Dr. Tolstoy is a Dutch astronomer, whose research focuses on what she likes to call “Galactic Paleontology”: understanding the formation and evolution of dwarf galaxies by studying their resolved stellar populations, in order to find out what these systems can tell us about galaxy formation and evolution on a cosmological scale, from their earliest phases up to the present day. For this work she has been awarded the Pastoor-Schmeits Prize for astronomical research in the Netherlands in 2007 and the UK Royal Astronomical Society George Darwin Lecture in 2013. Eline is the Project Scientist and Dutch PI of the Multi-Adaptive Optics Imaging Camera for Deep Observations (MICADO), being built for the ESO 39-meter diameter Extremely Large Telescope (ELT), expected to see first light in 2024/25. The sensitivity of this camera will be comparable to the James Webb Space Telescope, but with six times better spatial resolution.

07:45 - beginning of the presentation
58:30 - beginning of the Q&A

Spanish version: TBD

The panel of the 'Golden Webinar' consisted of:
• Eline Tolstoy – speaker
• Patricio Gonzalez ([email protected]) – Interpreter
• Thomas H. Puzia – Co-host, Faculty at the Institute of Astrophysics (IA)
• Demetra De Cicco – Co-host, Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Ricardo Acevedo – Q&A manager, Outreach Team IA
• Paula Ronco – Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Yasna Órdenes – Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Paul Eigenthaler – Postdoctoral Fellow at IA
• Anna Genina – Postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching
• Kathy Vivas – Astronomer at the Cerro Tololo Interamerican Observatory
• Jacqueline van Gorkom – Professor of Astronomy at the Department of Astronomy, Columbia University in NY
• Søren Larsen – Associate Professor of Astrophysics at Radboud University in the Netherlands
• Mike Boylan-Kolchin – Professor of Astrophysics at the Department of Astronomy, University of Texas at Austin
• Mario Abadi – Professor of Astronomy at the Astronomical Observatory of the National University of Cordoba, Argentina

The 'Golden Webinars in Astrophysics' series seeks to bring forefront research in astronomy, astrophysics, and cosmology to the public in the English and Spanish language. Full schedule of the Golden Webinars series: http://tiny.cc/GWA-schedule

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