QUARG Seminars

2025-2026 Seminars

All Seminars are held on Thursdays at 1:30pm in Stirling Hall 501 unless otherwise noted.

Events in red are Department or University events that are not part of the QUARG seminar series but are of interest to the Astrophysics group

Date Speaker Talk Host Location
Aug 14 Odelia Hartl (Texas A&M) Local Group Simulations and Dark Matter Bramante  
Sept 4 Alexis Brossard (TRIUMF) Cold Neutrons    
Sept 12 Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil (Dartmouth) Dwarf Galaxies   STI A
Sept 18 Brooks Thomas (Lafayette) Dark Matter and Cosmology Bramante  
Sept 25 Drie Van de Putte Star Formation

Sadavoy  
Oct 9 Jason Young (SETI) Galaxies Spekkens  
Oct 16 Thanksgiving/Reading Week      
Oct 23 Anupam Ray (Queen's) Dark matter theory Bramante  
Oct 30 Afif Omar (TRIUMF) Dark bosons at BELLE Bramante  
Nov 5 S贸ley Hyman (U. Arizona) Galactic Dynamics Widrow  
Nov 13 Adrian Liu (McGill) 21cm Cosmology Spekkens  
Nov 14 Dominique Segura-Cox (U. Rochester) Protoplanetary Disks Sadavoy STI A
Nov 21

Ren茅 Doyon (UdeM)

Exoplanets Spekkens

STI A

Nov 27 Lerato Baidoo Cosmic Magnetism Spekkens  
         

All Seminars are held on Thursdays at 12:30pm in Stirling Hall 501 unless otherwise noted.

Events in red are Department or University events that are not part of the QUARG seminar series but are of interest to the Astrophysics group

Date

Speaker Talk Host

Location

Jan 15

Jorge Barrerra-Ballest (McGill)  Galaxies Kristine  
Jan 22 Mike McDonald (MIT) Black Holes & AGN Kristine  

Jan 23

Mike McDonald (MIT)  AGN Feedback Kristine STI A
Feb 6 Pratika Dayal (UofT)  Mapping the Epoch of Reionization Kristine STI A
Feb 12 Gibwa Musoke (UofT) Cosmic Ray Acceleration Nahee  
Feb 26 Hannah Banks (NYU/Flatiron) Dark Matter Zac  
Mar 5 Eric Blaufuss (Maryland) IceCube Observatory Nahee  
Mar 12 Anna Sligo (NYU) Neutrinos Anupam  
Mar 26 Will de Rocco (UMd) Ganumeded and Dark Matter Zac  
Apr 2 Wenzer Qin (NYU/Flatiron) SMBH Formation  Zac