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The Department of Astronomy and Meteorology is devoted to research
and training new professionals and to disseminate and communicate
to society in:

  • Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology

  • Meteorology and Geophysics

ESO's Very Large Telescope Celebrates 15 Years of Success

This new picture celebrates an important anniversary for the Very Large Telescope – it is fifteen years since the first light on the first of its four Unit Telescopes, on 25 May 1998. Since then the four original giant telescopes have been joined by the four small Auxiliary Telescopes that form part of the VLT Interferometer (VLTI). The VLT is one of the most powerful and productive ground-based astronomical facilities in existence. In 2012 more than 600 refereed scientific papers based on data from the VLT and VLTI were published (ann13009)

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Thursday, 23 May, 2013

Debate on air pollution levels in European cities, in a conference at the UB

The University of Barcelona, Alumni UB and the winery Torres, together with Barcelona City Council and Transport for London, organise today, Tuesday 21st May, the conference “Fins on cal arribar per reduir la contaminació atmosfèrica?”. The Aula Magna of the UB Historic Building gathers experts on air quality and health and representatives of public administrations and European organizations who discuss pollution levels in big cities, such as Barcelona, London or Copenhagen, and the actions that can be carried out to reduce them. Organizers state that crisis has caused “a reduction of road traffic and indirectly an ‘unreal’ decrease in pollution levels”.

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Tuesday, 21 May, 2013

PhD Extraordinary Award for two Ph.D. graduates from the Department

Andreu Font Ribera and Juan Carlos Morales Peralta received the PhD Extraordinary Award from the University of Barcelona.

 

Andreu Font's thesis  "Large Scale Structure with Lyman Alpha Absorption Surveys"  was directed by Jordi Miralda Escudé and supervised by per Alberto Manrique Oliva

Juan Carlos Morales's thesis "The Effect of Activity on the Fundamental Properties of Low-Mass Stars" was directed by Carme Jordi Nebot and Ignasi Ribas Canudas.

 

New from UB

List of awards

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Friday, 17 May, 2013

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