Schedule

Each day's sessions will be scheduled for a maximum of 5 hours (including a break in the middle), starting at 9:00 am pacific, ending at 2:00 pm (or before). That's 12:00 pm Eastern until 5:00 pm, and 1:00 pm Atlantic until 6:00 pm.

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Hover over iPoster sessions to see abstract and presenter list. Hover over CFHT for the CFHT break-out session schedule and room links. Use the 'x' button on the floating window to close.
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Time
EDT		 Monday 25th Tuesday 26th Wednesday 27th Thursday 28th
12:00 PM Board meeting GSW (Graduate Student Workshop) Opening remarks Plaskett Medal Talk
Simon Blouin
Cool white dwarf atmospheres: From condensed matter physics to stellar archeology		 Beals Prize Talk
Howard Yee
Galaxy Clusters: Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution
12:15 PM Qilak Award Talk
Julie Bolduc-Duval
Science Communication: Passion, Necessity, Career
12:30 PM
12:45 PM Poster session 3 (a)
Education, Public Outreach, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusivity		 Poster session 4 (a)
Stars		 Poster session 4 (b)
Cosmology & Large Scale Structure
1:00 PM Dunlap Award Talk
René Doyon
Past, Present and Future of Canadian Optical/Infrared Astronomy – A Very Personal Perspective

1:15 PM
1:30 PM
1:45 PM TMT update
Michael Balogh
 NSERC Update
Catherine Harrison
 SKA update
Gilles Joncas
2:00 PM
2:15 PM Break Break Break
2:30 PM LRP update
Pauline Barmby, Bryan Gaensler
2:45 PM Poster session 1 (a)
Galaxies I		 Poster session 1 (b)
Exoplanets & Solar System		 Poster session 5 (a)
Observatories & Instruments 		Poster session 5 (b)
Compact Objects & Transients
3:00 PM
3:15 PM
3:30PM AGM Business meeting
3:45 PM Poster session 2 (a)
Galaxies II		 Poster session 2 (b)
Star Formation & ISM		 CFHT
4:00 PM
4:15 PM
4:30 PM welcome reception at the beach in Virbela.
Virbela is a virtual campus available for Mac and PC.
VR if you have a Rift or Vive

Details here		 Closing prizes/remarks
CASCA 2021
4:45 PM
5:00 PM
5:15 PM
5:30 PM
6:00 PM
Talk titles
Blouin Cool white dwarf atmospheres: From condensed matter physics to stellar archeology
Doyon Past, Present and Future of Canadian Optical/Infrared Astronomy – A Very Personal Perspective
Bolduc-Duval Science Communication: Passion, Necessity, Career
Yee Galaxy Clusters: Cosmology and Galaxy Evolution