ASX's 8th "Expanding Canada's Frontiers" Symposium

"Unraveling The Universe"

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The Astronomy & Space Exploration Society at the University of
Toronto is hosting the 8th annual “Expanding Canada’s Frontiers” symposium. The country’s largest astronomy symposium takes place at 7 p.m. on January 28, 2011 at the University of Toronto’s Convocation Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m.

2010 was an exciting year in astronomy. Recent technological developments such as the Large Hadron-Collider have allowed us to begin to crack some of the biggest mysteries of the universe. Considering this, the theme of this year’s ASX symposium is, “Unraveling the Universe.”

Guest speakers this year include:

• Dr. Alexei Vladimir Filippenko, from the University of California at Berkeley and one of the world’s premiere researchers on supernovae
• Dr. Michel Lefebvre, founder of the Canadian ATLAS collaboration project and recent chair of the Subatomic Physics Grant Selection Committee of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
• Dr. Gilbert Holder, the Canada Research Chair in Cosmological Astrophysics and associate professor of physics at McGill University

WHAT: The Astronomy & Space Exploration Society at U of T hosts their 8th annual “Expanding Canada’s Frontiers” symposium.

WHERE: Convocation Hall, U of T

WHEN: January 28 at 7 p.m. Doors open at 6 p.m.

ADMISSION:
Students: FREE with ID and pre-registration : http://asx2011symposium.eventbrite.com/
General Public: $20 : http://www.uofttix.ca/view.php?id=729

More info: http://www.asxsociety.org/symposium/