Our research often captures the imagination and attention of the general public. Here are a few links to stories about our research in the public media.
Tech Explorist, Jan 23, 2023
McGill Newsroom, Jan 16, 2023
Globe and Mail, Nov 21, 2022
McGill Reporter, July 14, 2020
McGill Reporter, Dec 17, 2019
McGill Newsroom, Nov 26, 2019
SpaceQ Coverage, June 7, 2019
Global News, BC article, May 6, 2019
Listen to the CJAD Radio Interview, May 3, 2019
Global News Coverage Article and Video Interviews by Shelby Thom (cached article, cached video)
Local news coverage near the CHIME Telescope
Kelowna Now news
Penticton Castanet News
Canada Council for the Arts Announcement (cached) and Project Description, April 2019
"Broadcasting from Deep Space, a Mysterious Series of Radio Signals", New York Times, Jan 10, 2019
CBC TV Interview with Pragya Chawla, Jan 10, 2019
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/1423765059621 (starts at 11:32)
Radio interview with Matt Dobbs on The Current, Jan 11, 2019
"Canadian astronomers discover 2nd mysterious repeating fast radio burst", CBC News, Jan 9, 2019
"Bevy of mysterious fast radio bursts spotted by Canadian telescope", Nature News, Jan 8, 2019.
Documentary (in French) on our Contributions to CHIME
CBC Television program Decouverte, January 21, 2018
Telescope spots enigmatic fast radio burst, Nature News, Aug 7, 2019
Radio telescope near Penticton, B.C., opening new doors in astrophysics, The Globe and Mail, Aug 5, 2019
B.C. radio telescope records low-frequency burst from outer space, The Abbotsford News, Aug 6, 2019
Canadian radio telescope records mysterious low-frequency bursts from outside our galaxy, Global News, Aug 3, 2019
A Mysterious, Powerful Force Is Flinging Radio Waves at Us from Deep Space, Live Science, Aug 3, 2019
Canada’s new digital radio telescope is finding many Fast Radio Bursts as planned, Next Big Future, Aug 2, 2019
CHIME: New Canadian telescope will map largest volume of space ever surveyed, CIfAR Press Release, Sept 7, 2017
"Listening for the universe to chime in", The Globe and Mail Science Section, Sept 7, 2017
Canada's largest radio telescope unveiled in British Columbia, CBC Tech and Science News, Sept 7, 2017
Article featuring WVU Prof. (and former McGill Postdoc) Kevin Bandura's role in CHIME, Sept 7, 2017
CHIME on CBC's The National
Extended Documentary (30 minutes) from SHAW TV on CHIME
Introduction to CHIME
Cosmology with CHIME
Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME
2017-09-17 CHIME report on Les années lumière, with Jean-Francois Cliche and Luc Simard (in French)
Presentation by Matt Dobbs at a CIfAR hosted public event in Toronto, May 2017, on novel telescope technology.
The artwork that forms the background for this video is by the talented Isabelle Viarouge. The production/editing of the artwork is by Rebecca Lin and Isabelle Rouge.
"Canada CHIMEs In", an accessible introduction to CHIME, written by the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Article written by Steve Leibson, Page 18: http://issuu.com/xcelljournal/docs/xcell_journal_issue_88
TEDx talk presented at Montreal's youth conference by Matt Dobbs, November 2013.
"Mankind has been looking up at the cosmos throughout history, asking big questions such as, 'what is our place in the universe, ... how did it begin?' Today, astronomers and scientists have been addressing questions such as these through adventurous exploits that are yielding big answers. In this talk we'll journey to Antarctica where the South Pole Telescope was built to answer questions about the origin, fate, and composition of the universe."
Matt Dobbs is interviewed on the Starspot podcast with Justin Trottier, published Nov 3, 2013. The interview discusses dark energy, galaxy clusters, and the South Pole Telescope.
Code Chastenay Episode 143, October 8, 2013.
McGill Postdoctoral Researcher Keith Vanderlinde is featured in short documentary by the American Museum of Natural History about the South Pole Telescope. (YouTube link)
Matt's teaching is featured on McGill's Teaching and Learning website.
Tony Clement, Federal Industry Minister, announced Nov. 24, 2010 the renewal of Dobbs' T2 Canada Research Chair for a second 5 year term Press Release
A TV documentary (in French) on our project to search for inflationary gravity waves with EBEX
The article in PDF format: 2010-05-10_GazetteSouthPoleTelescope.pdf
Smithsonian.com The Smithsonian magazine article features photographs of the SPT by McGill postdoc Keith Vanderlinde.
PDF copy of article: 2010_SPT_SmithsonianArticle.pdf
http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2010/03/cullen-to-science-students-join-the-political-debate/ Mar 31, 2010
http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2010/02/stars-align-as-researcher-earns-sloan-fellowship/ March 2, 2010
Matt Dobbs was interviewed by host Bernard St-Laurent about the upcoming flight of the EBEX mm-wavelength telescope aboard a NASA stratospheric balloon.
Note: this article states that we have already announced the discovery of a previously unknown cluster with SPT. This is incorrect.
The cover story for the June issue of Quebec Science "Enquête sur la face cachée de l'Univers" describes Dark Energy (in french). It included an interview with Dobbs and photos of the South Pole Telescope.
Science News, "For Extreme Astronomy, Head Due South", Science, Vol 316, p. 1523, March 2007 (Download PDF).
The South Pole Telescope was featured again on Canada AM, a national morning news program on Canadian TV
Oops Canada AM - the milky way is not a galaxy cluster!
Feb 13, 2007 Interview on CBC Radio Daybreak with Mike Finnerty
CBC Radio National News with Justin Hayward
Feb 7, 2007 McGill Outreach News Article On South Pole Telescope Blog
CBC TV News at Six, Montreal
February 4, 2007 CBC Radio's "All in a Weekend" program (This is our favorite of the interviews... if you only listen to one, choose this one.)
archived at http://www.cbc.ca/allinaweekend/listenagain_feb07.html (scroll down to Feb 4 or search for "Dobbs").
MP3 Audio (13 Minutes, 19 MB)
The CBC radio real audio link is http://www.cbc.ca/montreal/media/audio/allinaweekend/20070206MATT_DOB.ram .