The Permanent All Sky Survey (PASS) will consist of arrays of wide angle CCD cameras, that will permanently survey the entire visible sky from several observing...
Past, Present and Future of Cosmic Microwave Background Observations: Implications for Cosmology
The Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) is one of the main pillars of modern Cosmology. Soon after its discovery in 1965, it was recognized as evidence of cosmic...
Past, Present and Future of NOT from the IAC perspective
In this talk I reviewed some of the major scientific highlights produced in the past decade by Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias (IAC) researchers using the...
Pattern recognition techniques and the measurement of solar magnetic fields
Measuring vector magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere using the profiles of the Stokes parameters of polarized spectral lines split by the Zeeman effect is...