Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics
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CITA is a nationally supported research center for studies in theoretical astrophysics at @UofT
Canada
Joined February 2016
Award-winning documentary by @LesGuthman on the first @LIGO detections, referencing @CITA_ICAT Prof. Reed Essick (@thisaintessic), who was among the first in the world to hear about them: .
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Isabelle Connor (@itsizzyconnor) olympic rhythmic gymnast and astrophysics student from @ucsc is visiting the @CITA_ICAT to investigate supernova driven turbulence together with CITA/Princeton University turbulence expert Dr. James Beattie (@astro_magnetism) Beattie.
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Ioana Zelko, @CITA_ICAT postdoc and @BartRipperda, faculty member, won 32K A100 GPU-Hours for creating the first framework for Real-Time Calculation of 3D Interstellar Radiation Fields. @nvidia is donating the GPU hours to CITA.
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Today CITAzens visited the vault of the @UofT Art Museum and saw rarely displayed Canadian heritage artworks. Thank you Nathan Carlson for organizing this special visit and Alex King (Collections Coordinator) for letting us in this coveted art treasury!
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RT @UofTAstroTours: July AstroTours announcement! Catch the talk about 🕳️black holes and gravitational waves🕳️ by UofT PhD Student Utkarsh….
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RT @ShawPrize: At 4 am in Lisbon airport en route to the turin conference after nine days in Portugal, Prof. J. Richard Bond was delightful….
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RT @ShawPrize: Listen to this week’s @PhysicsWorld podcast as our 2025 Shaw Laureates in #Astronomy, Professors J. Richard Bond & George Ef….
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RT @ShawPrize: Born in Toronto, Prof. John Richard Bond studied at the University of Toronto & @Caltech. A leader at the Canadian Institute….
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To better understand the extreme physics underlying such a grizzly demise, researchers at @Caltech and @CITA_ICAT's faculty @BartRipperda are using supercomputers to simulate black hole–neutron star collisions.
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@CITA_ICAT National Fellow Akshara Viswanathan @astroakshara is one of the three winners of the 2025 Gruber Fellowship Award. Each year, The Gruber Foundation, in collaboration with the @IAU_org funds a US$75 000 fellowship for promising young astronomers.
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Congratulations to @CITA_ICAT Fellow Sam Hadden @shadden1107 on receiving the 2025 Vera Rubin Early Career Award (@AAS_DDA) for his “term-by-term analysis of planetary dynamics work that leads the field in both insight and usability”.
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During @CITA_ICAT seminar yesterday, Prof. Reed Essick outlined promising new developments in gravitational wave astrophysics. Find a recording of his talk (and other recent CITA guests) at:.
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RT @ShawPrize: Prof. Scott Tremaine, Chair of the Selection Committee for the #ShawPrize in Astronomy, introducing the 2025 Laureate, Prof.….
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RT @src_rsc: Congratulations to Professor John Richard Bond, FRSC (@CITA_ICAT, @UofT), who has been awarded the 2025 Shaw Prize in Astronom….
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Congratulations to @CITA_ICAT faculty Prof. Dick Bond who shares the 2025 @ShawPrize in Astronomy with George Efstathiou, @Cambridge_Uni for their pioneering research in cosmology and their studies of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background.
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RT @ShawPrize: The #ShawPrize in Astronomy 2025 is awarded in equal shares to John Richard Bond & George Efstathiou for their pioneering re….
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RT @uoftphysics: A great day on Saturday at McLennan Physics for @DoorsOpenTO Thank you to all of our amazing student volunteers who helped….
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RT @NatureAstronomy: Extremely high-resolution simulations reveal that interstellar medium-type turbulence significantly deviates from clas….
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New research by Yoonsoo Kim and Elias Most from @Caltech, @BartRipperda from @CITA_ICAT and Andrei Beloborodov from @Columbia explores the conditions under which a black hole’s neutron-star merger produces an observable electromagnetic signal.
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