A CASCA Emerging Researchers Showcase

Wednesday, 28 October 2026 - 11:30
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28 Oct 2026
AM
11:30
Networking (until 12:00) ()
PM
12:00
Plenary (until 12:30) ()
12:30
Bio break (until 12:45) ()
12:45
Black holes & Instrumentation (until 14:15) ()
12:45 Early Black-Hole Growth Constraints from JWST - Nicole Jiang (University of Toronto)   ()
12:55 Little Red Dots from Primordial Black Holes - Dario Lorenzoni (University of Manitoba)   ()
13:05 Inferring the Black Hole and Accretion Parameters of Sagittarius A* from EHT Observations Using a Semianalytic Model - Mr Braden J. Marazzo-Nowicki (McGill University Department of Physics)   ()
13:15 Can Gravitational Lensing Explain the Extreme Mass Inference of GW231123? - Mariah Zeroug (CITA, University of Toronto, Dunlap Institute)   ()
13:25 A Synchronisation Gate for Adapting MKID Photon-Counting Data to Fourier-Transform Spectral Reduction - Irmak Aytekin (University of Toronto)   ()
13:35 In-band spectral index techniques for extended radio sources - Brianna Ball (University of Alberta)   ()
13:45 An Exposure Time Calculator for CASTOR's UV Multi-Object Spectrograph - Ms Jade Yeung (University of Manitoba)   ()
13:55 Model Predictive Scoring shows specific BAO points (not Supernovae) drive the dynamic dark energy tension - Tanveer Karim (University of Toronto)   ()
14:05 Tangled $τ$ and Flash Reionization - Param Upadhyay (UManitoba)   ()
12:45
Exoplanets & Stars (until 14:15) ()
12:45 Can Super-Earths Be Born Rocky? Separating Survey Selection from Formation in the Deficit of Large Rocky Planets at Low Insolation - HongYi Mei (University of Toronto)   ()
12:55 Oxygen abundances as a key predictor of small planet hosts using gradient boosted decision trees - Rosalind Liang (University of Victoria)   ()
13:05 Determining Stellar Inclinations and True Planet Mass with RVs - Riley Rosener (Université de Montréal)   ()
13:15 GAUCHO: Searching for Planets Around the Coolest Stars in the Galaxy - Flavie Bélanger (UdeM/IREx)   ()
13:25 Freckled and Flaring: Statistical Starspot Mapping on M Dwarfs via Stellar Flares - Rohan Kumar   ()
13:35 EncoTESS: Age Inference from Raw TESS Light Curves - Phil Van-Lane (University of Toronto; University of California San Diego)   ()
13:45 Exploring Convective Boundary Mixing Through Stellar Pulsations - Serena Davis (Mount Allison University)   ()
13:55 Developing a Recurrent U-Net for Faint Trans-Neptunian Object Detection Using Synthetic Injections - Ms Malavika Nair (Western University)   ()
12:45
Galaxies, Gas/dust, Solar system & Stars (until 14:15) ()
12:45 WEAVE-Pristine survey: NLTE-Informed Machine Learning for Stellar Parameters and Abundances in Pristine-selected metal-poor stars. - Minjih Kim (University of Victoria)   ()
12:55 Unlocking the evolution of star formation with CASTOR - Dr Gareth Jones (University of Manitoba)   ()
13:05 Searching for Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars in DESI - Ms Rosayla Coulthard (University of Toronto)   ()
13:15 Identifying Candidates of Partially Stripped Yellow Supergiants - Shannon Bowes (University of Toronto)   ()
13:25 Bridging the gap between Milky Way and extragalactic star formation studies - Hannah Christie (University of Alberta)   ()
13:35 Leveraging CANFAR and the ALMA archive to create SALVAGE - II: the effect of AGN feedback on central molecular gas - Scott Wilkinson (Queen's University)   ()
13:45 Visibility Plane Forward Modeling of Young Massive Clusters within the Nuclear Ring of NGC 3351 - Peter Knowlton (University of Victoria)   ()
13:55 Bridging the Gap in the New Era of Star Formation - Mrs Jaiden Peltonen (University of Alberta)   ()
14:05 Search for 21-cm absorption systems with CHIME - Arash Mirhosseini (Dunlap Institute for Astronomy & Astrophysics, University of Toronto)   ()
12:45
Galaxies (until 14:15) ()
12:45 Measuring Simulated Circumgalactic Medium Turbulence with Emission-Weighted Projected Velocity Structure Functions in FOGGIE - Helena Bouchereau   ()
12:55 A Systematic Census of Strongly Lensed Population III Galaxy Candidates at z ~ 6–7 from JWST VENUS and MUSE - Gavin Farley (University of Toronto)   ()
