluster Comparison Project (CCCP)"
    2008
    Friday January 4 2008, at 11:00am
      Evelyne Alecian (RMC)
      "Study of the magnetism and rotation of Herbig Ae/Be stars with ESPaDOnS"
    Thursday January 31 2008, at 11:00am
      Veronique Petit (ULAVAL)
      "On the X-ray emission and the incidence of magnetic field in massive stars of the Orion Nebula Cluster"
    Wednesday Feb. 20 2008, at 11:00am
      Stephane Courteau (Queen's University)
      "Puzzles in Galaxy Scaling Relations"
    Wednesday Feb. 27 2008, at 11:00am
      Alexandra Pope (NOAO--Spitzer Fellow)
      "The Role of Submillimetre Galaxies in Massive Galaxy Evolution"
    Friday April 4 2008, at 11:00am
      Chris Pritchet (UVIC)
      "Type Ia Supernovae and Dark Energy - the CFHT Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS)"
    Friday April 11 2008, at 11:00am
      Doug Simons (Director - Gemini)
      "Update on Gemini Observatory"
    Tuesday April 22 2008, at 11:00am
      Rolf Peter Kudritzki (Director - IfA)
      "Extragalactic Stellar Astronomy with the Brightest Stars in the Universe"
    Tuesday April 22 2008, at 2:30pm
      Rolf Peter Kudritzki (Director - IfA)
      "Astronomy at the University of Hawaii"
    Friday April 25 2008, at 12:00pm
      Loic Albert (CFHT)
      "The Canada-France Brown Dwarfs Survey (CFBDS)"
    Sept. 19 2008, at 1:00pm
      Darren Dowell (JPL)
      "BICEP: Searching the Cosmic Microwave Background for the Signature of Inflation from the South Pole"
    September 30 2008, at 11:00am
      Jim Geach (Durham)
      "Distant cluster starbursts as the progenitors of local S0s?"
    October 14 2008, at 11:00pm
      Bryce Croll (U Toronto)
      "Exploring the Diversity of Planets in other Solar Systems"
    November 7 2008, at 1:30pm
      Prof Dave Hanes, Queens Univ. Canada
      "SNO / SNOLAB and Dynamics of Globular Cluster Systems in Early-Type Galaxies"
    November 10 2008, at 2:00pm
      Emeric Le Floch (IfA)
      "Luminous starbursts and active nuclei at high redshift: a mid-infrared perspective"
    November 21 2008, at 11:00am
      Joe Masiero (IfA)
      "The Thousand Asteroid Light Curve Survey"
    November 25 2008, at 11:00am
      Bahram Mobasher (UC at Riverside)
      "Old Galaxies in a Young Universe: Searching for Massive Galaxies at High Redshift"
    2009 Schedule of Science Seminars at CFHT
    January 23 2009, at 11:00pm
      Jeff Cooke (U. of California, Irvine)
      "The Detection of z ~ 2 Type IIn Supernovae in the CFHTLS Deep Fields"
    February 13 2009, at 11:00am
      Thomas Widemann (OPSPM)
      "Category 5 Hurricane, acid rains and 96.5 % CO2 on our second closest neighbor !"
