Severo Ochoa Programme

Interviews

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  • Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin
    Disclaimer footnote: Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the US National Science Foundation. Vyacheslav (Slava) Lukin is a Program Director in the National Science Foundation (NFS) Division of Physics with responsibility for the program in Plasma Physics. In his own research, he focuses on understanding “magnetic reconnection”, a compex physical phenomenon which causes the aurora borealis, solar flares, coronal mass ejections and gamma ray bursts. This is a process which
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  • Diego Blas
    The gravitational force needed for the universe to evolve from when it was almost uniform, during the Big Bang, until galaxies, stars, and planets were formed is provided by the “dark matter”. But in spite of the essential role of this basic component, which is estimated to make up some 80% of the matter in the universe, scientists know virtually nothing about its nature, behaviour, and composition, which is one of the main challenges in current physics and cosmology. Aiming to give answers to these questions the researcher Diego Blas, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Physics of King’s
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  • Norbert Langer
    Professor Norbert Langer is currently head of the Stellar Physics Group at the Argelander-Institut für Astronomie (Bonn, Germany). Considered one of the world’s leading experts in the field of theoretical stellar Astrophysics, for more than three decades he has been researching the evolution of high mass, from their early stages to the point when they explode as supernovae. These stars play an important role in the evolution of their host galaxies. However, their short lifetime makes them very difficult to observe, raising many questions about their nature. A correct interpretation of the
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  • Omaira González Martín
    For astronomers one of the biggest obstacles is the darkness of the Universe itself, above all the darkness caused by the gas and dust which surround active galactic nuclei, or AGN. These nuclei emit a huge quantity of energy produced by the supermassive black hole onto which matter falls at a considerable rate. The accretion processes are fundamental for the evolution of active galaxies. However these nuclei often remain hidden by the dusty structures, called tori, which surround the central black hole. Studyuing the properties of this circumnuclear dust, the accretion processes, and
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  • Caitlin Casey durante su estancia en el IAC. Crédito: Viktor Rivera (IAC).
    Cuando era una niña, Caitlin Casey acudía al planetario de su escuela con mucha frecuencia, fascinada por los objetos celestes que allí podía descubrir. Años después, ya como profesora de Astronomía en la Universidad de Texas, Austin (EEUU), confiesa que su pasión por esta ciencia nació en esa época y hoy disfruta enseñándola e investigando sus temas predilectos: las galaxias más masivas y luminosas del Universo, unos objetos tan extremos y complejos que suponen un reto a la hora de hacer simulaciones cosmológicas. Utilizando observaciones submilimétricas, se propone conocer cómo estas
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  • Artemio Herrero, investigador del IAC y ponente de la XXIX Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
    Hoy se inauguró la XXIX Escuela de Invierno que, como cada año, organiza el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC). Por este motivo, entrevistamos a Artemio Herrero, catedrático de la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) e investigador del IAC, especializado en las atmósferas de las estrellas masivas, que hablará sobre los Fundamentos Físicos del Transporte Radiativo. En sus charlas introducirá algunos conceptos básicos sobre la interacción entre radiación y materia que serán desarrollados por el resto de profesores a lo largo de la semana. "El transporte radiativo es fundamental en
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