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  • Reunión del Consejo Rector del IAC celebrada en la sede del centro en La Laguna
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    Diana Morant preside el Consejo Rector del IAC, donde destaca que el Gobierno de España aportará 3,5 M€ extraordinarios en 2026 para su actividad
    La ministra ha felicitado al IAC por haber recuperado este año la acreditación como Centro de Excelencia Severo Ochoa para el periodo 2026-2029, el mayor reconocimiento científico que puede recibir un centro de investigación en España. Morant ha destacado cómo el Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias produce conocimiento científico fundamental en la lucha contra los incendios como los que estos días devastan distintos puntos de España. La ministra de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades, Diana Morant, ha presidido hoy el Consejo Rector del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC), donde ha
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  • XXXVII Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics
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    The IAC is preparing to host the 37th Winter School of Astrophysics on massive stars
    The Canary Islands Institute of Astrophysics (IAC) is organising the 37th Canary Islands Winter School of Astrophysics, which will take place in San Cristóbal de La Laguna (Tenerife) from 16 to 27 November 2026. This edition will focus on the study of massive stars as tools for understanding processes ranging from star formation to gravitational wave events and core-collapse supernovae. The training programme is aimed at around 75 students on advanced master’s and doctoral programmes, as well as postdoctoral researchers in the early stages of their careers. Over the course of two weeks
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  • SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings
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    The IAC hosts scientific meetings on Solar Orbiter's SO/PHI instrument
    From today until 5 December 2025, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC) is hosting the SO/PHI Science and Team Meetings, an international gathering focused on the scientific and technical advances of the Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) instrument aboard ESA's Solar Orbiter (SO) space mission. The development of PHI was co-led by the Spanish Space Solar Physics Consortium (S3PC), which also currently coordinates its scientific operation and exploitation. The IAC is part of this network. PHI is a high-precision solar observation instrument equipped with two telescopes—one
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