The Transit of Venus in front of the Sun: a must-see at the Université de Montréal
The Centre de Recherche en Astrophysique du Québec (CRAQ), the Université de Montréal, McGill University, the Montreal planetarium, Espace pour la Vie, the Société d’Astronomie du Planétarium de Montréal, the Fédération des Astronomes Amateurs du Québec (FAAQ) and Rio Tinto Alcan are inviting the public to look up and observe a rare phenomenon: the transit […]
Two scholarships for the FRQ-NT international internships for the CRAQ
Seyed-Yashar Hezavehe, from McGill University, and Alexandre Alarie, from Université Laval, both received a scholarship of the FRQ-NT international internships program. With this scholarship, Seyed-Yashar Hezavehe will collaborate with the astrophysics group at CalTech (USA), to work on the use of gravitational lenses to understand the properties of dark matter. Alexandre Alarie will travel to […]