Agenda

Description:

The UAB Faculty of Science and Faculty of Biosciences organise this event to explore the discoveries awarded in the 2024 Nobel Prizes. The event will take place in the conference hall of Building C at 3:00 p.m. with the opening speech given by Juan Jesús Donaire, Dean of the Faculty of Science.

Isidre Gibert, Dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, will also speak, followed by the introduction of the conference givers by Lluís Casas Duocastella, Vice-Dean of Alumni and Promotion of the Faculty of Science.

The lectures will be given by renowned researchers of the University:

• Contribucions fundacionals de la Física a la Intel·ligència Artificial, by Maria Vanrell, professor of the Department of Computer Science at the School of Engineering.

• Per què el descobriment dels microARNs per Victor Ambros i Gary Ruvkun ha merescut el premi Nobel de Medicina 2024?, by Armand Sánchez, emeritus professor of the Department of Animal and Food Science at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

• XNobel Prize in Chemistry 2024: A.I. in protein structure, by Òscar Conchillo, lecturer and technician of the “Vicent Villar Palasi” Institute of Biotechnology and Biomedicine, and Jean-Didier Pierre Marechal, professor of the Department of Chemistry.

The event will end with a Q&A session conducted by Dean Juan Jesús Donaire. 

The event will also be streamed live here.

Place: Building C (conference hall)

Date: Wednesday 11, December2024 - 15:00h

Description:

Researchers from different universities and research centres in Catalonia, including the UAB, have created the Catalan Association of Science and Technology Studies (STS-CAT). The official presentation will take place on 28 February at 9:30 a.m. at the Barcelona Research Residence.

The presentation will feature an inaugural lecture by Wiebe E. Bijker, lecturer and researcher at the University of Maastricht and advisor to the Dutch government as an expert on the relationship between democracy and technology. Biojker is one of the fathers of international Science and Technology Studies and one of the main exponents of the Theory on the Social Construction of Technologies. The engineer, philosopher and PhD in Sociology and History of Technology from the University of Twente (The Netherlands), studies the relationship between the development of technology and society, and how the emergence of new technologies impacts on democracy and can lead to the emergence of a new social order.

The lecture will be followed by a round table (STS in Action) with the participation of Blanca Callén (UAB), Israel Rodríguez (UOC), Ismael Ràfols (Ingenio CSIC-UPV & Univ Leiden) and Vincenzo Pavone (IPP-CSIC), and moderated by the vice-president of the STS-CAT, Núria Vallès (IIIA-CSIC). 

The closing speech will be given by Miquel Domènech (UAB), member of the STS-CAT.

Attendance is free, but prior registration is required.

Place: CSIC Researcher Residence, Barcelona (Carrer Hospital 64)

Date: Friday 28, February2025 - 09:30h

Description:

The “Ecosocial crisis, implications and challenges” series consists of 6 conferences and is organised by lecturer Josep Espluga, together with the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology and the UAB's Solidarity Foundation. It is aimed at students from all the UAB campus.

The fifth conference is entitled "Global Extractivism and Climate Migrations", and will be given by Miguel Pajares, honorary president of the Catalan Commission for Refugee Action. It will take place on 24 April, at 1:00 p.m., in Aula 13 of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UAB.

Attending all 6 conferences can be validated for two ECTS credits. All conferences are free of charge. For more information, please consult the following link.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Aula 13)

Date: Thursday 24, April2025 - 13:00h

Description:

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, May2025 - 11:00h

End date: Wednesday 28, May2025 - 18:00h