    February 27 2009, at 11:00am
      Severin Gaudet (CADC)
      "The Canadian Astronomy Data Centre: Status and Future Directions"
    March 3 2009, at 11:00am
      Marshall L. McCall (York University)
      "The Chemistry of Naked Galaxies"
    April 17 2009, at 2:00pm
      Melissa Graham (University of Victoria)
      "Type Ia Supernova Rates, Properties, and Host Galaxies from the CFHT Supernova Legacy Survey and the CFHT Multi-Epoch Nearby Cluster Survey"
    June 23 2009, at 11:00am
      Brett Gladman (UBC)
      "The Kuiper Belt and Beyond: The last 20 years"
    September 28 2009, at 2:00pm
      Trent Dupuy (IfA)
      "Testing Substellar Models with Keck LGS AO Dynamical Masses"
    November 4 2009, at 11:00am
      Al Conrad (Keck)
      "Observations of Rosetta Target (21) Lutetia with Keck and Gemini Adaptive Optics"
    November 24 2009, at 11:00am
      Jim Lyke (Keck)
      "The distance and morphology of V723 Cas"
    December 1 2009, at 11:00am
      Aeree Chung (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory)
      "Virgo, a Laboratory for Studying Environmentally Driven Galaxy Evolution"
    December 8 2009, at 11:00am
      Sarah Sonnett (IfA)
      "Near-IR Spectra of the Trans-Neptunian Object 1996 TO66: a Real Observational Challenge"
    December 10 2009, at 2:00pm
      Thomas Pfrommer (UBC)
      "Lidar and the Lunar Scintillation Instrument "
    2010 Schedule of Science Seminars at CFHT
    January 12 2010, at 11:00am
      Karun Thanjavur (UVIC)
      "Cosmic applications of Gravitational Lens Assisted Spectroscopy (GLAS)"
    January 15 2010, at 11:00am
      Andre-Nicolas Chene (National Research Council of Canada)
      "Determining the fundamental parameters of Wolf-Rayet stars"
    February 8 2010, at 11:00am
      Robert De Rosa (University of Exeter)
      "A large volume-limited AO imaging survey of A-type stars"
    February 17 2010, at 11:00am
      Jonathan Sick (Queen's University)
      "The Challenge of WIRCam Photometry of the Andromeda Galaxy"
    February 24 2010, at 11:00am
      Min Yun (UMass)
      "Color and morphology of the local and z=1 Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs)"
    February 26 2010, at 11:00am
      Marie Treyer (Caltech)
      "Star-Formation and AGN activity in normal galaxies from mid-infrared spectra"
    March 2 2010, at 11:00am
      Vivian U (UHawaii-IfA)
      "Local Luminous Infrared Galaxies: SEDs and Energetics"
    March 3 2010, at 11:00am
      Stephane Corbel (CEA)
      "Discovery of gamma-ray activity from a microquasar by Fermi-LAT"
    April 27 2010, at 11:00am
      Jacques Haissinski (Centre d'Orsay de l'Universite de Paris-Sud)
      "The Planck Mission"
    April 28 2010, at 11:00am
      Andy Boden (Caltech)
      "Young Stellar Systems at High Angular Resolution with Infrared Interferometry"
    August 3 2010, at 11:00am
      Corinne Charbonnel (CNRS, France & Geneva Observatory, Switzerland)
      "Multiple stellar generations in globular clusters"
    August 5 2010, at 11:00am
      Daniel Schaerer (Geneva Observatory & CNRS)
      "Searches for and properties of the most distant galaxies"
    October 28 2010, at 11:00am
      Sebastien Foucaud(NTNU)
      "UKIDSS-UDS"
    November 30 2010, at 11:00am
      Eder Martioli (CFHT)
      "Measuring Masses of Exoplanet Candidates"
    2011 Schedule of Science Seminars at CFHT
    January 24 2011, at 1:00pm
      Bryce Croll (University of Toronto)
      "Characterizing the Thermal Emission of hot Jupiters and the Spectral Features of super-Earths using CFHT/WIRCam's Staring Mode"
    February 24 2011, at 2:30pm
      Thomas Widemann (OBSPM)
      "Venus : an uninhabitable planet in the habitable zone"
    March 04 2011, at 2:00pm
      Roy Gal (IfA)
      "The ORELSE Survey: Galaxy Evolution in Large Scale Structures at z~1"
    March 11 2011, at 3:00pm
      Tomotsugu Goto (IfA)
      "Cosmic star formation history and AGN evolution near and far: AKARI reveals both"
    April 21 2011, at 1:00pm
      Jonathan Sick (Queen's University)
