Tom Prince visited McGill as part of the opening of the new McGill Space Institute. We talk to Tom about his work with the Palomar Transient Factory and the upcoming Zwicky Transient Facility. Guest: Tom Prince (California Institute of Technology). Hosts: Robert Archibald and Emilie Parent. Duration: 25 minutes. Production: Nick Adelson....
We were visited by Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered pulsars during her graduate studies in the 1960s. She talks to us about the still highly active field of pulsar astronomy and her varied career since their discovery. We also discuss her tireless advocacy for women in physics and astronomy. Guest: Jocelyn Bell Burnell (Oxford University). Hosts: Robert Archibald and Gabrielle Simard . Duration: 20 minutes. Production: James O’Callaghan....
Chiara talks to us about how timing the rotation of pulsars can be used to detect gravitational waves–ripples in the very fabric of the cosmos. Guest: Chiara Mingarelli (California Institute of Technology). Hosts: Erik Madsen and Chitrang Patel . Duration: 19 minutes. Production: James O’Callaghan....
Enrico talks to us about the formation of heavy elements in the Universe through processes such as neutron star mergers. Guest: Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz (University of California Santa Cruz). Hosts: Robert Archibald and Chitrang Patel . Duration: 17 minutes. Production: James O’Callaghan....
Bryan talks to us about magnetic fields in the Universe (and a little bit about cows). Guest: Bryan Gaensler (University of Toronto, Dunlap Institute). Hosts: Erik Madsen and Gabrielle Simard . Duration: 21 minutes. Production: James O’Callaghan.
We discussed how astronomers can studied cosmology, the formation and evolution of the Universe, by observing nearby dwarfs galaxies, instead of extremely distant galaxies at the edge of the Universe. Guest: Beth Willman (Haverford College). Hosts: Erik Madsen and Gabrielle Simard . Duration: 23 minutes. Production: James O’Callaghan....
We talked about exoplanets, detecting exoplanets through measurements of radial velocities, and what we can look forward to from this field in the near future. The two websites mentioned during the podcast are exoplanets.org and the Habitable Zone Planet Finder . Guest: Jason Wright Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Erik Madsen Duration: 40 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
We discussed the large-scale structure of the Universe and how we can understand it from observations of the Cosmic Microwave Background emission, the relic light from the formation of the Universe. Guest: Kendrick Smith Hosts: Robert Archibald and Gabrielle Simard Duration: 13 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
The topic of this week’s podacst with Sara Ellison was the merging of galaxies. Guest: Sara Ellison Hosts: Sean Griffin and Gabrielle Simard Duration: 19 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
In this podcast, we talked about the nuclear explosion happening on the surface of neutron star, and how these objects located thousands of light years away can be used to better understand nuclear physics. Guest: Laurens Keek Hosts: Sebastien Guillot Duration: 20 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
This year’s Trottier Symposium narrows in on the topics of the origin of life on Earth as well as the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. The third speaker is Dr. Sara Seager (MIT) who was named in Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential in Space in 2012.
This year’s Trottier Symposium narrows in on the topics of the origin of life on Earth as well as the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. The first speaker is Dr. Jim Bell (Arizona State University, Cornell University).
This year’s Trottier Symposium narrows in on the topics of the origin of life on Earth as well as the possibilities of extraterrestrial life. The second speaker is Dr. Jill Tarter (SETI Institute), who was named onf ot eh Time 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2004 and Time 25 in Space in 2012. As well, she received a TED prize in 2009 and public service awards from NASA.
