Cases & Voices

On January 18th, the representatives of LA-CoNGA physics welcomed the seventy students from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela, who will be part of the first group of advanced physics postgraduate courses compatible with the model of the European Union. This ERASMUS + CBHE project co-financed by the European Commission with the participation of universities from the mentioned countries, university and scientific institutions in Europe, and RedCLARA, is committed to the development of a collaborative offer of specialized learning, with the participation of 11 universities in Latin America and Europe.

ALeRCE (Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events), is what in technical terms is known as "broker" and it seeks to create the tools to give answer to the needs of the new astronomy, characterized by generating an extraordinary amount of data and “astronomical alerts” to analyze every night.

The most distant quasar known has been discovered. The quasar, observed just 670 million years after the Big Bang, is 1000 times more luminous than the Milky Way. It is powered by the earliest known supermassive black hole, which weighs in at more than 1.6 billion times the mass of the Sun. Seen more than 13 billion years ago, this fully formed distant quasar is also the earliest yet discovered, providing astronomers with insight into the formation of massive galaxies in the early Universe. The result was released today at the January 2021 meeting of the American Astronomical Society.

Although history shows us that great technological achievements over the years and around the world have been conquered and discovered by women, even today giving voice and space to the female audience in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is a challenge.

Scientists, citizens and organisations want to help fight climate change for a brighter future, researching, developing and implementing innovative solutions that also create employment and drive economic growth.

(Opinion: Luis Eliécer Cadenas Marín, Executive Director of RedCLARA) The term networks has been used in many contexts: we live in the era of networks, we have social networks, community networks, collaboration networks, education networks and many others. For this reason, it is very important to distinguish between these uses and their meanings, and to define precisely what the concept of National Research and Education Network means.