The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has welcomed Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, who delivered a lecture entitled " From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics". The talk, held at the IAC Auditorium, was introduced by Garik Israelian, researcher at the center and co-founder of the Starmus Festival, an event in which Strickland participated previously in La Palma last week. During her presentation, Strickland explained in an accessible manner the fundamentals of her pioneering research on Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA), work for which she was awarded the

The largest observation program of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has released its data: nearly 800,000 galaxies observed in unprecedented detail. COSMOS-Web thus offers the most extensive and deepest view of the universe ever obtained. In this data release, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has played a key role, performing the morphological classification of more than half a million galaxies using neural networks, a crucial contribution to explore how galaxies form and evolve over cosmic time. COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected for Cycle 1 of