ICCUB Christmas Meeting

ICCUB Christmas Meeting

ICCUB Christmas Meeting This year we organize the first edition of the ICCUB Christmas Meeting, which will cover the most recent news in Astrophysics, Cosmology, String Theory, Nuclear and Particle Physics. In the meeting, ICCUB members from different specialties meet...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: DIRECTOR IEEC

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: DIRECTOR IEEC 2014-12-15 00:00:00 The Institute of Space Studies of Catalonia (IEEC) http://www.ieec.cat/ was founded in February 1996. Its Board of Trustees comprises the University of Barcelona (UB), the Autonomous University of Barcelona...
“The Milky Way Unraveled by Gaia”, GREAT meeting

“The Milky Way Unraveled by Gaia”, GREAT meeting

“The Milky Way Unraveled by Gaia”, GREAT meeting This meeting will provide the opportunity to discuss research activities carried out in advance of Gaia's operations, and allow for a look ahead to the exciting range of science that will be enabled with access to...

Brilliant Blunders

Brilliant Blunders Even the greatest scientists have made some serious blunders, "Brilliant Blunders" concerns the evolution of life on Earth, of the Earth itself, of stars, and of the universe as a whole. In this talk, I shall concentrate on and...

Quantifying Dark Energy using Cosmic Lensing

Quantifying Dark Energy using Cosmic Lensing I will describe the great potential and possible limitations of using the bending of light by gravity (gravitational lensing) to constrain the mysterious dark energy which seems to dominate the contents of our Universe. In...