Of all the communities available to us there is not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of the true searchers, which has very few living members at any time...
Einstein letter to Born, quoted by Born (1971)

Fields of interest:

• Exobiology
  The next step in evolution for Humanity is the conquest of space! Our future on Earth passes by the conquest of space!

• Starburst galaxies and AGNs - two main processes for the formation and evolution of galaxies
  
  
• Cosmology and the formation of large scale structures
  Unfortunately, not an advice followed today: Rashid Sunyaev: “...we should use well known physics to understand the Universe”; excerpt from Sunyaev dicourse of acceptation of the 2003 Cosmology Prize, pronounced during the opening ceremony of the 25th General assembly of the IAU
  
  “If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the Universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can offer you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
  Sir Arthur Eddington 1929
  
  
• A new theoretical framework for physics based on the Genetic Espitemolology of Jean Piaget; Model of scientific method and its relation with hidden reality (adapted from definition of role of technology in Lucio Russo -- The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn, 2004, Springer; Definition of hidden reality in Bernard d'Espagnat -- On Physics and Philosophy, 2006, Princeton University Press)
  
  
  There exists something that we call hidden reality (most important discovery of physics; phisical laws are not arbitrary) - but our link with it is not direct; we know it only through our interactions with it - reality is a set of psychomotor patterns in the brain (ideas are actions; space and time are illusions, they are forms describing our interactions with hidden reality) - through logic and mathematics (abstract forms of psychomotor actions) we expand our pattern of possible actions on hidden reality - the goal of intelligence is adaptation - the scientific method allows to select most efficient actions improving our survival - reality therefore is also hidden by intelligence, because intelligence's goal is our survival, not the metaphysic quest of determining what is hidden reality
  

• Compact groups of galaxies: the role of groups of galaxies in the formation process of large scale structures

• Starburst galaxies and AGNs:
  -- Relation of starbursts with galaxy formation; a cosmological connection with environment
  -- Relation of starbursts with AGNs; variation of astration rates by dissipation
  -- Chemical evolution and production of dust; opened box model for starbursts vs. closed box model for quasars
  -- Narrow-line radio galaxies vs. broad line quasars, an evolution connection
  -- Low luminosity AGNs as dying QSOs

• Cosmology:
  -- A connection between entanglement and non-causality (the source of entropy in black holes); an alternative to inflation to explain the thermalisation of the universe
  -- The role of entropy in the formation of structures; the irreversibility principle: describing the formation of structures by gravitational collapse as a thermodynamical irreversible process

• A new method to teach physics based on the definition of intelingence by Jean Piaget ("the integration of the action of the subject on the object'') - a unified view of physics and a new interpretation of the nature of matter-space-time; eliminating metaphysics in Mathematical Physics

• Course notes:Extragalactic astronomy (in spanish) - Mathematical Physics - Astronomía Galáctica - Astronomía Observacional - Exobiologia - Laboratorio Avanzado en Astrofísica

• A stellar population consistent view of the chemical evolution of star forming galaxies with different morphologies in the nearby universe
  Torres-Papaqui, J. P.,Coziol, R., Ortega-Minakata, R. A., Neri-Larios, D. M., 2011, ApJ, to be submitted
  
• The role of dissipation in structures formation by gravitational collapse
  Coziol, R., Torres-Papaqui, J. P., Plauchu-Frayn, I. 2011, A&A, submitted
  
• LLAGNs in dense galactic environments: evidence of dying quasars in massive early type galaxies
  Torres-Papaqui, J. P., Coziol, R., Andernach, H., Islas-Islas, J. M., Ortega-Minakata, R. A., Neri-Larios, D. M., Plauchu-Frayn, I. 2011, MNRAS, submitted

Some Recent Publications (2010-2011):

1. The nature and origin of Narrow Line AGN activity in a sample of isolated SDSS galaxies
   Coziol, R., Torres-Papaqui, J. P., Plauchu-Frayn, I., Islas-Islas, J. M., Ortega-Minakata, R. A., Neri-Larios, D. M., Andernach, H., 2011, RMxAA, 47, 361
   
2. The Chemical Evolution of Narrow Emission Line Galaxies: the Key to their Formation Processes
   Torres-Papaqui, J. P., Coziol, R., Ortega-Minakata, R. A., 2011, Acta Universitaria, Vol 21, Número especial 4, p. 82
   
3. Narrow-Line AGNs: confirming the relationship between metallicity and accretion rate
   Neri-Larios, D.,Coziol, R., Torres-Papaqui, J. P., Andernach, H., Islas-Islas, J. M., Plauchu-Frayn, I., Ortega-Minakata, R. A., 2011, nlsg.confE.65; Proceedings of the conference "Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies and their place in the Universe". April 4-6, 2011. Milano, Italy. Editorial Board: Luigi Foschini (chair), Monica Colpi, Luigi Gallo, Dirk Grupe, Stefanie Komossa, Karen Leighly, Smita Mathur. Published online at http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=126, id.65
   
4. Mass of the black hole in the Seyfert 1.5 galaxy H 0507+164 from reverberation mapping
   Stalin, C. S., Jeyakumar, S., Coziol, R., Pawase, R. S., Thakur, S. S., 2011, MNRAS, 416, 225
   
5. Optical and OH Megamaser observations of the starburst galaxy IIZw 096
   Migenes, V., Coziol, R., Plauchu Frayn, I., Islas, J. M., Cooprider, K., Ramirez-Garduno, L., Klöeckner, H-R., 2011, MNRAS, 416, 1267
   
6. Relationship between AGNs and Environment. Deficiency of BLAGNs in Compact Groups
   Martínez, M., Del Olmo, A., Coziol, R., Perea, J., Focardi, P. 2010, ASPC, 421, 125
   
7. Low Luminosity AGN candidates in SDSS
   Torres-Papaqui, J. P., Coziol, R., Islas-Islas, J. M., Ortega-Minakata, R. A., Neri-Larios, D. M. 2010, arXiv1011.4593
   
8. The signature of LLAGNs in the nearby universe
   Neri-Larios, D. M., Torres-Papaqui, J. P., Coziol, R., Islas-Islas, J. M., Ortega-Minakata, R. A. 2010, arXiv1011.4595;
   8 pages, 2 figures, to appear in XIII Latin American Regional IAU Meeting
   
9. Comparative Study of Asymmetry Origin of Galaxies in Different Environments. II. Near-infrared Observations
   Plauchu Frayn, I., Coziol, R. 2010, Aj, 140, 612
   
10. Comparative Study of Asymmetry Origin of Galaxies in Different Environments. I. Optical Observations
    Plauchu Frayn, I., Coziol, R. 2010, Aj, 139, 2643
    
11. AGN Population in Hickson Compact Groups. I. Data and Nuclear Activity Classification
    Martínez, M. A.; Del Olmo, A.; Coziol, R.; Perea, J. 2010, AJ, 139, .1199

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