SO Training

The tenth edition of the European Radio Interferometry School, ERIS2024, will be held in Granada, Spain, from Monday September 30th to Friday October 4th, 2024. ERIS will provide a week of lectures and tutorials on how to achieve scientific results from radio interferometry. The school is co-organised by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (IAA-CSIC) […]

The Python Blob Detector and Source Finder (PyBDSF) is a CASA-based software designed for source detection in radio-interferometric images. Originally developed for the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR), PyBDSF is designed to work on a wide range of scales, cataloguing different types of sources and allowing post-extraction filtering depending on the user’s scientific purposes. PyBDSF works […]

There is no science without communication and no successful scientists without good writing and communication skills. You can do the best science that exists, if you don’t write papers about it – papers that get cited! ­– and if you don’t give presentations that impress people, your science will likely be ignored. Moreover, if you do not […]

This session is a hands-on introduction to using GitHub for scientific research collaboration within the  Severo Ochoa Training Initiative of the IAA-CSIC. We’ll explore software repositories and their role in managing and sharing research work within a group. Key concepts—such as commits, forks, pushes, pulls, and pull requests—will be clarified with practical examples of their […]

PySnacks Within the  Severo Ochoa Training Initiative of the IAA-CSIC we are offering short introductory practical courses about Python packages for astrophysical applications (PySnacks). We invite you to participate in the 4h course PySnack 9: GASTLI Abstract Understanding the interior composition of exoplanets is key to uncovering their formation and evolutionary histories, especially their metal content. […]

PySnacks Within the  Severo Ochoa Training Initiative of the IAA-CSIC we are offering short introductory practical courses about Python packages for astrophysical applications (PySnacks). We invite you to participate in the 4h course PySnack 10: PROSE Abstract Approximately 75% of known exoplanets have been discovered by identifying transit signals in the light curves of their host […]

The course will be taught in seven sessions of 1.5 hours each. 27 Jan 2025: Cosmic elemental abundances. Data sources. Stellar abundances. Nebular abundances. 29 Jan 2025: Primordial nucleosynthesis and abundances of the light elements. 3 Feb 2025: Outline of stellar structure and evolution. 5 Feb 2025: Stellar nucleosynthesis and principles of galactic chemical evolution. […]

During five half days the school will cover topics from the basics of Bayesian inference over model fitting, computational methods to simulations. Practical exercises will be combined with the theoretical lectures The agenda will include: Basics of Bayesian Inference. A quick review of Bayes theorem, the basics of probability and probability distributions, followed by a fun […]

The school is designed for researchers at all career stages who are particularly interested in the formation and evolution of galaxies. The school is ideally positioned to offer an up-to-date scientific perspective on the recent exciting findings in extragalactic research, especially from the JWST and other space- and ground-based facilities. An exciting and bright future […]

FPGA’s and heterogeneous SoC’s are used in an increasing number of mission critical or high reliability applications. These applications span a diverse range from industrial, medical and scientific to defense, transportation and even space. For these devices to safely and reliability operate in an often-harsh environment, a more rigorous design approach is required. One that […]

Black holes are among the most fascinating objects in the universe. From cosmological scales, galactic and stellar scales where black holes are integral pieces in the formation and evolution of different structures, to microscopic scales in which the study of the fabric of spacetime and black hole interiors are interrelated, black holes are ubiquitous in […]

Etienne Bonnassieux (SO postdoc, IAA-CSIC) IAA-CSIC, Salón de Actos 17 Sept 2025, 10-13h Radio astronomy is in the midst of a renaissance. Facilities such as LOFAR, the uGMRT and MeerKAT —pathfinders for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)— are revealing the low‑frequency (MHz / metre wavelength regime) sky with unprecedented fidelity. Their discoveries arrive just as […]