Investigadores de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) han utilizado una novedosa técnica de observación del espectro electromagnético que permite obtener por primera vez información sobre la abundancia de carbono y nitrógeno de manera independiente en las galaxias de tipo elíptico, lo que arroja un foco de luz sobre su nacimiento.

Dr. Antonio (Toni) Marin Franch has visited the UCM to parcipate as referee in the PhD defense of Esther Mármol Queraltó. The day after that event Toni has given a seminar entitled "Relative ages of Galactic globular clusters. Clues to the Milky Way formation time scales".

On January 13th, 2009, Esther Mármol Queraltó has successfully obtained the PhD degree from the defense of the work entitled Caracterización del índice de CO en 2.3 micras y su aplicación al estudio de poblaciones estelares en galaxias de primeros tipos, obtaining the highest qualification Sobresaliente Cum Laude. This work has been supervised by Dr. Nicolás Cardiel.

Ignacio Ferreras, who works at the Department of Space and Climate Physics (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London), has spent one day (17/12/2008) at the UCM visiting the people working on stellar populations. He has given the seminar entitled "Archaeology of early-type galaxies".

Globular clusters are among the simplest and oldest composite stellar objects in the Universe. For that reason, their study provides essential clues for the understanding of star formation processes. Some people of our group are working in this field. For more details, see the publications of Javier Cenarro.