The National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (in

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: ''Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica, Óptica y Electrónica, INAOE'') is a Mexican science research institute located in Tonantzintla,

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. Founded by presidential decree on November 12, 1971, it has over 100 researchers in Astrophysics, Optics, Electronics and Computing Science, with postgraduate programs in these areas. INAOE is one of 30 public research centers sponsored by the

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of Mexico (''CONACyT''). The Institute, in partnership with the

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, developed the Large Millimeter Telescope / Gran Telescopio Milimétrico on the

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border. The asteroid 14674 INAOE was named after this institute.

Structure

There are four departments with a number of research groups and laboratories: * Astrophysics (José Ramón Valdés Parra) ** Visible Astronomical Instrumentation Laboratory and of High Energies (Esperanza Carrasco-Licea) ** Millimeter Wavelength Instrumentation Laboratory ** Fourier Spectroscopy Laboratory (Fabián Rosales) ** Photographic Plates Collection (Raquel Díaz Hernández) *Computer Sciences (Ariel Carrasco Ochoa) **Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition **Natural Language Processing **Computer Perception **System Engineering * Electronics (Alfonso Torres Jacome) ** Microelectronics ** Integrated Circuit Design ** Electronic Instrumentation ** Communications *Optics (Fermín Granados Agustín) **Science Group and Optoelectronics Engineering (CIOE) **Image-Science Group and Digital Color **Photonics **Optics Instrumentation **Quantum Optics **Diffractive Optics **Optoelectronics **Imaging Science **Biophotonics **Optical Communications and Optoelectronics **Optic Fibers **Holography **Imaging and Digital Color **Optical Instrumentation **Optical Microscopy and Dimensional Metrology **Diffractive Optics **Biomedical Optics **Thin-films

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Structure

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