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<DIV class="paragraph Heading_1" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; LINE-HEIGHT: 25px">"A Suitcase Full of Stars"</DIV>
<DIV class="paragraph Heading_1" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; LINE-HEIGHT: 25px">Astrophysicist Jaymie Matthews </DIV>
<DIV class="paragraph Heading_1" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; LINE-HEIGHT: 25px">Wednesday, Dec. 3, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m.</DIV>
<DIV class="paragraph Heading_1" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; LINE-HEIGHT: 25px">South Building, Room 2074, University of Toronto Mississauga, 3359 Mississauga Rd. N.</DIV>
<DIV class="paragraph Heading_1" style="MARGIN-TOP: 0px; MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0px; PADDING-BOTTOM: 8px; LINE-HEIGHT: 25px"> Astrophysicist Jaymie Matthews is an �astro-paparazzo,� who captures and reveals the secrets of the stars using Canada�s first space telescope.  Matthews will give a presentation on the Canadian Space Agency�s MOST telescope.</DIV>
Matthews is the mission scientist leading the MOST (Microvariability & Oscillations of the STars) project.  Described as an interstellar iPod, the MOST telescope has an aperture of only 15 cm, and is housed in a microsatellite of total weight of about 54 kg. But this 'orbiting suitcase' has become heavily packed with data since leaving home on a trip that has taken it 820 km above the Earth, on a virtual vacation to worlds hundreds of light years away. MOST is an ultraprecise stellar lightmeter, whose original one-year mission was 'asteroseismology' - probing the interiors of stars by observing subtle surface vibrations too small for even the largest earth-based telescopes to monitor over long periods. After over five years in orbit, MOST has extended its science broadly. Using data gathered by MOST, Matthews is writing a biography of our sun, forecasting the weather on planets beyond the solar system and searching for Terra Nova � alien �Earths� around other stars.  
<o:p> </o:p>An award-winning professor of astrophysics who teaches at the University of British Columbia, Matthews holds a BA from the University of Toronto and an MSc and PhD from the University of Western Ontario.  An advocate of astronomy education and public outreach, he often appears on television as a guest expert. In 2006, Matthews was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada.

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