R.M. Petrie Prize Lecture

 The Petrie Lecture is an invited discourse by an outstanding astrophysicist which is held at Annual Meetings of the Society in alternate (odd-numbered) years, in memory of the significant contributions to astrophysical research by the late Robert M. Petrie. The Petrie Lecture originated under the auspices of the Canadian Committee for the IAU, prior to the existence of the Society, and was revived by the Society in 1977 as a regular event. Nominations for the Petrie Lecture can be made by submitting the name of a nominee to the Awards committee at any time, and should originate from at least two CASCA members in good standing. Nominations for the 2023 Lecturer should be received by January 15 2023.

2021 Petrie Prize Lecture
Falcke

CASCA is pleased to announce Dr. Heino Falcke as the 2021 R.M Petrie Prize Lecturer.

Dr. Falcke is a Professor of Astroparticle Physics and Radio Astronomy at the Institute for Mathematics, Astronomy, and Particle Physics of the Faculty of Science at Radboud University. For decades, he has been an international leader in the quest to use very-long baseline interferometry to image the shadow of a black hole. These efforts culminated in the stunning images of the supermassive black hole in M87 produced by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT). Dr. Falcke is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2019 won the Breakthrough Prize for Fundamental Physics as part of the EHT collaboration.

CASCA is honoured to have Dr. Falcke give the Petrie Prize lecture.

Recipients to date have been:
2019 Gabriela Gonzalez Gravitational Waves Astronomy
2017 Charles Beichman From protostars to exoplanets to life on other worlds
2015 Wendy Freedman Measurement of Cosmological Parameters
2013 Françoise Combes Molecular gas in galaxies across the Hubble time
2011 Andrew Fabian Within one gravitational radius of the event horizon of a black hole
2009 Scott Tremaine Stellar dynamics at the centres of galaxies
2007 Ewine van Dishoeck Spitzer observations of star- and planet-forming regions from ice cold to steaming hot
2005 Reinhard Genzel Massive Black Holes in Galaxies
2003 Sir Martin Rees How Did the Cosmic Dark Age End?
2001 James Gunn The Sloan Digital Survey
1999 Sidney van den Bergh The Local Group of Galaxies
1997 Alex Filippenko Supernovae and their Cosmological Implications
1995 George Herbig IC 349 – Barbard’s Merope Nebula
1993 Maarten Schmidt From Galactic Structure to Quasars
1991 P. B. Stetson Progress in CCD Photometry
1989 P. J. E. Peebles Tracing the Orbits of Galaxies back in Time
1987 Henry Matthews C3H2 – A New Probe of the Interstellar Medium
1985 Charles Townes The Galactic Centre
1983 M. J. Plavec Strongly Interacting Binary Stars
1981 Hubert Reeves La Physique des Premiers Temps de l’Univers
1979 Geoffrey Burbidge The Redshift Problem
1977 J. Beverly Oke Seyfert Galaxies and Quasars
1971 Jesse L. Greenstein Pre-White Dwarf Evolution
1971 C. S. Beals Forms of Impact Craters Related to the Thermal History of the Lunar Surface
1970 A. G. W. Cameron The Chemical Evolution of the Galaxy

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