2018 6th meeting

University of Antioquia (Medellin, Colombia)

November 19-30, 2018

The AstroTwinCoLO 2018 6th Meeting is the sixth 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 November 19-30, 2018. 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

Dr. Alessandro Sonnenfeld

Alessandro obtained his PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working on gravitational lensing under the supervision of Prof. Tommaso Treu, where he had the opportunity to collaborate with experts in Bayesian inference methods such as Brendon Brewer, Phil Marshall and Brandon Kelly.

After spending 3 years as a postdoctoral fellow at the Kavli Institute for the Physics and the Mathematics of the Universe, in Japan, He is now a Marie Curie fellow at Leiden Observatory since September 2018.

Dr.Themiya Nanayakkara

Themiya Nanayakkara is a researcher at the Leiden observatory. He finished his high school studies in Sri Lanka and moved continents to do his undergraduate studies at the University of Liverpool in UK. Then he decided to switch hemispheres to do his PhD at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, where he studied galaxies that lived 9 billion years ago. This is the time period in which the Universe was forming most of their stars, and almost ~80% of everything you see in the Universe was build in this epoch. So it is an interesting time window to study the galaxies when they were young and active. Now he is back in Europe working on studying the very early galaxies in the Universe going further back in time. This is when the galaxies and stars first start to form and in our group we try to understand how and what kind of stars were formed in these first galaxies by trying to find them and matching what we observed with models.