Origins Institute - Astrophysics & Astrobiology Special Event - Day 1

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 1 (May 25)
10:00 opening remarks Maureen MacDonald (Dean, Faculty of Science)
10:10 Laura Parker - Galaxy Evolution in Dense Environments
10:30 Miho Janvier - TBA
10:50 questions for Drs. Parker and Janvier
11:00 Françoise Combes (keynote address) - History and Content of the Universe
12:00 questions for Françoise Combes
12:15 panel discussion (TBA)
1:00 adjourn

About our speakers:

Laura Parker is a professor and university scholar at McMaster University. Laura came to McMaster in 2007 after a post-doctoral fellowship in Munich Germany and a PhD from the University of Waterloo. Laura and her research group use ground- and space-based observatories to explore how galaxies in the Universe form and evolve over cosmic time.

Françoise Combes is professor in College de France, on the chair “Galaxies and Cosmology”. She is an astrophysicist at Paris Observatory, and member of the Academy of Sciences. Her main areas of research are the formation and evolution of galaxies, their dynamics and co-evolution with supermassive black holes, the interstellar medium of galaxies and dark matter models.