La conférence Helen Sawyer Hogg a été créée en 1985 par la Société canadienne d’astronomie avec la participation de la Société royale d’astronomie du Canada (SRAC), l’Association des planétariums du Canada et l’Institut royal canadien. Depuis, cette conférence publique, supportée conjointement par le fonds de la CASCA et par la SRAC, se tient annuellement au congrès de l’une ou de l’autre des sociétés, en alternance. Elle se veut une reconnaissance des contributions soutenues et diverses de Helen Sawyer Hogg à la prise de conscience du public de l’Univers qui nous entoure. Le choix du conférencier est arrêté par un comité composé des présidents de la CASCA et de la SRAC, ainsi que du président du comité organisateur local, hôte de la rencontre (la CASCA ou la SRAC).
La conférence Helen Sawyer Hogg 2017
The 2017 Hogg Lecturer is Dr. Fiona Harrison, the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) Benjamin M. Rosen Professor of Physics, and the Kent and Joyce Kresa Leadership Chair of the Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy.
Dr. Harrison’s research is focused on the study of energetic phenomena ranging from gamma-ray bursts, black holes on all mass scales, to neutron stars and supernovae. Currently she is principal investigator for NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). She received her Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley, and went to Caltech in 1993 as a Robert A. Millikan Prize Fellow in Experimental Physics.
The title of her lecture is « From Spinning Black Holes to Exploding Stars: A New View of the High Energy Universe. »
| 2016 | Ann Hornschemeier | All the X-ray binaries in the Universe |
| 2015 | Roberto Abraham | First Results from Dragonfly |
| 2014 | Laura Ferrarese | The Hidden Lives of Galaxies |
| 2013 | Malcolm Longair | Cosmology – its tortuous history, glorious present and bright future |
| 2012 | Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell | Will the World End in 2012? The astronomical Evidence. |
| 2011 | Dimitar Sasselov | The Search for a Sister Earth |
| 2010 | René Doyon | First Images of Exoplanets |
| 2009 | Lawrence Krauss | Life, the Universe and Nothing |
| 2008 | Phil Plait | Bad Astronomy |
| 2007 | Steven Squyres | Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rover Mission |
| 2006 | Alan Hildebrand | Hunting for Doomsday asteroids from Earth and Space |
| 2005 | Michel Mayor | Des planètes gazeuses aux planètes rocheuses: Dix ans de découvertes de planètes extrasolaires |
| 2004 | Sara Schechner | Politics and the Dimensions of the Solar System: John Winthrop’s Observations of the Transits of Venus Expedition to St. John’s, June 1761 |
| 2003 | Michael Shara | Stellar Promiscuity and Destruction |
| 2002 | Paul Hodge | Barnard’s Galaxy: Its Mysteries Revealed |
| 2001 | Jill Tarter | Pulling Signals out of Noise |
| 2000 | Wendy Freedman | The Age and Size of the Universe |
| 1999 | Paul Chodas | The Impact Threat and Public Perception |
| 1998 | David Crampton | Exploring the Frontier of the Universe with New Eyes |
| 1997 | Vera Rubin | What Hubble Didn’t Know About Our Galaxy |
| 1996 | Werner Israel | Black Holes |
| 1995 | David H. Levy | Springtime on Jupiter – a personal perspective on Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 |
| 1994 | George Efstathiou | The Origin of Galaxies |
| 1993 | Margaret Geller | Mapping the Universe: So Many Galaxies, So Little Time |
| 1992 | Alan R. Hildebrand | The Cretaceous / Tertiary Boundary Impact (or the Dinosaurs Didn’t Have A Chance) |
| 1991 | Kimmo A. Innanen | The Prediction and Discovery of a New Solar System Object: The Planetary Trojan Asteroids |
| 1990 | Joseph Veverka | Exploration of the Solar System: Voyager and Beyond |
| 1989 | Roger Cayrel | La construction du téléscope CFH |
| 1988 | Hubert Reeves | Early Moments of the Universe |
| 1987 | René Racine | Small is Beautiful: The Quest for High Resolution Imaging in Astronomy |
| 1986 | Barry Madore | The Hubble Space Telescope |
| 1985 | Owen Gingerich | The Mysterious Nebulae, 1610-1924 |
