Itziar Aretxaga

Last few days to apply! 🔭

We have opened the registration for the 48th International School for Young Astronomers #ISYA, that will be held at ICIESE-Vietnam from 28th September to 16th October. Please alert interested 🔭 students (MSc/PhD or last year BSc) in Asia and encourage them to apply!
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Postdoc position in my team at CAB CSIC-INTA, Spain. We are hiring in the Milgatz project 🔭 to do TolTEC science on dusty star forming galaxies eas.unige.ch/jobs.jsp?typ...
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We have opened the registration for the 48th International School for Young Astronomers #ISYA, that will be held at ICIESE-Vietnam from 28th September to 16th October. Please alert interested 🔭 students (MSc/PhD or last year BSc) in Asia and encourage them to apply!
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Want to learn more about the International Schools for Young 🔭 Astronomers of #IAU/#NASL? Issue no.3 of Badjaneáddji Násti newsletter is out! Great articles about the 2025 schools and trajectories of now successful professionals who are alumni of the program! Have a look! tinyurl.com/yt2dhvv2

School outing to Elephant Mountain in Taipei

The 47th #ISYA in Taipei report is now available in the #IAU
web pages, about the activities we had there and the feedback we received from alumni and lecturers. What a great 🔭 #school and what a great location to host it! Thanks Taipei! iau.org/.../Uploade....

Itziar Aretxaga: «Izarren eraketaren historia ulertu nahi dut» - Zientzia Kaiera Egun, Itziar Aretxaga TolTEC kamera polarimetrikoaren zuzendari zientifikoa da (Teleskopio Milimetriko Handirako irudi bidezko tresna berria)

@itzimex.bsky.social : «Izarren eraketaren historia ulertu nahi dut» 👇 @zientziakaiera.eus
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Graduation day at Yachay Tech University! We have 32 more #ISYA alumni now! #ISYA46 International School for Young Astronomers 2025 Ecuador 🔭

We are comanding the 1.6m 🔭 in Pico Dos Dias, Brazil, from Yachay Tech University in #Ecuador at #ISYA46 . We have a bunch of galaxies in our list for tonight.

Observing night at #ISYA46 in Ecuador with the 1.6m 🔭 in Pico dos Dias, Brazil, lead by Karín Menéndez-Delmestre (Valongo, UFRJ) and her PhD students.

Today at #ISYA46 we have lectures on Virtual Observatory by Thiago S. Gonçalves @astrogoncalves.bsky.social (Valongo, UFRJ, Brazil) ... lots of progress in the computer room #ISYA

Today at #ISYA46 , among other topics, how to write a scientific paper by #ISYA Deputy Director David Mota (Univ Oslo, Norway) with lots of interesting bibliography! 🔭

Students at #ISYA46 designing #Astrotourism activities as part of the Cultural Astronomy course that follows @astro4dev.bsky.social methodology. They are guided by lecturer Nico Vásquez (EPN, #Ecuador) 🔭

Our local director of #ISYA46 Nicolás Vázquez (EPN, #Ecuador) starts his course on Cultural Astronomy, on the social value of doing #Astronomy 🔭 #ISYA

Always good to remember.

But he is also into #Astrophotography : view of the Milky Way from Yachay Tech Univ. campus with a Smartphone, superposing 4sec integration images. Our students cannot say any longer they have not yet seen it with their own eyes #ISYA46 #ISYA 🔭 📷

It is Igancio Ranea's (Argentina) last lecture on Compact Objects at #ISYA46 in #Ecuador, and he is today doing a through tour on Black Hole physics 🔭 #ISYA

The 46th #ISYA at the Yachay Tech University, in Ecuador, has gathered 32 students from 11 Latin American & Caribbean countries. The students participating in this 3-week program are meeting with an international team of expert lecturers from 8 countries to enhance their research work. 🔭 #ISYA46

Karín Menéndez Delmestre (Obs Valongo, Brazil) getting the students at #ISYA46 ready for observations with a 1.6m professional 🔭 in her Observational Astronomy course #ISYA

Juan Rafael Martínez Galarza (CfA, USA), an #ISYA alumni from 2005, is starting his course on Machine Learning for #Astrophysics at #ISYA46 in #Ecuador 🔭

Ignacio Ranea (Univ. Nac. La Plata, Argentina) is starying today his course on Compact Objects at #ISYA46 in Ecuador #ISYA 🔭

Today Sandro Bressan (SISSA, Italy) starts his Stellar Evolution course at #ISYA46 in Ecuador 🔭 #ISYA

Today @ #ISYA46 we have started the courses on Radioastronomy 🔭 by Helga Denés and Python for Astronomy by Wladimir Banga Barragán, both from Uni Yachay Tech, Ecuador #ISYA

Students at #ISYA46 are now split into groups to start projects they will have to develop throughout the school and present towards the end. Here they are led by tutors Helga Denés (YTU, Ecuador) and Fernando Buitrago (U. Valladolid, Spain). #ISYA 🔭

Laurence Sabin (IA-UNAM, Mexico) is starting her course on Interstellar Medium at #ISYA46 , the first lecture of the 🔭 #ISYA #astronomy #school

We are starting today the 46th International School for Young Astronomers 🔭 (#ISYA46) at Yachay Tech University in #Ecuador #ISYA with 30 students from 11 Latin Ametican & Caribbean countries

The July 2025 issue of Badjáneaddji Násti, the Newsletter of the International School for Young Astronomers 🔭 is now available www.iau.org/OYA/OYA/News... including interviews with M. Gerbaldi and J.P. De Greve (directors 1998-2007, 2008-2013), S. Rajohnson and H. Fatima (alumnae 2017 and 2019).

Last 15 days to apply! Do not miss this opportunity for Astronomy/Astrophysics MSc/PhD students in Asia 🔭 events.asiaa.sinica.edu.tw/school/20251...

Preselection of PhD students to do a thesis in the Milgatz project I am leading at Centro de Astrobiología, near Madrid, from January 2026 onwards. Come join our team! 🔭 🌟 Write to me for more information at the email address in the announcement.