Defenses de tesi

Description:

The UAB will hold the plenary meeting of the Archaeology and Palaeontology Campus on 3 November, a day that will commemorate 10 years of this project promoted by the UAB's Strategic Research Community in Cultural Heritage (CORE network). The event will feature the participation of Assumpció Malgosa, vice-rector for Research, and Margarita Freixas, dean of the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, as well as institutional representatives linked to the project.

The day will begin with an institutional welcome and continue with a session of presentations and work focused on the review of the current lines and the definition of future challenges for the campus. During the session, Oriol Vicente (CORE of Cultural Heritage) will outline the trajectory of the project, which since its creation has consolidated a model of integration between research, teaching and knowledge transfer in the fields of archaeology and palaeontology. The day will also include the presentation of various archaeological sites by the people responsible for them.

The Archaeology and Palaeontology Campus, which received the 2018 Jaume Vicens Vives Award for university teaching quality, is a teaching experience that takes advantage of and integrates the knowledge of the UAB's archaeological and palaeontological research projects in the practical teaching of Archaeology degrees, and in the initiation to research of master's and PhD students. It structures its activity around a network of sites, museums and facilities that have chronologies ranging from the Palaeolithic to the modern age. The different sites (currently more than a dozen), which include large Mediterranean sites, are spread across Catalonia, other parts of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands.

The day will end with a work session focused on reviewing current and future research lines, a visit to the UAB laboratories, and the INTERMEDIT exhibition.

Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Periodicals Room)

Date: Monday 3, November2025 - 10:00h

Description:

As part of the Tarima educational series of the UAB Science and Technology Library, the talk "Engineers also make video games! Video games at the School of Engineering" will take place, with the participation of professor Enric Martí Gòdia, and UAB alumni Carlos Adán López and Levani Makharash.

Attendees will learn first-hand about the teaching of video games at the School of Engineering and the two former students of the School of Engineering will explain their experience in video games, both during their studies and now at a professional level.

Place: Science and Technology Library, UAB campus

Date: Tuesday 4, November2025 - 13:00h

End date: Tuesday 4, November2025 - 14:00h

Description:

Josep Santaló, professor of Cell Biology at the UAB and expert in bioethics and developmental biology, will give the conference "When do we start to be who we are?" at the Saint Albert's Day celebration event organised by the Faculty of Biosciences and the Faculty of Science on 5 November. It will take place at 11 a.m. in the faculty conference hall, and will also feature institutional interventions by the UAB's general secretary, Esther Zapater; the dean of the Faculty of Biosciences, Isidre Gibert; and the dean of the Faculty of Science, Juan Jesús Donaire.

Place: Faculty of Science and Biosciences (conference hall)

Date: Wednesday 5, November2025 - 11:00h

Description:

American researcher Craig Cameron Mello, awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2006 for his discovery of RNA interference, will deliver the lecture “RNAi: A molecular spark in an information inferno.” Mello has been a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Maryland since the year 2000.

The conference is part of the Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative, a programme organised by the Nobel Prize Outreach, in collaboration with the AstraZeneca Foundation, to bring Nobel prize winners closer to the scientific community and, especially, to young researchers.

Professor Mello will describe the research and challenges faced before and after receiving the award, which he was awarded together with fellow American pathologist Andrew Fire. He also will describe the history of the discovery of RNA interference, a fundamental mechanism in controlling the flow of genetic information.

To attend please fill out the following form.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Wednesday 5, November2025 - 12:00h

Organiser: Nobel Prize Inspiration Initiative

Description:

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the social pact against corruption signed in the Parliament of Catalonia by civic entities and political parties, the Sala de graus of the Faculty of Law will host the presentation of the Citizen Observatory Against Corruption on 5 november at 1:00 p.m. Gemma Rubí, professor of contemporary history at the UAB and director of the Research Group on Political Studies, Identities, Institutions and Corruption (GREPIIC-UAB), will present the event. Joan Lluís Pérez Francesch, professor of constitutional law at the UAB, will then give a presentation entitled "The culture of integrity". The president of the Observatory, Itzíar González, will also give a speech.

Place: Faculty of Law (Sala de graus)

Date: Wednesday 5, November2025 - 13:00h

Description:

The UAB organises its PhD degrees and extraordinary awards ceremony, to be held on 7 November. In the ceremony, the PhD degrees will be awarded and the work of the winners will be presented. The ceremony programme and link to follow the event live on the UAB YouTube channel, can be found here. People who wish to attend in person must register using this form.

Place: Sala Arnau de Vilanova, Hotel Exe Campus (Vila Universitària)

Date: Friday 7, November2025 - 18:00h