Organizers:
Pablo Lopez
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Universidad de Guadalajara
Centro Universitario de Ciencias Exactas e Ingenierias
Quantum & Classical Statistical Physics Seminar
In this series of seminars we invite speakers to talk about different topics of current interest on Statistical Physics bi-weekly, usually on Tuesday. Researchers from different Mexican or foreign universities are invited to give colloquium and also to present their work. Students are also welcome to present their work in this seminar.
Please check our YouTube page to watch all the previous talks.
Incoming talk
Discovering faint features of galaxies and other astrophysical topics
Speaker: Simon Nicholas Kemp
Dpto. de Física, Universidad de Guadalajara
Date: November 18th 2025, 11:30 (GMT-6)
Auditorium Z of CUCEI. (Youtube Link coming soon...)
Abstract
We discuss the detection and measurement of faint light in galaxies and groups and clusters of galaxies. This can be in the form of giant extended haloes (envelopes) as in cD galaxies; filaments, tails, bridges in interactions of galaxies; intracluster or intragroup light, and low surface brightness galaxies. We review some projects in progress, including a study of faint material in the field of Stephan’s Quintet first detected in the 1970s. and a study of a disk galaxy in Virgo of very uncertain morphological type. We discuss the use of population synthesis codes to model the spectra and colours of galaxies, in order to determine the stellar populations (types of stars) in different parts of the galaxies. We review the use of residual images, colour maps, and 2D component decomposition in the study of galaxies.
Student Organizers:
Alejandro Contreras
Hans Baltazar
Dalia Hernandez
Alejandro Ramírez
Few examples of the topics presented in the seminars:
Critical Phenomena and Non-Equilibrium Statistical Physics
Open System and Chaos
Spin Systems, Networks
Random Matrix Theory
Quantum Computing and Quantum Information Theory
Socio-Physics and Econo-physics
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Announcements:
Feb/2025: The seminars will now take place on Tuesdays.
Jan/2025: The seminar schedule for the first semester of the year will be from 15:00 to 17:00.
Aug/2024: Recent international conference organized by us:
We cordially invite you to assist to these seminars published on Youtube.
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