Annual General Meeting 2005Annual General Meeting 2005

AgendaAgenda1. Highlights 2005

& Current Snapshot/Changes

2. National Programs

a) National Fellows

b) Summer Undergraduates

c) Predoctoral Program

d) Senior Visiting Fellows

e) Computing & CITAhpc

3. CITA Activitya) Departing and Incoming PDFs/SrRAs

b) Awards

c) Sabbatical Visitors / Sackler Lecture

4. New Member applications

Renewal of membership

Highlights 2005Highlights 2005 Margaret Fukunaga will be taking early retirement June 30, 2005 but MFinc

The new Business Officer who will begin July 4 is Nina Ladocha who comes from York University. She is presently the Research Coordinator of the Canadian Centre for German & European Studies

11 PDFs/SrRAs & 2 CITA NFs recruited (10 coming. burst to 25, steady state <)

CITA postdoctoral fellows and Sr. RA’s to Faculty Positions 2004/05 2004/05

- G. Holder, short stay as SrRA at CITA Summer/Fall 04, McGill Jan 05 - J. Cho to Chungnam National University (Oct 04)

- C. Contaldi to Imperial College (Mar 05)- M. Liebendorfer to University of Basel (Aug 05)- Y. Levin to Leiden (Aug 05)

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ H. Hoekstra to University of Victoria (Fall 04)- M.A. Miville-Deschenes to IAS in Orsay (Aug 04) (+CSA SrRA)

- M. Peloso to Minnesota (Winter 04)- L. van Waerbeke to University of British Columbia (Fall 04)

CIAR Cosmology & Gravity Program: Annual Meeting, Mt. Tremblant Mar05

CIAR Scholar as well as Asst Profs: McGill – Gill Holder, Andrew CummingVictoria – Henk HoekstraUBC – Ludo van Waerbeke

CITA Faculty Search: Canada Research Chair Tier II. Roman Rafikov, Institute CITA Faculty Search: Canada Research Chair Tier II. Roman Rafikov, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, start September 2005.for Advanced Study, Princeton, start September 2005.

StepUp@UofT plans: 2004-2010, CITA SGS; also DAA (P. Martin is Chair. He StepUp@UofT plans: 2004-2010, CITA SGS; also DAA (P. Martin is Chair. He has accepted another term to 2011). Ideas for CITA Inc; CITA SGS will become has accepted another term to 2011). Ideas for CITA Inc; CITA SGS will become CITA FAS July 2005CITA FAS July 2005

Bond Officer of the Order of Canada: a recognition of the role that CITA & CIAR has made in enabling the great cross-Canada astro developments, observation & experiment as well as in theory & phenomenology

Stanford University Dick Bond (CMB, LSS)

University of Hawaii Lev Kofman (Early Universe, LSS)

University of Toronto Peter Martin (ISM) Chair, UofT DA + CITA

Caltech Norm Murray (Solar System, AGN) Canada Research Chair

Harvard University Ue-Li Pen (LSS, Hydro)

University of North Carolina Chris Thompson (High Energy)

Cambridge University David Ballantyne (High Energy Astrophysics) University of Arizona

University of Wisconsin-M adison Jungyeon Cho (Astrophysics) Chungnam National Univ

Imperial College, London Carlo Contaldi (CMB, Cosmology) Imperial College

UC Santa Cruz John Dubinski (Dynamics) CITA, UofT DA+ CITA

Lab. Phys. Theorique Orsay Jean-Francois Dufaux (Cosmology)

University of Chicago Jonathan Dursi (astrophysical fulid mechanics)

Caltech Amr El-Zant (Gravitational Dynamics)

University of Chicago John Everett (High Energy)

University of Groningen Henk Hoekstra (Lensing) University of Victoria

M onash University Robin Humble (SPH)

Arcetri Observatory Ilian Iliev (Cosmology)

UC Berkeley Yuri Levin (High Energy,Astrophysics) Leiden University

Cambridge University Antony Lewis (CMB, Early Universe) IOA, Cambridge

University of Tennessee Matthias Liebendorfer (Supernovae) University of Basel

Princeton University Pat McDonald (Cosmology)

University of Ill inois Subhabatra Majumdar (Cosmology)

Laval + IAS, France Marc-Antoine Mivilles Deschenes (ISM) Inst.d'Astrophysique Spatiale

Columbia University Kaya Mori (High energy astrophysics)

Princeton University Michael Nolta (CMB cosmologist)

University of Bonn Marco Peloso (Early Universe, Cosmology) University of M innesota

Landau Institute Dimitri Podolsky (Cosmology, Fields theory)

M IT Alexander Shirokov (N-body)

Caltech Jonathan Sievers (CMB)

NASA AM ES Edward Thommes (Dynamics)

CITA Faculty

Senior and Junior RAs

+ Graduate Students (11)+ Predoctoral Students (4)

Long Term Visitors (9), Short Term (96)

CITA Current Snap May 2004 – March 2005

CITA Alumni in Permanent or Tenure-Stream PositionsCITA Alumni in Permanent or Tenure-Stream Positions

• P. Armitage, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astrophysical & Planetary Science, University of Colorado

• K. Ashman, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Baher University• A. Babul, Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria • R. Barkana, Senior Lecturer, Tel Aviv University• J. Barnes, Professor, Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, USA • P. Barnes, Staff Scientist, NRAO, Socorro, New Mexico, USA • S. Basu, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Western

