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Canadian Astronomical Society La Société Canadienne D'astronomie Canadian Astronomical Society La Société Canadienne d’Astronomie Annual General Meeting Emerging Fields in Astrophysics 17 - 20 June 2019 Montréal, Québec Conference Program Contents Our Sponsors 3 Local Organizing Committee 3 Block Schedule 4 Full Schedule 5 Code Of Conduct 9 Code de conduite 10 Map 11 Directions to the CASCA Banquet 12 Directions to the Hogg Public Lecture 13 Talks 14 Prize Talks (Plenary) 14 Intensity Mapping & 21cm Cosmology 17 Interstellar Medium & Star Formation 19 Galaxy & Star Formation 22 Compact Objects (WD/NS/BH) 24 CMB & Large-scale Structure 27 Stars & Stellar Populations 29 Galaxy Clusters & Groups 31 Long-Period Planets 34 Transients 36 Short-Period Planets 39 AGN & Supermassive Black Holes 41 Education & Public Outreach 43 Posters 46 Poster Abstracts 53 Galaxy & Star Formation 53 Galaxy Clusters & Groups 60 AGN & Supermassive Black Holes 62 Interstellar Medium & Star Formation 65 High Energy Astrophysics & Compact Objects 69 Stars & Stellar Populations 73 Transients 78 Cosmology 79 Extrasolar Planets 81 Education & Public Outreach 86 Facilities, Instruments & Methods 89 List of Participants 95 • 2 Thank You to Our Sponsors Local Organizing Science Organizing Committee Committee Nicolas Cowan (co-chair) Nicolas Cowan (co-chair) Daryl Haggard (co-chair) Daryl Haggard (co-chair) Carolina Cruz-Vinaccia Vicky Kaspi Kelly Lepo Andrew Cumming Emmanuel Fonseca Tracy Webb Louise Decelles Jonathan Sievers Émilie Parent Kelly Lepo Taylor Bell Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/casca2019/ Sponsors • 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Welcome (CMR Mont-Royal I & II): Haggard, 08:30 Cowan, Medicine Bear Drummers, .caISES 09:00 CMR Mont-Royal I & II (Moderator: Barmby) CMR Mont-Royal I & II (Mods: Hložek & Gaensler) 09:00 Martin Prize Talk: Gaensler (45 min) Plaskett Prize Talk: Tetarenko (45 min) CMR Mont-Royal I & II (Moderator: Thacker) LRP Information 2 (45 min): LRP Information 3 (45 min): Richer Prize Talk: Cowan (45 min) Ground-based Astronomy Committee Joint Committee on Space Astronomy Petrie Prize Talk: González (45 min) Equity and Inclusivity Committee Education and Public Outreach Committee LRP Implementation Committee Computation and Data Committee 10:30 Break Break Break 10:30 11:00 Intensity Mapping and ISM/SF/GMCs (MR II) CMB and Large-Scale Stars/Stellar Pops Transients Short-Period Planets 11:00 21cm Cosmology (MR I) R.E. Pudritz Structure (MR I) (Mont-Royal II) (Mont-Royal I) (Mont-Royal II) Raul Monsalve J. Keown Jo Dunkley Juna Kollmeier Kiyoshi Masui Diana Dragomir H.C. Chiang S. Benincasa R. Bond J. Sikora P. Chawla C. Ziegler A. Liu E. Peeters T. Yang N. Fantin Z. Pleunis E. Artigau K. Lee-Waddell S. Coudé M. Lokken N. Hejazi T. Cassanelli A. Darveau-Bernier T. Pinsonneault-Marotte A. Ordog D. Contreras F. Jahandar S. Kleinman P. Gupta P. Boubel C. Matzner W. Fraser M. Munoz G. Eadie A. Hughes 12:30 12:30 Euclid Lunch* (MR I) SKA Lunch (MR II) CITA Lunch* (MR I) ACURA/TMT Lunch (II) Lunch CFHT Lunch (MR II) 13:45 Galaxy & Star Formation WD/NS/BH Clusters/Groups Long-Period Planets QSO/AGN/SMBH EPO (Mont-Royal II) 13:45 (Mont-Royal I) (Mont-Royal II) (Mont-Royal I) (Mont-Royal II) (Mont-Royal I) I. Short