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Marie-Eve Desrochers obtains the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinget prize of FRQNT
August 16 2018

Marie-Eve Desrochers obtains the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinget prize of FRQNT

Rémi Quirion, Quebec’s Chief Scientist, announces that Marie-Eve Desrochers, a MSc student and member of…

Awards and Prizes
HiCIBaS, a stratospheric balloon borne telescope project for the direct imaging of exoplanets
August 15 2018

HiCIBaS, a stratospheric balloon borne telescope project for the direct imaging of exoplanets

HiCIBaS, a stratospheric balloon borne telescope project from Université Laval led by Prof. Simon Thibault,…

2018
Funding for Mont-Mégantic Observatory secured for five years
August 8 2018

Funding for Mont-Mégantic Observatory secured for five years

Ottawa and Quebec announce $4M in funding for the world-class observatory through 2023. With a…

Press Releases
Gaia: a new era for astronomy
June 4 2018

Gaia: a new era for astronomy

Gai­­a second data release was published on the 25th of April 2018. Since then, astronomers…

2018
Lisa Dang obtains the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinget prize of FRQNT
May 24 2018

Lisa Dang obtains the Relève étoile Louis-Berlinget prize of FRQNT

Rémi Quirion, Quebec’s Chief Scientist, announces that Lisa Dang, a PhD student and member of…

Awards and Prizes
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…

2018
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…

2018
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