With 37 students from Mexico and Latin America in attendance, the 13th edition of the Astrophysics Summer School (13 EVA) began this Monday, June 19, organized by the Institute for Radio Astronomy and Astrophysics (IRyA) at UNAM, Campus Morelia.
This school has been held in Morelia every two years since 1999. It brings together undergraduate students in physics and related areas for two weeks to participate in courses and workshops on different astronomy and astrophysics topics, offered mostly by the astronomical community at IRyA.
After the 2021 edition was carried out remotely due to the Covid-19 pandemic, this year the EVA is once again taking place in person at various facilities within UNAM Campus Morelia. In the 2023 edition, 19 women and 18 men have attended, selected among about 250 applications.
Initially, only people from Mexico attended the EVA, but in recent editions students from other countries on our continent have joined. This year people from Chihuahua, Nuevo León, Sinaloa, Zacatecas, Jalisco, Queretaro, Morelos, the State of Mexico, Puebla, Chiapas, Mexico City and Michoacan, as well as from Ecuador, Colombia, Costa Rica, Peru and Honduras participate.
The EVA has established itself as one of the most important educational spaces in astrophysics in the country for undergraduate students. In the past 24 years, it has received around 470 participants, of which a significant fraction have continued their postgraduate studies in astronomy and astrophysics at UNAM and other prestigious institutions in Mexico and abroad. Some of these people now work to higher education institutions in the country doing research in astrophysics and other topics, teaching and science communication and outreach, even right here at IRyA.
The 13 EVA is financed by UNAM, through resources from IRyA and from the project "Relativistic Astrophysics and the variable sky with distributed resources and data" that belongs to the Institute of Astronomy, as well as with resources from CONAHCyT (México) and the National Science Foundation (United States).
About IRyA, UNAM
The Instituto de Radioastronomía y Astrofísica (IRyA), or Institute for Radioastronomy and Astrophysics is an academic unit at UNAM, Campus Morelia, Mexico. We perform high-level and high-impact research in the areas of interstellar medium, star formation, evolved stars, high energy astrophysics, Galactic dynamics and structure, extragalactic astronomy and cosmology. We contribute to the education of high-level human resources through a postgraduate program, and we have close contact with society through diverse outreach programs.
If you are interested in our Institute, visit the English version of our webpage, www.irya.unam.mx/web/en
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