Graduate Student Workshop Student Graduate Adam Muzzin Liliana Caballero Yashar Hezaveh Ruobing Dong Darren Grant C. Bredeson N. Drakos B. Côté A. Richard-Laferrière F. Baron N. MacDonald J. Bolduc-Duval C. Lewis A. Bédard R. Hill B. Gerard C. Peters N. Ouellette A. Man H. Richer I. Roberts L. Dang Teacher Training (CMR Mansfield #5) J. Ruan M. Reid McGill University, Trottier Building (room 100) H.A. White V. Hénault-Brunet A. Reeves S. Lawler S. Ellison A. Man D. Rennehan A.K. Naidu M.L. Gendron-Marsolais N. van der Marel H. Boyce M.B. Laychak 15:15 Break Break Break 15:15 15:45 15:45 CMR Mont-Royal I & II (Moderator: Ellison) Posters (Foyer Mont-Royal) CMR Mont-Royal I & II (Moderator: De Robertis) Qilak Prize Talk: Cami (45 min) NSERC Updates: Elizabeth Boston (45 min) LRP Information 1 (45 min): Poster/Talk Awards: R. Thacker (10 min) LRP Chairs Barmby & Gaensler 17:00 LSST & Canada CASCA AGM: J. Di Francesco (60 min) CASCA 2020: M. De Robertis (5 min) 17:15 17:45 18:00 Hogg Prize Lecture: Sera Markoff Reception Banquet Opening Night (CMR 4th floor) Le Local, 740 rue William McGill University, McIntyre Medical Building, Room 522 Schedule 18:30 Foyer Mont Royal CMR = Centre Mont-Royal (2200 Mansfield) *The Euclid and CITA lunches are by invitation only Invited talks are bolded • 4 Full Schedule Monday, June 17 Graduate Student Workshop CASCA Board & JCSA Meetings Location: Trottier Building, Room 0100 : Various @ McGill University McGill University, 3630 rue University Location 8:00 Grad Workshop Registration 9:00 Welcome & CASCA Grad Student Council 9:15 Allyship Workshop All day CASCA Board Meeting 10:30 Coffee Break Rutherford Building, Bell Room/Room 103 McGill University, 3600 rue University 11:30 Graduate Student Committee AGM All day JCSA Meeting 12:00 Lunch MSI Conference Room 13:30 Science Communication (iREx) McGill Space Institute, 3550 rue University 14:00 Coffee Break 14:30 Industry Networking Opening Night Reception Location: Foyer Mont Royal, Centre Mont-Royal (CMR), 4th Floor 2200 Mansfield Street 17:00 Opening Reception Schedule • 5 Tuesday, June 18 Plenary Session 1 Location: CMR Mont-Royal I & II, 4th Floor Moderator: R. Thacker (CASCA President) Welcome and Territory Acknowledgement The Medicine Bear Drummers 8:30 D. Haggard & N. Cowan (CASCA 2019 Chairs) J. Grant (Medicine Bear Drummers & .caISES) 9:00 Richer Prize Lecture: Nicolas Cowan (McGill): McGill Exoplanet Characterization 9:45 Petrie Prize Lecture: Gabriela González (Louisiana State): Gravitational Waves Astronomy Coffee Break Location: CMR Mont-Royal Foyer 10:30 Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions Science Intensity Mapping & 21cm Cosmology Science Interstellar Medium & Star Formation Breakout 1 Location: Mont-Royal I, Chair: J. Sievers Breakout 2 Location: Mont-Royal II, Chair: A. Cumming R.E. Pudritz (McMaster): A universal route for 11:00 massive cluster formation in giant molecular clouds R. Monsalve (McGill): The Signature of the Cosmic 11:00 Dawn in the Global Radio Spectrum (invited) J. Keown (Victoria): KEYSTONE: KFPA Examinations 11:12 of Young Stellar (O-star) Natal Environments H.C. Chiang (McGill): Observing the <100 MHz radio S. Benincasa (UC Davis): The life and death of stellar 11:30 11:24 sky nurseries: GMCs and stellar clusters in Latte A. Liu (McGill): Illuminating