Physics and Astronomy - Western University

Gordon Osinski to sit on Canadian Space Advisory Board
Canada renews its Space Advisory Board, and a new sitting member Western's Professor Gordon Osinski.
Astronomers find potential source for maser flare activity in a young stellar object.
Methanol and water masers are an indicator of the early stages of star formation. Western graduate Dr. Fereshteh Rajabi, and her supervisor Martin Houde have used the quantum mechanical theory of superradiance (Dicke,1954), to successfully model the observations of alternating water and methanol maser flares acting on different time scales in young stellar object G107.298+5.639.
Alumnus Zen Mariani interviewed about making the CSA astronaut short list
Physics and Astronomy alumnus Zen Mariani, who just recently came to Western to speak at March Break Open House, does a great interview on CTV regarding what it is like to be on the CSA astronaut selection short list.