13:05 Galaxies in JWST’s mirror may be more massive than they appear: bottom-heavy initial mass functions at z ~ 0.7 from JWST-IMFERNO - Chloe Cheng (University of Toronto)   ()
13:15 The Influence of Bars on Gas Concentrations and Star Formation in Nearby Galaxies - Jennifer Laing (McMaster University)   ()
13:25 How Environment Shapes Quiescent Galaxy Stellar Halo Assembly: Insights from Extended Light and Color Profiles - Devin Williams (Saint Mary's University)   ()
13:35 Beyond Diagnostic Diagrams: Spectral Decomposition of Ionizing Sources in MaNGA - Aayushmathi Ashok (University of Victoria)   ()
13:45 VLA 3 GHz Radio Continuum Mapping of Nearby PHANGS Galaxies: Tracing the Life Cycle of Star Formation - Hamid Hassani (University of Alberta)   ()
13:55 Finding the boundary: Using galaxy membership to inform galaxy cluster extent through machine learning - Christine Hao (University of Toronto)   ()
14:05 Inferring Spatial Distributions of Dark Matter in Dwarf Galaxies with ML - Chun On (Andy) Yu (University of Toronto)   ()
12:45
Transients & Cosmology (until 14:15) ()
12:45 Off-axis GRBs and Where to Find Them - Genevieve Schroeder   ()
12:55 Probing the Origins of Fast Radio Bursts Through Searches for Multi-wavelength Counterparts - Melanie Szpigiel (McGill University)   ()
13:05 Evidence for the invisible gas around galaxy halos using fast radio bursts from CHIME/FRB - Affan Khadir (McGill University)   ()
13:15 Constraining the evolution of dynamic environments surrounding actively repeating fast radio bursts - Nicole Mulyk (McGill University)   ()
13:25 The CHIME All-Sky Multiday Pulsar Stacking Search (CHAMPSS) - Lars Kuenkel (McGill University)   ()
13:35 Evaluating magnetars as the progenitors of fast radio bursts - Ms Vishwangi Shah   ()
13:45 An Aspherical Circumstellar Medium Surrounding Double-peaked Ic-BL SN2022xxf - Sam Lakerdas-Gayle (Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science)   ()
13:55 Mapping Magnetic Field Structure in Galactic Supernova Remnants with ASKAP - Gabrielle Graham (University of Alberta)   ()
14:05 Investigating Relativistic Jets in X-ray Binaries through Multi-Wavelength Timing Studies - Ms Élodie Lescure (University of Lethbridge)   ()
14:15
Black holes & Instrumentation (until 14:30) ()
14:15 Closing the AGN Feedback Loop Through Sub-kiloparsec Scale Gas Kinematics With JWST - Mathieu Marquis (Université de Montréal)   ()
14:16 The Final Mass and Early Growth of the Intermediate-Mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri - Mackenzie Hayduk (Saint Mary's University)   ()
14:17 Catching Emission "Life-Lines" in Black Hole X-ray Binaries to Understand Relativistic Jets - Aadi Patel (University of Lethbridge)   ()
14:18 Dynamical Simulations of Self-Consistent Mass Accretion onto Black Holes in Ultralight Dark Matter - Yourong Frank Wang (University of Göttingen)   ()
14:19 Neural Network Classification of BL Lacs and FSRQs among X-ray/Gamma-ray Blazars discovered in the Fermi 4FGL-DR4 Unassociated Catalog - Sierra Deppe (McGill University, Penn State University)   ()
14:20 Making Reconnection Cooler: Modelling bright emission around black holes - Alicia Savelli (University of Toronto)   ()
14:21 Modelling Variable Broad Absorption Line Quasar Outflows Using SimBAL - Nicolas Frisella (Western University)   ()
14:15
Exoplanets & Stars (until 14:30) ()
14:15 Forecasting The Weather On Ultra-Hot Worlds: A High-Resolution Study of WASP-189b - Mr Jason Gabriel (University of Waterloo)   ()
14:17 Rapid Rotation of a Cold Extremely Metal-poor Brown Dwarf - Jerry J.-Y. Zhang (Western University)   ()
14:19 Searching for Precursor Outbursts in 2024jlf - Ms Ai Hua Li (Dunlap Institue for Astronomy & Astrophysics)   ()
14:20 First Mid-Infrared Characterization of the Galactic Center WR Star Population - Zachary Ireland (University of Toronto)   ()
14:21 Tracing Star Formation Histories in the Local Neighborhood using Young Stellar Associations - Ms Sargun Jassal (University of Toronto)   ()
14:22 Reshaping the Search for Substructures in Young Protostellar Disks - Ms Sullivan Callista (Queen's University)   ()
14:23 Finding Young Stars in the Noise: A Multi-Wavelength Detection and Classification Algorithm for Young Stellar Objects - Mr Luke Sacco (University of Toronto/University of Hertfordshire)   ()
