RoCS, the freshly established Norwegian Centre of Excellence, welcomes four new PhD students in Solar Physics.
2018
World leading European solar/stellar physicists granted €10 millions to unveil the mysteries of our life-energy source: the Sun. Mats Carlsson, professor at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics and Principal Investigator, reveals objectives and strategy of his ambitious project.
"ITA offers an ideal environment to learn and a unique opportunity to collaborate with members of the solar group whose research topics are akin to mine."
A recent article by RoCS' doctoral research fellow, Souvik Bose and K. Nagaraju of the Indian Institute of Astrophysics, is featured as a research highlight in the American Astonomical Society Nova.
“Norway itself is welcoming - since my arrival the weather was ideal.“
The image shows the heating in the upper solar atmosphere called the corona. Here the temperature is more than 1 Million Kelvin, much hotter than the solar surface.
“I’m hoping to embrace the Norwegian culture as much as possible and make the most out of the beautiful Scandinavian nature“, Petra Kohutova
A new article by professor Mats Carlsson at RoCS, among others, was recently selected as a highlight in the scientific journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics".
Charalambos Kanella and Boris Gudiksen at RoCS has published a research paper in the journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics".
Benedikte Evensen is starting as Centre Coordinator for RoCS from the 1st of February 2018.
The SolarALMA project is featured in an article in EUs research and innovation magazine Horizon.
Rosseland Centre for Solar Physics (RoCS) officially opened on November 1st 2017.
The solar research group at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics becomes new centre of excellence.