Concepción, 19 de Mayo 2020

A series of colloquia is held at the Department of Astronomy Udec

Since 29 April 2020 scientific seminars are being held in which academics from the Department of Astronomy participate together with researchers from various educational centres of the world. The first participating scientist was Dr. Giacomo Fragione, who is a member of Northwestern University, and works on topics related to gravitational wave-induced fusions of binary compact objects. On April 29, Dr. Fragione presented "Can hierarchical triples explain the LIGO-Virgo mergers?".

On May 6, Dr. Tom Richtler, an academic from the Department of Astronomy Udec, who focuses his work on studying globular clusters and galaxy cluster systems, presented " Luminosity profiles of spherical galaxies - their physical meaning". May 13 was Dr. Aaron Geller’s turn from Northwestern University. Geller presented "Visualizing Your N-Body Simulations", in which he gave an overview of his research on how stellar dynamics and stellar evolution conspire to create the most interesting stars and planets. On the 20th of May Dr. Jennifer Schober from the Astrophysics Laboratory, EPFL, talked about the origins and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields in "New insights on the origin and evolution of cosmic magnetic fields".

The colloquia continued on June 3 with the presentation of Tim Lichtenberg from the Oxford University, who talked about " Geophysical imprint on rocky planet formation and evolution". A week later, June 10, was the turn of Dr. Phillip Grete of University of Michigan, who unveiled  K-Athena – a performance portable structured grid finite volume magnetohydrodynamics code. On June 17, Dr. Pierluigi Cerulo of the University of Concepción presented " The Morphological Evolution of Galaxies as a function of the Environment". The colloquiums will continue on June 24; 1, 8, 15 and 29 July.