Homage to John Girbau Bado (welcome as Professor Emeritus)

On May 30 our colleague Joan Girbau will give this course last class. We will take the opportunity to make him a tribute.

29/05/2012

Joan Girbau Bado was born in Barcelona in 1942. He studied at the University of Barcelona, where he earned a doctorate degree in 1971. Between 1970 and 1972 he held a scholarship at the Collège de France where he worked with André Lichnerowicz. In 1974 he became Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and professor at the same university in 1976.

He is the creator of the research group in differential geometry at UAB. He has published extensively in this area of research. It has also been interested in the theory of relativity, a field in which you obtained different results.

It is worth mentioning his works in gnomotics, such as his precision sun clock on the façade of the our Facultat de Ciències UAB. He is also the creator of the Solar "Zenitógraf" ( you can see it here ), a device similar to a solar clock but that indicates the point of the plannet where the sun reaches the zenith at the time the observation is made.

Program of the day

10.00 Differential Geometry mapes dels. Last class of Joan Girbau.
11.15 El polifacètic Joan Girbau. Led by Manuel Castellet and Agustí Reventós.
12.20 A few words about Joan Girbau, by Sola-Morales, president of SCM.
12.30 The "Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043" by J. S. BACH played by: Mireia Bartoli (violin), Queralt Dos Santos (violin), Arabel.la Fernandez (viola) and Mireia Pla (cello).
13.00 A few words by Pere Puig, director of the Department of Mathematics.
13.10 Opening of the poster dedicated to Joan Girbau.
13.45 Lunch at the Hotel Campus.