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Description:

Within the framework of SustainEd, an Erasmus+ project that aims to improve the skills of university students in the field of sustainability, UAB will host a Learning, Teaching and Training Activity to present the educational resources that have been developed to improve the understanding of the concepts of sustainability and circular economy.

The event, organised by the CORE of Smart and Sustainable Cities, the CORE of Education and Employability and the UAB Open Labs, will bring together researchers, PhD students and post-doctoral fellows from Bulgaria, Hungary, Portugal, Italy and Cyprus.

Over four days, participants will learn about different tools, such as webquests and live laboratories, and visit different spaces on the UAB campus, such as the UAB Open Labs, the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) or the UAB Research Park.

Place: COMTEC Centre (Communication and General Newspaper Library of UAB)

Date: Monday 26, May2025 - 14:30h

End date: Thursday 29, May2025 - 14:00h

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

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

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

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

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