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Ajudes Iniciació a la Investigació DAA 26-27

27/07/26

CONVOCATÒRIA AJUDES: El vicerector d'Estudis i Qualitat de la Universitat de València fa pública la convocatòria d'AJUDES per a la iniciació a la investigació en astronomia i astrofísica per a l'alumnat de l'últim curs dels graus de Física o Matemàtiques i per a l'alumnat del Màster en Física...

Marco Cusinato PhD Thesis defense

27/07/26

On the 27th of july, at 10:00 , in the classroom of Lise Meitner, Faculty of Physics, Av. Vicent Andrés Estellés, 19. 46100 Burjassot, will take place the PhD thesis defense of Marco Cusinato that has been supervised by Miguel Angel Aloy Torás and Martin Obergaulinguer professors of that department.

The new LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Catalog sets new records in precision gravitational astronomy

26/05/26

The LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Collaboration published today a new catalog of gravitational wave events. A total of 161 events, detected between April 2024 and the end of January 2025, have been added to the collection, bringing the total number of gravitational wave signals detected to date to 390. Among...

“30 aniversari del Departament d’Astronomia i Astrofísica: trenta anys que canviaren la nostra visió de l’Univers”

12/03/26

Ponents: Professors Iván Martí-Vidal, Andrés Moya, José A. Muñoz, Vicent Quilis, Nicolás Sanchis i Susana Planelles Data: Dijous, 12 de març de 2026 Lloc i hora: Saló de Graus Lise Meitner. Facultat de Física. Campus de Burjassot. 12.30h.

Adam Griffiths PhD Thesis defense

10/03/26

On the 10th of march, at 11:00 , in the classroom of Lise Meitner, Faculty of Physics, Av. Vicent Andrés Estellés, 19. 46100 Burjassot, will take place the PhD thesis defense of Adam Griffiths that has been supervised by Miguel Angel Aloy Torás and Martin Obergaulinguer professors of that...

The Sun marks the time on the new clock at the Burjassot-Paterna campus

20/11/25

For the past few days, the Burjassot-Paterna campus of the Universitat de València has had an equatorial sundial installed in the garden in front of the Facultat de Farmàcia i Ciències de l’Alimentació.

Activities

Seminar by Kara Nelson from UMass Boston

23/07/2026

Title: Toward the Study of Photon Dynamics in Non-Separable Spacetimes Place: Seminar del DAA. Jeroni Muñoz Research Building, fourth floor, in Burjassot. Day: Thursday, july 23 , 2026. Time: 12.00.

Seminari by Rodrigo Vicente from University of Amsterdam

14/07/2026

Title: Black Hole Environments and Dark Matter through Gravitational Waves Place: Seminar del DAA. Jeroni Muñoz Research Building, fourth floor, in Burjassot. Day: Tuesday, july 14 , 2026. Time: 12.00.

Seminar by Martijn S. Oei from Caltech, USA

30/06/2026

Title: Giant black hole jets and baryon feedback to the Cosmic Web Place: Seminar del DAA. Jeroni Muñoz Research Building, fourth floor, in Burjassot. Day: Tuesday, june 30 , 2026. Time: 12.00.