Fall 2019 September 19 Matt Alessi Formation of close-in super-Earths in evolving protoplanetary disks due to disk winds, by O. Masahiro et al. 2018, A&A 615, A63 View September 26 Hao He The molecular gas properties and their relation with star formation activity in the early merger Arp 240, MSc research talk October 3 Ian Roberts A dominant population of optically invisible massive galaxies in the early Universe, by T. Wang et al. 2019, Nature 572, 211 View October 10 Joey Rucska Trans-Neptunian binaries as evidence for planetesimal formation by the streaming instability, by D. Nesvorný et al. 2019, Nature Astronomy 3, 808 View October 24 Hector Robinson Simulations of the star-forming molecular gas in an interacting M51-like galaxy, by R. G. Tress et al. arXiv:1909.10520 View October 31 Ryan Chown The spatially-resolved correlation between mid-infrared and CO emission in nearby galaxies, PhD research talk November 7 Doug Johnstone, NRC-Herzberg What the Sub-mm Variability of Embedded Protostars Tells Us about Accretion: Past, Present, and Future November 8 Tim Lichtenberg, Oxford University Geophysical evolution during rocky planet formation November 14 Dennis Gallant How do supernovae impact the circumgalactic medium? I. Large-Scale Fountains in a Milky Way-Like Galaxy, by M. Li & S. Tonnesen, arXiv:1910.14235 View November 21 Ashley Bemis Constraining the Environmental Dependence of Dense Gas and Star Formation, PhD research talk November 21 Nathan Brunetti machine learning and forecasting applied to traffic performance data in cities, NTCO internship talk November 28 Jacqueline Wightman Are galactic star formation and quenching governed by local, global or environmental phenomena?, by A. F. L. Bluck et al. arXiv:1911.08857 View December 5 Anita Mathews The Cloud Factory I: Generating resolved filamentary molecular clouds from galactic-scale forces, by R. J. Smith et al. arXiv:1911.05753 View Winter 2019 January 10 Hao He A SOFIA Survey of [CII] in the galaxy M51 I. [CII] as a tracer of Star Formation, by J. L. Pineda et al. arXiv:1811.11769 View January 17 Dennis Gallant Cosmic Dawn II (CoDa II): a new radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of the self-consistent coupling of galaxy formation and reionization, by P. Ocvirk et al. arXiv:1811.11192 View January 24 Jacqueline Wightman SDSS-IV MaNGA: Inside-out vs. outside-in quenching in different local environments, by L. Lin et al. arXiv:1901.05126 View January 31 Joshua Myers Zoom-Simulations of Protoplanetary Disks starting from GMC scales, by M. Kuffmeier et al. arXiv:1611.10360 View February 7 Ian Roberts Quenching low-mass satellite galaxies: evidence for a threshold ICM density, PhD research talk February 14 Sachin Kotecha Tracing the Quenching History in Galaxy Clusters in the EAGLE Simulation, by D. Pallero et al. arXiv:1812.08802 View February 21 Hector Robinson Supernovae feedback propagation: the role of turbulence, by L. Ohlin et al. arXiv:1902.00028 View February 28 Ashley Bemis Supernovae feedback propagation: the role of turbulence, PhD research talk March 7 Anita Mathews Collisional N-Body Dynamics Coupled to Self-Gravitating Magnetohydrodynamics Reveals Dynamical Binary Formation, by J. E. Wall et al. arXiv:1901.01132 View March 14 Ben Pearce The terrestrial late veneer from core disruption of a lunar-sized impactor, by H. Genda et al. arXiv:1709.07554 View March 21 Joey Rucska Overcoming planet formation barriers via the streaming instability, PhD research talk March 28 Michael Radica The Search for Supernova Light Echoes in NGC6946, MSc research talk April 4 Ryan Chown Dense gas is not enough: environmental variations in the star formation efficiency of dense molecular gas at 100pc scales in M51, by M. Querejeta et al. arXiv:1902.10437 View April 11 Nathan Brunetti Cloud-scale properties of molecular gas in the nearest luminous infrared galaxy NGC 3256, PhD research talk April 18 Ngan Kim Nguyen, Hokkaido University The effect of disc instabilities on migrating planets April 25 Cemile Marsan, York University Hunting Monster Galaxies in the Early Universe May 2 Alex Cridland, Leiden Observatory Connecting planet formation and astrochemistry: Volatiles, refractories, and C/O in exoplanetary