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CITA@40 Conference

27–29 May 2026

60 St. George St.

America/Toronto timezone

CITA at 40: A Celebration of Cosmic Discovery

Communications and Events Coordinator

communication@cita.utoronto.ca

Speaker List

Roberto Abraham (University of Toronto)
- Speaker at First Light with the MOTHRA Array
Parisa Acharya
- Speaker at From Gas to Stars: Reconstructing the 6D Evolution of the Perseus Molecular Cloud
Philip Armitage (CCA, Flatiron Institute)
- Speaker at Accretion astrophysics: Past, present and future
Arif Babul (University of Victoria / University of Edinburgh)
- Speaker at Windy and Cool: Radiative Turbulence and the Origin of Multiphase Structure in the CGM
Rennan Barkana (Tel Aviv University)
- Speaker at 21-cm cosmology: from dark matter to the dark ages
Peter Barnes
- Speaker at Adventures in Conquering the Galaxy: Or, How I Went From Observer To Kinematicist
Nicholas Battaglia (Cornell University)
- Speaker at FYST and CCAT
Ido Ben-Dayan (Ariel University)
- Speaker at GW, PTA, CMB and Neff Bounds
Paolo Bianchini (CNRS, Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg)
- Speaker at From High Redshift to the Present Day: Tracing the Evolution of Globular Clusters with High-Performance Computing
Joseph Bramante (Queen's University)
- Speaker at The future of high mass dark matter
Matthew Browning (University of Exeter)
- Speaker at "Diffusion-free" simulations and theory of stellar and planetary convection
Andrew Buchanan (Queen's University)
- Speaker at Searching for High Mass Dark Matter with the High Speed LMC
Kipp Cannon
- Speaker at Direct Inference of the Hubble Parameter from Compact Binary Collision Detection Catalogues
Raymond Carlberg (University of Toronto)
- Speaker at Dark Matter Subhalo Heating of Stellar Streams
Jennifer Y. H. Chan (Oberlin College)
- Speaker at Direct Measurements of Magnetic Helicity in the Cosmo
Doron Chelouche (University of Haifa)
- Speaker at Probing Bare Accretion Disks around Active Supermassive Black Holes
Huanqing Chen (University of Alberta)
- Speaker at Quasar Pairs at z>5: Windows into Early SMBH Growth and the Cosmic Environmen
Sihao Cheng (Perimeter Institute & Institute for Advanced Study)
- Speaker at A Dwarf Planet on an Extremely Wide Orbit
- Speaker at A novel view of the Milky Way disk
Ariel Chitan (University of Western Ontario)
- Speaker at A Case Study of Disc Disruption and Accretion Dynamics in Supermassive Black Hole Binaries: Hydrodynamic Simulations of the Blazar OJ 287
Dongwoo Chung
- Speaker at The future of line-intensity mapping, near and far
Pratika Dayal (CITA)
- Speaker at The puzzling emergence of galaxies and black holes in the first billion years
Dhruv Desai (University of Greifswald)
- Speaker at Relativistic jets from millisecond proto-magnetars
Janosz Dewberry (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
- Speaker at Orbital asynchronization and circularization by tidally driven inertial waves
Mark Dodici (University of Toronto)
- Speaker at Dynamics of stellar binaries orbiting supermassive black holes: Shrinking and Separation
Amr El Zant (The British University in Egypt)
- Speaker at Gas fluctuations and cusp-core transformation in dwarf galaxies
Andrei Frolov (Simon Fraser University)
- Speaker at King's Tour inflation
Seiji Fujimoto (University of Toronto)
- Speaker at Probing the Seeds and Growth of Early Black Holes with JWST: Lensing and the Time-Domain Frontier
Jose Tomas Galvez Ghersi (Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia)
- Speaker at Early Universe Cosmology and strong gravity phenomenology from scratch: CITA and Peruvian science
Alex Hayes (Queen's University)
- Speaker at Cosmological Particle Production of Dark Matter During Inflation
