From Thursday, May 8th, to Friday, May 9th, the Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) is hosting the meeting of the Research Advisory Committee (CAI). This is the center's highest advisory body on research and analyzes its scientific and technological output. At this meeting, the director, Valentín Martínez Pillet, will present the center's main scientific and technological milestones, as well as a proposal for future lines of action. The director will also be joined by Eva Villaver, deputy director of the IAC; Romano Corradi, director of Gran Telescopio Canarias; Jonay González

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is positioning itself as one of the main partners of the Government of the Canary Islands in the Canary Islands Aerospace Strategy, presented this Wednesday by President Fernando Clavijo. The goal is to position the archipelago as a key player in a rapidly growing sector, promoting innovation, technology transfer, and the creation of high value-added jobs.

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has welcomed Donna Strickland, 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics, who delivered a lecture entitled " From Nonlinear Optics to High-Intensity Laser Physics". The talk, held at the IAC Auditorium, was introduced by Garik Israelian, researcher at the center and co-founder of the Starmus Festival, an event in which Strickland participated previously in La Palma last week. During her presentation, Strickland explained in an accessible manner the fundamentals of her pioneering research on Chirped Pulse Amplification (CPA), work for which she was awarded the

The Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos, part of the Organismo Autónomo de Museos y Centros del Cabildo de Tenerife, will host a conference by the astrophysicist and 2006 Nobel Laureate in Physics, John Mather, entitled ‘Unsolved mysteries of physics and astronomy’, on Friday 9th May. Mather receives this week the recognition as Doctor Honoris Causa of the Universidad de La Laguna (ULL) with the sponsorship of the researcher of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) and Doctor Honoris Causa of the ULL, John Beckman. Mather's lecture, which will be in English, will be presented by the

The Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) has started its development of DRAGO-3 , the third generation of its instrument: Demonstrator for Remote Analysis of Ground Observations (DRAGO), designed for Earth observation from space in the short wave infrared region of the spectrum (SWIR). This new instrument comes after the success of DRAGO-1 and DRAGO-2 , which have proved their utility in key applications such as following volcanic eruptions, hydrological monitoring of regions affected by climate change, and the control of forest fires. Both the previous models have shown their

El Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) participa como colaborador en Starmus Festival que se celebra desde este viernes 25 de abril hasta el lunes 28 en La Palma. El IAC lleva su actividad divulgadora y su conocimiento científico a la agenda de este festival internacional que fusiona ciencia, arte y tecnología de vanguardia. Dentro del programa de Lectures , en el Hotel Meliá La Palma, el director del IAC, Valentín Martínez Pillet, impartirá una charla con el título ‘Living with a star: the good, the bad, and the ugly’. Además, la subdirectora del centro, Eva Villaver Sobrino, formará