atmospheres May 9 Yasuhiro Hasegawa, NASA JPL Planet Formation in Star-Forming Regions: from the Solar System to Other Worlds May 16 Toby Brown Extreme CO Isotopologue Line Ratios in ULIRGS: Evidence for a top-heavy IMF?, research talk May 25 Matt Alessi Sculpting the Valley in the Radius Distribution of Small Exoplanets as a by-product of Planet Formation: The Core-Powered Mass-Loss Mechanism, by A. Gupta & H. Schlichting, 2019, MNRAS, 487, 24 View June 13 Ian Roberts Linking galaxy quenching and ICM density in low-redshift clusters, Conference practice talk Fall 2018 September 13 Matt Alessi Dust Evolution & Planet Traps: Effects on Planet Populations, PhD research talk September 20 Ryan Chown The link between molecular gas concentration, central star formation, bars and galaxy-galaxy interactions in EDGE-CALIFA galaxies, PhD research talk September 27 Ashley Bemis Star Formation Efficiency per Free-fall Time in nearby Galaxies, by D. Utomo et al. (2018) ApJ, 861, L18. View October 4 Ben Pearce Investigating the origins of the building blocks of life, PhD research talk October 11 Ian Roberts Wide-Field Optical Spectroscopy of Abell 133: A Search for Filaments Reported in X-ray Observations, by T. Connor et al. arXiv:1809.08241. View October 18 Nathan Brunetti Volumetric Star Formation laws of disc galaxies, by C. Bacchini et al. arXiv:1810.03616. View October 25 Charli Sakari, University of Washington Galactic Archaeology in the Milky Way and Beyond: R-Process-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars and Globular Clusters November 1 Christine Wilson Dense-gas tracers and carbon isotopes in five 2.5 < z < 4 lensed dusty star forming galaxies from the SPT SMG sample, by M. Bethermin et al. arXiv:1810.04695. View November 1 Toby Brown What Does a Successful Postdoctoral Fellowship Publication Record Look Like?, by J. Pepper et al. arXiv:1810.09505. View November 1 Toby Brown The Leaky Pipeline for Postdocs: A study of the time between receiving a PhD and securing a faculty job for male and female astronomers, by K. Flaherty, arXiv:1810.01511. View November 8 Kavin Lacaille ALMA reveals evidence for spiral arms, bars, and rings in high-redshift submillimeter galaxies, by J. A. Hodge et al. arXiv:1810.12307. View November 15 Markus Rummel Axion-Like Particles and the X-ray universe, research talk November 22 Sergey Mashchenko What is 'Oumuamua?, research talk November 29 Michael Radica Exceptionally fast ejecta seen in light echoes of Eta Carinaea's Great Eruption, by N. Smith et al. arXiv:1808.00991. View December 6 Joey Rucska Observational Signatures of Planets in Protoplanetary Disks: Planet-Induced Line Broadening in Gaps, by R. Dong et al. arXiv:1811.09629. View December 13 Charlotte Welker Building a theory of the interplay between galaxies and the cosmic web, research talk Summer 2018 Date Speaker Article / Talk Title Link May 3 Nathan Brunetti An ALMA Archival Study of the Clump Mass Function in the Large Magellanic Cloud, MSc Research Talk May 3 Hao He HI Observations of Major-Merger Pairs at z = 0: atomic gas and star formation, by P. Zuo et al. arXiv:1804.03500 View May 17 Joey Rucska Increased streaming instability growth rates from vertical dust settling, Conference Practice Talk June 14 Ben Pearce The curious case of Mars formation, by J. M. Y. Woo et al. arXiv:1806.00168. View June 14 Ian Roberts GASP IX. Jellyfish galaxies in phase-space: an orbital study of intense ram-pressure stripping in clusters , by Y. L. Jaffé et al. arXiv:1802.07297 View June 21 Sam Benincasa A tale of two clump masses: a new way to study clump formation, Conference Practice Talk June 28 Nathan Brunetti The First GMC Catalogue in the Closest LIRG: NGC 3256, Conference Practice Talk June 28 Ashley Bemis Star Formation and Dense Gas in Extreme Environments with ALMA, Conference Practice Talk August 9 Mayte Alfaro Cuello, MPIA Heidelberg A Deep View into the Nucleus of the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy M54 August 23 Christine Wilson Dense gas and star formation in nearby starburst galaxies with the ALMA archive Winter 2018 Date Speaker Article / Talk Title Link January 4 Fereshteh Rajabi, Institute for Quantum Computing, Waterloo Dicke’s