Dept. Astrofísica y CC de la Atmósfera Univ. Complutense de Madrid
Research lines:
Local star-forming galaxies Galaxy models Surveys Databases SHARDS project Stellar libraries Early-type galaxies Meteors and Fireballs Dark Skies |
Instrumental developments: MEGARA:Multi-Espectrógrafo en GTC de Alta Resolución para Astronomía | |
EMIR: Espectrógrafo Multiobjeto en el InfraRrojo | ||
FRIDA: inFrared Imager and Dissector for Adaptative optics |
J. Gallego and R. Guzmán, core members of AEGIS
The last 15 to 17 December 2008 the AEGIS collaboration meet at Lick Observatory, University of California, Santa Cruz. J. Gallego and R. Guzmán were nominated as "core" members and P.G. Pérez-González was nominated as a "regular" member. GUAIX is the only spanish group represented in the AEGIS core.
UCM was selected to host the AEGIS meeting in december 2009.
Antonio Marín-Franch visits UCM
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".
Dr. Esther Mármol
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.