Talk format: Seminar

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    The occurrence and properties of nuclear star clusters in Virgo over seven decades in stellar mass, and what they tell us about their host galaxies
    Nuclear star clusters (NSCs) are compact stellar systems that inhabit the central regions of many galaxies, including the Milky Way. They tend to be larger and...
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    The origin of the Galactic halo as traced by globular clusters
    The assembly history of the stellar halo of our Galaxy might be encoded in the kinematics, metallicities, ages and spatial distribution of the tidal streams...
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    The OTELO survey
    Some answers to current questions about the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies are based on the detection and study of increasingly weak sources. The...
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    The parallelism between early-type galaxies and clusters
    I will review the properties of nearby early-type galaxies and galaxy clusters showing the most interesting observed parallelisms, such as the Sersic behavior...
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    The participation of the IAC Solar System group in the OSIRIS-REx mission
    The IAC Solar System group has been cooperating with NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission since 2011 when I became member of its Science Team. In 2015 we came to an...
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    The Planck mission: Early Results
    The European Space Agency's Planck satellite was launched on 14 May 2009, and has been surveying the sky stably and continuously since 13 August 2009. Its...
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    The Plurality of Worlds
    Many physical processes co-exist during planet assembly and during planetary migration, and few observables provide an unambiguous view of what results from...
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    The Pristine survey: An efficient search for extremely metal-poor stars
    The most metal-poor stars in the Galaxy are relics from the first generations of star formation, and their properties can reveal key information about the...
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    The problems of mounting big instruments on big telescopes and the ELT instrumentation programme
    This talk looks at the challenges in developing instruments for extremely large telescopes. It then discusses the impact of these on the ELT first light...