News

This section includes scientific and technological news from the IAC and its Observatories, as well as press releases on scientific and technological results, astronomical events, educational projects, outreach activities and institutional events.

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    The Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda visits the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory
    Today, 10 October, the Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and the Urban Agenda, David Lucas, visited the facilities of the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (Garafía, La Palma), accompanied by the Observatory's administrator, Emilio García, and the island director of the State Administration, Ana María de León. The visit took place after the start of the meeting of the European Union's Directors-General for Housing, which was chaired by the Secretary of State and held at the Roque de los Muchachos Visitors' Centre. The conference of the most senior officials responsible for European
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  • Arranca en La Palma el congreso de la Unión Astronómica Internacional sobre  las constelaciones de satélites y su impacto en el cielo nocturno
    El Teatro Circo de Marte, en Santa Cruz de La Palma, ha acogido hoy a primera hora la inauguración del congreso de la Unión Astronómica Internacional (IAU) “IAUS385 Symposium: Astronomy and Satellite Constellations”(Astronomía y constelaciones de satélites: caminos a seguir) organizado por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) con la colaboración del Cabildo Insular de La Palma, el Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz de La Palma, la Fundación Starlight, la Consejería de Educación del Gobierno de Canarias y la Sociedad de Promoción y Desarrollo Económico y Social de La Palma. El congreso tiene
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    Santa Cruz de La Palma will once again host the mayor international meeting for the protection of the skies 
    The symposium of the International Astronomical Union will be held between 2 and 6 October at the Teatro Circo de Marte in the capital of La Palma. There will be several events open to the public: a talk by Piero Benvenuti entitled "Protecting the sky is our duty... but what have I got to do with the Big-bang?", on Monday 2nd October at 19.30 in the Circo de Marte itself; and on Thursday 5th October, the "Starparty", with the symbolic switching off of some of the city's squares and a musical performance in the Museo Insular de La Palma. After having to be suspended on two occasions, once due
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    The IAC hosts the presentation of the "Tenerife Declaration" to improve the distribution of research infrastructures in Europe
    A total of 14 countries have so far signed up to the Spanish Presidency Declaration of Tenerife, an initiative promoted by the Ministry of Science and Innovation within the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, which was presented during the "Global Dimension and Sustainability of Research Infrastructures" Conference. This event took place on 25 and 26 September at the IACTEC building managed by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) in the Science and Technology Park of Tenerife (La Laguna). Other highlights of the Declaration include the
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  • The attendees at the Research Infrastructures Conference visiting the OT
    Press release
    Tenerife welcomes Research Infrastructures Week
    From 25th to 29th September the Ministry of Science and Innovation, in the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union, in collaboration with the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), is organizing and participating in a number of events related to research, development and innovation in national and European infrastructures, which are taking place in Tenerife. The aim is to bring together the main protagonists in the sector of research infrastructures (the politicians responsible, organizations, user instituttions etc.) to facilitate cooperation and mutual
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  • Research news
    The impact of deep learning for the analysis of galaxy surveys
    The amount and complexity of data delivered by modern galaxy surveys has been steadily increasing over the past years. New facilities will soon provide imaging and spectra of hundreds of millions of galaxies. Extracting coherent scientific information from these large and multi-modal data sets remains an open issue for the community and data-driven approaches such as deep learning have rapidly emerged as a potentially powerful solution to some long lasting challenges. This enthusiasm is reflected in an unprecedented exponential growth of publications using neural networks, which have gone
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