Superradiance -- From millisecond fast radio bursts (FRBs) to multiyear maser bursts January 11 Joey Rucska Overcoming planet formation barriers with dust and gas simulations in SPH, MSc Research Talk January 18 Jeremy Webb, University of Toronto Do Globular Clusters Have an Identity Problem? - The Dynamics of Mass Segregation and Tidal Stripping February 1 Ashley Bemis An ALMA view of star formation efficiency suppression in early-type galaxies after gas-rich minor mergers, by F. van de Voort et al. arXiv:1801.08140 View February 8 Ashley Bemis Numerical Calibration of the HCN-Star Formation Correlation, by A. Onus et al. arXiv:1801.09952 View February 8 Paolo Bianchini A whirling plane of satellite galaxies around Centaurus A challenges cold dark matter cosmology, by O. Müller et al. arXiv:1802.00081 View February 15 Sam Benincasa Cloud Scale ISM Structure and Star Formation in M51, by A. K. Leroy et al. arXiv:1706.08540 View February 22 Paolo Bianchini The dynamical life of globular clusters, research talk March 1 Nathan Brunetti Subsonic islands within a high-mass star-forming IRDC, by V. Sokolov et al. arXiv:1802.07043 View March 1 Ashley Bemis Extinction Maps and Dust-to-Gas Ratios in Nearby Galaxies with LEGUS, by L. Kahre et al. arXiv:1802.06915 View March 8 Ralph Pudritz The origin of filamentary star forming clouds in magnetised galaxies , research talk March 8 Jasper Ground Implementing and Characterizing Adaptive Refinement in TREVR (Tree Based Reverse Ray Tracing), MSc research talk March 15 Michael Radica A High Resolution Study of NGC6822 with SITELLE, MSc research talk March 22 Ian Roberts Revisiting the Cooling Flow Problem in Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters of Galaxies, by M. McDonald et al. arXiv:1803.04972 View March 29 Matthew Alessi Radiation Hydrodynamics Simulations of Photoevaporation of Protoplanetary Disks by Ultra Violet Radiation: Metallicity Dependence, by R. Nakatani et al. arXiv:1706.04570 View April 5 Joey Rucska Lunar Crater Identification via Deep Learning, by A. Silburt et al. arXiv:1803.02192 View April 12 Cliff Burgess The EDGES experiment: what they say they saw, why it would be interesting, and why it is probably just systematics View April 19 Melanie Demers A galaxy lacking dark matter, by P. van Dokkum et al. View April 26 Ashley Bemis Near and Far: Dense Gas and Star Formation, PhD research talk Fall 2017 Date Speaker Article / Talk Title Link September 21 Sam Benincasa From molecules to young stellar clusters: the star formation cycle across the disk of M 33, by E. Corbelli et al. (2017) A&A 601, A146. View September 28 Matt Alessi How cores grow by pebble accretion I. Direct core growth, by M. G. Brouwers et al. arXiv:1708.05392 View October 5 Ryan Chown Mapping the millimeter-wave sky with South Pole Telescope and Planck data, MSc research talk October 19 Sam Benincasa A tale of two clump masses – a different approach to studying clump formation in simulations, PhD research talk October 26 Alison Sills Summary of the 75+ papers that came out on October 16th about the LIGO + EM spectrum observations of a pair of merging neutron stars and subsequent kilonova November 2 Fraser Evans The SAMI galaxy survey: spatially resolving the connection between dust and star formation, MSc research talk November 2 Ian Roberts Connecting optical and X-ray tracers of galaxy cluster relaxation, PhD research talk November 9 Ashley Bemis Inefficient jet-induced star formation in Centaurus A: High resolution ALMA observations of the northern filaments, by Q. Salomé et al. arXiv:1710.09851 View November 16 Colin McNally, Queen Mary University of London Wind driven protoplanetary discs and how planets move in them November 23 Toby Brown Galaxy Evolution and the Gas Cycle, research talk November 30 Nathan Brunetti The shapes of column density PDFs. The importance of the last closed contour, by J. Alves et al. (2017) A&A 606, L2 View November 30 Ben Pearce Meteoritic Abundances of Fatty Acids and Potential Reaction Pathways in Planetesimals, by J. C. -Y. Lai et al. arXiv:1809.09779 View December 7 Melanie Demers Galaxy Zoo: The interplay of quenching mechanisms in the group environment, by R. J. Smethurst et al. arXiv:1704.06269 View