Closing of the IAC Winter School 2023

Winter School 2023 group at OT. Credit: Daniel López
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The XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics closed last Thursday, November 16, with the visit to the facilities of the Obervatorio del Teide. For two weeks, 54 graduate students from 15 countries attended the IACTEC building to learn about the latest developments in the field of galaxy evolution and the Local Group. Currently, astrophysics field is receiving a big amount of data available for research due to the Gaia Mission and several spectroscopic surveys from Earth in which the IAC has a large participation. 

The organization highlights the great enthusiasm, the good atmosphere and the participation of the students in all the events, such us the public talk about the Milky Way and its encounters with other galaxies and the visit to the Observatorio del Teide. The latter offered the unique opportunity to enjoy the excellent skies of the Canary Islands and to contemplate the two large galaxies of the Local Group that were the protagonists of the school: the Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy, both with the naked eye and through telescopes. For many students, this was their first time visiting a professional astronomical observatory.

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Poster of the XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics. Credit: Gabriel Pérez Díaz y Daniel López / IAC
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The Local Group as a benchmark for Galaxy Evolution, on IAC Winter School
La XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organizada por el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) y la Universidad de La Laguna (ULL), tendrá lugar entre los días 8 y 15 de noviembre. En esta edición, cerca de 60 estudiantes de 15 países se reunirán para conocer los últimos avances en el campo de la evolución de galaxias, con el Grupo Local como punto de referencia. Durante una semana, el edificio IACTEC, en el Parque Científico y Tecnológico de Tenerife (La Laguna), acogerá a 60 estudiantes de máster, doctorado y postdoctorado para nutrirse sobre las novedades del panorama
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Public talk: The Milky Way and its impacts with other galaxies
Tomorow, 10th November, at 18:00 the Museum of Science and the Cosmos will offer, free, a lectura with the title “The Milky Way and its encounters with other galaxies. It will be given in Spanish by Teresa Antoja, an astrophysicist and Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Institute of Science of the Cosmos in the University of Barcelona (ICCUB). The field of encounters between galaxies has been growing in importance in recent years. The European Space Agency (ESA), launched the Gaia mission some years ago, and this has provided a large amount of new information in the form of data which have
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The XXXIV Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, organized by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), focuses on the formation and the evolution of galaxies in the Local Group. The
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