Activities
Tuesday, May 27 2025
Dia · Setmana
19:00
Round Table: Cinema and Science. Views, Narratives, Frictions
Place: Fundació Carulla, Barcelona (Carrer dels Almogàvers 214)
Date: Tuesday 27, May2025 - 19:00h
Organiser: Associació Catalana de Comunicació Científica and Cinemes Texas
Wednesday, May 28, 2025
11:00
First Physics Club Interactive Fair to celebrate quantum science and technology
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
12:00
Conference by Joan del Castillo at the CRM: Probabilities without risk
Description:
Joan del Castillo, lecturer in the UAB Department of Mathematics, will give a conference entitled Probabilitats sense risc on 28 May at 12 noon, at the "Aula petita" of the Centre for Mathematical Research (C1/028), located in the UAB Faculty of Science. The conference is organised by the Service for Applied Statistics and the Statistical Modeling of Extreme Events and Health Risks seminar group.
In order to assess the risks of financial markets, the conference will focus on introducing a new inequality that allows estimating probabilities without model risk, based on an improved version of the Markov inequality and order statistics. In particular, the aim is to estimate probabilities beyond the range of available observations, where classical nonparametric statistics were not applicable until now. The new methods that will be presented allow a wide range of applications since they simply require the finite hope hypothesis, i.e., that the law of large numbers be used. The results will be compared with Dow Jones Industrial data over a long period encompassing the 2020 COVID crisis. The results will be contrasted with those provided by extreme value theory and other alternative models.
Place: Centre for Mathematical Research (CRM)
Date: Wednesday 28, May2025 - 12:00h
12:30
The language of scientific dissemination of de-extinction and its effects on a lay audience
Description:
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, May2025 - 12:30h
End date: Wednesday 28, May2025 - 14:00h
Organiser: Institute of History of Science UAB
13:00
First aid workshop in the mountains (second edition)
Description:
Workshop by the Federation of Excursionist Organizations of Catalonia (FEEC) which aims to provide the appropriate techniques and tools to solve emergency situations in the context of mountain activities and to know how to respond in the face of accidents that may occur in the development of the activity
Organized by: Community Revitalization Unit and University Alpí Club
Date and time: May 28th
Date: Wednesday 28, May2025 - 13:00h
End date: Wednesday 28, May2025 - 15:00h
18:00
Performance "The Paparazzi or Chronicle of an Aborted Sunrise", by Level 2 Theatrical Interpretation group
Description:
The Level 2 Theatrical Interpretation group, directed by Arnau Vidal, will perform the play The Paparazzi or Chronicle of an Aborted Sunrise, by Matéi Visniec, on Thursday, May 28 at 6:00 p.m.
Matéi Visniec is known for his strange and poetic games, which are embodied here in the play The Paparazzi or Chronicle of a Failed Sunrise.With eight actors, an unusual and suggestive atmosphere will be created where the characters face a dramatic situation with touches of comedy
Place: UAB Theatre
Date: Wednesday 28, May2025 - 18:00h
End date: Wednesday 28, May2025 - 20:00h
Organiser: Cultura UAB
Telephone: 935812202
E-mail: cultura.enviu@uab.cat