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Wednesday:

From 5 to 7 May the UAB Faculty of Science will host "Quantum Days at the UAB" (Q-UAB Days), an event organised as part of the United Nations' International Year of Quantum Science and Technology which will bring together renowned researchers and students to explore the latest advances and real-life applications of quantum science. 

The event is co-organised by the UAB, the IMB-CNM and the ICMAB, in collaboration with researchers from the ICN2 and the IFAE. It is distributed into three sessions, each taking place from 12 noon to 2:30 p.m. at the Sala d'Actes of the Faculty of Science.

Each session will be dedicated to a specific area of quantum science and technology, in which the most recent developments and cutting-edge discoveries will be discussed: Quantum information and Detection on 5 May, Quantum Light and Matter on 6 May and Quantum Chips on 7 May. Each day will conclude with an interactive colloquium in which attendees will be able to engage with researchers, ask questions and discuss the future of quantum technologies.

Those interested in attending can sign up at the following link: https://forms.gle/pVnRKRxKmSAXD9uF8

Place: Faculty of Science (Sala d'Actes)

Date: Monday 5, May de 2025 - 12:00h

Date: Wednesday 7, May de 2025 - 14:30h

Promotor: UAB, IMB-CNM and ICMAB

Wednesday:

Games with lights and probabilities, computer simulations and a live muon detector to enjoy and understand quantum phenomena. This is what the First Interactive Fair of the Physics Club, pertaining to the UAB Faculty of Science, would like to share with all those interested in learning about and enjoying physics.

The fair, which will be celebratin International Year of Quantum Science and Technology, will include up to a dozen of small installations, in which the public will be able to interact with the organisers. These first to fourth-year students from the bachelor’s degree in Physics and members of the Physics Club are the people behind the experiences they hope to share with visitors at the Interactive Fair.

Visitors will be able to play with and touch the installations and participate in trails and small challenges, making games, and words and conversations a gateway to interactions between them and the organisers about quantum phenomena. All UAB students, family members, UAB staff, and everyone interested in physics are invited to attend.

The First Interactive Fair of the UAB Physics Club receives the support of the Department of Physics and the Faculty of Science.

Place: Faculty of Science (Central Axis)

Date: Wednesday 28, May de 2025 - 11:00h

Date: Wednesday 28, May de 2025 - 18:00h

Wednesday:

The Institute of History of Science UAB organises the lecture “Words that Work: the language of scientific dissemination of de-extinction and its impact on the attitudes and misinformation of the lay public”, which addresses a critical and little explored challenge around misinformation in science communication: the use of promotional metaphors and their impact on the understanding, attitudes and beliefs of the lay public. From experimental philosophy, Mikel Asteinza, pre-doctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country, will analyse this phenomenon through the case study of de-extinction, a line of biotechnological research that has been the subject of a dissemination marked by misleading metaphors.

Mikel Asteinza is a predoctoral researcher at the University of the Basque Country, a member of the IAS Philosophy of Science Research Group and a collaborator of the FiloLab Unit of Excellence at the University of Granada. His research focuses on the impact of scientific communication and popularisation on the perceptions and attitudes of the general public, a study that he approaches from the epistemology of misinformation and experimental philosophy.

The event will take place on campus and also online at this link: Teams platform

More information about the conference

Place: School of Engineering, Seminar B, Campus UAB and online

Date: Wednesday 28, May de 2025 - 12:30h

Date: Wednesday 28, May de 2025 - 14:00h

Promotor: Institute of History of Science UAB

Wednesday:

Fifty years after the death of Francisco Franco, the Centre for the Study of Dictatorships and Democracies (CEDID-UAB) is co-organising, together with other Spanish and French universities and the Francisco Largo Caballero Foundation, the international symposium on “Radiography of Anti-Francoism in Spain and France. Parties, Unions and Social Movements (1939-1977)”. The meeting will take place in the city of Alacant, Valencia, and the city of Albi, France, on 20, 21, 26 and 27 November, and will bring together specialists to analyse the forms of political, social and cultural resistance against Francoism.

The last day of the symposium will take place on Thursday 27 November and will feature presentations on the new radical left, the labour movement, and civil society's democratic learning. Juan Andrade, Pere Ysàs, Mónica Moreno, and Alberto Carrillo will be taking part, analysing the influence of social and cultural movements at the end of the dictatorship. The day will end with an official closing hosted by Mónica Moreno, lecturer at the University of Alacant, and Bruno Vargas, lecturer at the University of Toulouse.

Place: Amphitheatre 3 - Jean Jaurès Building, INU Champollion (Albi Campus - Université de Toulouse)

Date: Thursday 27, November de 2025 - 09:00h

Wednesday:

The UAB Communication Institute (InCom-UAB) is organising the presentation of the Informe de la comunicació a Catalunya 2023-2024 [Communication Report in Catalonia 2023-2024] on 27 November, which will take place at the headquarters of the Institut d'Estudis Catalans in Barcelona. The event will focus on the current state of the communication sector in the country. In the session, the main data and conclusions of the report will be analysed, as well as the ethical, cultural and social challenges facing the communication sector in Catalonia.

Institutional speeches will be given by Marc Melillas, general director of Media of the Government of Catalonia; Virginia Luzón, vice-rector of Communication of the UAB; Amparo Huertas, director of InCom-UAB; and Joan Francesc Fondevila, president of the Catalan Society of Communication–Institute of Catalan Studies (SCC-IEC).

In addition, the presentation will include a discussion panel with the editorial team, formed by Amparo Huertas, Bernat López, Celina Navarro and Luiz Peres-Neto, who will offer a summary of the main data and conclusions of the report, as well as the contents of the twelve chapters making up the edition, prepared by researchers from the UAB and the Pompeu Fabra, Rovira i Virgili, Oberta de Catalunya and Complutense de Madrid universities.

Place: Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona (Carrer del Carme 47)

Date: Thursday 27, November de 2025 - 17:30h

Wednesday:

On 28 November, the UAB School for a Culture of Peace (ECP) organises a conference at the central library of Cerdanyola del Vallès on armed conflict, rearmament and alternatives in terms of a culture of peace. The conference will take place at 6:00 p.m. and will be given by Ana Villellas, researcher at the ECP-UAB. The activity is part of the events held in the 14th Autumn of Solidarity, organised by the Cerdanyola del Vallès City Council, with the support of the ECP and the Catalan Agency for Development Cooperation.

Place: Central Library, Cerdanyola del Vallès (Plaça Enric Granados 1)

Date: Friday 28, November de 2025 - 18:00h