You are invited to an exciting two day of talks by astrophysicists and astrobiologists. All talks will be accessible public lectures with an opportunity for Q&A after the talks.
Day 2
10:00 opening remarks Juliet Daniel (Acting Associate Dean of Research & External Relations)
10:10 Christine Wilson - Dense Gas & Star Formation in nearby Starburst Galaxies with ALMA
10:40 Anne-Marie Lagrange - The Search for Other Worlds
11:10 questions for Drs. Wilson and Lagrange
11:30 Allyson Brady - Boots on the Ground: Learning on Earth for Scientific Success on Mars
11:45 questions for Dr. Brady
12:00 panel presentations & discussion
Sian Ford - Ph.D. Candidate - TBD
Alix Dujardin - Ph.D. Candidate on How did first life emerge on terrestrial planets?
Rishita Gudapati - M.Sc. Student on History of Astrobiology
Aileen Shanzeela - B.Sc. Student on Black Holes & Gravitational Waves
1:00 fin
About our speakers:
Christine Wilson is a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at McMaster. She holds the Canada Research Chair in Extragalactic Star Formation and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research focuses on observational astronomy, specifically on gas and star formation in galaxies, and makes extensive use of new and archival data from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array.
Anne-Marie Lagrange is a French astrophysist (CNRS, Observatoire de Paris, PSL). Her work focuses on the research and study of extrasolar planetary systems. She has been involved in the first discovery of the exocomets, and the first imaging of disks and then extrasolar planets. She is a member of the French Acad
Allyson Brady is a researcher in the School of Earth, Environment & Society at McMaster and is actively involved in astrobiology and space exploration research. Her main area of interest is in understanding how life can exist in harsh environments on Earth, and how we can use that information to help find evidence