Ontario• A. Beloborodov, Associate Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, Columbia University• F. Bernardeau, ingénieur CEA, Service de Physique Théorique, Saclay, France • L. Binette, Associate Professor, UNAM, Instituto de Astronomia, Mexico City, Mexico• O. Blaes, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara • P. Brown, Lecturer, Dept. of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester, UK • B. Chaboyer, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Dartmouth College • J. Cho, Assistant Professor, Chungnam National University• S. U. Choe, Professor, Seoul National University, Korea • M. Choptuik, Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of British Columbia• S. Colombi, chargé de recherche, l'Institut d'Astrophysique, Paris, France • C. Contaldi, Lecturer, Imperial College• H. Couchman, Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University• R. Crittenden, Reader, Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth• L. Dones, • J. Feige, Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba• G. Felder, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, Smith College • H. Feldman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Kansas • B. Gladman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UBC• A. Jaffe, Lecturer, Imperial College• D. Johnstone, Assoc. Research Officer, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics• B. Hansen, Assistant Professor, UCLA• H. Hoekstra, Assistant Professor, University of Victoria• M. Holman, Astrophysicist, Planetary Sciences Division, Smithsonian Astrophysical

Observatory • A. Klypin, Associate Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, New Mexico State University • L. Kofman, Professor, University of Hawaii to CITA• L. Knox, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, UC Davis• K. Kuijken, Professor, Leiden University• J. Lattanzio, Reader and Deputy Head, Dept. of Mathematics, Monash University, Australia • B. Latter, Staff Scientist, IPAC, California Institute of Technology, USA • A. Lazarian, Associate Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Wisconsin at Madison• H.-M. Lee, Professor, Pusan National University, Korea • J. Levin, Assistant Professor, Barnard University• Y. Levin, Assistant Professor, University of Leiden• M. Liebendorfer, Assistant Professor, University of Basel• P. Lilje, Professor, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, Norway• R. Malaney, Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications,

University of New South Wales• C. Matzner, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Toronto • M. Medvedev, Assistant Professor, University of Kansas• A. Meiksin, Reader, Dept. of Physics, University of Edinburgh, UK • M. Merrifield, Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Nottingham, UK

CITA Alumni in Permanent or Tenure-Stream PositionsCITA Alumni in Permanent or Tenure-Stream Positions• D. Merritt, Professor, Dept. of Physics, Rochester Institute of Technology• M. Miville-Deschenes, charge de recherche lere classe au CNRS, Institut

d’Astrophysique Spatiale• I. Murakami, Staff Scientist, National Institute for Fusion Science, Nagoya, Japan• J. Murray, Assistant Professor, University of Leicester• S. Myers, Staff Scientist, NRAO • P. Natarajan, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, Yale University• L. Nelson, Professor, Dept. of Physics, Bishop’s University• A. Noriega-Crespo, Staff Scientist, SIRTF Science Center, Caltech• M. Peloso, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota• C. Pichon, Chargé de recherche, l’Observatoire de Strasbourg• D. Pogosyan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Alberta• S. Prunet, Staff Scientist, Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris• T. R. Quinn, Research Assistant Professor, University of Washington, USA • A. Raga, Professor, UNAM, Instituto de Astronomia, Mexico City, Mexico • D. Richardson, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Maryland• B. Ryden, Associate Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, Ohio State University• P. Saha, Scientist, ETH, Zurich• V. Sahni, faculty, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India • R. Scoccimarro, Assistant Professor, New York University• N. Shaviv, Assistant Professor, Hebrew University• T. Souradeep, faculty, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune,

India • S. Sridhar, faculty, Inter-University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pune, India • G. Starkman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Case Western Reserve University • A. Stebbins, Staff Scientist, NASA/Fermilab Astrophysics Center, USA • J. F. Sygnet, chargé de recherche, Institut d’Astrophysique, Paris, France • I. Szapudi, Assistant Professor, University of Hawaii• S. Terebey, Professor, California State University in Los Angeles• P. Thomas, Professor, Astronomy Centre, University of Sussex, UK • C. Thompson, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of North

Carolina to CITA• J. Touma, faculty, American University of Beirut• D. van Buren, Project Manager, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech• R. van de Weygaert, Lecturer, Kapteyn Astronomical Institut, University of Groningen,

The Netherlands • L. van Waerbeke, Assistant Professor, Univeristy of British Columbia• J. Wang, Assistant Professor, University of Maryland (d)• R. Webster, Professor, School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Australia • M. West, Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Hawaii at Hilo• L. Widrow, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Queen’s University • G. Wilson, Scientist, SIRTF, Caltech• Y. Wu, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Toronto • J. Weingartner, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, George Mason

University • G. Yepes, Professor Titular, Departamento de Fisica Teorica C-XI, Universidad

Autonoma Madrid, Spain

• 68% of former CITA research associates are in permanent academic or research positions (86)

• 21% are in pdf positions poised for faculty positions (includes current pdfs at cita)

• 11% have left the field – most are in industry

CITA Alumni in Faculty Positions within CanadaCITA Alumni in Faculty Positions within Canada A. Babul, Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of

Victoria

S. Basu, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Western Ontario

M. Choptuik, Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of British Columbia

H. Couchman, Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University

J. Fiege, Assistant Professor, University of Manitoba

B. Gladman, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UBC

H. Hoekstra, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, University of Victoria

G. Holder, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics, McGill University

D. Johnstone, Associate Research Officer, NRC, HIA

L. Kofman, Professor, CITA

C. Matzner, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Toronto

L. Nelson, Professor, Dept. of Physics, Bishop’s University

D. Pogosyan, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, University of Alberta

C. Thompson, Professor, CITA

L. van Waerbeke, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, UBC

L. Widrow, Associate Professor, Dept. of Physics, Queen’s University

Y. Wu, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Astronomy, University of Toronto

A number of CITA National Fellows have also gone on to faculty positions in Canada;

e.g. M. Hudson, Professor, University of Waterloo; J. Wadsley, Assistant Professor, McMaster University

Some CITA Graduate students as well; e.g. M. Mandy, Associate Professor, University of Northern British

Columbia; J. Wadsley, Assistant Professor, McMaster University

CIAR’s Cosmology & Gravity role in CIAR’s Cosmology & Gravity role in recruitment/retention in Canadarecruitment/retention in Canada