the First Stars and E. Peeters (Western): Tracing PAH Size in Prominent 11:42 Galaxies with the Hydrogen Epoch of Reionization 11:36 Nearby Mid-Infrared Environments Array S Coudé (SOFIA-USRA): Dynamics of the 30 K. Lee-Waddell (CSIRO): WALLABY Science results 11:54 11:48 Doradus star-forming region as probed with far-IR with ASKAP polarimetry A Ordog (Calgary): Extended Emission Rotation T. Pinsonneault-Marotte (UBC): Calibrating the 12:06 12:00 Measures: Observations and Models of Galactic B- CHIME antenna array coupling from sky data Field C. Matzner (Toronto): Acoustic Dynamics of Super- 12:18 P. Boubel (McGill): Full-sky maps from CHIME 12:12 Eddington Outbursts and Supernova Impostors Lunch Break 12:30 Euclid Lunch (invitation only) 12:30 SKA Lunch Science Galaxy & Star Formation Science Compact Objects (WD/NS/BH) Breakout 3 Location: Mont-Royal I, Chair: J. Mirocha Breakout 4 Location: Mont-Royal II, Chair: E. Fonseca A. Muzzin (York): Resolving Problems in Galaxy L. Caballero (Guelph): Weak makes us strong: 13:45 13:45 Formation (invited) neutrinos in the multi-messenger era (invited) N. Drakos (Waterloo): Dark Matter Halo Properties B. Cote (Konkoly): The Origin of r-process Elements 14:15 14:15 ̂ ́ as a Test of Cosmology in the Milky Way C. Lewis (Queens): Kinematic Modeling of Low- A. Bedard (Montreal): The spectral evolution of hot 14:27 14:27 ́ Resolution Disk Galaxies white dwarf stars A. Man (Dunlap): Lensed quiescent galaxies at z~2: H. Richer (UBC): Search for Young and Massive 14:39 14:39 what quenched their star formation? White Dwarfs H.A. White (Toronto/Dunlap): DYnamics of Newly- V. Henault-Brunet (NRC Herzberg): Stellar-mass 14:51 Assembled Massive Objects (DYNAMO) Galaxy 14:51 ́ black holes in globular clusters Survey D. Rennehan (Victoria): Coeval star formation and A.K. Naidu (McGill): Subpulse drifting studies of 15:03 the assembly of the most massive galaxies in the 15:03 pulsars using the CHIME/Pulsar data universe Coffee Break Location: CMR Mont-Royal Foyer 15:15 Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions Plenary Session 2 Location: CMR Mont-Royal I & II, 4th Floor Moderator: S. Ellison (CASCA Vice-President) 15:45 Qilak Prize Lecture: Jan Cami (Western): You're the Inspiration 16:30 Long Range Plan Session 1: P. Barmby & B. Gaensler (LRP Chairs) Conference Banquet Conference Banquet 18:00 Location: Le Local, 740 rue William Schedule • 6 Wednesday, June 19 Teachers Training Workshop (9:00-17:00) Location: CMR Mansfield #5 Convenor: J. Bolduc-Duval (Discover the Universe) Plenary Session 3 Location: CMR Mont-Royal I & II, 4th Floor Moderator: P. Barmby (LPR Chair) 9:00 Martin Prize Lecture: B. Gaensler (Dunlap/Toronto): Magnets in the Sky Long Range Plan Session 2: Ground-based Astronomy Committee 9:45 Equity and Inclusivity Committee LRP Implementation Committee Coffee Break Location: CMR Mont-Royal Foyer 10:30 Poster, Demo, and Sponsor Interactions Science CMB & Large-Scale Structure Science Stars & Stellar Populations Breakout 5 Location: Mont-Royal I, Chair: A. Liu Breakout 6 Location: Mont-Royal II, Chair: J. Ruan J. Dunkley (Princeton): The Simons Observatory: J. Kollmeier (Carnegie): SDSS-V: Pioneering 11:00 11:00 cosmology from the microwave sky (invited) Panoptic Spectroscopy (invited) R.
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