VIII Leopoldo García-Colín Mexican Meeting on Mathematical and Experimental Physics
El Colegio Nacional, Mexico City
October 23-27 2023
The VIII Leopoldo García-Colín Mexican Meeting on Mathematical and Experimental Physics was first held in September 2001, fostered by a group of professors of the Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana (UAM), Iztapalapa Campus, in collaboration with El Colegio Nacional to set up a forum where promising areas of research in Physics can be presented and discussed. The main objective is to open new lines of research for young Mexican scientists and bright graduate students and foster international collaboration.
The Meeting will take place over the whole week. It consists of three parallel Symposia, including one each for the fields of Quantum Technologies, Magnetic Aspects of the Universe, and Experimental Condensed Matter, five super-plenary lectures, and around twenty invited talks in each Symposium
Leopoldo García-Colín Scherer (1930-2012)
Super-plenary Speakers
Remo Ruffini (ICRANet/INAF/ICRA)
Heino Falcke (RU)
David Pine (NYU)
Seth Fraden (Brandeis University )
Frank Vewinger (Uni-Bonn)
Medal Lecture
Heino Falcke (RU)
Plática Pública
Moisés Martinez Mares (DF-UAM-I)
Organizing Committee
Chair: Alfredo Macías (DF-UAM-I)
Moisés Martínez Mares (DF-UAM-I)
Pedro Díaz-Leyva (DF-UAM-I)
Marco A. Maceda Santamaría (DF-UAM-I)
Miguel A. Bastarrachea-Magnani (DF-UAM-I)
Víctor Domínguez-Rocha (CB-UAM-A)
Eusebio Juaristi (DQ - Cinvestav)
Axel Pelster (RPTU)
Leopoldo García-Colín Medal
El Colegio Nacional
Venue
The event will be held in the beautiful colonial building of El Colegio Nacional, located in the heart of Mexico's City colonial section downtown.
A guided visit to a historic spot in Mexico City, as well as other events, such as a lecture for the general public and a ceremony where the commemorative Leopoldo García-Colin medal will be awarded, are planned. Previous recipients of the medal are Prof. Nicholas Van Kampen (2001), Prof. Michael Duff (2004), Prof. Victor Marquez (2007), Prof. George Weiss (2010), Prof. Claus Lämmerzahl (2013), Prof. Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann (2016), Prof. Mario Diaz (2020).
El Colegio Nacional
Donceles 104, Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, Colonia Centro, Delegación Cuauhtémoc, C. P. 06000 Ciudad de México, CDMX.
Accommodation
Hotel Gillow
Isabel La Católica 17, Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México, Colonia Centro, Delegación Cuauhtémoc, C. P. 06000 Ciudad de México, CDMX.
https://hotelgillow.com.mx/
Hotel Gillow: in the corner between Isabel La Católica street and 5 de mayo street.
Medal Lecture
Heino Falcke
Radboud University Nijmegen
What’s in a shadow? Past, Present and Future of Black Hole Imaging
The inside of black holes is shielded from observations by an event horizon, a virtual one-way membrane through which matter, light and information can enter but never leave. This loss of information, however, contradicts some basic tenets of quantum physics. Does such an event horizon really exist? What are its effects on the ambient light and surrounding matter? How does a black hole really look? Can one see it? In 2019 the Event Horizon Telescope made the first ever image of a black hole and detected its dark shadow in the radio galaxy M87 and in 2022 the black hole in the centre of our Milky Way was imaged. Supercomputer simulations and observations together provide strong support for the notion that we are literally looking into the abyss of the event horizon of a supermassive black hole. These images made headlines around the world and mark the beginning of a new era in our understanding of black holes. The speaker was one of the pioneers of this experiment and the talk will review the results of the Event Horizon Telescope, the nature and meaning of the black hole shadow, its scientific implications, and future developments.
Plática Pública
Moisés Martinez Mares
Departamento de Física, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Iztapalapa
Experimentos relevantes de la física mesoscópica cuántica
¿Qué tan pequeño puede ser un dispositivo electrónico y cuáles son las consecuencias de su tamaño diminuto? Desde los años 80’s de siglo pasado, con el desarrollo tecnológico se ha logrado la fabricación de conductores de electricidad del orden de un micra o menor. Resulta interesante revisar algunos de los experimentos iniciales que atrajo la atención de los científicos desde ese entonces a la fecha, a través del análisis del comportamiento de una propiedad elemental como lo es la resistencia. Esto dio lugar a lo que se conoce como la física mesoscópica cuántica.
Quantum Technologies Symposium Program
Experimental Condensed Matter Physics Symposium Program
Magnetic Aspects of the Universe Symposium Program