      "Near-Infrared Imaging of the Andromeda Galaxy by ANDROIDS with WIRCam"
    April 29 2011, at 1:00pm
      Greg Snyder (Harvard University)
      "Poststarburst Galaxies as the Aftermath of Gas-Rich Mergers"
    May 02 2011, at 1:00pm
      Peter Eisenhardt (JPL)
      "Mapping the Infrared Sky with WISE"
    May 03 2011, at 1:00pm
      Mark Brodwin (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)
      "The IRAC Shallow Cluster Survey (ISCS): Evolution of Galaxy Clusters Over the Last 10 Gyr"
    May 09 2011, at 1:00pm
      Harald Ebeling (IfA)
      "The most massive clusters of galaxies: astrophysical and cosmological applications"
    May 20 2011, at 11:00am
      Chris Pritchet (UVIC)
      "Canadian Long Range Plan"
    June 28 2011, at 11:00am
      David Whelan (U. Virginia)
      "The Early Evolution of Super Star Clusters: Predictions Using Dust and Molecular Line Radiative Transfer Models"
    July 20 2011, at 1:00pm
      Charles Bamber (NRC)
      "The first direct measurement of the quantum wavefunction"
    July 23 2011, at 11:00am
      Chi-Hung Yan (ASIAA)
      "From Circumstellar to Protoplanetary Disk : WIRCam/Spitzer YSO Survey toward rph961; Ophiuchus"
    August 5 2011, at 11:00am
      Denis Burgarella (OAMP)
      "Herschel FIR detection of a population of IR-bright Lyman Break Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 4"
    August 10 2011, at 11:00am
      Veronique Buat (OAMP)
      "Hidden and visible star formation in galaxies: new insights from AKARI and Herschel surveys"
    September 2 2011, at 11:00am
      David Levitan (Caltech)
      "Outbursting Systems in the Transient Sky"
    September 9 2011, at 11:00am
      Jean Eilek (NMT)
      "The complicated life of Centaurus A"
    2012 Schedule of Science Seminars at CFHT
    January 11 2012, at 11:00am
      Gordon Walker (UVIC)
      "A CFHT saga - the first Doppler search for extra-solar planets"
    February 24 2012, at 11:00am
      Puragra (Raja) GuhaThakurta (UCO/Lick Observatory)
      "Dissecting Andromeda's Enigmatic Inner Spheroid: The SPLASH and PHAT Surveys"
    March 07 2012, at 1:00pm
      Jean-Charles Cuillandre (CFHT)
      "Exploring the low surface brightness Universe at CFHT: technique, science applications & pretty images"
    March 28 2012, at 11:00am
      Nicolas Martinet (ENS Cachan)
      "Cosmological constraints from shear peaks in weak lensing maps"
    June 1 2012, at 10:30am
      Alan McConnachie (NRC Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics)
      "From PAndAS in space to extreme multiplexing: wide field imaging and spectroscopy with (NG)CFHT"
    December 6 2012, at 2:00pm
      Thomas Martin (UMontreal)
      "SITELLE data reduction pipeline"
    December 27 2012, at 11:00am
      Jean-Pierre Berriot (Directeur Observatoire Géodésique de Tahiti)
      "The Geodesy Observatory of Tahiti : observations and ongoing research."
    2013 Schedule of Science Seminars at CFHT
    January 15 2013, at 11:00am
      Mikhail Zhizhin and Feng Chi Hsu (NOAA/CIRES)
      "Real-time mapping of light sources on the night side of the Earth using NPP satellite sensors"
    January 22 2013, at 11:00am
      Thierry Sousbie (University of Tokyo)
      "Persistent structures in the cosmic web : a topological view on filaments, walls and voids"
    January 25 2013, at 11:00am
      Masato Onodera(Zurich)
      "High-redshift early-type galaxies through rest-frame optical spectroscopy"
    February 7 2013, at 2:00pm
      Olivier Lai (CFHT)
      "IMAKA: Imaging from MaunA KeA - The finest view from Earth!"
    February 22 2013, at 2:00pm
      Jonathan Sick (Queen's University)
      "WIRCam Imaging of the Andromeda Galaxy"
    February 26 2013, at 2:00pm
      Lison Malo (U of Montreal)
      "Nearby young kinematic group member: a combination of kinematics, photometry, age-dating indicators and statistics to assign membership"
    May16 2013, at 2:00pm
      David Sobral(Leiden Observatory)
      "Exploring the z~0-9 Universe with the largest multi-narrow-band surveys"