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Next Wednesday, December 11, at 3 p.m., the Auditorium of Building C will host the conferences dedicated to the 2024 Nobel Prizes. The event will feature the participation of UAB experts who will delve into the scientific advances awarded in Chemistry, Physiology or Medicine and Physics.

IFAE has joined the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, strengthening its contributions to international gravitational wave research using terrestrial interferometry. This milestone further establishes IFAE as a key player in global efforts to push the boundaries of our understanding of the cosmos.

Next Tuesday, November 26 at 1:00 p.m., we will host this presentation with the participation of Ignasi Fina Martínez (senior scientist at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC), and the award winners Daniel Martín Jiménez (post-doctoral researcher at ICMAB-CSIC) and Martí Perarnau Llobet (Ramón y Cajal post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Physics at the UAB). Both of them are coming to present to us the physics they have in mind!

Diego Blas, ICREA researcher at the IFAE, and Kostas Kostarelos, ICREA research professor and Severo Ochoa distinguished professor at the ICN2, have been awarded European Research Council (ERC) Synergy Grants for the development of research projects under the EU’s Horizon Europe programme.

The meteorological data recorded over the past two decades by sensors of the Roque de los Muchachos astronomical observatory facilities point to a rise of 1.1 ºC in the average temperature. The analysis, led by UAB researchers, shows more than double the increase predicted by climate models for the same area, and even more than expected for the next 20 years.

Department of Physics researcher Martí Perarnau Llobet received the Spanish Royal Physics Society-BBVA Foundation Award in the category of Young Researcher in Theoretical Physics. Perarnau recently began to work as a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the UAB Quantum Information Group.

Los Premios de Física Real Sociedad Española de Física-Fundación BBVA reconocen anualmente desde 2008 la creatividad, el esfuerzo y el logro en el campo de la física con el fin de servir de estímulo a los profesionales que desarrollan su labor tanto en la investigación, como en los ámbitos de las enseñanzas secundaria y universitaria, la innovación, la tecnología y la divulgación. Se presentan a continuación los galardonados en la edición de 2024 y la composición de los jurados.

An International study led by UAB researcher Ariane Arias-Ortiz, and published in Global Change Biology, has analysed methane gas fluxes in over a hundred tidal wetlands and marshes in the USA. The analysis has identified key environmental factors affecting methane emissions and has allowed a larger set of standardised data on greenhouse gas emissions in those ecosystems to be produced. These data can be used to account for greenhouse gases with greater precision and improve climate models.

Rafel Escribano gave the talk “Electroweak Symmetry Breaking”, in the UAB Science Faculty, as part of the monthly pizza seminar organized by the UAB Physics Students Association, a delegation of the RSEF students association.

The artist Lydia Ourahmane presents the exhibition “108 days” at the MACBA (Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona), in which every day different people and groups present their thoughts, work, experiences, etc. One of the days is dedicated to Cosmology.