{"id":495,"date":"2009-06-17T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=495"},"modified":"2009-06-17T07:54:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T12:54:02","slug":"last-big-iya-event-until-the-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2009\/06\/last-big-iya-event-until-the-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Last big IYA event until the fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was our last big event of the International Year of Astronomy until the fall.  It was a Public Lecture at BioSciences Complex Room 1101 Queens University with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sandra_M._Faber\">Prof. Sandra Faber<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/astro.ucsc.edu\/~dept\/faculty\/faber.html\">2<\/A> speaking on: A Room with a View: Perspectives from Earth on the Cosmos.<br \/>\nKim, Susan and myself joined the Queens folks in welcoming 204 people to the talk where we passed out a lot of IYA material.  Great talk too&#8230; some of the best cosmological simulations we&#8217;ve ever seen.  Dr. Faber was a great speaker&#8230; we would encourage anyone who has the chance to go out of their way to hear her.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/20090616-15.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/20090616-15.jpg\" alt=\"20090616-15\" title=\"20090616-15\" width=\"300\"  class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-496\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Other upcoming events can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/kingstoniya.ca\/\">kingstoniya.ca<\/a> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night was our last big event of the International Year of Astronomy until the fall. It was a Public Lecture at BioSciences Complex Room 1101 Queens University with Prof. Sandra Faber 2 speaking on: A Room with a View: Perspectives from Earth on the Cosmos. Kim, Susan and myself joined the Queens folks in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}