Congratulations to the #CHIMETelescope team members at McGill Physics @McGillMSI as well as their colleagues Dunlap Institute UofT D. A. Dunlap Dept of Astronomy & Astrophysics WVU Mountaineers · Let's Go! Yale University Perimeter Institute MIT Physics National Radio Astronomy Observatory | NRAO NRC Canada on this wonderful accomplishment!

Since the first #GravitationalWaves discovery we've clocked up 50 confident detections : 48 binary #BlackHole mergers and 2 binary #NeutronStar collisions. Now we've added two #NSBH mergers! (Thanks, OzGrav's Carl Knox for this nice graphic) ligo.org/detections/NSB…

Meet our newest doctor! 🙌🎉Congrats to Dr. Emilie Parent on successfully defending her PhD thesis "Discovery and study of radio pulsars and fast transients with the Arecibo and Green Bank telescopes", supervised by Victoria Kaspi. 1/2

It's #WorldSpaceWeek! This year's theme is #WomeninSpace & we hope you'll tune in to our virtual panel tonight at 7:30pm ET! Our panelists are 3 Canadian astronomers who'll be using NASA Webb Telescope, the next great space telescope, during its 1st year! Link: youtu.be/m9iMw_md4dM

We're live with An Evening with Webb! Tune in now to ask our panelists your questions! #womeninspacewsw #WorldSpaceWeek Link: youtu.be/m9iMw_md4dM

Maclean's ranks #McGill as the #1 medical/doctoral university in Canada for the 17th year in a row! 🥇🇨🇦🎉 Maclean’s Magazine ow.ly/Qurz50GnYvv

Our next public lecture is next Tuesday, 7pm! Come and learn about fast radio bursts, these bright flashes of light from distant galaxies that have captured the world of astronomy over the last decade! 🤩🌟🔭 More info here: fb.me/e/10aDU9CIa

Check out MSI grad student Alice Curtin's newest piece for astrobites!

Are you interested in this cool intersection of particle physics and astrophysics? If so, you’re in luck! Prof. Prof. Katelin Schutz’ is looking to recruit new people this year! Postdocs should apply to Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics National Fellow (Nov 8) and @McGillMSI Fellow opportunities (Dec 1) 2/4

There's still time to register for tomorrow's McGill Physics grad program virtual info session! Nov. 19, 3-5pm EST. Register to get the zoom link: forms.office.com/r/2Kz2YXqxpt

The #CHIME team, which discovered more than 500 new #FRBs in the first year of the detector’s operations, will receive the 2022 Lancelot M. Berkeley − New York Community Trust Prize for Meritorious Work in Astronomy. 🌌🔭🇨🇦 ow.ly/4Ol050GRmet

We’re thrilled to kick off “Meet our MSI postdocs”! Every week we’ll be spotlighting some of the postdoctoral fellows who call the MSI their intellectual home.

Congratulations to MSI prof Robert Brandenberger on winning the 2021 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement in Physics from CAPhys!!

#meetMSIpostdocs! Next up is Dr. Thomas Navarro! who's been an MSI postdoc fellow in EPS since Fall 2019. He works on simulating the atmospheres of terrestrial planets (such as Mars, Venus) or exoplanets by developing and running state-of-the-art numerical models. 1/

On this day, 30 years ago, Dr. Dr. Roberta Bondar became Canada’s first female astronaut and the world’s first neurologist in space when she launched aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. Her ability to inspire, motivate and educate is truly stellar! #OTD

Today's MSI Seminar speaker is Erin May from Johns Hopkins APL! Tune in now to watch "Spitzer’s Exoplanet Legacy: Population Trends from Phase Curve Observations": youtu.be/k11Qwq2BP94

A huge congratulations to MSI prof Eve Lee on getting the 2022 Annie Jump Cannon Award in Astronomy from the AAS! 🤩🤩

The McGill Space Research Conference takes place on May 3 and 4! Join McGill University astronauts and the world’s top academic researchers, business pioneers, and government leaders in space and aerospace for two days of cross-industry exchange. For more: 200.mcgill.ca/space-week/

ONLINE EVENT: buff.ly/3M5EUNc On Wednesday, Oct. 19th, 2022 at 7 pm PST, Dr. Victoria Kaspi ( McGill University ) will give a free, illustrated, non-technical lecture entitled: “The Fast Radio Sky: A New Window on the Violent Universe", live on YouTube: buff.ly/3C5SIml