Conferences and seminars

Conferences and seminars

Core Team

  • lourdes@iaa.es
  • Dpto. Astronomía Extragaláctica
    Instituto Astrofísica Andalucía
    Glorieta de la Astronomía s/n
    18008 Granada
    Spain

Conferences and seminars

I have delivered 43 invited talks as first author, with the main topics being:

  • Dissemination of the SKA project and its scientific, technological, and international collaboration opportunities for the Spanish academic community and industry.
  • Development of the SKA Regional Centres (SRC), explaining our work on Big Data analysis and visualization using e-Science tools, in line with the principles of Open Science.
  • Reviews on Open Science and its impact on improving the quality of science and achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
  • Promotion of collaboration with Africa in the context of preparation for the SKA.
  • Promotion of the use of renewable energy and Spanish solutions in the operation of the SKA.
  • Results of my work on galaxy evolution, which drives my participation in SKA.
  • Critical thinking about current research metrics, which are biased towards numerical bibliographic indicators—relevant but incomplete. As Chair of the ERC Starting Grants Panel, I was invited to review the topic at the European Research Council (ERC) headquarters in Brussels , directed at staff involved in evaluation policies.
  • Communication and dissemination of technological developments useful to the community.

I have given numerous seminars at research institutions, some as part of the coordination of Spanish participation in the SKA, and for various stakeholder groups. I would highlight an invited talk for the SKAO Speaker Series on “Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness: the SKAO role model.“ Below are some of the most recent seminars.

 

CONFERENCES

  • Transforming our understanding of the Universe: the SKA. Connecting antennas and data, connecting Australia & Spain. 9th Australia-Spain Research Forum “A Connected World”. Sydney, noviembre de 2023.
  • Open Science in Data Intensive Scientific Communities: Astronomy. EOSC Spain National Tripartite event. Madrid, septiembre de 2023.
  • Why Open Science in the SKA era?. Swiss SKA Days. Zürich. Septiembre de 2023.
  • Participation of Spain in SKA and related collaborations with Africa. 2nd Research Forum Southern Africa-Spain. Spanish ambassador residence. Pretoria, noviembre de 2022.
  • Why Open Science?. Reproducibility and Open Science in Astronomy (ROSA 2022). Online, mayo 2022.
  • Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness: the SKAO role model. Africa-Europe Science and Innovation Summit. Online, junio de 2021.
  • Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness: the SKA role model. 2021 SKA Science Conference – A precursor View of the SKA Sky. Online, marzo de 2021.
  • Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness: the SKA role model. Science Digital at 75th United Nations General Assembly. Online, septiembre de 2020.
  • Spain in SKA. REFSH: Física Solar – Ampliando horizontes. Valencia, septiembre de 2019.
  • Love for science or academic prostitution?. Spanish and Portuguese Relativity Meeting. Valencia, junio de 2019.
  • Perspective from the HISWG on SKA Data Processing and Science Analysis. AENEAS ESRC Design Meeting. Lyon, junio de 2019.
  • SKA Regional Centres and Open Science with the SKA. SKA Workshop Paris. París, junio de 2019.
  • The Spanish participation in the SKA. Reunión Abierta de la RIA ¡España en SKA!. Granada, junio 2019.
  • HI Galaxy SKA Science Working Group Update. SKA General Science Meeting and Key Science Workshop 2019. Manchester, abril de 2019.
  • Why Open science at the SRCs?. SKA General Science Meeting and Key Science Workshop. Manchester, abril de 2019.
  • Open science at the SRCs. PHISCC. Perth, febrero de 2019.
  • Spain in the SKA. RIA-SpaceTec Meeting: Astronomical Instrumentation in Spain. Madrid, October 2018.
  • Spain’s Entry into SKA. XIII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society (SEA). Salamanca, June 2018.
  • SKA status and Spanish participation. 6th Fundamental Cosmology Meeting. Granada, mayo de 2018.
  • Data visualization. 1st WEAVE-Apertif meeting. Granada, mayo de 2018.
  • HI in extremely dense group environments. 1st WEAVE-Apertif meeting. Granada, mayo de 2018.
  • Overview of the HI SWG needs in the context of SRCs. AENEAS All-hands meeting. Nice, marzo 2018.
  • Atomic gas and Galaxy evolution. Physics opportunities with a new universe’s view: the SKA radio telescope. Valencia, noviembre de 2017.
  • Spanish participation in the SKA. Physics opportunities with a new universe’s view: the SKA radio telescope. Valencia, noviembre de 2017.
  • SKA-Link Project. 1st AENEAS All-hands meeting. Granada, octubre de 2017.
  • The Spanish participation in the SKA. XII Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía. Bilbao, junio de 2016.
  • Spanish participation in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Conference at the Encuentro RIA-SpaceTec. Instituto Rocasolano. Madrid, febrero de 2016.
  • Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Project. III Fujitsu High Performance Computer (HPC) Users Group. Granada, octubre de 2014.
  • Love for Science or Academic Prostitution? Document Freedom Day 2014. Granada, marzo de 2014.
  • A multiwavelength view of isolated galaxies (Invited Review). Structure and dynamics of disk galaxies. Petit Jean Mountain. Arkansas, junio de 2013.
  • Renewable Energy for Radio Astronomy. AERAP Framework Platform Discussion Workshop. European Parliament. Bruselas, marzo de 2013.
  • The Spanish VIA-SKA project an Iberian Industry-Academia example. The Square Kilometre Array: a large Scale ESFRI Infrastructure, From the Cosmos to the Cities of the future. Lisboa, noviembre de 2012.
  • e-Science for the SKA. Wf4Ever: Supporting Reuse and Reproducibility in Experimental Science. RadioNet Advanced Radio Astronomy, Commissioning Skills for the SKA. Manchester, noviembre de
  • Case study: BIOSTIRLING4SKA. AERAP Workshop on Renewable Energy Solutions for Radio Astronomy: opportunities for African-European cooperation. Bruselas, octubre de 2012.
  • Galaxies driven only by secular evolution?. International Astronomical Union. Pekín, agosto de 2012.
  • The Square Kilometre Array: a challenge for ~2020 to which Spain can contribute in 2012. X Reunión Científica de la Sociedad Española de Astronomía. Valencia, junio de 2012.
  • New Applications: SKA Project. I General Assembly Solar Concentra. Seville, 2011.
  • UK e-Science: A vision from the outer space. Celebrating 10 years of e-Science in the UK. Oxford eResearch Center. junio de 2011.
  • e-Science activities in Andalusia. Application to Astronomy. UK e-Science All Hands meeting. Oxford, diciembre de 2009.
  • Radio-VO developments of AMIGA within the context of ALMA. Workshop “Retos científicos y tecnológicos en el desarrollo de instrumentación astronómica: ALMA y E-ELT”. Madrid, septiembre 2009.
  • The Andalusian e-Science Initiative e-CA (e-Ciencia Andaluza). 2nd International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences. Valencia, septiembre de 2008.
  • Spanish Plans for the Development of CAHA Instrumentation. Development of Astronomical Instrumentation: Future Scientific and Technological Challenges. Madrid, May 2007.
  • Distribution and content of HI in Compact Groups of Galaxies. Disks of galaxies: kinematics, dynamics and perturbations. Puebla (México), mayo de 2001.