David Hogg (New York University)
- Speaker at Why do we do astrophysics?
Gil Holder (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
- Speaker at The CMB at Radio Wavelengths
Selim Hotinli (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
- Speaker at Cosmology and Astrophysics from kSZ Tomography
Junwu Huang (Perimeter Institute)
- Speaker at Beyond Standard Model Secondaries
Danat Issa (MIT Kavli Institute)
- Speaker at Probing the origin of r-process nucleosynthesis in GRMHD simulations of collapsars
Rahul Kannan (York University)
- Speaker at Modelling high redshift structure formation and reionization in the JWST era
Victoria Kaspi (McGill University)
- Speaker at Adventures with Fast Radio Bursts & CHIME/FRB
Leo Kim (York University)
- Speaker at Constraining dark compact objects with gravitational wave lensing
Lloyd Knox (UC Davis)
- Speaker at CMB Science Since CITA and the Current Status of the Standard Cosmological Model
Zachary Langford (University of Pennsylvania)
- Speaker at Self-consistent dynamical modeling of the Milky Way bar with orbital frequency analysis
Hyung Mok Lee (Seoul National Univ.)
- Speaker at Current status of gravitational wave cosmology and prospects
Man Hoi Lee (The University of Hong Kong)
- Speaker at Exoplanets in Binary Star Systems
Meng-Xiang Lin (Simon Fraser University)
- Speaker at Cosmological Evidence of Interactions Between Dark Axion and Dark Baryons
Maxim Lyutikov (Purdue University)
- Speaker at Astrophysical Fast Radio Bursts: the plasma physics frontier.
Yin-Zhe Ma (Stellenbosch University)
- Speaker at From peculiar velocities to kSZ effect: probe the large-scale perturbations and the missing baryon problems
subha majumdar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
- Speaker at The `best’ rotation curve of the Milky Way till date from 3 to 200+ kpc, and its implications.
Margot Mandy (UNBC)
- Speaker at Hydrogen Molecules in Collision
Visweshwar Ram Marthi (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research)
- Speaker at The smallest scales in the ionised ISM
Christopher Matzner (University of Toronto)
- Speaker at Stellar shock emergence in compact aspherical supernovae: the boundary between relativistic and oblique branches
Evan McDonough (University of Winnipeg)
- Speaker at The Status of the Scalar Spectral Index and Implications for Cosmic Inflation
Mikhail Medvedev
- Speaker at Theory of striped dynamic spectra of the Crab pulsar's high-frequency interpulse
Sharon Morsink (University of Alberta)
- Speaker at The masses and radii of the neutron stars observed by NICER
Gibwa Musoke (Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics)
- Speaker at Transitional accretion disks around black holes
Lorne Nelson (Bishop's University)
- Speaker at Binary Stars as Crucial Tests of Contemporary Astrophysics
John Ngo (University of Alberta)
- Speaker at Evaluating Neutron Star Shape Function Solid Angle Modelling Accuracy with Schwarzschild Metric With Oblate Rotationally Deformed Surfaces (SWORD)
Quang Nguyen Luong (IAS)
- Speaker at BLADE: Broadband Low-frequency Astronomical Detection Experiment in Vietnam
Samaya Nissanke (DESY, DZA, University of Potsdam; University of Amsterdam)
- Speaker at New Perspectives onto the Universe in the Multi-Messenger Astronomy Era
Rachid Ouyed
- Speaker at Probing Neutron Star Core Physics and Magnetization with Superluminous Supernovae (SLSNe)
James Owen (Imperial College London)
- Speaker at What have we learned from the exoplanet radius valley.
Matthew Payne (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian)
- Speaker at Pan-STARRS and Rubin Searches for Distant Planets
Ue-Li Pen (Professor)
- Speaker at four decades: from cosmic strings to FRBs
