GUAIX

Los prof. Giovanni G. Fazio (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics), Jiasheng Huang (Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, SAO), prof. David C. Koo (U. California Observatories/Lick Observatory) y Eiichi Egami (Dept. of Astronomy and Steward Observatory, University of Arizona) están de visita en la UCM tras la reunión del grupo AEGIS en Toledo. Más fotos en la galería de imágenes

GUAIX members Raffaella Marino and Lucía Rodríguez have presented the results of their master thesis. These research works are the final phase of the Master in Astrophysics and a necessary step before the PD Thesis.

From 20th to 23rd of October 2009, the III Consolider-GTC meeting was held in the thousand-year-old city of Cádiz. Nearly 100 project members assisted the encounter in the Hotel Atlántico - Parador de Cádiz. The meeting, funded by the CONSOLIDER INGENIO-2010 program of the MICINN, allowed the project members to expose and discuss the proposals and projects related to the scientific exploitation of the Spanish 10m telescope GTC, as well as to enable collaborations between different research groups inside the project. More information here.

GUAIX member Carmen Eliche has attended to the conference held in Malta from October 19th-21st, 2009. Nearly 200 astrophysicists have confered, discussed, and transfered their knowledge on faint, dust-obscured, or dark components of galaxies during this week. The state-of-the-art cosmological simulations on galaxy formation were shown by their developers, as well as different, exotic theories on AGN radio modes or on binary super massive black holes that are coalescencing. Even the doubts of certain scientists on the existence of dark matter (thought to represent more than 90% of the total matter in the Universe) appeared during the discussion sessions. We presented a poster on numerical simulations, proving that some inner disks and rings in galaxies could have been formed through minor mergers. For a low-resolution version of the poster, click here.