After revisiting the hierarchy problem of the Standard Model and its implications for the scale of New Physics, I consider the finetuning problem in two main...
Finite element analysis accuracy of the GTC commissioning instrument structure
Under a contract with the GRANTECAN, the Commissioning Instrument (CI) is a project developed by a team of Mexican scientists and engineers from the...
At this meeting we presented a spinfoam model in which the fundamental "bubble amplitudes" (the analog of the one-loop corrections in QFT) are finite as the...
Firefly: The Case for a Holistic Understanding of the Global Structure and Dynamics of the Sun and the Heliosphere
This white paper is on the HMCS Firefly mission concept study. Firefly focuses on the global structure and dynamics of the Sun's interior, the generation of...
FIRES: Ultradeep near-infrared imaging with ISAAC of the Hubble Deep Field South
Between October 1999 and October 2000 an undistinguished high-galactic latitude patch of sky, the Hubble Deep Field South (HDF-S), was observed with the VLT for...
The SDSS-III Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE) will obtain high resolution (R 22,500) and high S/N ( 100 per pixel) H-band spectra...
First Attempts To Push LN<SUB>2</SUB> Continuous Flow Cryostat Bellow 77K
This conference presentation was prepared for the Advances in Optical and Mechanical Technologies for Telescopes and Instrumentation V conference at SPIE...
First bolide over the Canary Islands with trajectory and orbit reconstructed by a national team
The constant influx of new material from space to Earth provides an opportunity to delve into the processes that took place in the formation of the Solar System...