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Topic: We Come From the Stars: The Birth of Stars in our Universe
Speaker: Dr. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton

Abstract: Stars continuously affect their environment by producing and returning new elements to the interstellar gas. These new elements are then recycled to form new stars. They form in a wide variety of environments which can be different galaxy to galaxy, location to location. The result is that each star has its own story. During this presentation, I will present my main project: SIGNALS. By studying 50,000 regions where stars actively form, the SIGNALS' collaboration aim at understanding what triggers their formation, how efficiently stars form, and how each generation transforms the gas around them and ultimately our Universe. I will conclude with a story accompanied with some thoughts regarding reviving ancestral knowledge which I hope will held to open a discussion on the different paths to indigenizing astronomy and science in general.

This is lecture is one of a four-part series highlighting Indigenous scholars working in Science hosted by the University of Victoria's Faculty of Science. More info: https://www.uvic.ca/science/home/indi...

Bio: Laurie Rousseau-Nepton is a resident astronomer at the Canada-France-Hawaii Observatory. First indigenous woman in Canada to obtain a PhD in astrophysics, she received her diploma from Université Laval by studying regions of stellar formation in spiral galaxies. Laurie Rousseau-Nepton was awarded a NSF and FRQNT grant for her research as well as the Hubert Reeves Fellowship. She is now leading an international project called SIGNALS, aiming at observing thousands of newly born stars in galaxies close to the Milky Way to understand how their birthplace affect the rest of their life and the galaxies evolution.