CIFAR SCOPE LITE

This is an update from the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. On occasion, we will provide information to members of the CIFAR community about events, exciting research findings and highlights from the world of advanced research.

CIFAR supports innovative programs that enable the brightest and most talented minds across Canada to collaborate with each other and with their international peers on questions of global significance.
 

Live Webcast: Planck Launches tomorrow

As a follow up to the story "Map my Universe: BMW of telescopes gets into action" in the last edition of Scope, we invite you to join the CIFAR community tomorrow morning to watch a live webcast of the Planck satellite launch. The broadcast comes live from Kourou, French Guiana where Planck will be launched on board the same Ariane 5 rocket as the Herschel Space Observatory.

Live web streaming of the Herschel-Planck launch will start Thursday, May 14 at 8:40 EST until 9:52 EST. The launch itself is scheduled to take place at 9:12 EST. We will also post a video of the broadcast 1 day after the launch on the cifar.ca website.

Click on one of the two links below (many people will tune in, so if one doesn't work, please try the other)

European Space Agency Webcast
 

Arianespace (the rocket launcher) Webcast

CIFAR congratulates Cosmology and Gravity Program Director Dick Bond, who has been involved with the Planck project since 1993, and Member Barth Netterfield, who originally created the Kst software to be used aboard Planck.
 

Invitation: THE MICROBIAL ‘WE'

Appetite for Discovery Event: Edmonton, Thursday May 21, 2009

“What do our microbes do that we cannot and vice versa?” There are ten times as many microbial cells in the human body as human cells. Most of these microbes are completely unknown. But we now know that microbes play crucial roles in human health and development, from improving nutrition to protecting us from disease.

We invite you to satisfy your Appetite for Discovery.

Please join Steve Perlman, a Scholar in CIFAR's Integrated Microbial Biodiversity program, for a surprising, engaging conversation about the rich world of microbes living inside all animals. His presentation will be comprehensible and compelling for a lay audience.

To RSVP and for details, please visit www.cifar.ca/events or call (416) 971-4450. Seating is limited so please register early and apprise CIFAR if you plan to bring guests.