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Saint Mary's University and the James Webb Space Telescope

Hexagonal elements making up the James Webb Space Telescope mirror

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IRIS provides a glimpse of deformation in helium-8

L-R: Sebastien Roy-Garand (SMU Undergrad student), Preetinder Jassal (SMU Ph.D. student), Greg Hackman (TRIUMF Scientist), Dr. Rituparna Kanungo (IRIS project leader & SMU Professor), Matthias Holl (SMU-TRIUMF IRIS PDF), Conor Waterfield (SMU student). Photo credit: TRIUMF.

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We're seeking to hire a full-time Astronomy Technician

Burke-Gaffney Observatory at SMU

Search is being run via CareerBeacon.  Selection process to begin after 7 Jan 2022: 

Science Technician II - Astronomy


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Congratulations to three students for successful thesis defences!

Margaret Buhariwalla defends MSc thesis

August 16, 2021

Congratulations to Margaret who successfully defended her thesis on “Weird NLS1s: A Multi-epoch, broadband analysis to study the X-ray emission in Mrk 1239 and WKK 4438”.  She worked with Dr. Luigi Gallo for her MSc and Drs. Austin and Short were on her examination committee.

Well done, Margaret!


Kamalpreet Kaur defends MSc thesis

August 12, 2021

Congratulations to Kamalpreet who successfully defended her thesis entitled “The Nature, Environments, and Origin of Post-Starburst Galaxies”.  She worked with Dr. Ivana Damjanov for her MSc and Drs. Sawicki and Gallo were on her examination committee.

Well done, Kamalpreet!


Adam Gonzalez defends his PhD thesis

August 10, 2021

Congratulations to Adam Gonzalez who successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis, "Probing high-velocity outflows in active galactic nuclei and their relationship to the inner disc environments with X-ray observations" before his thesis defense committee, Drs. Ivana Damjanov (Saint Mary's University), Phil Bennett (Dal), Filippo D’Ammando (INAF – Institute of Radio Astronomy, Bologna), and his advisor, Luigi Gallo (SMU).

Well done Dr Gonzales!! 


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Congratulations to two students for successful thesis defences!

Nolan Dickson defends MSc thesis

August 12, 2022

Congratulations to Nolan who successfully defended his thesis on “Multimass modelling of Milky Way globular clusters and implications on their dark remnant content and stellar initial mass function”. He worked with Dr. Vincent Hénault-Brunet for his MSc and Drs. Sawicki and Thacker were on his examination committee.

Well done, Nolan!

 

Martin Hellmich defends MSc thesis

August 12, 2022

Congratulations to Martin Hellmich who successfully defended his thesis on “Ocean-air N2O trace gas fluxes in Halifax Harbour derived from Open-Path FTIR measurements”. He worked with Dr. Aldona Wiacek for his MSc (Applied Science) and his examination committee consisted of Dr. Van Proosdij (SMU - Geography and Environmental Studies), Dr. Flesch (U. Alberta - Earth and Atmospheric Sciences), and Dr. Else (U. Calgary - Geography - External Examiner). 

Well done, Martin!


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