J. Navarro,J. Navarro, University of Victoria H. Hoekstra,H. Hoekstra, University of Victoria M. Choptuik,M. Choptuik, University of British Columbia I. Affleck,I. Affleck, University of British Columbia D. PageD. Page, University of Alberta V. Frolov,V. Frolov, University of Alberta H. Couchman,H. Couchman, McMaster University R. Bond,R. Bond, University of Toronto B. Netterfield,B. Netterfield, University of Toronto A. Peet,A. Peet, University of Toronto L. Kofman,L. Kofman, University of Toronto U. Pen,U. Pen, University of Toronto M. Chen,M. Chen, Queen’s University V. Kaspi,V. Kaspi, McGill University G. Holder,G. Holder, McGill University A. Cumming,A. Cumming, McGill University L. van Waerbeke, University of British Columbia

RetentionRetention

Bond, Carlberg, Navarro, (Kaiser, Tremaine)

CITA Current SnapMay 2004 – April 2005

Long Term Visitors (13)

Bishop's University Lorne Nelson (Interacting binary stars) CITA Sr Visiting FellowMcMaster University Hugh Couchman (Cosmology) CITA Sr Visiting Fellow

California Institute of Technology Arnold Boothroyd (ISM) CITA VisitorWaterloo University Mike Fich (ISM, Star Formation) CITA Visitor

Cornell University Dong Lai (High Energy Astrophysics) CITA VisitorUNBC Margo Mandy (Atmos. Chem & ISM) CITA Visitor

KITP Evan Scannopieco (Struct formation) CITA VisitorIUCAA Tarun Souradeep (CMB) CITA VisitorKAIST Ewan Stewart (High energy) CITA Visitor

Queen's University Larry Widrow (Cosmology) CITA Visitor

IUCAA Amir Hajian (Cosmolgoy) CITA PredocCaltech Doug Hanley (Cosmology) CITA PredocKAIST Wan-Il Park (High energy) CITA Predoc

University of North Carolina Parker Troischt (MHD) CITA Predoc

“Pillars of Support”:

CITA, Inc. & NSERC√ NSERC support: Special Program to Collaborative Special Program

to Institute Grant (as with the 3 Math Institutes, Fields, CRM, PIMS) tied in with 4 year NSERC Reallocation (1999-2003, 2003-07)

New structure for Institute Grants under discussion with NSERC modified MFA program? Decision in Jun05?

CITA, SGS@UofT and Arts & Science@UofT√ Institute in the School of Graduate Studies

• (extremely positive 5 year reviews in 1996, May 2001)

√ Institute in the Faculty of Arts & Science, July 2005

CIAR Cosmology and Gravity Program√ critical node of the CIAR Cosmology and Gravity Program (3

Fellows - including Program Director until July 1,2007)

Other: NSERC Operating Grants for Faculty, CFI for computing, External Fellowships for PDFs, NSERC/CFI/CSA collaborative grants and other targets of opportunity

National Program OverviewNational Program Overview

√ CITA National Fellows: prestigious, highly competitive, direct personnel links with CITA

√ CITA Visitor Program: hosts Canadian and foreign researchers and sends CITA researchers to Canadian universities (>100/yr)

√ CITA Senior Visiting Fellow Program (funded by UofT, e.g. 100K in 1998, 120K in 2002): brings Canadian professors to CITA for a term of collaborative work

√ CITA Undergraduate Program: heavily subscribed, ~6-7 outstanding students from across Canada annually

√ Conferences/Workshops/Focus Groups: CITA catalyzes a number of these yearly

• e.g., “Kingston Meeting” and Cdn General Relativity meetings

• e.g., CIAR, Fields, CRM, PITP collaborations (e.g., cosmology+strings, black holes, statistical analysis)

• e.g., focussed “small” workshops, synergy of (cosmology + ISM/IGM), Parallel Computing in Astro, CMB, M-theory and Early Universe

√ CITA High Performance Computing√ Predoctoral Program

CITA Council MembersCITA Council Members2004-20052004-2005

Dick Bond Director

*Robert Deuprée St. Mary’s University, CAS rep.

Donald Cormack Vice-Dean, School of Graduate Studies, U of T

Richard Henriksen Chair, McMaster University

**Julio Navarro University of Victoria

Lorne Nelson Secretary, Bishop’s University

Douglas Scott University of British Columbia

* CAS rep. for 2004 - 2006** Term Expires - One new member for 2005-2006

New CITA Council member for 2005 is Sharon Morsink, University of Alberta

CITA National FellowsCITA National FellowsNational Fellows are nominated by the host university and selected by CITA Council using the same quality criteria as for CITA research fellows, along with strategic national considerations. Since the start of program in 1988 we have named 38 National Fellows from over 128 nominations. CITA provides 50% of the stipend up to 52K/2 plus up to 4K research expenses. The remainder is provided by the host university. National Fellows are encouraged to visit CITA for extended periods (weeks/month).

National Fellows for 2005-2006:

BRASSER, Ramon Queen’s University (2005-2007) Nominated by Martin Duncan. Research interests: Solar system dynamics

HEYMANS, Catherine University of British Columbia (2005-2007) Nominated by Ludo van Waerbeke. Research interests: Gravitational Lensing

BLAKE, Chris University of British Columbia (2004-2006) Nominated by Douglas Scott. Research interests: Cosmology THACKER, Robert Queen’s University (2004-2006) Nominated by Larry Widrow. Research interests: Numerical simulations VOROBYOV, Eduard University of Western Ontario 2004-2006) Nominated by Shantanu Basu. Research interests:Star Formation and Interstellar Medium ABADI, Mario University of Victoria (2003-2005) Nominated by Julio Navarro. Research interests: Small and Large Scale Structure of the Universe SNADJR, Martin University of British Columbia (2003-2005) Nominated by Matt Choptuik. Research interests: Numerical relativity

CITA National Fellows ’05 CITA National Fellows ’05 CITA pays up to 52K/2 + up to 4K in CITA pays up to 52K/2 + up to 4K in

research costs for 05-06 fellowsresearch costs for 05-06 fellows

• CITA put ads in the AAS Job Register, highlighting the National Fellow Program and web links.

• CITA also advertised National Fellow positions from CITA’s Web site, coupling NF visibility to CITA RA opportunities.

