Dark Energy and the Anthropic Principle
In the CosmoClub meeting of April 29th, the graduate student Riis Rhavia, who works with Prof. Dr. Elcio Abdalla, presented a seminar on the relationship between the allowed values for the […]
Problems with the Cosmological Constant
In the CosmoClub of April 22nd, Lucas Olivari, student of Prof. Dr. Elcio Abdalla at DFMA-IFUSP, presented a seminar on the famous problem of the many orders o f magnitude […]
CosmoClub
Weekly meetings of undergraduate and graduate students of USP with interest in Cosmology. Program here
Optical design and manufacturing (Sao Carlos Physics Institute – USP)
In 2014 Prof. Sergio Zilio’s group in Sao Carlos offered a short course on optical design and manufacturing. Check out Bruno Quint’s nice picture gallery here, and read Prof. Zilio’s […]
S-PLUS
S-PLUS: The Universe in true colors S-PLUS (Southern Photometric Local Universe Survey) is an astronomical facility in Chile (Cerro Pachón), dedicated to mapping the observable Universe in 8 narrow-band filters […]
GMT
The Giant Magellan Telescope will be a 24.5m telescope on Chile – one of the newest “giant” telescopes, that will allow images with quality and depth never seen before. Its […]
PFS
Overview The PFS/SuMIRe (Prime Focus Spectrograph for the Subaru telescope) is a project involving several Japanese institutions (leaded by IPMU of Univ. of Tokyo), the universities of Caltech, Princeton and […]
J-PAS
The J-PAS (Javalambre Physics of the Accelerating Universe Astrophysical Survey) is a projects involving mainly Spanish and Brazilian institutions. A new astronomical observatory has been built in Sierra de Javalambre […]
ABRAS
ABRAS (Argentina-BrazilAstronomicalCenter) is a bi-national project to build a 1m robotic telescope, operating on the near infrared band. This telescope, that should have wide field of view, is located […]
What are the goals of LabCosmos?
LabCosmos will provide the institutional support that will allow us to consolidate our participation in the international project J-PAS, S-MAPS, ABRAS and PFS/SuMIRe. These ambitious projects aim to map large […]