Webpages tagged with «solar physics»
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Researchers of the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics and Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics take part to this year's National Science week with videos and lectures!
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Monday 7th February Mikolaj Szydlarski will give a talk at the "Waiting for Pint of Science - Polish edition" on "Understanding the Sun. Numerical models of our local star".
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– What fascinates me the most about astronomy must be the whole composition of it.
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"Just thinking of sizes and distances in space is just mind blowing and impossible to grasp, but also what makes astronomy so very interesting" – Jonas Thoen Faber.
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"What fascinates me most about astronomy are the physics and phenomena that are far away from what we experience in our day-to-day lives" – Edvarda Harnes.
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Doctoral candidate Ainar Drews at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "On microjets in sunspot penumbrae" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
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Doctoral candidate Sneha Pandit at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "A new look at Solar-Stellar Activity with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
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Doctoral candidate Lars Frogner at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "Modelling accelerated particles in the solar atmosphere" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
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Doctoral candidate Øystein Færder at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis "The role of resistivity in plasmoid-mediated reconnection in the solar corona and its observational imprints" for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.
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Each spring, near the date of Svein Rosseland's birthday, the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics invites everyone to a guest lecture by an internationally renowned astrophysicist as a remembrance for our great astrophysicist Svein Rosseland (1894-1985), founder of our institute.
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The gigantic telescope set to extract a range of the sun's secrets picking up radio waves. Stay tuned!
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With the objective of forging connections and advancing our comprehension of the cosmos, the inaugural meeting of NoRMAS24 took place at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics last week.
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Towards the Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) project is the design study for a new astronomical sub-millimeter observatory that will open a new space for discovery in the field of Astrophysics, and, on the other hand, will enable scientists to pioneer a new era of "green" astronomical facilities.
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"That light carries information over extreme distances and explains faraway events! That's what fascinates me about astronomy" – Elias Roland Udnæs.