{"id":33461,"date":"2025-08-27T16:43:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T20:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33461"},"modified":"2025-08-28T14:14:39","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T18:14:39","slug":"science-guest-sept-20th-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33461","title":{"rendered":"Science Guest Sept 20th meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>EXOPLANETS top the Agenda, MonSFFA meeting Sept 20<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p><em>Join us September 20, by Zoom or in person at the Hotel Nouvel, 1740 Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque Blvd W, Montreal, corner of St Mathieu.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our guest speaker is Riley Rosener , a Physics Masters student at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al doing research on the detection and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-33462 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Untitled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"193\" height=\"155\" \/><\/a>characterization of exoplanets. They recently moved to Montr\u00e9al after doing a B.S. in Astrophysics (and a minor in History) at UChicago. They have been a long-time fan of science fiction, and particularly enjoy reading new SFF, exploring various TTRPG systems, and learning about unfamiliar history. They will be talking about the history and science behind the detection of the first exoplanets, modern developments in exoplanet astronomy, and their own research.<\/p>\n<h4>Also on the agenda:<\/h4>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">The life, times, and music of Tom Lehrer, who famously put the Periodic Table of Elements to music! Expect a sing-a-long!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s\">\u00a0Precognition, Prophesy, and Possibility: Different Ways of Knowing the Future, and What it Does to Us.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXOPLANETS top the Agenda, MonSFFA meeting Sept 20 Join us September 20, by Zoom or in person at the Hotel Nouvel, 1740 Ren\u00e9-L\u00e9vesque Blvd W, Montreal, corner of St Mathieu. Our guest speaker is Riley Rosener , a Physics Masters student at the Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al doing research on the detection and characterization of exoplanets. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=33461\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Science Guest Sept 20th meeting<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-meeting"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33461"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33465,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33461\/revisions\/33465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}