Rosa Montero is a famous Spanish writer that recently visited the ICMM, where the Stardust machine is being built. This weekend she wrote in the El País Newspaper about her impressions. You can read the article here.
Category: NANOCOSMOS
A summary of the ECLA2016
Last November took place in Madrid the II European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics, ECLA2016 “Gas on the rocks”. NANOCOSMOS participated as one of the organizers. One of the activities developped was a Press Room, in order to produce communication and outreach materials available during and after the meeting.
You can see several video interviews to invited speakers and other participants in the youtube channel and also read the interviews with some of the experts that attended the meeting.
Links:
– Youtube playlist of the ECLA2016
– Press room of the ECLA2016
ECLA2016 conference ready to go!!
From next Monday 21 till Friday 25, the European Conference on Laboratory Astrophysics (ECLA2016 – Gas on the Rocks) will take place at the CSIC headquarters in Madrid. The opening act will be led by the president of CSIC, Emilio Lora-Tamayo, together with the Director of the Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid (ICMM-CSIC). Federico Soria, and José Cernicharo (SOC chair), Christine Joblin (SOC co-chair) and Isabel Tanarro (LOC chair).
More than 170 scientists worldwide (astrophysicists, physicists, chemists and engineers) will address the state of the art in laboratory astrophysics within the context of new exciting astrophysical data. In order to achieve a closer collaboration in the analysis and interpretation of astrophysical and laboratory data, nearly 80 talks and 90 posters will be presented at the conference.
A dedicated press room will be available at the conference webpage. Several scientists will be interviewed to show the general public how science can improve our current understanding on fundamental questions such as the formation of planetary systems and molecular complexity in Space as well as the interrelation between technological developments and top laboratory studies to address these fundamental questions.
Stay tuned!!
NANOCOSMOS at the Guillermo Haro School on Molecular Astrophysics (Puebla, Mexico)
Prof. José Cernicharo has been awarded with the Guillermo Haro Visiting Professorship 2016 at the Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica (INAOE, 
Puebla, Mexico). Following this award, INAOE has organized the Guillermo Haro School on Molecular Astrophysics (October 11 – 21, 2016). Several NANOCOSMOS scientists (Asunción Fuente from CNIG-IGN, Nuria Marcelino, José Pablo Fonfría and Luis Velilla from ICMM-CSIC) will give lectures on the following topics:
- Molecular Astrophysics, Spectroscopy, Chemistry in the ISM (José Cernicharo)
- Physical and chemical processes in the ISM, Protoplanetary disks (Asunción Fuente)
- Observational methods and interpretation (Nuria Marcelino)
- Molecular excitation and radiative transfer, Circumstellar medium (José Pablo Fonfría)
- Chemistry in the circumstellar medium, atmospheric effects and calibration (Luis Velilla)
José Cernicharo will give a public talk in Puebla downtown on Thursday 13: “Moléculas en el espacio: Astroquímica”.
NANOCOSMOS on top: Press releases from Nature´s “Compression and ablation of the photo-irradiated molecular cloud the Orion Bar”
The paper “Compression and ablation of the photo-irradiated molecular cloud the Orion Bar” (Goicoechea et al. 2016) recently published in Nature, has put Astrochemistry and NANOCOSMOS in the leading edge forefront of many research institutIons, newspapers and mass media. A few examples can be found below:
Institut de Radioastronomie Millimétrique (IRAM)
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP)