Speaker: Prof. Suresh Sivanandam, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics

This talk will focus on the past, present, and future of big data in astronomy.

In Toronto, the Commercial Space Blog will be sponsoring a Yuri's Night Party at the Polish Combatants' Hall.

The day after the anniversary of the first human in space (often called Yuri’s Night after the Russian who accomplished the feat) you might be suffering from a bit of space withdrawal sickness. Have no fear – The Planetary Society and STEAMLabs are teaming up to give you another dose of space by putting you at the controls!

Solar System Social is a speaker series about planetary science which is geared to the general public. This event features Jordan Bimm (former NASA fellow in the History of Space Science) and David Hamilton (former NSERC fellow in Technologies and Techniques for Earth and Space Exploration). Respectively, their talks are titled " Putting Mars in a Jar: The Military Origin of Astrobiology" and "What can we learn from lasers on Mars?" Doors at 6:00pm, Show at 6:30pm

On the weekend of April 28-30, 2017, developers, makers, engineers and entrepreneurs will take on NASA-designed challenges, creating solutions that range from silly to serious, fantastical to feasible. Build a team, pick a challenge, and leverage your access to an extraordinary roster of mentors featuring past and present astronauts, aerospace engineers, and designers.

Join us as we celebrate International Astronomy Day with a fun-filled day – and night – of exciting programs and experiences for visitors of all ages.

More than a billion years ago, two black holes collided. In the final second of their long life together, the black holes banged out a rhythm like mallets on a drum, creating gravitational waves – ripples in the shape of spacetime. One hundred years ago, Albert Einstein predicted the existence of such waves, though it seemed improbable – if not outright impossible – that we’d ever be able to actually detect them. They were long considered too faint for any earthbound experiment to measure.

The Department of Physics invites faculty, students and the public to its 42nd annual celebration of physics. The Welsh Lectures in Physics have been held annually since 1975 in honour of H.L. Welsh, a distinguished former faculty member in the Physics Department. They are the major public event in the life of the Department of Physics and are intended to celebrate discoveries in physics and their wider impact. They are intended to be broadly accessible to an audience drawn from across the university, other academic institutions and the interested public.

Speaker: Dr. Parshati Patel, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, Western University Massive stars, young or old, are interesting celestial objects with fascinating mysteries. In this talk, we will explore some of the mysteries of the disks around massive stars and how their formation, dissipation and structure affect our understanding of not only the planet formation but also the star formation process.