• CITA helps in recruitment.

CITA Senior Visiting FellowsCITA Senior Visiting FellowsCITA supports salaries of faculty members from other Canadian universities to make extended visits to CITA Recent awards: 2005-06 Rachid Ouyed (University of Calgary) 2005-06 Norbert Bartel (York University) 2004-05 Lorne Nelson (Bishop’s University) 2003-04 Hugh Couchman (McMaster University) 2002-03 Mike Hudson (University of Waterloo)

Arif Babul (University of Victoria) 2000-01 Norbert Bartel (York University) 1999-00 Werner Israel (University of Victoria)

Sun Kwok (University of Calgary) Marshall McCall (York University) Douglas Scott (UBC)

Larry Widrow (Queen’s University) 1998-99 Kim Innanen (York University) Lorne Nelson (Bishop's University) 1995-97 Hugh Couchman (Western Ontario) Dick Henriksen (Queen's University) Michael West (Saint Mary's University) Larry Widrow (Queen's University) Ralph Pudritz (McMaster University) Paul Wesson (Waterloo)

Typically the fellowships provide funding to release the fellow from teaching and administrative duties for one academic term, or for sabbatical top-up. The Fellow is expected to spend a minimum of 50% of the supported time in residence at CITA. The CITA Senior Visiting Fellows Program began with start-up funds from the UofT Astronomy Department and has thrice received injections of funding from the UofT School of Graduate Studies.

We are interested in new Sr Visiting Fellows.

CITA Undergraduate Summer CITA Undergraduate Summer FellowshipsFellowships

This summer there are 5 summer students working with faculty in collaboration with many of the postdoctoral fellows. 5 have won NSERC Summer undergraduate awards.

2005:

Nicholas Battaglia (McGill) working on “Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization and Foreground Studies” with Dick Bond, Mike Nolta and Jonathan Sievers (NSERC) Daniel Doucette (St. Mary’s) working on “Delayed Detonations in Type Ia Supernovae: Dieseling” with Chris Thompson and Jonthan Dursi (NSERC) Chrisine Hiratsuka (St. Mary’s) working on “Type Ia Supernovae: Ignition Processes” with Chris Thompson and Jonthan Dursi (NSERC) David Kirsh (Queen’s) working on “The Origin of the Universal Halo Profiles” with Dick Bond and Emr El-Zant (NSERC) Sarah Nickerson (Toronto) working on “Development of fast keplerian solvers” with Norm Murray and Yuri Levin (NSERC)

2004: Mirza Ahmic (McMaster) working on “Simulations of small-scale structure formation at high redshift” with Ue-Li Pen and Ilian Iliev (NSERC) Graham Cox (UVic) working on “Clusters as cosmological probes ” with Subhabatra Majumdar (NSERC) Jordan Ang (Toronto) working on “Finding binary stars in wide field imaging data” with Henk Hoekstra Jennifer Golding (Toronto) working on “A XMM-Newton observation of the broad-line radio galaxy 4C74_26” with David Ballantyne David Hanley (Caltech) working on “Exploring aspects of the separation of the many signals that enter into cosmic microwave background datasets” with Dick Bond, Marc-Antoine Miville-Deschenes and Jonathan Sievers Alice Wu (Toronto) working on “Analysis of the distribution of stellar velocities in the Galactic Centre” with Christopher Thompson and Yuri Levin (NSERC)

2003:

Caroline D’Angelo (Toronto) working on “Precession of isolated neutron stars” with Christopher Thompson and Yuri Levin (NSERC) Natalie Galley (Montreal) working on “Analysis of black hole accretion from the CITA supercomputer cluster” with Ue-Li Pen (NSERC)David Richmond (Victoria) working on “Black hole formation after stellar core collapse and its affect on the neutrino signal” with Christopher Thompson and Matthias Liebendorfer (NSERC) Alice Wu (Toronto) working on “Planet Migration in Binary Star Systems” with Norman Murray (NSERC)

2002:

Charmaine Armitage (UBC) working on “Constraints on Cosmology from the latest Cosmic Microwave Background data sets” with Dick Bond and Carlo Contaldi (NSERC) Tara Heibert (Calgary) working on “Critical Collapse of Black Holes” with Ue-Li Pen and Andrei Frolov (NSERC) Nathan Leigh (Toronto) working on “Computational Cosmology ” with Ue-Li Pen (NSERC, Dept. Physics) Hugh Merz (Waterloo) working on “Three Dimensional & Parallel MHD” with Ue-Li Pen and Phil Arras Jennifer Walker (Toronto) working on “Independent Component Analysis of the Cosmic Microwave Background” with Dick Bond and Carlo Contaldi (NSERC, Dept. Physics) Dennis Wei (MIT) working on “X-ray absorption in quasars” with Norman Murray

2001:

Mike Bichan (Toronto) working on “Visualization of Cosmological Hydro Simulations” with Ue-Li Pen. Charmaine Armitage (UBC) working on “Non-Gaussian Features in Cosmic Microwave Background Data Sets” with Dick Bond, Dmitry Pogosyan and Simon Prunet (NSERC) Nathan Leigh (Toronto) working on “Interactions and the size of the exoplanets” with Yanqin Wu and Norm Murray (NSERC)

Louis Leung (Toronto) working on “Planetary Systems around Dying Stars” with Chris Thompson (NSERC)

Adrian Mariampillai (Queen’s) working on “Dynamics and Radiation of Gamma-Ray Bursts” with Chris Matzner and Norm Murray

Mike Pritchard (Toronto) working on “Simulations of Planet Formation” with Norm Murray and John Dubinski

Stephanie Tonneson (Swarthmore) working on “Non-Gaussian Features in Cosmic Microwave Background Data Sets” with Dick Bond, Dmitry Pogosyan and Simon Prunet

Benjamin Wang (Toronto) working on “MPI parallel cosmological simulations of the Sunyaev-Zeldovich effect” with Ue-Li Pen (NSERC-

