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Wednesday:

Andreu Domingo, lecturer and deputy director of the Centre for Demographic Studies at the UAB, presents the book La coartada demográfica y el discurso de la involución en España (Icaria Editorial), of which he is the editor. The presentation will take place on Thursday 2 November in Barcelona. He will be accompanied at the event by the demographer and lecturer in the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Pompeu Fabra University, Clara Cortina.

The thesis of the book is that the evolution of the population, the main phenomena of its dynamics - fertility, mortality and migration - as well as its structure, and individual demographic behaviour are being used as an alibi for the discourse of involution promoted by neoconservatives and extreme right-wing populists.

Andreu Domingo Valls, PhD in Sociology and MA in Demography, is the main researcher of the group "Globalisation, migrations and space". He was also president of the Association of Historical Demography (ADEH), which brings together demographers from Spain and Portugal, and is currently a numerary member of the Institute of Catalan Studies (Philosophy and Social Sciences section). He has published several books. His speciality is international immigration and family formation and demographic theory.

Place: Llibreria Documenta, Barcelona (Pau Claris 144)

Date: Thursday 2, November de 2023 - 18:30h

Date: Thursday 2, November de 2023 - 19:30h

Wednesday:

Paolo Dini, researcher at the Telecommunications Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTTC) will be given the fourth session of the conference series that explore the different aspects of artificial intelligence and its social impacts coordinated by the Computer Vision Centre (CVC). 

This conference will allow participants to reflect on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its impact on the environment and the current climate change. Questions such as the following will be raised: What are the implications of having all the necessary computing power at our disposal? What is the real impact on energy production? What infrastructures are necessary to have a sustainable AI?

Series of conferences| Artificial Intelligence: Revealing Social Impacts

Place: Vila de Gràcia Library, Barcelona (Carrer Torrent de l'Olla 104)

Date: Monday 6, November de 2023 - 18:30h

Wednesday:

The 28th Science Week in Catalonia (SC'23), organised by the Catalan Foundation for Research and Innovation (FCRI) and the Generalitat de Catalunya, with the support of BBVA and Amgen, will be held from 10 to 19 November.

The opening ceremony will take place at the Parliament of Catalonia on Friday 10 November at 10.00 a.m., with speeches from Anna Erra i Solà, President of the Parliament of Catalonia; Joan Gómez Pallarès, General Director of Research of the Ministry for Research and Universities of the Generalitat de Catalunya; and Jordi Mas i Castellà, General Director of the FCRI.

The event will continue with the conversation "Joan Oró i Florensa, the dream of the origin of life", with Marina Martínez, researcher at the Department of Geology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and collaborator of the Solar System Exploration Research Virtual Institute (SSERVI) of NASA, and Ricard Guerrero y Moreno, professor of Microbiology at the University of Barcelona (UB). Joan Anton Català i Amigó, curator of the Joan Oró Year and science popularizer, will moderate the event.

Place: Parliament of Catalonia, Barcelona (Parc de la Ciutadella s/n)

Date: Friday 10, November de 2023 - 10:00h

Promotor: FCRI

Wednesday:

Matías Bilkis, expert in the intersection of quantum computing and artificial intelligence, and researcher at the Computer Vision Centre (CVC), will be giving the fifth conference of the CVC's new series on artificial intelligence (AI) and its effects on society.

The conference will allow the public to participate in the description of quantum physics, in the exemplification of certain quantum phenomena, in a round table to talk about this new type of technology, and then finally in more profound issues related to quantum artificial intelligence.

Conference series| Artificial Intelligence: revealing social impacts

Place: Library Caterina Albert, Barcelona (Carrer Indústria 295)

Date: Monday 13, November de 2023 - 18:30h

Wednesday:

Professor Joaquim Limonero will be sitting in the Science Carriage's Expert Seat this week, which will travel from the UAB to Plaça de Catalunya at 10:42 a.m. and back to the UAB at 11:28 a.m. Professor Limonero, researcher in the Department of Basic, Developmental and Educational Psychology, will be talking with train passengers about how to regulate emotions, behavioural addictions, and substance abuse and suicide in adolescents.

Professor Limonero has also participated in the Science Carriage's podcasts.

Place: Vagó de la Ciència, FGC. UAB-BCN, 10:42 a.m. - BCN-UAB 11:28 a.m.

Date: Thursday 16, November de 2023 - 10:40h

Date: Thursday 16, November de 2023 - 12:30h

Wednesday:

Lecturer Lydia Giménez will be sitting in this week's Experts' Seat of the Science Carriage travelling from the UAB to Sabadell, and leaving the Plaça Catalunya station at 9:28 a.m.. Giménez, UAB lecturer in psychiatry and specialist in neuroscience, will speak with train passengers on issues related to misophonia, a disorder of decreased tolerance to specific sounds and noises.

Lecturer Giménez has also participated in the Science Carriage podcasts, which you can listen to here.

Place: Science Carriage, FGC Plaça Catalunya-Sabadell (9:28 a.m.)

Date: Thursday 23, November de 2023 - 09:20h