2013 1st Meeting
University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia)
August 12-23, 2013
The AstroTwinCoLO 2013 1st Meeting is the first event celebrated as part of the Astronomy Twinning Program between the University of Antioquia (Colombia) and Leiden Observatory (Leiden). The meeting will be held in Medellin (Colombia) on August 12-23, 2013. Participants from Colombia and in general from all the Andean region are welcome to come and participate in the Courses that will be offered during the meeting.
Invited Lecturers
Prof. Bernhard Brandl
Associate Professor, Leiden University. Senior Research Associate, Cornell University. Research Associate (Spitzer ST), Cornell University. Research Associate (Palomar Instrumentation), Cornell University. Principal investigator of the METIS instrument for the E-ELT. Dutch deputy co-PI of JWST-MIRI. Coordinator of the joint UL/TUD specialization in astronomical instrumentation. 234 publications 6348 citations.
Prof. Elena Rossi
Assistant professor at Leiden University. Ph.D. University of Cambridge, UK under the supervision of Prof. Martin Rees. Chandra Fellow at JILA, University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado (2008). Postdoctoral position at Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching, Germany (2005). Fellowship at Racah Institute, Jerusalem, Cambridge European Society prize, Isaac Newton Studentship, University of Cambridge. Member of LOFT (Large Observatory for X-ray Timing; one of the four space missions concepts of the ESA Cosmic Vision programme that will compete for a launch opportunity at the start of the 2020s). Science definition team (γ-Ray Bursts and Tidal Disruption events working groups). Leiden representative at CAN (Committee of Astroparticle Physics in the Netherlands). Chair of the Leiden PhD admission Committee.
Juan R. Martínez-Galarza, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Ph.D. Leiden University (Netherlands) State-of-the-art physical modelling and interpretation of the Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) of starburts, comparison with Spitzer data under the supervision of Prof. Bernhard Brandl. Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) for the James Webb Space Telescope Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom, 2008-2012.
Juan C. Muñoz, Ph.D.
Faculty Member at the Institute of Physics, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia). Director of the Computational Physics and Astrophysics Group. Ph.D. Astrophysics, Potsdam University (Germany). Large Scale Structure and Galaxy Formation and Evolution in a Cosmological Context under the supervision of Prof. Volker Müller.
Prof. Jorge I. Zuluaga
Faculty Member at the Institute of Physics, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia). Founder and head of the undergraduate program in Astronomy at U. de A. Ph.D. Physics, Universidad de Antioquia (Colombia). Neutrino emission from Stellar Collapse and the determination of neutrino properties with present and future detectors under the supervision of Prof. Enrico Nardi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare). Leader of the Exoplanetary Physics and Habitability in the Universe research lines in the Computational Physics and Astrophysics Group (UdeA) and Member of the Binary Habitability Mafia of the New Mexico State University and U. de A.