The mission of the CRAQ is to :


 
-Promote excellence in astrophysics in Québec and help Québec astronomy shine on the world stage
-Insure teaching at the graduate level and train highly skilled students in astrophysics
-Help engrain this field of knowledge within the popular culture of Québec
-Consolidate the material and financial resources of its members for cutting edge research
 
Events to come : Seminars/Colloquia ou Public outreach activities

News from the CRAQ Latest news

Les centres de recherche universitaires occupent une place enviable sur l’échiquier mondial

Les centres de recherche universitaires en nature et technologies du Québec œuvrent à l’avancement des connaissances scientifiques et au développement des talents d’ici, en plus d’attirer les meilleurs chercheurs provenant des quatre coins du monde dans toutes les disciplines des sciences naturelles et du génie.  Click here for more info

Awards Latest news

Robert Lamontagne receives the grade of Knight from the Order of La Pléiade

Robert Lamontagne, executive director of the Observatoire du Mont-Megantic, lecturer at the physics department of the Université de Montréal, and member of the CRAQ, is one of the recipient of the grade of Knight from the Order of La Pléiade for 2013 (Chevalier de l'Ordre de la Pléiade, in french).  Click here for more info


Visitez Science! On blogue.

The Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Québec (CRAQ) is a partnership between the Université de Montréal, McGill University, and the Université Laval. The CRAQ brings together all researchers working in the field of astronomy and astrophysics of these three institutions, as well as other collaborators from Bishop's University, the Canadian Space Agency, the Cégep de Sherbrooke, and the private sector (Photon etc., ABB Bomem Inc., Nüvü Caméras). The CRAQ is funded through the program Regroupements stratégiques of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Nature et technologies (FRQ-NT).

The CRAQ constitutes a unique grouping of researchers in astrophysics in Québec bent on excellence and whose varying and complementary fields of expertise allows them to be innovative, creative and competitive in several scientific fields, thus offering graduate students a wide variety of subjects in both fundamental and applied fields of research.

The activities of the CRAQ follow four main thrusts :

  • Fundamental and applied research in astrophysics,
  • Development of instrumentation for national, international and space based observatories through the Laboratoire d'astrophysique expériementale (LAE),
  • the Observatoire du Mont-Mégantic (OMM),
  • and, finally, the spreading of our astrophysics knowledge to the public at large.

 
 

Public outreach activities


Thursday, 23 May 2013 at 20:30
Cumming, Andrew :  In Search for New Worlds: the Diverse Properties of Exoplanets
Site : Rutherford Physics Building at McGill University. 3600 rue University


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