Dept. Physics)

Bringing students in their PhD programs to CITA for periods of a few months to a year has proven to be a great success. All candidates have come with their own funding. Participants in the program so far are:

Amir Hajian - IUCAA, India, 2005

Doug Hanley - Caltech, 2004

Wan-Il Park - KAIST, Korea, 2004

Parker Troischt – University of North Carolina, 2004

Francois Fressin - Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Paris, 2003

Stelios Kazantzidis – Institute for Theoretical Physics, Zurich, 2003

Jie WangJie Wang – Beijing Observatory. 2003

Shingkwong Wong - National Taiwan University, 2003

Sebastien Ray - École Normale Supérieure, 2002

Yacine Dolivet - École Normale Supérieure, 2001

Kenji Kadota – University of California, Berkeley, 2001

Tom Montroy – University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001-2001

Aristotle Socrates - University of California, Santa Barbara, 2001

Amanda Karakas – Monash University, 2000

Juhan Kim – Seoul National University, 2000-2001

Johannes Martin - University of Jena, Germany, 2000

Sebastian Pichler - Ludwig, Maximilians Universitaet, Germany, 2000-2001

CITA Predoctoral CITA Predoctoral ProgramProgram

Gary Felder – Stanford, 1999-2000 (now a CITA PDF)

Céline Anthoine - École Normale Supérieure, 1999

Colin Borys – UBC, 1999

CITA Graduate StudentsCITA Graduate Students2005:

K. Blagrave (Astronomy Dept.). Ph.D. thesis supervised by P.G. Martin on Emission Line Analysis of the Orion Nebula

S. Bonoli (Astronomy Dept.), MSc. supervised by U-L. Pen

P. Ehlers (Astronomy Dept.), Ph.D. thesis supervised by P.G. Martin on Properties of Dust from mm and sub-mm Data

T. Lu (Astronomy Dept.), Ph.D. thesis supervised by U-L. Pen on 3D Power Power Spectrum from the VIRMOS-DESCART survey

J. Martin (Jena University), working with L. Kofman on the Brane Cosmology Scenario

I. Matsuyama (Astronomy Dept.), working with N. Murray on the Dynamics of the Earth

L. Mudryk (Astronomy Dept.), Ph.D. thesis supervised by Norm Murray on Mixing in Stellar Interiors

T. Rothwell (Astronomy Dept.), Ph.D. thesis supervised by P.G. Martin on Analysis of HI from IGPS

M. Ruetalo (Astronomy Dept.). Ph.D. thesis supervised by J.R. Bond on Cosmological Simulations of Structure Formation

P. Troischt (Dept. of Physics & Astronomy) Ph.D. thesis supervised by Chris Thompson on Relativistic MHD Waves in Strong Gravitational Fields

P. Vaudrevange (Physics Dept.), Ph.D. thesis supervised by L. Kofmanon generation of cosmological fluctuations from inflation.

Meetings supported in 2004-05Meetings supported in 2004-05

Conferences and Workshops:

““Theory Canada I”Theory Canada I”, June 3-5, 2005, UBC (organizer: M. Paranjape, Montreal and R. MacKenzie, M. Shegelski, )

““Ultra-Relativistic Jets in Astrophysics”Ultra-Relativistic Jets in Astrophysics”, July 11-15, 2005, Banff (organizer: R.Ouyed, Calgary)

““Strings 2005”Strings 2005”, July 11-16, 2005, Toronto (organizer: R Myers, Perimeter and A. Buchel, J. Gomis, K. Hori, A. Peet)

““Neutron Stars at the Crossroads of Fundamental Neutron Stars at the Crossroads of Fundamental Physics”Physics”, Summer, 2005, UBC (organizer: J. Heyl, V. Kaspi, F. Ozel, K. Rajagopal, C. Thompson, M. van Kerkwijk, UBC)

““International Galactic Plane Survey Meeting”:International Galactic Plane Survey Meeting”: May 10- May 10-13, 2005 (organizer: P.G. Martin, CITA)13, 2005 (organizer: P.G. Martin, CITA)

““Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries”, Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries”, August 16-20, 2004, Quebec (organizer: T. Moffatt, Montreal)

““Cores, Disk, Jets and Outflows in low and high mass Cores, Disk, Jets and Outflows in low and high mass Star Forming Environments: Observations, Theory and Star Forming Environments: Observations, Theory and Simulations”Simulations”, July 13-16, 2004, Banff (organizer: R. Plume, Calgary)

““Black Holes IV: Theory and Mathematical Aspects”, Black Holes IV: Theory and Mathematical Aspects”, May 25-27, 2003, Honey Harbour, Ontario (organizers: R. Mann, Waterloo)

““Particles and the Universe”, Lake Louise Winter Institute, Particles and the Universe”, Lake Louise Winter Institute, February 16-22, 2003, Lake Louise, Alberta (organizers: A. Astbury, B. Campbell, M.G. Vincter, F.C. Khanna, Alberta)

Recent Focus GroupsRecent Focus Groups

““Cosmological Radiative Transfer Codes Comparison”:Cosmological Radiative Transfer Codes Comparison”: May 12- May 12-14, 2005 (organizer: I. Iliev, CITA)14, 2005 (organizer: I. Iliev, CITA)

““String Gas Cosmology”:String Gas Cosmology”: May 6-9, 2005 (organizer: R. May 6-9, 2005 (organizer: R. Brandenberger, McGill)Brandenberger, McGill)

““Flash Workshop”:Flash Workshop”: March 23-24, 2005 (organizer: J. Dursi, CITA) March 23-24, 2005 (organizer: J. Dursi, CITA)

““Double Pulsar Focus Workshop”:Double Pulsar Focus Workshop”: Jan. 26-29, 2005 (organizer: Jan. 26-29, 2005 (organizer: C. Thompson, CITA)C. Thompson, CITA)

““CITA/PI Workshops on Cosmology and Strings”:CITA/PI Workshops on Cosmology and Strings”: monthly 2004- monthly 2004-2005 2005 (organizer: L. Kofman, CITA. R. Myers PI)