We talked about white dwarf stars, and the possible existence of planets around them. Guest: Gilles Fontaine (Université de Montréal) Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Gabrielle Simard Duration: 22 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
Sara Seager was one of the invited guest of the Lorne Trottier 2014 Public Science Symposium, and we had the chance for record a podcast with her. The topic of this episode was the search for planets outside of our Solar System, including planets that could be hosting life, and how we would detect those planets. Guest: Sara Seager Hosts: Sean Griffin and Sebastien Guillot Duration: 26 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
During his visit for the Lorne Trottier 2014 Public Science Symposium, we had the chance to sit with Jim Bell for an AstroMcGill podcast We talked about exploration of the Solar System, and his involvement with Mars exploration missions. Guest: Jim Bell (Arizona State University and Planetary Society) Hosts: Robert Archibald and Sean Griffin Duration: 30 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
We discussed galaxy clusters, the growth of large scale structure in the Universe, and Marc’s work on the MUSTANG 2 detector at the Green Bank Telescope. Guest: Marc Delvin (U. of Pennsynvania) Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Robert Archibald Duration: 24 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
During this episode, we talked about his PhD research work on the observations of the gravitational lensing of the cosmic microwave background with the South Pole Telescope. Guest: Kyle Story (U. of Chicago) Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Gabrielle Simard Duration: 15 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
Following her lecture for the Physical Society Colloquium at McGill, we recorded this episode during which we talked about supermassive black-holes and active galactic nuclei. Guest: Julie Hlavacek-Larrondo (U. Montreal) Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Gabrielle Simard Duration: 19 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
Welcome to the 4th season of the AstroMcGill Podcasts. This week with Wladimir Lyra, we discussed how gases and tiny rocks around a star combine to form the different objects of a planetary system. Guest: Wladimir Lyra (CalTech/JPL) Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Dave Tsang Duration: 20 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
The discussion was focused on pulsars in binary systems, which are very useful to test different theories of gravity. General relativity – Einstein’s theory – wonderfully predicts the observations of pulsars in the highly-relativistic environments of binary systems. Guest: Emmauel Fonseca (UBC) Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Chen Karako. Duration: 22 minutes. Production: James O’Callaghan.
In this episode, Professor Joaquin (Quim) Madrenas discusses how certain diseases impacted the way compsers created music, and how these diseases influenced the way societies experienced this music.
Professor Robert L. Zattore discusses the reason why people have continued to love music throughout history and proposes that affinity for music is inherently human (and undoubtedly neurological).
Prof. David M. Green enlightens us about various types of frog calls, followed by a lesson on bird songs by Prof. Jon Sakata.
Guest: Dick Manchester (ATNF) We had the chance to receive Dick at McGill for a special visit. During this episode, we had a broad discussion about pulsars, these very compact objects that we still do not understand very well, but that are extremely useful to better understand some areas of physics. Hosts: Sebastien Guillot and Dave Tsang Duration: 23 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan...
Guest: Sarah Burke Spolaor (CalTech) The discussion of this podcast was centered on a new and unknown type of astrophysical phenomenon, called Fast Radio Bursts, very brief bursts of radiation disappearing as fast as they appeared. Hosts: Ryan Lynch and Sebastien Guillot. Duration: 22 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan
Guest: Coleman Miller (U. of Maryland) We had a great discussion about the formation of supermassive black-holes, and black-holes of all sorts. Hosts: Ryan Lynch and Sebastien Guillot. Duration: 21 minutes Production: Mike Collicutt.
Guest: Leslie Rogers (CalTech) During this podcast, we had a general discussion about exoplanets. Host: Dave Tsang Duration: 11 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan.
Guest: Mariska Kriek (U. of California, Berkeley) Mariska’s work is focused on the study of galaxies. We discussed how galaxies formed, how they evolved across cosmic times, and how they form stars from the gas and dust they contain. Host: James Kennedy and Ryan Lynch Duration: 23 minutes Production: James O’Callaghan.
Guest: Falk Herwig (U. of Victoria) This podcast discussion focused on stars and how they create the “heavy” elements present in the Universe, in other words, the nuclear reactions that led to the expression “We are made of star stuff”. To view the videos mentioned in this episode, see this page and this page . Host: Ryan Lynch Duration: 26 minutes Production: Mike Collicutt...
