Science

On April 13th, Dr. Art McDonald of Queens University was the guest public lecturer at the Perimeter Institute.

Four new Canadian studies in the field of space health research have received funding from the Government of Canada to reduce health risks for astronauts on long-term missions. These experiments will simulate space conditions on Earth to investigate the physiological and psychosocial adaptation to space.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) announced yesterday the detection of gravitational waves by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) which consists of a pair of ground-based observatories in located in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana.

India’s space agency, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), today launched India’s first dedicated astronomy observatory, ASTROSAT. Canada contributed to one of the science payloads, the Ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (UVIT). Also launched on India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C30) was exactEarth’s exactView-9 (EV9) Automatic Identification System (AIS) satellite.

We’ve all seen pictures of the moon and Mars. But did you know that Canada’s Arctic contains regions that look almost identical to the surface of the moon and Mars?

This third day of the Perimeter Institute’s Convergence conference included a talk by Peter Olver and Ruth Gregory who explored the mathematical legacy of Emmy Noether and a Physics and the Future panel with Ian O’Neill, Immanuel Bloch, Sara Seager, Stefania Gori, Patrick Brady.

This second day of the Perimeter Institute’s Convergence conference included a talk by Sara Seager on Extrasolar Planets and the Search for Habitable Worlds and evening lecture by Jürgen Renn on the Genesis and Renaissance of General Relativity.

This week the Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo is holding its first-ever alumni reunion with a new kind of physics conference providing a “big picture” overview of fundamental physics and its future. They’re calling it Convergence.