We will have another CPS Fireside Chat tomorrow (Tuesday), at 7pm. This week we'll welcome Dr. Alysa Orbits (Obertas) who will tell us about her work on Compact Planetary Systems. We meet at 7pm at the stairs in the SW Meeting place.

Join me tomorrow night at the CPS Fireside Chat!

Reminder: The deadline for applications to the CPS Summer Research Scholarship for #UofT undergraduates is this week!

Final reminder: The deadline for CPS Undergraduate Research Scholarships is today! cps.utoronto.ca/scholarships.h… #UTSC

Instead of the usual CPS Fireside chat, E.P.S.A. will be hosting an astronomy themed board game evening this Tuesday (tomorrow). Everything else is the same: Join us at 7pm at the bottom of the stairs in the meeting place. Pizza will be provided.

Join us tonight for an astronomy themed board games evening! #UTSC

The next CPS Fireside Chat will take place Tuesday, March 12th. This week's topic: various types of detectors used in astronomy. As always, we meet at 7pm at the stairs in the SW Meeting Place. Pizza will be provided. We hope to see you there! #UTSC

All offers for our CPS Undergraduate Research Scholarships have gone out now. We had 5 times as many applicants as there were positions. If your application was not successful, please consider applying again in the future.

The CPS is hosting a workshop on atmospheric escape by Dr. Antonio Garcia Munoz on Tuesday April 2nd 2019. The event is free and open to all. Light lunch and coffee will be provided. Please register at eventbrite.ca/e/cps-atmosphe…

The CPS is supporting three undergraduate students doing research in planetary sciences this summer at University of Toronto Scarborough, Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, and Royal Ontario Museum!

Over the summer, the CPS is running an arXiv discussion group at #UTSC on Thursdays at noon. If you'd like to attend, please get in touch with either Fergus Horrobin (he/him) or Hanno Rein.

Join us again tomorrow (Thursday) for a paper discussion in the P&A Seminar Room at University of Toronto Scarborough at noon! Free 🍕!

ERES Cornell University The @uoftastro Dunlap Institute Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics CPS crew is on the way! Excited! #Exoplanets #ERESV

@uoftastro CPS student Fergus Horrobin (he/him) presenting his work with Hanno Rein at ERES #ERESV #Toronto

As of July 1st, Julian Lowman has taken over as Acting Chair of CPS while Hanno Rein is on research leave.

Hey #Toronto! Love #astronomy? Interested in #technology? Care about #innovating the field? We are hosting the awesome .Astronomy at the Dunlap Institute in beautiful Toronto in October. Applications close soon, so apply TODAY bit.do/dotastroTOApply

Can life exist on a snowball planet? New U of T Scarborough Research & Innovation by PhD candidate Adiv Paradise says yes. Paradise & colleagues ran thousands of 3D simulations of planets in the inner habitable zone with Earth-like climates. ▶️bit.ly/2ZHKDzL University of Toronto University of Toronto Scarborough CPS @UTSC_DPES

Next up at #ExSS4 is Jennifer Scora from @uoftastro CPS talking about forming super-Earths with realistic collisions

If you or any students you know are applying to astronomy grad school programmes, I super recommend checking out @uoftastro! astro.utoronto.ca/academics/grad…