““CITA/PI Workshops on Cosmology and Strings”:CITA/PI Workshops on Cosmology and Strings”: AprilApril 2004 (organizer: L. Kofman, CITA)

““CMB Focus Group”:CMB Focus Group”: April 2004 (Sackler Visitorship)

““CBI Focus Group”:CBI Focus Group”: December 2003 (organizers: D. Bond, CITA)

““CITA/PI Workshops on Cosmology and Strings”:CITA/PI Workshops on Cosmology and Strings”: October 2003 (organizer: L. Kofman, CITA, R. Myers ,PI)

““CMB Focus Group”, Boomerang:CMB Focus Group”, Boomerang: Nov 10-17,Nov 10-17, 2002 (organizers: D. Bond, CITA)

““Weak Lensing Focus GroupWeak Lensing Focus Group: Nov 5-17, 2002(organizers: D. Bond, CITA)

“ “CITA/PI Workshops on Cosmology and Strings”:CITA/PI Workshops on Cosmology and Strings”: October 2002 (organizer: L. Kofman, CITA, R. Myers PI)

COSMO-04 @ CITACOSMO-04 @ CITA

CITA hosted COSMO-04, the 2004 International Workshop on Particle Physics and the Early Universe from Sept. 17-21, 2004.The conference took place at the downtown campus of the University of Toronto. Cosmo-04 was the eighth in the Cosmo series after

Ambleside, UK 97 and 03, Asilomar, US 98, Trieste, Italy 99,Cheju Island, Korea 2K, Rovaniemi, Finland 01, Chicago,US 02.

The Cosmo series is one of the major venues of interaction betweencosmologists and particle physicists. The conference was devoted to the modern interfaces between Fundamental and PhenomenologicalParticle Physics and Physical Cosmology and Astronomy.

The topics covered at the meeting included:

Superstring/Brane/Extra dimension cosmology Inflation, Cosmological Fluctuations Baryon/Leptogenesis Astroparticle physics, Neutrino astrophysics Dark Matter, Cosmological Constant Cosmological parameters, CMB Large Scale Structure, Weak Lensing

There were over 220 people in attendance: a very successful conference!

The following speakers gave plenary talks:

Tom Banks,Tom Banks, Ruetgers, UCSC John Beacom,John Beacom, Fermilab Willfried Buchmueller,Willfried Buchmueller, DESY Gia Dvali,Gia Dvali, NYU Gary Horowitz,Gary Horowitz, ITB, Santa Barbara Wayne Hu,Wayne Hu, Chicago Renata Kallosh,Renata Kallosh, Stanford Andrei Linde,Andrei Linde, Stanford Art McDonald,Art McDonald, SNO, Queens Slava Mukhanov,Slava Mukhanov, Munich Hitoshi Mukayama,Hitoshi Mukayama, Berkeley Julio Navarro,Julio Navarro, UVic Keith Olive,Keith Olive, Minnesota Lyman Page,Lyman Page, Princeton Misao Sasaki,Misao Sasaki, Kyoto Neil Spooner,Neil Spooner, Sheffield, UK Alexei Starobinski,Alexei Starobinski, Moscow Alex Szalay,Alex Szalay, Baltimore John Webb,John Webb, South Wales Thomas Weiler,Thomas Weiler, Vanderbilt Steven Weinberg,Steven Weinberg, Texas

ComputingComputing

HPC SYSTEMSHPC SYSTEMS

• 536-CPU Beowulf cluster (McKenzie) with:

• 2.4GHz Xeon processors

• 268GB RAM, 44TB disk

• novel, inexpensive, high-bandwidth gigabit network (designed and implemented at CITA)

• implemented 2D network mesh in late 2004; 20% improvement on HPL benchmark

•1.5Tflops (60% of peak) on HPL benchmark (new Tungsten system at NCSA with Myrinet reaches 64% of peak)

• ranked #38 in world on June 2003 Top500 list; now ~200

• Itanium (lobster) cluster:

•8 nodes; each with 4x733MHz IA-64 CPUs

•total of 512GB RAM

•direct, point-to-point gigabit links between all members

• GS320 (“wildfire”):

• 32 CPU shared-memory system

• 731 MHz alphas (EV6.7), 64GB RAM

McKenzie cluster usage statistics

• used (75-80)% of available cycles since Jan 2003 (similar to usage at NSF supercomputer sites)

•25% of cycles went to external (astro) users

•uptime >99.9%

Major External Users

•U Vic •McMaster

•Queen’s •St Mary’s

•Zurich

Major Collaborators

•U Alberta •Caltech

•NRAO •Case Western

•IAP

Major Research Areas

•planetary dynamics

•globular cluster formation

•galaxy mergers

•accretion onto black holes

•large-scale structure and cosmology

•CMB data analysis; cosmic parameter estimation

New PersonnelNew Personnel

• Electronic Information Officer - Candace Duong Nov04

• very cost effective and smart co-op students

CITAhpc: Nationally Available ResourcesCITAhpc: Nationally Available Resources

• 20% of cycles on McKenzie cluster and GS320 (astro+numerical relativity), check website http://www.cita.utoronto.ca/webpages/cita-hpc.shtml

• assistance from Parallel Programmer Hugh Merz

• collaborative projects e.g. on Itanium cluster (Ue-Li Pen):

• CITA has developed fully-optimized MPI codes capable of: 2,0003 particles on 4,0003 mesh 2,0003 grid for ideal hydro and MHD

Tier 1 Machine for Astro (LRP) Tier 1 Machine for Astro (LRP)

How to proceed? CFI – National Platforms, How to proceed? CFI – National Platforms, Leading Edge, New Initiatives; C3.ca, relation Leading Edge, New Initiatives; C3.ca, relation to regional computing consortia: WESTgrid, to regional computing consortia: WESTgrid, SharcNet, SciNet, HPCVL, 2 in Quebec, AcenetSharcNet, SciNet, HPCVL, 2 in Quebec, Acenet

