Stars, the most fundamental building blocks of galaxies, are born within the clouds of gas and dust and and during their lives they enrich the gas and the...

The Observatorio de Canarias (OOCC) provide a unique and fundamental resource for the IAC community. A large number of different facilities, from small...

There are galaxies that remain untouched since the ancient Universe. These unique objects, the so-called relic galaxies, are several times more massive than our...

In this talk I will review the subject of cosmological inflation, a period of early accelerated expansion. I will discuss Friedmann-Robertson-Walker cosmology...

The origin and structure of the Earth's crust is still a major question. Current measurements of the nearby crust are based largely on seismic, gravimetric and...

Lecture 1: HTRA: history across all wavelengths, with emphasis on space science technology- From optical photographic to photoelectric photometry at ground...

Lecture 2: HTRA: Current technologies- X-ray: RXTE to ASTROSAT, Chandra, XMM, NuSTAR- optical/IR: EMCCDs, APDs, MCP-based systems- UV: HST, Galex

Lecture 3; HTRA: Future developments/new technologies - X-ray: AXTAR, LOFT, XEUS/Athena, Lobster concept - optical/IR; MKIDS, STJs, ultra-fast detectors

Lecture 1: ULTRACAM- High time-resolution astrophysics (HTRA) - what is it and why study it?- The detection of light - an introduction to CCDs- Instrumentation...