The IAC confirms its commitment to technology transfer
After the first “European Workshop on Technology and Knowledge Generated by Astrophysics” the director of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) Rafael...
The IAC has its qualification as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence renewed
The Ministry of Science and Innovation published yesterday the provisional resolution of the qualification of the Centres and Units of Excellence, granting the...
The IAC hosts the annual meeting of the DALI experiment to search for dark matter
The annual meeting of the DALI (Dark-photons & Axion-Like particles Interferometer) experiment, an international collaboration to develop an astroparticle...
The IAC hosts the meeting of the NEOMIR mission that will boost the early detection of asteroids.
The mission is part of the planetary defence strategy of the European Space Agency (ESA) The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting this week the...
The IAC hosts the second Solar MHD conference, an international meeting of experts in solar physics
The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting the second Solar MHD ( UKUS 7) conference this week. Following the successful first edition held in...
The IAC is leading a COST action of the European Union to study carbon nanostructures in space
On November 1st the COST ( European Cooperation in Science and Technology) action called “NanoSpace: Molecular carbon nanostructures in space” coordinated by...
The IAC is participating in the DALI experiment, searching for the axion, proposed component of dark matter
The detection of the axion would mark a key episode in the history of science. This hypothetical particle could resolve two fundamental problems of Modern...
The IAC organises the CLASP2.1 space mission scientific meeting
From 18 to 20 October, scientists from the USA, Japan and Europe meet at the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) to discuss the results of the third...
The IAC passes successfully the pre-optical revision of the instrument HARMONI
The pre-optics for HARMONI, the optical and infrared spectrograph to be installed on the Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) at Cerro Armazones (Chile), has passed...