March 20, 2025 By/par Mike Fich (Waterloo Centre for Astrophysics) and the Canadian CCAT team The CCAT team is pleased to announce that another major milestone has been reached in this project: the Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope (FYST) has arrived in Chile and assembly on the CCAT Observatory site will begin within the next few weeks. Telescope commissioning will follow in August 2025. First light instruments (a broad-band camera and a heterodyne spectrometer) will be i

March 20, 2025 Dear CASCA Community, I am closing out the final months of my term as CASCA president in a time of significant upheaval. In light of recent and dramatic political changes, the expectations of long-standing partnerships are shifting. We will have significant turnover in the CASCA Board in June, and the current members aim to finish specific community recommendations from the 2020 Long Range Plan before the transition. Adopting a Mission and Values statement i

March 10, 2025 - 11:42 am We are pleased to announce the Dark Side of the Universe 2025 conference in Montreal, 7-11 July. It is jointly hosted by McGill University and University of Montreal at the new science campus of U.de M. Registration and abstract submission are now open at https://indico.global/event/551/, until April 6. We encourage you to reserve housing as soon as possible at one of the recommended hotels, or other housing of your choice, since Montreal is a popul