This didactic unit on the Cities at Night citizen science project aims to generate social awareness about the problem of light pollution, bring scientific research closer to schools and of course encourage young people to participate in the project. This teaching material will allow you to work in the classroom with high school students with…
The UB, IAUNAM and UCM co-organize the The Milky Way Gaia school on “Milky Way size galaxy formation and high performance computing” that is taking place between Jan. 14-17 2020 in Barcelona. The objective of the school and working group behind it is the exploitation of Gaia data in combination with other survey data to…
GUAIX member Cristina Cabello attended the J-PAS RIA Workshop: ‘The Universe in 56 colours: science with the first J-PAS data’ held in Teruel from 2 to 4 December, and gave a talk entitled Studying the properties of low-mass galaxies at z ∼1. How can J-PAS be useful here? This research surveys the Extended Groth Strip…
The regional government of the Comunidad de Madrid has awarded two research projects for Young Researchers to GUAIX members Dr. Bililign T. Dullo and Dr. Santi Roca-Fàbrega, both Captación de Talento fellows in the group. The amount awarded is over 90 k€ to support their research on the process that drive galaxy formation, from the…
GUAIX member Dr. Sergio Pascual and Dr. Eva Besadas visited the European Southern Observatory (ESO) headquarters in Garching to attend the Instrument Control Systems Seminar for the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT). The participation in this seminar is a further step in the effort being made by the GUAIX group to be at the head of…
ACTION is looking for new and ongoing citizen science projects related to any form of pollution in Europe and worldwide. Successful applicants will receive €20,000 to help deliver a six-month pilot with the help of the ACTION team. The funding can be spent on salaries, equipment, consumables, travel, subcontracting to other entities, and indirect expenditure…
The researchers Sara Cazzoli and Laura Hermosa have visited this week the department of Earth Physics and Astrophysics, for a scientific collaboration involving IFU data from the new MEGARA instrument with professors Africa Castillo and Armando Gil de Paz. Dr. Sara Cazzoli is researcher at the IAA (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía) and she was…
“The nuclear activity and central structure of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5322” Bil Dullo attended the ‘SKA in Spain’ meeting at Granada this week with a talk about “The nuclear activity and central structure of the elliptical galaxy NGC 5322”. His contribution showcased best strategies to exploit synergies from a large sample of high-resolution, multi-wavelength data, including from HST (optical and infrared) and…
Are you a researcher interested in carrying out your research in Madrid? The GUAIX Group is interested in supporting your application to the MSCA Individual Fellowships Calls. Our group can provide support in the preparation phase of the MSCA-IF grants. GUAIX coordinates the efforts and activities of UCM researchers in the following fields: Development and…
ESO Director General, Xavier Barcons visits the Faculty of Physical Sciences Xavier Barcons visited the Complutense University on Friday 5 April, invited by IPARCOS and he gave a talk, entitled ESO: Building and operating the most powerful ground-based telescopes. Barcons explained to a room full of researchers and students how is the day to day…