On 9 and 10 April, the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) will welcome two distinguished physicists: Serge Haroche, winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physics, and F. Duncan Haldane, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics. Both scientists have been invited by the IAC to take part in the 18th Congress of Physics Students (COEFIS), organised by students from the University of La Laguna, and will each give a lecture in the IAC Lecture Hall from 10.30 am. On Thursday 9 April, the IAC will welcome Professor Haroche, and on Friday 10 April it will be Professor Haldane’s turn. In both

From today until 5 December 2025, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting the SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings, an international gathering focused on the scientific and technical advances of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) instrument aboard ESA's Solar Orbiter (SO) space mission. The development of PHI was co-led by the Spanish Space Solar Physics Consortium (S3PC), which also currently coordinates its scientific operation and exploitation. The IAC is part of this network. PHI is a high-precision solar observation instrument equipped with two telescopes—one

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) announces the death of its founding director, Professor Francisco Sánchez Martínez, whose determination led to the creation of one of Europe's leading research centres and two of the world's finest astrophysical observatories: the Teide Observatory in Tenerife and the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in La Palma. He passed away today in Madrid, where he had been living for the last few years, at the age of 89. The director of the IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet, emphasises that "Professor Sánchez's legacy is incalculable. He was a man who paved