 

SELECTION OF RECENT SEMINARS

  • The SKA Observatory: Astronomy and Sustainability. Basic Science for Future Challenges, a lecture series organized by CSIC. Experimental Station of Zaidín (EEZ-CSIC), Granada, 2023.
  • Open Science for sustainability and inclusiveness: the SKAO role model. SKAO Speaker Series. Online, junio de 2021.
  • Strategic position of IAA in the SKA project. IAA ESAB Meeting. Granada, febrero de 2020.
  • SKA summary for DAE and examples of synergies. IAA. Granada, septiembre de 2019.
  • The SKA Science Regional Centre precursor at IAA. IAA. Granada, septiembre de 2019.
  • A prototype SKA Science Regional Centre at the IAA. IAA. Granada, mayo de 2019.
  • Love for Science or ‘Academic Prostitution’?. ICRAR Perth. Perth, febrero de 2019.
  • SKA Status and Spanish participation. Observatorio de Yebes. Yebes, junio de 2018.
  • Transformational Science with the Big Data Machine of the XXI Century. Universidad de Málaga. Málaga, enero de 2019.
  • The SKA-Link Project. University of Edinburgh. Edimburgo, diciembre de 2017.
  • Reproducible Science. SKA-Link Kick-off Workshop, IAA. Granada, abril de 2017.
  • Overview of the SKA-Link project and aims of this meeting. SKA-Link Kick-off Workshop, IAA. Granada, abril de 2017.
  • The Spanish participation in the SKA. ICE (IEEC-CSIC). Barcelona, marzo de 2017.
  • The SKA Project: Opportunities for Spain. Presentation to the Vice Presidency of Science and Technology of CSIC. Madrid, June 2016.
  • The Spanish participation in the SKA. Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC). Madrid, 2016.
  • The Spanish participation in the SKA. Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias. Tenerife, enero de 2016.
  • Love for Science or ‘Academic Prostitution’. IAA. Granada, junio de 2013.
  • The Spanish participation in the SKA. Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC). Madrid, abril de 2013.
  • Love for Science or ‘Academic Prostitution’. ERC Scientific Seminar. Bruselas, abril de 2013.
  • VIA-SKA and Spanish participation in the SKA: status, milestones, and the road ahead. SKA: Strategic Position and Future Opportunities for Spanish Industry. Madrid, 2012.
 
Invited Lecture at the 75th Anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly (Sept. 2020)
Opening of the conference “Physics Opportunities with a New Universe's View: the SKA Radio Telescope”, Valencia, 2017. From right to left: RIA Coordinator, Vicent Martínez, Director of IFIC/CSIC-UV, Juan José Hernández, Secretary of State for R&D Carmen Vela, Rector of the University of Valencia, Esteban Morcillo, President of CSIC, Emilio Lora-Tamayo, SKA-Spain Coordinator, Lourdes Verdes-Montenegro.