2018

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First light for SPIRou !
May 23 2018

First light for SPIRou !

After four months of hard work by engineers and scientists from France, Canada, Switzerland and…

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Prix du recteur 2018: Olivier Hernandez receives a special mention
May 22 2018

Prix du recteur 2018: Olivier Hernandez receives a special mention

Olivier Hernandez, former iREx Coordinator and former Director of Operations for the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM),…

Awards and Prizes
René Doyon receives a Killam Research Fellowship
May 8 2018

René Doyon receives a Killam Research Fellowship

Astrophysicist René Doyon, professor at UdeM’s Department of Physics, director of the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic and…

Awards and Prizes
TESS and iREx: a great synergy for exoplanetary system studies
April 15 2018

TESS and iREx: a great synergy for exoplanetary system studies

Wednesday the 18th of April at 18h51 saw the launch of the space satellite TESS…

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Discovering the closest habitable worlds: the grand planet survey
April 5 2018

Discovering the closest habitable worlds: the grand planet survey

SPIRou’s long awaited large planet survey will be debuting soon. This program will extent for…

Press Releases
Olivier Hernandez: the new Director of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan
April 5 2018

Olivier Hernandez: the new Director of the Planetarium Rio Tinto Alcan

Olivier Hernandez, Director of Operations for the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic and iREx Coordinator, will start…

Team
My Thesis in 400 words: Jonathan St-Antoine
April 4 2018

My Thesis in 400 words: Jonathan St-Antoine

Jonathan St-Antoine, an iREx student at Université de Montréal, finished his master degree in 2018.…

Thesis in 400 words
When do aging brown dwarfs sweep the clouds away?
February 27 2018

When do aging brown dwarfs sweep the clouds away?

Brown dwarfs, the larger cousins of giant planets, undergo atmospheric changes from cloudy to cloudless…

Press Releases
Jason Rowe newly appointed Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics
February 2 2018

Jason Rowe newly appointed Canada Research Chair in Exoplanet Astrophysics

Jason Rowe, a Professor at Bishop’s University and researcher of iREx, was newly appointed as…

Awards and Prizes
My master thesis in 400 words: David Berardo
February 2 2018

My master thesis in 400 words: David Berardo

David Berardo, an iREx student at McGill University, finished his master degree in August 2017.…

Thesis in 400 words
A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds
January 22 2018

A ‘hot Jupiter’ with unusual winds

Puzzling finding raises new questions about atmospheric physics of giant planets The hottest point on…

Press Releases
Planets around Other Stars are like Peas in a Pod
January 9 2018

Planets around Other Stars are like Peas in a Pod

An international research team led by Institute for research on exoplanets astrophysicist Lauren Weiss has…

2018