Defenses de tesi

Description:

As part of the Òrbita Lectora online book club, the Humanities Library organises an event entitled "Estimades màquines: robòtica i ciència-ficció catalana", which will take place on 22 April at the Periodical Room . The event will be held from 12 noon to 2:30 p.m. and will include specialists from different areas who will speak on key question related to artificial intelligence, robotics and their representation in Catalan literature. The programme will begin with a speech by mathematician and writer Carme Torras, who will talk about future scenarios that are worth reflecting on and taking action.

Place: Humanities Library, Periodicals Room (Faculty of Arts & Humanities)

Date: Wednesday 22, April2026 - 12:00h

Description:

On Wednesday 22 April, the UAB will be holding the awards ceremony for the Top Final Projects (Treballs de Fi de Grau, TFG) with a gender perspective of the 2024/25 academic year in an event that will reunite the authors of the projects, their families, the project supervisor and other academic authorities. This year 32 projects (the list of award winners can be consulted here) from a variety of faculties will receive an award.

The awards, which are in their tenth edition this year, are convened annually by the Equality and Diversity Service of the UAB, with the support and funding of the Catalan Women's Institute, with the aim of promoting university research from a critical and inclusive perspective, promoting the incorporation of the gender perspective in academic analysis and knowledge production.

The event will be chaired by Esther Zapater, general secretary of the UAB, and will serve to publicly recognise the effort and quality of the 32 awarded works, coming from different faculties and disciplines.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall), Bellaterra campus

Date: Wednesday 22, April2026 - 12:30h

End date: Wednesday 22, April2026 - 14:00h

Description:

The UAB will be the scenario of the tenth edition of this conference, organised by the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) in collaboration with the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine.

The welcome session will be given by Javier Lafuente, rector of the UAB, Josep Maria López Martín, deputy director general of Fauna Cinegètica, Caça i Pesca Continental of the Government of Catalonia, and Monique Principi, director general of BIWFC.

The congress will once again bring together the international scientific and professional community in this specialised field to provide continuity to previous international forums dedicated to the control of wildlife fertility and the role that these strategies can play in mitigating conflicts between humans and wildlife.

With the title "Bridging the Gap: From Science to Management", the meeting aims to bring scientific research closer to practical management on the ground. Professionals from various disciplines will gather to share the latest advances in areas such as research and development of new strategies, improvement of existing methods, ongoing and completed field studies, identification and management systems, practical application case studies, the human dimension of wildlife management, stakeholder participation, scientific communication, and the social, regulatory and political challenges associated with this field.

The plenary session programme will feature the participation of four prominent international voices in the field of wildlife fertility control:

- Giovanna Massei, director of BIWFC in Europe and professor of Human Interactions with Wildlife at the University of York, United Kingdom, will present the paper "Too many? Wildlife fertility control in the future".

- Jordan Hampton, senior professor of Veterinary Physiology at the School of Veterinary Medicine Harry Butler Institute of Murdoch University, Australia, will offer the conference "Navigating contemporary animal welfare expectations in wildlife fertility control".

- Cameron Kovach, head of programmes at The Wildlife Society (TWS), will give the presentation "Transforming wildlife management: making space for new ideas".

- John Boone, research director of the Great Basin Bird Observatory, United States, will address the management of free-roaming cat populations with the session "Making the most of fertility control: Insights from free-roaming cat population management".

Attendance at the conference will allow participants to obtain up to 14.5 Category I continuing education credits (CEUs) within the Certified Wildlife Biologist title renewal and professional development programme, offered by The Wildlife Society, with the equivalence of one credit for each hour of training.

The fact that this conference is being held at the UAB consolidates the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine as an international reference space in research, knowledge transfer, and debate on the sustainable management of wildlife.

Congress programme

Place: Hotel Campus and Convention Centre, UAB Campus

Date: Thursday 23, April2026 - 08:15h

End date: Friday 24, April2026 - 17:30h

Organiser: Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control (BIWFC) and Faculty of Veterinary Medicine

Description:

Vicent Borràs is a lecturer at the UAB Department of Sociology and researcher at the Centre for Sociological Studies on Everyday Life and Work (QUIT) and the Institute for Labour Studies.

In the Expert Seat of the Science Carriage, Vicent Borràs will address inequalities between men and women in the professional world in aspects such as salary, managerial positions or harassment, as well as inequalities in the household sphere. Borràs will reflect on how we need to work to move towards a more egalitarian society.

The activity will take place on 23 April on the 9:28 a.m. train from Plaça Catalunya to the UAB.

Place: FGC train from Plaça Catalunya to the UAB at 9:28 a.m.

Date: Thursday 23, April2026 - 09:28h

Description:

The UAB's EUGLOB Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence will be holding a new session within its EUGOV's Practitioner’s Seminar: The implementation of NGEU Plan in Catalonia. The session will take place on 23 April at 11:00 a.m. at the Aula 6 of the Faculty of Political Science and Sociology of the UAB. 

The conference will be given by Francesc Trillas, secretary for Economic Affairs and European Funds of the Government of Catalonia and lecturer in the Department of Applied Economics at the UAB. Trillas will offer his perspective on the management of Next Generation EU funds in Catalonia, thus addressing both the challenges and opportunities that impact the areas of institutional economics and public policies. This seminar is part of the activities of the EUGLOB project, co-financed by the European Union, with the aim of bringing expert knowledge and practical experience in the field of European governance to students, researchers and professionals.

Place: Faculty of Political Science and Sociology (Aula 6)

Date: Thursday 23, April2026 - 11:00h

Description:

Gravitational waves (GWs) can be produced by a first-order phase transition in the early Universe via the fluid perturbations induced in the primordial plasma by the expansion and collision of broken-phase bubbles. Alberto Roper Pol, professor of the University of Geneva (Switzerland), will review the production of GWs by the anisotropic stresses of velocity and magnetic fields induced in a first-order phase transition and present recent developments on the analytical estimates and numerical simulations that address the stochastic GW background produced by acoustic motion (sound waves) and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) turbulence. These GWs could be detectable by current and future GW detectors like LISA or PTA, potentially providing us with direct clean information of the physics at the high energies of the early Universe and probing beyond the Standard Model physics. In addition, the presence of magnetic fields at a phase transition leads to coupled non-linear fluid perturbations, described by MHD turbulence, that will impact the cosmological GW background. The study of these effects can be used to put constraints on primordial magnetic fields. These fields would evolve until present time and leave observable imprints in, for example, the CMB and in the cosmic voids of the large-scale structure of the Universe, allowing us to combine GW observations with other cosmological and astrophysical observations in a multi-messenger approach.

You can access the full event here: https://indico.ifae.es/event/2434

Place: IFAE Seminar Room C7b/064

Date: Thursday 23, April2026 - 15:00h