Programa Severo Ochoa

Seminario Severo Ochoa

IAC Talks

El Programa de Seminarios Severo Ochoa es una iniciativa encaminada a aumentar la visibilidad del programa de Visitantes Senior Severo Ochoa recibidos en el IAC y contribuir a la formación profesional del personal predoctoral y postdoctoral del IAC.

Las conferencias previstas en el programa tratan de fomentar la colaboración entre los diferentes grupos de investigación del IAC y los liderados por los profesores visitantes en sus propias instituciones. El programa está abierto a la participación de todos los investigadores interesados, no sólo de los vinculados directamente al proyecto SO.

Se anima a todos los profesores visitantes Severo Ochoa a presentar el tema de investigación objeto de sus colaboraciones.

  • Tango for three and ballet for thirty: the interaction of the Milky Way with its satellites

    I discuss the dynamical interactions between the Milky Way and its satellite galaxies, focusing on the closest and most massive satellites - the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. The former just has had its first close encounter with the Milky Way very recently, and the latter has been orbiting our Galaxy for several

    Dr.
    Eugene Vasiliev

    Aula

    12 Mayo 2022 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Seminario de Instrumentación. EL CSOA

    Uno de los principales problemas que afecta no solo a la astrofísica sino a otros sectores de investigación e industria a nivel nacional, es la fabricación de elementos ópticos. De esta forma el CSOA se concibe para cubrir parte de esa demanda, no solo para fabricar elementos óptico tradicionales (esféricos y cónicos) y superficies u elementos

    Félix
    Gracia Témich

    Aula/ZOOM

    29 Abr 2022 - 12:00 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • The formation of Milky Way-mass galactic disc structure in cosmological simulations

    Recent years have seen impressive development in cosmological simulations for spiral disc galaxies like the Milky Way. I present a suite of high-resolution magneto-hydrodynamic simulations that include many physical processes relevant for galaxy formation, including star formation, stellar evolution and feedback, active galactic nuclei and magnetic

    Dr.
    Robert Grand

    Aula

    21 Abr 2022 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Magnetic Flux, Heating, & Flaring: Clues from the Sun for Other Stars & Systems

    On the Sun, the presence of magnetic flux at the photosphere is closely linked to (1) steady heating of the overlying atmosphere and (2) transient brightenings, the largest of which are flares. I will discuss statistical properties of both phenomena, with an emphasis on aspects of each that might apply to other astrophysical objects, such as other

    Prof.
    Brian Welsch

    Aula

    5 Abr 2022 - 12:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Dynamos, the drivers of solar and stellar activity

    Following Cowling's anti-dynamo theorem of 1933, there was a long period during which the very existence of dynamos was unclear. Even with the emergence of three dimensional simulations in the late 1980s, people were careful to distinguish true dynamos from just some sort of amplification. Meanwhile, we know of many examples of true dynamos - not

    Prof.
    Axel Brandenburg

    Online

    27 Ene 2022 - 09:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Galactic Globular Clusters: Why should we care about them?

    Galactic globular clusters have always been at the crossroad of several investigations in both Stellar and Galactic Astrophysics. For long time, they have been considered the prototypes of Simple Stellar Populations, and hence used for testing and calibrating stellar evolutionary models as well as population synthesis tools. Nowadays, after the

    Dr.
    Santi Cassisi

    Aula

    14 Dic 2021 - 11:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • PLANETARY PIECES: PUTING THE CLUES TOGETHER USING WHITE DWARFS

    Planetary systems have been found systematically orbiting main sequence stars and red giants. But the detection of planets per se during the white dwarf phase has been more elusive with only 3 systems. We have, however, ample indirect evidence of the existence of planetary debris around these systems in the form of material acreted onto the white

    Dr.
    Eva Villaver

    Aula 1

    23 Nov 2021 - 11:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas

    The phenomenon of magnetic reconnection in a magnetized plasma has been a subject of numerous studies over the past several decades in a variety of contexts, from high energy astrophysics, to solar and space physics, to laboratory-based experiments. However, most magnetic reconnection studies have been devoted to exploring different collisionality

    Dr.
    Slava Lukin

    Aula

    28 Oct 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Using the Visible Spectral Reflectance Properties to Probe Aqueous Alteration in the Solar System

    During the past 50 years, we have witnessed humankind’s first good, detailed look at the planets in our known Solar System. All of these advances built upon Earth-based telescopic observations. We predict surface conditions on other Solar System bodies before spacecraft reach them for in situ study. The dominant type of asteroid identified

    Dr.
    Faith Vilas

    Aula

    26 Oct 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • The interplay between local and global properties in galaxies

    We summarize here some of the results reviewed recently by Sanchez (2020) and Sanchez et al. (2021), comprising the advances in the comprehension of galaxies in the nearby universe based on integral field spectroscopic galaxy surveys. We review our current knowledge of the spatially resolved spectroscopic properties of low-redshift star-forming

    Dr.
    Sebastián F. Sánchez

    Online

    8 Jul 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • The rotation of massive stars with and without compact companions

    Massive stars are generally fast rotators, however, with significant dispersion. We discuss the hypothesis that all OB stars are all born with very similar spins, with slower and faster rotators being produced by close binary evolution. We review supporting evidence from recent observations of young and rich star clusters, from OB star surveys, and

    Prof.
    Norbert Langer

    Online

    6 Jul 2021 - 12:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Using Machine learning in interstellar medium

    Artificial intelligence techniques are increasingly used in our daily lives. They also play an important role in science, including astrophysics. I am particularly interested in the use of machine learning regressors. I will present an overview of the current situation and some recent uses of these methods in the study of planetary nebulae or HII

    Dr.
    Christophe Morisset

    Aula

    22 Jun 2021 - 12:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Reconstructing the history of the Milky Way and probing the dark matter nature in WEAVE and LSST era

    At present, our understanding of the formation history of the MW is limited due to the complexity of observing the imprints of accretion events and of reproducing them in numerical simulations. Moreover, though being the only galaxy, in which the Galactic potential can be probed in detail, the distribution of mass in the MW, and hence of the dark

    Guillaume Frederic Jean Claude
    Thomas

    Online

    20 Mayo 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • Constraints on Ultra-Light Dark Matter from Galactic Rotation Curves

    Bosonic ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) in the mass range m ~ $10^{-22} - 10^{-21} \rm eV$ has been invoked as a motivated candidate with new input for the small-scale `puzzles' of cold dark matter. Numerical simulations show that these models form cored density distributions at the center of galaxies ('solitons'). These works also found an

    Prof.
    Diego Blas

    Online

    13 Mayo 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • The evolutionary history of the Milky Way disk(s) and halo from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting

    Gaia has provided distances and photometry, and thus colour-magnitude diagrams in the absolute plane, for stars over a large volume in the Milky Way, encompassing significant fractions of the thin and thick disk, and halo. This has allowed us, for the first time, to derive unprecedentedly detailed star formation histories from direct modelling of

    Carmen
    Gallart Gallart

    Online

    22 Abr 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Anteriores
  • QUIJOTE: el estado de la instrumentación CMB en Canarias.

    Durante este seminario se hará un recorrido sobre la instrumentación dentro del proyecto QUIJOTE, desde de los instrumentos ya existentes y su problemática hasta el estado actual de los instrumentos de nueva generación y los posibles desarrollos a futuro.

    Pablo Alberto Fuerte Rodríguez

    Zoom

    19 Feb 2021 - 11:00 Europe/London
    Anteriores