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Wednesday:

The Institut de Neurociències (INc) and the UAB CORE in Mental Health once again organise the conference series Cervella’t, in commemoration of Brain Awareness Week. The initiative aims to raise awareness of the research conducted in neuroscience and mental health. The conferences will be given by experts collaborating with the UAB.

Attendance is free, but those interested in attending must sign up here.

Place: Online event

Date: Monday 11, March de 2024 - 18:30h

Date: Thursday 14, March de 2024 - 19:15h

Promotor: INc and UAB Core in Mental Health

Wednesday:

Through virtual reality glasses, one can learn about three protected and endangered plant species of the natural park of Cap de Creus: the herbaceous plant Sèseli del cap de Creus (Seseli farrenyi), endemic to this natural park, the spurge olive (Cneorum tricoccon) endemic to the Mediterranean basin, and blue bindweed (Convolvulus siculus), in a vulnerable situation in Catalonia.

This event is the final phase of a teaching innovation project coordinated by Sandra Saura Mas, lecturer of ecology at the Faculty of Biosciences and CREAF researcher. The project is funded by the Coordination of Training and Teaching Innovation of the Institute of Education Studies and the Training Unit of the UAB. This project has succeeded in creating three 3D models of endemic and endangered plants of the Mediterranean basin, in order to make them freely available to students to work on during subjects dealing with the relationship between humans and nature. This has been possible thanks to the collaboration with the OpenLabs of the UAB, specifically the Digital Lab.

The Virtual Biodiversity project makes it possible to find 3D models of threatened plant species free of charge on the internet. With the result of this project, more traditional formats such as 2D herbariums or collections of living organisms, normally exclusive and located in inaccessible places that sometimes imply the death of the collected plants, have been renewed. New supports and media have been created that are more attractive, closer and more effective for learning and totally respectful with the life of other living organisms.

Place: UAB Digital Lab (Journals Hall, Library of Humanities)

Date: Wednesday 13, March de 2024 - 13:00h

Wednesday:

On 11 and 12 April, the seminar "Disciplinary crossroads: between the history of science and environmental history" will take place in the iHC building (Institute of History of Science at the UAB), organised by the doctoral students Max Bautista (UCLouvain), Carolina Granado (iHC-UAB) and Héctor Isern (iHC-UAB). The seminar features both local and international researchers in environmental history and history of science to facilitate academic dialogue in cycles of talks with a focus on elucidating plausible relationships and intersections between disciplinary fields. Key points of discussion will include temporality, geographic scale, thematic concerns and methodological approaches, with a special emphasis on addressing environmental activism in contemporary ecosocial crises.

The following researchers will speak at the event on the following schedule:

• Thursday 11 April 2024

9:00 - 10:00 
Max Bautista, Carolina Granado, Héctor Isern and Carlos Tabernero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. "Welcome, presentation and contextualisation of the Seminar".

10:00 - 11:00 
Lino Camprubí, University of Seville. "History of the oceans: confluences between the history of oceanography and the history of the ocean environment".

11:00 - 11:30: Coffee break

11:30 - 12:30
Sarah Dry, University of Cambridge. "Time is a resource, how should we spend it? On history, climate and activism".

12:30 - 1:30 
Sarah Hamilton, University of Bergen. "Scientists, activists, and science activists: control over Knowledge in Histories of Environmental Activism".

1:30 - 3:30: Lunch break

3:30 - 5:00 
Marco Armiero (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin, Madison). "A passion for entry. Disobeying borders as an intellectual project"

• Friday 12 April 2024

9:30 - 10:30 
Judit Gil-Farrero, University of Zaragoza. "Historical research on environmental issues: an interdisciplinary route".

10:30 - 11:30  
Santiago Gorostiza, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. "Beyond the disciplinary trenches. War at the crossroads of environmental history and history of science".

11:30 - 12:00: Coffee Break

12:00 - 12:30 
Agustí Nieto-Galán, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. "A fruitful alliance: history of science and environmental history at UAB".

12:30 - 1:30
Closing remarks and open round table discussion.

For more information and/or to register: max.bautista@uclouvain.be

Join in person or online using this link.

Place: Institut d'Història de la Ciència (iHC). Carrer Can Magrans s/n, module C, Bellaterra.

Date: Thursday 11, April de 2024 - 09:00h

Date: Friday 12, April de 2024 - 13:30h

Promotor: Max Bautista Perpinyà (UCLouvain), Carolina Granado Torres (iHC-UAB) and Hèctor Isern Alsina (iHC-UAB).

Email:: max.bautista@uclouvain.be

Wednesday:

The CVC's Open Days are aimed directly to university students and the public in general as a way to share with other the activities conducted at the CVC and the work done in the research centre. The visit is aimed at showing what the computer vision centre is and what sectors it can benefit, as well as helping the public discover its main projects and lines of research, experience how research is conducted "live", and discover the academic and professional opportunities available at the centre (TFGs, work placements, master's degrees, PhD programmes, etc.).

The meeting will include a visit to the CVC's facilities, with different demonstrations of interactive technologies. 

For more information and registrations please visit:
https://www.cvc.uab.es/cvc-portes-obertes/

Place: Computer Vision Centre, UAB Bellaterra campus (Building O)

Date: Wednesday 8, May de 2024 - 11:00h

Promotor: Computer Vision Centre

Wednesday:

The Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Biosciences will celebrate the International Day of Light with a conference entitled "Managing Light Propagation with Scalable Nanophotonic Architectures", by Agustín Mihi, researcher at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC). 

Agustin Mihi is an expert in large area and low-cost crystalline and plasmonic photonic structures using unconventional nanofabrication techniques. His group investigates the design, fabrication and characterisation of photonic architectures that enhance the interaction between light and matter applied to emerging optoelectronic devices.

Place: Building C (conference hall)

Date: Friday 10, May de 2024 - 12:00h

Promotor: Faculties of Science and Biosciences

Wednesday:

Under the framework of the 17th Science Festival, a conference will be held on various topics related to greenhouses, to reflect on their role from a social, architectural and productive vision in urban environments. Participating in the conference will be Xavier Gabarrell i Durany, vice-rector for Campus and Sustainability, and researcher at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering of the UAB; and Verónica Arcas Pilz, researcher at ICTA-UAB.

The Ciutadella Hivernacle will also offer the exhibition entitled “Màquina Climàtica”, on display until 8 December. The exhibition plays with the simile of the warming effect produced by the greenhouse itself and the so-called greenhouse effect that makes life on Earth possible. It shows how human activity is accentuating this effect and will go through the history and evolution of greenhouses, as well as take a look at the productive future of these facilities. Sostenipra-ICTA-UAB has provided the content of the exhibition and the plants.

Place: Hivernacle, Parc de la Ciutadella, Barcelona (Passeig de Picasso 7)

Date: Sunday 9, June de 2024 - 12:00h

Date: Sunday 9, June de 2024 - 13:30h

Promotor: Barcelona City Council