<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dear all,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">we invite you to the seminar of the Physics Department which will be held in Seminar room <b class="">F-201</b> of the Physics Department starting at <b class="">3 p.m.</b> on <b class="">Thursday, April 20th</b>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Speaker: prof. dr. <b class="">Maria-Rosa Cioni</b>, Leibniz-Institut für Astrophysik Potsdam (AIP), Germany</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Title: <b class="">A modern view of the Magellanic Clouds</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Abstract: </div><div class="">The Magellanic Clouds are our nearest neighbouring galaxies interacting with each other and with the Milky Way. They represent an early stage of a minor merger event. They have been surveyed across the wavelength spectrum for many decades, but there are still many things to understand about them. In this presentation, I will focus on near-infrared observations from the VISTA survey of the Magellanic Clouds system (VMC) highlighting the most recent results. This is a photometric large-scale project that started at ESO in 2009 and that will be completed within the next few years. The main goals are to recover the star formation history and the three-dimensional geometry of the system with unprecedented spatial accuracy, but the data have a wide range of applications that extend to distant quasars. I will also present these investigations in the context of future projects.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best regards,</div><div class="">Lana Ceraj</div></body></html>