The AstroMcGill Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The AstroMcGill Podcast features interviews with world-class scientists visiting the McGill Physics department and the McGill Space Institute, conducted by astronomy graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Guest: Vikram Ravi (California Institute of Technology). Vikram discusses Fast Radio Bursts, mysterious, millisecond-long, intense bursts of radio waves that probably come from beyond the Milky Way Galaxy. Hosts: Erik Madsen and Robert Archibald. Duration: 16 minutes. Production: Nick Adelson.
Guest: Steve Kawaler (Iowa State University). Steve discusses how we can learn about the insides of stars by observing their surfaces, and how the Kepler Space telescope is the perfect instrument not only for finding extrasolar planets, but also studying oscillations on the surface of stars. We also talk about how the K2 mission is allowing us to do great science after the failure of a reaction wheel ended Kepler's primary mission. Hosts: Erik Madsen and Robert Archibald. Duration: 22 minutes. Production: Nick Adelson.
Guest: Edwin Kite (University of Chicago). Edwin talks about his work modelling water geysers erupting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, the best astrobiology experiment in the solar system, and just how much data we have on the surface features and atmosphere of Mars. Hosts: Erik Madsen and Robert Archibald. Duration: 20 minutes. Production: Nick Adelson.