PSciNet evolved to SciNet (UofT wide) PSciNet evolved to SciNet (UofT wide)

Summer 2005Summer 2005

Peter WagnerPeter Wagner, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Winter 2005Winter 2005

Jason ChongJason Chong, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Fall 2004Fall 2004

Peter WagnerPeter Wagner, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Summer 2004Summer 2004

Philip PetraccaPhilip Petracca, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Mubdi Rahman, Summer student web assistant, windows

Spring 2004Spring 2004

Steven Di Rocco, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Winter 2003Winter 2003

Steven D’Cruz, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Computational Computational Undergraduate StudentsUndergraduate Students

Summer 2003

Steven Di Rocco, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Winter/Spring 2003

David Wu, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Summer 2002

Don Banh, Assistant to the Systems Manager

Winter/Spring 2002

Filip Lazar, Assistant to the Systems Manager, co-op student

Summer 2001Summer 2001

Nishant Faria, Assistant to the Systems Manager

Don Banh, Assistant to the Systems Manager, continued 2001-02 academic year on a reduced basis

Incoming research fellows Incoming research fellows September 2005September 2005

This year, we received 160++ applications for positions. New appointments for Fall 2005:

  BEAN, Rachel, Sr. RA, Ph.D., Imperial College, 2002. Thesis superviosr: J. Magueijo. Research area: CMB – Accepted Assistant Professor position at Cornell beginning September 2005

DALAL, Neal, PDF, Ph.D., UC San Diego, 2002. Thesis supervisor: K. Griest. Research area: Cosmology and Gravitational Lensing

DORE, Olivier, Sr. RA, Ph.D.,Institut d’Astrophysique de Paris, 2001. Research area: Cosmology: CMB (WMAP) and Lensing

IVANOVA, Natalia, PDF, Ph.D., Oxford University, 2002. Thesis supervisor: P. Podsiadlowski. Research area: Evolution of binaries and multiples in dense stellar regions

KESDEN, Michael, PDF, Caltech, 2005. Thesis supervisor: M. Kamionkowski. Research area: Cosmology

LITHWICK, Yoram, PDF, Ph.D., Caltech, 2002. Thesis supervisor: P. Goldreich. Research area: Planet Formation

MACTAVISH, Carrie, PDF, Ph.D., University of Toronto 2005. Thesis supervisor: B. Netterfield. Research area: CMB

PFROMMER, Christophe, PDF, Ph.D., Max-Planck Institut fur Astrophysik, 2005. Thesis supervisor: Simon White. Research area: CMB

PRETORIUS, Frans, Sr. RA, Ph.D., University of British Columbia, 2002. Thesis supervisor: Mathew Choptuik. Research area: Relativity – offered Assistant Professor position at University of Alberta beginning 2006.

PROKUSHKIN, Sergey, PDF, Ph.D., Stanford, 2005. Thesis supervisor: R. Kallosh. Research area: Brane Inflation, Cosmology

YAN, Huirong , PDF, Ph.D., University of Madison-Wisconsin, 2005. Thesis supervisor: A. Lazarian. Research area: Cosmic ray transport and acceleration

Departing research fellowsDeparting research fellowsTo Permanent Positions: PELOSO, Marco, PDF, faculty position in the Dept. of Astronomy at the University of Minnesota (Winter 2004)

MIVILLE-DESCHENES, Marc-Antoine, PDF, offered faculty position at the Institute d’Astrophysique Spatile (Summer 2004)

HOEKSTRA, Henk, SrA, faculty position in the Dept. of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Victoria (Fall 2004)

CHO, Jungyeon, PDF, faculty position in the Dept. of Astronomy & Space Science at Chungnam National University (Fall 2005)

CONTALDI, Carlo, SrA, faculty position in the Dept. of Physics, Imperial College (Spring 2005)

LIEBENDORFER, Matthias, PDF, faculty position in the Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Basel (Summer 2005)

LEVIN, Yuri, SrA, faculty position in the Dept. of Astronomy at Leiden University (Summer 2005)

To Other Positions:

BALLANTYNE, David, PDF, to the Dept. of Astronomy, University of Arizona as a PDF (Fall 2005)

LEWIS, Antony, PDF, to IOA, Cambridge as a PPARC Advanced Fellow (Fall 2005)

Ongoing PDF’s and SrRA’s at CITA:

John Dubinski Jean-Francois Dufaux Jonathan Dursi Amr El-Zant John Everett Robin Humble Ilian Iliev McDonald, Pat Subhabrata Majumdar Kaya Mori Michael Nolta Dmitry Podolsky Alexander Shirokov Jonathan Sievers Edward Thommes

AwardsAwards

The Beatrice D. Tremaine FellowshipThe Beatrice D. Tremaine Fellowship

This is an endowed award to be given annually on the basis of outstanding research to a current CITA research fellow.

2004: Carlo Contaldi

2003: Yuri Levin

2002: Andrei Beloborodov

2001: Henk Hoekstra

2000: Nir Shaviv

1999: Dmitri Pogosyan

The Jeffrey L. Bishop FellowshipThe Jeffrey L. Bishop Fellowship

Jeffrey Bishop was one of the first group of postdocs at CITA. He died tragically in an accident shortly after leaving CITA. In his memory his mother gives a donation biennially.

Past recipients

2003: Matthias Liebendorfer2001: Yanqin Wu1999: Phil Arras1997: John Dubinski1995: Kevin Rauch1993: Janna Levin1991: Gerry Quinlan1990: Konrad Kuijken

CITA/ITP Exchange ProgramCITA/ITP Exchange Program

CITA and the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Santa Barbara have started a postdoctoral fellow exchange program, sending annually a few in both directions for several weeks to a month.