Cristobal Petrovich (Indiana University Bloomington)
- Speaker at The Dynamical Lives of Cold Neptunes
Harald Pfeiffer (Max-Planck-Institute for Gravitational Physics)
- Speaker at Numerical relativity simulations of binary black holes: overview of recent advances
Zachary Picker (Queen's University)
- Speaker at Dark matter hail: forming and finding macroscopic dark matter
Levon Pogosian (Simon Fraser University)
- Speaker at Sound-horizon-agnostic approaches to the Hubble tension and an update on primordial magnetic fields
Eric Poisson (University of Guelph)
- Speaker at Nonlinear dynamical tides in compact binary inspirals
Ralph Pudritz (McMaster University)
- Speaker at Disk Winds and Planet Formation: a New Paradigm Emerges
Vasilii Pustovoit (CITA)
- Speaker at From Megaparsecs to Solar Masses: Resolving Pop III Fragmentation with Extreme Dynamic Range Hydrodynamical Simulations
Thomas Quinn (University of Washington)
- Speaker at Modeling Stellar Feedback and the Circumgalactic Medium
Rohan Raha (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, india)
- Speaker at The magnetic life of black holes: instabilities, eruptions, and angular momentum regulation in accretion flows
- Speaker at The magnetic life of black holes: instabilities, eruptions, and angular momentum regulation in accretion flows
Hanno Rein (University of Toronto)
- Speaker at How to write the fastest N-body code in the world
Nicolas Samaras (University of Ottawa)
- Speaker at Aspects and prospects of the CCC+TL cosmological model
Suroor Seher Gandhi (Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics)
- Speaker at Measuring cosmic bulk flow with kinetic Sunyaev-Zel'dovich (kSZ) velocity reconstruction
Nir Shaviv (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Speaker at When the Galaxy Kicks Back: Spiral-Arm Shocks, Stellar Heating, and the Hidden Bias in Measuring the Disk’s Mass
Jonathan Sievers (McGill)
- Speaker at Putting the "Cold" in Cold Dark Matter.
Tarun Souradeep (Raman Research Institute)
- Speaker at BipoSH: Structured test bed for Cosmic isotropy violation
Kristine Spekkens (Queen's University)
- Speaker at HI Disks and Cosmological Galaxy Evolution: Past, Present and Future
Glenn Starkman (Case Western Reserve University)
- Speaker at The Universe is not statistically isotropic
Albert Stebbins (Fermilab)
- Speaker at The Quiet Universe - or - Why the Universe Hasn't Collapsed, Yet
Jim Stone (Institute for Advanced Study)
- Speaker at Modeling Luminous Black Hole Accretion Flows
Qitong Anabel Tan (University of Montreal & MILA - Quebec AI Institute)
- Speaker at Machine Learning-Based Large-Scale Radio Interferometric Imaging Algorithm for Next-Generation Telescopes
Doğa Tolgay (Ph.D. Candidate)
- Speaker at Uncovering CO Emission Correlations for Mock Map Generation in Line-Intensity Mapping
Scott Tremaine (Institute for Advanced Study)
- Speaker at The densest stellar systems: the dynamics of galactic nuclei
Terrence Tricco (Memorial University of Newfoundland)
- Speaker at Global Accretion Disc Simulations of the Magneto-Rotational Instability with SPH
Aris Tritsis (Ecole Polytechnique Federral de Lausanne)
- Speaker at Ambipolar diffusion and the mass-to-flux ratio in turbulent collapsing clouds
Rien van de Weygaert (Kapteyn Astronomical Institute, University of Groningen)
- Speaker at Dynamics of the Cosmic Web: Forces, Tides and Catastrophes
Rachel Webster (University of Melbourne)
- Speaker at Testing the Diskwind Model of AGN
Lawrence Widrow (Queen's University)
- Speaker at Emergence of Phase Spirals in Perturbed Stellar Disks
Saiyang Zhang (University of TEXAS AT AUSTIN)
- Speaker at First Galaxies and Supermassive Black Holes Seeded by Heavy Primordial Black Holes

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