14:15
Galaxies, Gas/dust, Solar system & Stars (until 14:30) ()
14:15 Fifteen Years of Archival ALMA Data as a Survey: A Search for Accretion Streamers in Serpens Main - Mr Samuel Fielder (University of Victoria)   ()
14:16 From Starless Cores to Embedded Disks: Chemistry and Fragmentation in Early Star Formation - Rajeeb Sharma (Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics)   ()
14:17 Quantifying the Effect of a Bottom-Light IMF on Globular Cluster Evolution Using the Cluster Monte Carlo Code - Kristen Cowan (Saint Mary's University)   ()
14:18 Extragalactic Probes for a Galactic Model: Validating the NE2025 Galactic Electron Density Model using CHIME Fast Radio Bursts Scattering Measurements - Daniel Amouyal (McGill University)   ()
14:19 The Impact of Inspiral Timing and Model Assumptions on Convective Common Envelopes - Ms Chaudhuri Aishani (University of Toronto)   ()
14:20 Unveiling the Origins of a Historic Supernova - Ms Amilia Petryk (University of Manitoba)   ()
14:21 From Starlight to Synapses: How Cosmological Bayesian Inference Reveals the Brain's Molecular Structure - Manveer Sidhu (Ontario Tech University, Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics)   ()
14:15
Galaxies (until 14:30) ()
14:15 Constraining the Effects of Feedback on Diffuse Gas with Hydrodynamic Simulations - Skylar Grayson   ()
14:18 Probing the Physical State of Warm Gas in NGC 4696: Infrared Diagnostics for the JWST Era - Ms Olivia Pereira (Université de Montréal)   ()
14:19 SMA observations of the archetypal CSS radio source 3C 303.1 - Mr Rushikesh Bhutkar (University of Manitoba)   ()
14:20 Initial Investigations of the Outskirts of XLSSC 122 - Eleanore Todd (University of Victoria)   ()
14:21 Bulge-driven quenching in KILOGAS: separating classical bulges, pseudobulges and disks with SPADE - Angelo George (ASIAA)   ()
14:22 Bayesian and Brisk: Scalable AGN Lightcurve Simulation and Fitting for Supernova Cosmology and Population Studies - Ms Zoe Augspach (University of Toronto)   ()
14:23 Mapping the Faint Frontier: Improved Local Group Kinematics with JWST + Gaia + HST Astrometry - Ms Liwen Chen (University of Toronto)   ()
14:15
Transients & Cosmology (until 14:30) ()
14:15 Modelling the Energy and Redshift distribution of FRBs using the Second CHIME/FRB catalog - Naman Jain (McGill University)   ()
14:16 Characterizing Fast Radio Burst morphologies in CHIME’s Baseband Catalog 2 - Chloé Legué (McGill University, Trottier Space Institute)   ()
14:17 Sub-band Extensions to Measure Scattering with the Arrival-Times Pipeline for Repeating Fast Radio Bursts - Victor Pop (McMaster University)   ()
14:18 SN2024uwq and the Evolutionary History of Type IIb Supernovae - Annalisa Teixeira   ()
14:19 The Polarization and Magnetic Field of the Radio Arc as Observed by ALMA at 100 GHz - Nora Salem   ()
14:20 Inferring supernova light curves in Rubin data - Connor Stone (University of Toronto)   ()
14:21 BEAMS with Bias Correction: Is It Well-Calibrated? - Linh Vo   ()
14:22 The impact of nearby soil conditions on the MIST global 21-cm experiment - Mr Francis McGee (McGill University)   ()
14:23 The Long and Winding Equation: Symbolic Regression for Power Spectra from the Cosmic Dawn and Epoch of Reionization - Maria Bayder (McGill University)   ()
14:24 Developing a Machine Learning Algorithm for Dark Matter Detection in the SuperCDMS Experiment - Ms Lyssa Dale-Davies (University of Toronto)   ()
14:25 Constraining Modified Gravity with the Marked Power Spectrum - Amani Hussien (University of Toronto)   ()
14:26 Lattice simulations of alpha-attractor inflation: numerical sensitivity and model comparisons - Nick Beavis (University of Toronto)   ()
14:30
Bio break (until 14:45) ()
14:45
Posters (until 16:00) ()
16:00
Networking (until 16:30) ()
16:00 Discussion: CASCA Climate Survey   ()
16:00 Discussion: Power and pitfalls of AI   ()
16:00 Discussion: Science communication   ()
16:00 Q&A: Future Canadian collaboration with ESO   ()
16:00 Q&A: Jobs at universities versus national labs   ()
16:00 Q&A: Jobs in Industry   ()
16:00 Q&A: Postdoctoral positions in the US versus Canada   ()
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