Ilian Iliev, CITA, January-February, 2005Edward Thommes, CITA, February-March 2004David Ballantyne, CITA, June 2003Joseph Weingartner, CITA, May 2002Andrei Beloborodov, CITA, March 2002Mikhail Medvedev, CITA, April 2002Phil Arras, CITA, April-May 2001 Yanqin Wu, CITA, April-May 2001 Evan Scannapieco, ITP May-June 2004Phil Arras, ITP, February 2003Dmitri Uzdensky, ITP, May 2002Xuelei Chen, ITP, May 2002Andrew Cumming, ITP, July 2001

NEW: CITA/MPA Exchange Program 2005   

Recent Sabbatical VisitorsRecent Sabbatical VisitorsProfessor Lorne Nelson from Bishop’s University visiting for a term

Professor Ewan Stewart from KAIST Korea visiting for 6 months

Professor Dong Lai from Cornell visiting for Jan/Feb 05

Previous Sabbatical VisitorsPrevious Sabbatical Visitors

Professor Hugh Couchman from McMaster University visiting for a year

Professor Arif Babul from University of Victoria was visiting for 4 months.

Professor Mike Hudson from University of Waterloo was visiting for 4 months.

Professor Tongjie Zhang from Beijing Normal University was visiting for a year.

Recent Sabbatical VisitorsRecent Sabbatical Visitors

Future Sabbatical VisitorsFuture Sabbatical Visitors Professor Joao Magueijo from University of Durham

Professor Sergei Shandarin from University of Kansas visiting for a year

Professor Rien van de Weygaert from University of Groningen

Professor Margot Mandy from the University of Northern British Columbia was a CITA visitor for 2 months.

Professor Omer Blaes from UC Santa Barbara was visiting in the Fall for 3 months.

SACKLER VISITING ASTROPHYSICISTSACKLER VISITING ASTROPHYSICIST Each year CITA invites an internationally distinguished scholar conducting research in theoretical astrophysics to give two lectures (one public) at the University of Toronto, and to interact with the CITA faculty, research fellows and graduate students, as well as researchers and students in the Departments of Astronomy and Physics. This is funded by an endowment, the Raymond and Beverly Sackler Visiting Astrophysicist Program. The visit is intended to be the highlight of the academic year at CITA.

Sir Martin Rees, Cambridge, 1997-98Peter Goldreich, Caltech, 1998-99Frank Shu, Berkeley, 1999-00Jim Peebles, Princeton, 2000-01John Bahcall, Princeton, 2001-02Andrei Linde, Stanford, 2002-03George Efstathiou, Cambridge, 2003-04 (3+ weeks in April 2004)Christopher McKee, UC Berkeley, 2004-05

CITA ON THE WORLD CITA ON THE WORLD WIDE WEBWIDE WEB

• We are http://www.cita.utoronto.ca

• There you can find all the usual document information about CITA, a list of current personnel, Annual Reports (e.g. this report), CITA guidelines, CITA Visitor and

Seminar lists, etc.

Member ApplicationsMember ApplicationsHenk Hoekstra (Victoria)

Hugo Martel (Laval)

Rachid Ouyed (Calgary)

Ludo van Waerbeke (UBC)

Paul Wiegert (Western)

Renewal applicants – They all satisfy all of the membership requirements:

Murray Alexander (NRC)

Arif Babul (Victoria)

Shantanu Basu (Western)

Alan Coley (Dalhousie

Hugh Couchman (McMaster)

Martin Duncan (Queen’s)

David Hartwick (Victoria)

Dick Henriksen (Queen’s)

Werner Israel (Victoria)

Doug Johnstone (HIA)

Sun Kwok (Calgary)

Margo Mandy (UNBC)

Michael Marlborough (Western)

Peter G. Martin (CITA)

George Mitchell (St. Mary’s)

Glenn Starkman (Case Western)

Scott Tremaine (Princeton)

Don Vandenberg (Victoria)

Michael West (Hilo)

Larry Widrow (Queen’s)

Membership of CITA Inc.Membership of CITA Inc.• M. Alexander (NRC)

• A. Babul (Victoria)

• S. Basu (UWO)

• P. Bastien (Montréal)

• R. Bond (CITA)

• R. Carlberg (Toronto)

• B. Chaboyer (Dartmouth)

• D. Clarke (St. Mary’s

• M. Clement (Toronto)

• A. Coley (Dalhousie)

• H. Couchman (McMaster)

• R. Deupree (St. Mary’s)

• J. Dubinski (Toronto)

• M. Duncan (Queen’s

• C. Dyer (Toronto)

• M. Fich (Waterloo)

• G. Fontaine (Montréal)

• B. Gladman (UBC)

• D. Guenther (St. Mary’s)

• J. Hahn (St. Mary’s)

• M. Halpern (UBC)

• D. Hartwick (Victoria)

• R. Henriksen (Queen’s

• J. Heyl (UBC)

• M. Hudson (Waterloo

• K. Innanen (York)

• W. Israel (Victoria)

• D. Johnstone (HIA)

• V. Kaspi (McGill)

• L. Kofman (CITA)

• S. Kwok (Calgary)

• K. Lake (Queen’s)

• D. Leahy (Calgary)

• M. Mandy (Northern BC)

• M. Marlborough (Western)

• P. Martin (CITA)

• C. Matzner (Toronto)

• R. Mitalas (Western Ontario)

• G. Mitchell (St. Mary’s)

• S. Morsink (Alberta)

• N. Murray (CITA)

• J. Navarro (Victoria)

• L. Nelson (Bishop’s)

• U.L. Pen (CITA)

• S. Pineault (Laval)

• E. Poisson (Guelph)

• R. Pudritz (McMaster)

• D. Scott (UBC)

• I. Short (St. Mary’s)

• S. Sreenivasan (Calgary)

• G. Starkman (Case Western)

• P. Sutherland (McMaster)

• C. Thompson (CITA)

• S. Tremaine (Princeton)

• D. VandenBerg (Victoria)

• S. van den Bergh (DAO)

• F. Wesemael (Montréal)

• M. West (Hawaii)

• P. Wesson (Waterloo)

• L. Widrow (Queen’s)

• Y. Wu (Toronto)