Severo Ochoa Programme

Severo Ochoa Seminar

IAC Talks

Severo Ochoa Seminar program is an initiative that intends to increase visibility of the Incoming Severo Ochoa Senior Visitors program and to contribute to the professional training of the IAC PhD and postdoctoral personnel.
 
The lectures on the program aim to promote closer links between the different research groups at the IAC and those leaded by the visiting professors in their host institutions. The program is available to all interested researchers to participate, not only those involved directly into the SO project.

All Severo Ochoa visiting professors are encouraged to make a presentation related to the research focus of their collaborations.

 

  • The formation of Milky Way-mass galactic disc structure in cosmological simulations
    Recent years have seen impressive development in cosmological simulations for spiral disc galaxies like the Milky Way. I present a suite of high-resolution magneto-hydrodynamic simulations that include many physical processes relevant for galaxy formation, including star formation, stellar evolution and feedback, active galactic nuclei and magnetic
    Dr.
    Robert Grand
    IAC

    Aula

    21 Apr 2022 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/Kk-BWHw_YMY
  • Magnetic Flux, Heating, & Flaring: Clues from the Sun for Other Stars & Systems
    On the Sun, the presence of magnetic flux at the photosphere is closely linked to (1) steady heating of the overlying atmosphere and (2) transient brightenings, the largest of which are flares. I will discuss statistical properties of both phenomena, with an emphasis on aspects of each that might apply to other astrophysical objects, such as other
    Prof.
    Brian Welsch

    Aula

    5 Apr 2022 - 12:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/sTGVQVoYfOg
  • Dynamos, the drivers of solar and stellar activity
    Following Cowling's anti-dynamo theorem of 1933, there was a long period during which the very existence of dynamos was unclear. Even with the emergence of three dimensional simulations in the late 1980s, people were careful to distinguish true dynamos from just some sort of amplification. Meanwhile, we know of many examples of true dynamos - not
    Prof.
    Axel Brandenburg

    Online

    27 Jan 2022 - 09:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/apZcphg11CU
  • Galactic Globular Clusters: Why should we care about them?
    Galactic globular clusters have always been at the crossroad of several investigations in both Stellar and Galactic Astrophysics. For long time, they have been considered the prototypes of Simple Stellar Populations, and hence used for testing and calibrating stellar evolutionary models as well as population synthesis tools. Nowadays, after the
    Dr.
    Santi Cassisi
    INAF

    Aula

    14 Dec 2021 - 11:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/dFCvDd7Ddiw
  • PLANETARY PIECES: PUTING THE CLUES TOGETHER USING WHITE DWARFS
    Planetary systems have been found systematically orbiting main sequence stars and red giants. But the detection of planets per se during the white dwarf phase has been more elusive with only 3 systems. We have, however, ample indirect evidence of the existence of planetary debris around these systems in the form of material acreted onto the white
    Dr.
    Eva Villaver

    Aula 1

    23 Nov 2021 - 11:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/6-RdkV5dhfE
  • Magnetic reconnection in partially ionized plasmas
    The phenomenon of magnetic reconnection in a magnetized plasma has been a subject of numerous studies over the past several decades in a variety of contexts, from high energy astrophysics, to solar and space physics, to laboratory-based experiments. However, most magnetic reconnection studies have been devoted to exploring different collisionality
    Dr.
    Slava Lukin

    Aula

    28 Oct 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/JQSqnxZ-wzY
  • Using the Visible Spectral Reflectance Properties to Probe Aqueous Alteration in the Solar System
    During the past 50 years, we have witnessed humankind’s first good, detailed look at the planets in our known Solar System. All of these advances built upon Earth-based telescopic observations. We predict surface conditions on other Solar System bodies before spacecraft reach them for in situ study. The dominant type of asteroid identified
    Dr.
    Faith Vilas

    Aula

    26 Oct 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/67Mejg6ddmc
  • The interplay between local and global properties in galaxies
    We summarize here some of the results reviewed recently by Sanchez (2020) and Sanchez et al. (2021), comprising the advances in the comprehension of galaxies in the nearby universe based on integral field spectroscopic galaxy surveys. We review our current knowledge of the spatially resolved spectroscopic properties of low-redshift star-forming
    Dr.
    Sebastián F. Sánchez

    Online

    8 Jul 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/DpIEI9jXNO0
  • The rotation of massive stars with and without compact companions
    Massive stars are generally fast rotators, however, with significant dispersion. We discuss the hypothesis that all OB stars are all born with very similar spins, with slower and faster rotators being produced by close binary evolution. We review supporting evidence from recent observations of young and rich star clusters, from OB star surveys, and
    Prof.
    Norbert Langer

    Online

    6 Jul 2021 - 12:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/yJHMQFmLsGE
  • Using Machine learning in interstellar medium
    Artificial intelligence techniques are increasingly used in our daily lives. They also play an important role in science, including astrophysics. I am particularly interested in the use of machine learning regressors. I will present an overview of the current situation and some recent uses of these methods in the study of planetary nebulae or HII
    Dr.
    Christophe Morisset

    Aula

    22 Jun 2021 - 12:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/EBwIoy7klEg
  • Reconstructing the history of the Milky Way and probing the dark matter nature in WEAVE and LSST era
    At present, our understanding of the formation history of the MW is limited due to the complexity of observing the imprints of accretion events and of reproducing them in numerical simulations. Moreover, though being the only galaxy, in which the Galactic potential can be probed in detail, the distribution of mass in the MW, and hence of the dark
    Guillaume Frederic Jean Claude
    Thomas

    Online

    20 May 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/EdTwaVR_Wts
  • Constraints on Ultra-Light Dark Matter from Galactic Rotation Curves
    Bosonic ultra-light dark matter (ULDM) in the mass range m ~ $10^{-22} - 10^{-21} \rm eV$ has been invoked as a motivated candidate with new input for the small-scale `puzzles' of cold dark matter. Numerical simulations show that these models form cored density distributions at the center of galaxies ('solitons'). These works also found an
    Prof.
    Diego Blas

    Online

    13 May 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/jPcnpAIB2g0
  • The evolutionary history of the Milky Way disk(s) and halo from Gaia colour-magnitude diagram fitting
    Gaia has provided distances and photometry, and thus colour-magnitude diagrams in the absolute plane, for stars over a large volume in the Milky Way, encompassing significant fractions of the thin and thick disk, and halo. This has allowed us, for the first time, to derive unprecedentedly detailed star formation histories from direct modelling of
    Carmen
    Gallart Gallart

    Online

    22 Apr 2021 - 10:30 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/cnnic-gFqcI
  • QUIJOTE: el estado de la instrumentación CMB en Canarias.
    Durante este seminario se hará un recorrido sobre la instrumentación dentro del proyecto QUIJOTE, desde de los instrumentos ya existentes y su problemática hasta el estado actual de los instrumentos de nueva generación y los posibles desarrollos a futuro.
    Pablo Alberto Fuerte Rodríguez
    IAC

    Zoom

    19 Feb 2021 - 11:00 Europe/London
    Past
    Talk Video
    https://youtu.be/Hi8Bg1P-YjA