Institute of Space Sciences: 25 Years of Discovery and Innovation

Feb 3, 2025, 1:45 AM → Feb 5, 2025, 7:00 PM Europe/Madrid

Residencia de Investigadores de Barcelona (Barcelona)

Institute of Space Sciences: 25 Years of Discovery and Innovation

Monday, February 3

10:00 AM → 11:40 AM Day 1: Welcome Session and ICE-CSIC in time (I)

10:00 AM Welcome | Aldo Serenelli

10:05 AM ICREA @ CSIC | Antonio Huerta

10:15 AM Opening address | Jose María Martell (Vicepresidente de Investigación Científica y Técnica CSIC)

10:25 AM ICE-CSIC’s first steps | Jordi Isern

10:50 AM ICE-CSIC's coming of age: highlights, growth, and changes in 2016 - 2023 | Diego F. Torres

11:15 AM ICE-CSIC today | Aldo Serenelli

11:40 AM → 12:10 PM Coffee Break I

12:10 PM → 1:55 PM Day 1: Overview Departments

12:10 PM Spanish Space Agency's Programmes | Isabel Pérez (Agencia Espacial Española)

12:40 PM Planetary systems and Earth Observation Department | Estel Cardellach

12:55 PM Star formation, Stellar and High-energy Astrophysics Department | Josep-Miquel Girart

1:10 PM Nuclear, Gravitational Wave and Multi-messenger Astrophysics Department | Carlos Sopuerta

1:25 PM Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology Department | Lluís Galbany

1:40 PM Advanced Engineering Unit | Serni Ribó

1:55 PM → 2:55 PM Lunch

2:55 PM → 4:55 PM Day 1: ICE-CSIC in Time (II)

2:55 PM The origins of stellar and high-energy astrophysics at ICE: my perspective | Margarita Hernanz

3:10 PM What I remember from CEAB (… with some certainty) | Emili Elizalde

3:25 PM Steps to ICE-CSIC: My Professional Adventure | Antonio Rius

3:40 PM The Path Taken to Arrive at IEEC-ICE-CSIC in 1998 | José María Torrelles

3:55 PM ICE-CSIC María de Maeztu Best Paper by a Student Award 2024

4:20 PM ICE-CSIC María de Maeztu Best Paper by a Fellow Award 2024

Tuesday, February 4

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Day 2: ICE-CSIC Departments Science Talks I: Planetary systems and Earth Observation

9:30 AM Magnetic fields in exoplanetary systems and low-mass stars | Daniele Viganò

9:50 AM 25 years developing EO techniques, preparing for the next 25! | Weiqiang Li

10:10 AM Exoplanet detection and characterization at the ICE-CSIC | Manuel Perger

10:30 AM Understanding asteroids and comets from space missions and meteorite laboratory studies | Josep M. Trigo-Rodríguez

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Day 2: ICE-CSIC Departments Science Talks II: Star formation, Stellar and High-energy Astrophysics

11:30 AM ALMAGAL: Evolutionary study of high-mass proto-cluster formation in the Galaxy | Álvaro Sánchez-Monge

11:50 AM Nova explosions and instrumentation for X-rays | Margarita Hernanz

12:10 PM Some scientific highlights of the multi-messenger astrophysics group: a 19 years contribution to ICE-CSIC's 25 years of success | Diego F. Torres

12:30 PM The Sun, solar-like stars, and asteroseismology | Aldo Serenelli

1:00 PM → 2:00 PM Lunch

2:00 PM → 2:15 PM Day 2: Social Activity

2:15 PM → 3:45 PM Day 2: ICE-CSIC Departments Science Talks III: Advance engineering Unit

2:15 PM ARRAKIHS: Calibrating the VIS detectors | Àlvaro Montoro

2:30 PM Microwave electronics for Earth Observation and Radioastronomy | Serni Ribó

2:45 PM Software development at the AEU | Víctor Martín

3:00 PM STARS: AI-Powered Scheduling Solutions for astronomical observatories | Ramon Vallés

3:15 PM Ultra-sensitive temperature sensing using cavity opto-mechanics | Vivek Gualani

3:30 PM Technological capabilities to face the design a Wide Field X-ray Monitor | Daniel Álvarez

3:45 PM → 4:15 PM Coffee break

4:15 PM → 5:45 PM Day 2: Round Table: ICE-CSIC and the future of astronomy and space sciences

4:15 PM Round Table - Challenges in Technological Research

5:00 PM Round Table - Challenges in Scientific Research

Wednesday, February 5

9:30 AM → 11:00 AM Day 3: ICE-CSIC Departments Science Talks IV: Nuclear, Gravitational Wave and Multi-messenger Astrophysics

9:30 AM Nuclear and Astroparticle Physics: Unveiling Extreme Densities in Compact Stars | Cristina Manuel & Laura Tolos

9:50 AM From LISA Pathfinder to LISA: building precision measurement know-how at ICE | Miquel Nofrarias

10:04 AM The challenge to model gravitational wave signals | Sascha Husa

10:16 AM LISA: from measurements to science | Ivan Martín Vílchez

10:26 AM The transient high energy sky and related instrumentations | Francesco Coti Zelati

10:36 AM 3D eMHD simulations of magnetic field decay in neutron stars | Davide De Grandis

10:44 AM Pulsar Population Synthesis simulations with Machine Learning | Celsa Pardo

10:52 AM Pulsar Navigation Systems: the Deep Space Pulse Project | Emilie Parent

11:00 AM → 11:30 AM Coffee break

11:30 AM → 1:00 PM Day 3: ICE-CSIC Departments Science Talks V: Extragalactic Astrophysics and Cosmology

11:30 AM Large-scale galaxy surveys | Francisco Castander

11:48 AM Modified gravity | Sergei Odintsov

12:06 PM Supernovae and stellar transients | Claudia Gutiérrez

12:24 PM Growing black holes at ICE: from the first seeds to active galactic nuclei | Mar Mezcua

12:42 PM The low surface brightness Universe | Mireia Montes

1:00 PM → 1:30 PM Day 3: Final Remarks and closure

1:00 PM Closure | Aldo Serenelli