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This year marks 150 since the publication of The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to sex, by Charles Darwin. Together with The Origin of Species and The Expressions of Men and Animals, they were the three crucial books that placed Darwinian reflection not only on evolution but on that of our species itself.
On Wednesday, May 18, Marc Furió, from the UAB Department of Geology, will present  "Musaranyes fòssils i homínids" at Casa Orlandai as part of the Cientific Coffee initiative.
In this talk, the biological characteristics of these fossils of small mammals such as shrews, used as paleoecological indicators, will be exposed. What are these organisms like and why do they give so much information? What are their relationships in the sites where hominids and humans are found?

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Place: Casa Orlandai, Carrer Jaume Piquet, 23 - Sarrià-Barcelona

Date: Wednesday 18, May de 2022 - 19:00h

Promotor: Cristina Junyent - Ciència en Societat

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More than half of the Earth population lives nowadays in cities. Finding ways to cope with the challenge of urban growth has become of the utmost importance in an age in which human activity is severely altering the Earth system. As living conditions worldwide suffer from a steady increase in environmental issues, historical inquiry provides useful reflections about vital concerns and thus new perspectives on the present.

This workshop, organized by the Institut d'Història de la Ciència (IHC-UAB) aims at generating and debating specific knowledge concerning processes of construction and management of natural history and environmental narratives. Understanding that the city and the countryside can only be understood through one another and from a global perspective, it will focus on urban-based production and circulation of such narratives, primarily in Spain and Great Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s, where we will look at the role of actors, spaces, discourses, and practices involved in the construction of ways in which nature is represented according to strategically situated interests and criteria.

Talks will mainly deal with media, broadly understood, including television and film, the press (general and academic), literature, comics, museums, festivals, and summer nature camps. We thus will explore, in a context of rise of the natural sciences as a noteworthy field of socio-political negotiation worldwide, and with natural history television swiftly becoming a leading source of both information and entertainment at the time, the development, acceptance, resistance and re-signification of symbolic and material resources constituting views of nature and the environment in academic, policy-making and activist circles, and always considering the power relations involved between urban and rural contexts.

The workshop has the collaboration of the Project PID2019-106208GB-I00 / Ministry of Science and Innovation; Vertices Platform; Science Museum London, Social Film Festival.

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Place: Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, La Rambla, 7, 08002 Barcelona

Date: Friday 20, May de 2022 - 10:30h

Date: Friday 20, May de 2022 - 18:45h

Promotor: Carlos Tabernero - IHC

Email:: carlos.tabernero@uab.cat

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In this seminar you will learn key points to how to take your technology to market by the hand of Cruz Mendigutía Gómez, an Investment Analyst at BeAble Capital  and graduate in Pharmacy and postgraduate degree in Biosanitary Business Management. We will talk about the steps to hit market from R&D, the importance of the market-oriented research approach from the beginning and we will focus on real cases of technology transfer through spin offs. If you are eager to transfer your technology to the market, but you are not sure about how to do it, don't miss this key seminar.
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Place: ICMAB - Sala d'Actes Carles Miravitlles

Date: Monday 23, May de 2022 - 12:00h

Promotor: ICMAB

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Online debate organized by the "La Caixa" Foundation with the presentation by Maria Pia Cosma, ICREA researcher and head of the Reprogramming and Regeneration Group of the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, and José Antonio Garrido, ICREA researcher, deputy director of the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2), and head of the Advanced Materials and Devices Electronics Group at ICN2. all moderated by Núria Ramírez de Castro, editor-in-chief of Society of the ABC newspaper.

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Place: Online

Date: Tuesday 12, July de 2022 - 13:00h

Promotor: ICN2

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Are you interested in computer vision? Would you like to discover how to work in a reference research center in this field? Would you like to do research? Would you like to know what training and career opportunities we offer?

Come to our Open Day and meet the Computer Vision Center (CVC) on May 26, 2022!

The session is designed for you to discover what computer vision is and in which fields it is applied, learn about the main projects and lines of research from our researchers and discover the training and career opportunities we offer (TFGs, internships, Master, PhD program, etc.). Finally, there will be a visit to the center’s facilities and different interactive technological demonstrations will be shown.

The activity will be carried out in two shifts, one in the morning from 11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and one in the afternoon from 3:00 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. If neither of them works for you, contact the center to arrange a visit.

To attend it is necessary to reserve a place at the following link.

Place: Computer Vision Center, Building O, Campus UAB

Date: Friday 15, October de 2021 - 12:30h

Date: Thursday 26, May de 2022 - 16:30h

Promotor: CVC

Email:: press@cvc.uab.es

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Virtually all ecosystems are increasingly threatened by human activities, and ecologists are now faced with the Herculean task of understanding and projecting the impacts of these threats at various scales. In this talk, Maria Paniw, a Marie Curie fellow at Doñana Biological Station, discusses the opportunities of using methods from population ecology as a toolbox to rigorously and holistically assess human impacts on natural systems. Her research focuses on how intrinsic (density) and extrinsic (environment) factors, biotic interactions, and individual traits (size or mass) interact to determine population structure and dynamics. Working with long-term data on animal and plant populations, she is particularly interested in how population projections under global change can be improved by accounting for trait dynamics, environmental and spatial patterning, and tradeoffs between survival and reproduction. Using empirical example across plants and animals, she will discuss how we can scale from phenotypes to populations to communities to gain a mechanistic understanding of key drivers of population and community dynamics. In particular, she will stress the importance of such mechanistic models for accurate forecasting and discuss the critical role of long-term studies that allow us to formulate mechanistic models in the first place.

Seminars will combine online and onsite formats but in all cases, talks will be always streamed (not recorded), so they can be followed online. For more information, click here.

Place: Sala Graus II, Faculty of Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date: Friday 27, May de 2022 - 12:00h

Promotor: CREAF

Email:: t.rosas@creaf.uab.cat