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In this talk, Mar Mezcua presents the black holes of 100 to 100,000 solar masses formed at redshifts of z < 20, which are currently the best candidates to be the seeds of the first supermassive black holes that feed the detected quasars. at z ~ 6–7. Until now, the study of this high redshift population has only been possible by investigating possible local relics of those that did not become supermassive, which can be found in the local Universe as intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) in dwarf galaxies. . Mar Mezcua will show how radio interferometric observations have been key to identifying and characterizing IMBHs that are actively accumulating in the local Universe and up to z ~ 3. The next generation of radio telescopes like the SKA will open a new window in black hole detection. seed in birth, probing the formation pathways of the first quasars in the Universe.

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Place: Online

Date: Thursday 5, May de 2022 - 10:00h

Promotor: Institute of Space Sciences (ICE-CSIC)

Wednesday:

On May 6^th  and 7^th 2022, the first Bioblitz will take place on the UAB campus. A BioBlitz is a participatory citizen science event that aims to record as many species of living things as possible at a specific site during a given time. Bioblitz provide observations and contribute to enriching biodiversity databases for research. Between all of us we will update the biodiversity data of the UAB. We work and study in a privileged place in the middle of the Vallesana plain, in a space of paramount importance for the conservation of biodiversity and as a connector between the coastal and pre-coastal mountain ranges.

You will be able to register and collaborate in the sampling of different groups of plants and animals with the help of experts and field biologists who will teach us how to study the different types of living beings. At the same time, you may be lucky enough to personally meet other species with which we share the campus.

Stay tuned for when registrations open.

The project is funded by the FAS (Autonomous Solidarity Foundation), in collaboration with the Environment Office of the UAB (Autonomous University of Barcelona)

Place: UAB Campus

Date: Friday 6, May de 2022 - 09:00h

Date: Saturday 7, May de 2022 - 20:00h

Promotor: Project Awareness and research to transform by educating and advocating for the improvement of biodiversity and sustainability on the UAB campus

Email:: Sandra.Saura@uab.cat

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Next Friday, May 13 at 1:00 p.m., in commemoration of the International Day of Light, the conference "Infrared lasers: the dark side of the Day of Light" will take place in the Assembly Hall of the Faculties of Sciences and Biosciences. charge of Professor Luis Roso.

May 16 commemorates the International Day of Light. From gamma rays to radio waves, the light spectrum offers us insights into both the origin of the universe and the technologies that have shaped our society. It is an annual celebration that provides an opportunity to further appreciate the essential role that light plays in the lives of citizens of the world in the fields of basic sciences, education, culture and art, and sustainable development. At the same time, it gives continuity to the achievements made in highlighting the importance of science and technology and their applications to promote education, improve the quality of life throughout the world and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals set in the 2030 Agenda.

Luis Roso is director of the Center for Pulsed Lasers (CLPU) and Professor of Optics at the University of Salamanca. He has a degree in Physics and Mathematics from the UB and a Ph.D. in Physics from the UAB. He was responsible for the first Spanish terawatt laser (2003) and the first and only Spanish petawatt laser (2016). In this conference, Professor Ros will talk about the potential applications of infrared light systems such as the Salamanca petawatt laser as particle accelerators. In addition, the new paths that these systems are opening to observe the quantum vacuum and dark matter will be explored.

Place: Sala d'actes of Faculty of Sciences and Biosciences, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Date: Friday 13, May de 2022 - 13:00h

Promotor: Faculties of Sciences and Biosciences

Email:: dg.ciencies@uab.cat

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The forests are part of the nature of the country, they are expansive and never stand still. We have almost doubled the forest area. The amount of biomass accumulated annually depends on the type of forest and this invites the capacity to burn and light to increase. They are filled with vegetable fuel, with a high propagation capacity. Martí Boada, ICTA-UAB researcher, will explore these issues in a talk at the Barberà del Vallès.

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Place: Seu de l'Aula (c/ Marquesos de Barberà, 125. Barberà del Vallès)

Date: Tuesday 17, May de 2022 - 17:30h

Promotor: ICTA-UAB

Wednesday:

This year marks 150 since the publication of The Descent of Man, and Selection in relation to sex, by Charles Darwin. Together with The Origin of Species and The Expressions of Men and Animals, they were the three crucial books that placed Darwinian reflection not only on evolution but on that of our species itself.
On Wednesday, May 18, Marc Furió, from the UAB Department of Geology, will present  "Musaranyes fòssils i homínids" at Casa Orlandai as part of the Cientific Coffee initiative.
In this talk, the biological characteristics of these fossils of small mammals such as shrews, used as paleoecological indicators, will be exposed. What are these organisms like and why do they give so much information? What are their relationships in the sites where hominids and humans are found?

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Place: Casa Orlandai, Carrer Jaume Piquet, 23 - Sarrià-Barcelona

Date: Wednesday 18, May de 2022 - 19:00h

Promotor: Cristina Junyent - Ciència en Societat

Wednesday:

More than half of the Earth population lives nowadays in cities. Finding ways to cope with the challenge of urban growth has become of the utmost importance in an age in which human activity is severely altering the Earth system. As living conditions worldwide suffer from a steady increase in environmental issues, historical inquiry provides useful reflections about vital concerns and thus new perspectives on the present.

This workshop, organized by the Institut d'Història de la Ciència (IHC-UAB) aims at generating and debating specific knowledge concerning processes of construction and management of natural history and environmental narratives. Understanding that the city and the countryside can only be understood through one another and from a global perspective, it will focus on urban-based production and circulation of such narratives, primarily in Spain and Great Britain between the 1950s and the 1980s, where we will look at the role of actors, spaces, discourses, and practices involved in the construction of ways in which nature is represented according to strategically situated interests and criteria.

Talks will mainly deal with media, broadly understood, including television and film, the press (general and academic), literature, comics, museums, festivals, and summer nature camps. We thus will explore, in a context of rise of the natural sciences as a noteworthy field of socio-political negotiation worldwide, and with natural history television swiftly becoming a leading source of both information and entertainment at the time, the development, acceptance, resistance and re-signification of symbolic and material resources constituting views of nature and the environment in academic, policy-making and activist circles, and always considering the power relations involved between urban and rural contexts.

The workshop has the collaboration of the Project PID2019-106208GB-I00 / Ministry of Science and Innovation; Vertices Platform; Science Museum London, Social Film Festival.

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Place: Centre d'Arts Santa Mònica, La Rambla, 7, 08002 Barcelona

Date: Friday 20, May de 2022 - 10:30h

Date: Friday 20, May de 2022 - 18:45h

Promotor: Carlos Tabernero - IHC

Email:: carlos.tabernero@uab.cat