Press Articles
Animations
These animations may be used in talks, lectures, presentations, educational materials, and outreach provided attribution is given.
Animated Repeater Weather Report
Time of arrival versus source declination for repeating fast radio burst detections. Marker size is proportional to signal-to-noise ratio (S/N). The cumulative number of repeaters detected by CHIME/FRB is shown in the lower right. Data from Cook et al. (2026).
Animation: © 2026 Amanda M. Cook.
Licensed under CC BY 4.0 .
Please credit Amanda M. Cook and cite Cook et al. (2026) when reusing this animation.
Licensed under CC BY 4.0 .
Please credit Amanda M. Cook and cite Cook et al. (2026) when reusing this animation.
Talks
- Multiphase Madness: "Constraining the Plasma in the Milky Way's Halo with CHIME/FRB". Harvard Center for Astrophysics (August 2024)
- Astrostatistics in Canada and Beyond: "Towards Solving the Fast Radio Burst Enigma with CHIME/FRB: Probability of Event Chance Coincidence for Nonhomogeneous Noisy Spatial Point Processes". Banff International Research Station (October 2023)
- Caltech Astro Seminar: "Constraining the Plasma in the Milky Way's Halo with CHIME/FRB - Amanda Cook" (November 2021)
- FRB2021 Plenary 11B - Probes - Intervening Magneto-ionic Material: "Constraining the Plasma in the Milky Way's Halo with CHIME/FRB" (August 2021)
Outreach
- "Telescopes": SciShow Tangents Podcast (November 28th, 2023) (I came up with the acronym for Swift/BAT GUANO)
- What is our Cosmic Address? Dunlap Institute, Cosmos on your Couch series. (April 12th, 2023)
- What is a Fast Radio Burst? Dunlap Institute, Cosmos on your Couch series. (February 8th, 2023)
- Who gets to name the stars? Dunlap Institute, Cosmos on your Couch series. (January 11th, 2023)
Academic theses in which I am acknowledged
(not that I deserve any credit for these, but I am very proud and grateful!)
- Cartesian Diagrammatics: Figures and the Production of Knowledge in Descartes's Early Writings: Daniel Cook (PhD thesis, Duquesne 2026)
- A sharp view of fast radio bursts: Mark Snelders (PhD thesis, UvA 2026)
- Polarization properties of fast radio bursts as a probe of their origins, environments, and foregrounds: Ayush Pandhi (PhD thesis, U. Toronto 2025)
- Probing the Origins of FRBs using CHIME: High-energy Counterpart Searches and Burst Morphology: Alice Curtin (PhD thesis, McGill 2025)
- Probing the Diversity of Fast Radio Bursts with CHIME/FRB: Kaitlyn Shin (PhD thesis, MIT 2025)
- Advanced Spatial Methods for Astrophysics: David (Dayi) Li (PhD thesis, U. Toronto 2025)
- Designing the Cosmic Collider Lab: Real-time Instrumentation for Compact Object Mergers: Aaron Tohuvavohu (PhD thesis, U. Toronto 2025)
- Adaptive Optics: Control and Calibration: Jacob Taylor (PhD thesis, U. Toronto 2025)
- A study of sporadic pulsars and radio transients with the CHIME telescope: Fengqiu (Adam) Dong (PhD thesis, UBC 2024)
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