PhD Thesis defenses

Description:

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, May2024 - 11:00h

Organiser: Computer Vision Centre

Description:

The Xarxa AccessCat, with the support of the Office of the Vice-Rector for Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship of the UAB and AGAUR, through the Grants for R&D&I Networks (2021XARDI00007), and the collaboration of the UAB Parc de Recerca and the Directorate General of Knowledge Transfer of the Government of Catalonia, organises a conference to bring knowledge transfer to researchers and institutions in the fields of social sciences and humanities.

The event, aimed at teaching and research staff and technical and management staff of all Catalan universities, will emphasise two fundamental aspects: understanding the type of transfer that can be made from the fields of social sciences and humanities, and the mechanisms for evaluating its impact.

Prior registration is required to participate in the conference. Registration will close on 29 April or when the maximum capacity is reached.

PROGRAMME

9:30  -10:00 a.m. Registration as participants

10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Institutional welcome speech, by Laia Arnal, director general of Transfer and Society of Knowledge of the Government of Catalonia, and Javier Lafuente, rector of the UAB.

10:15 - 10:45 a.m. Valorització social de la recerca en Ciències Socials i Humanitats. Aprenent del sexenni de transferència, conference by Julia Olmos, professor in Business Organisation and member of INN4ALL, research group in Innovation, Science and Society (UV).

10:45 - 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. Round table led by Lídia Aguilera, director in Innovation (CaixaResearch Institute): De què parlem quan parlem de transferència de coneixement en Ciències Socials i Humanitats?

• Jordi Balló, director of the Department of Communication (UPF).
• Jordi Collet, professor in Sociology of Education (UVic-UCC).
• Anna Matamala, principal investigator at TransMedia Catalonia (UAB) and director of Xarxa AccessCat.
• Laura Sáez, member and co-CEO of CoRegistros, S.L.U. and lecturer at the UB and the IQS).

12:15 - 1:15 p.m. Round table led by Manel González-Piñero, director in Innovation (CREB UPC) and lecturer of the Faculty of Economics (UB) and of the ESMUC: Com avaluem la transferència de coneixement en Ciències Socials i Humanitats? Indicadors i impacte social. 

• Marcos Paz, technician in Knowledge Transfer (UOC) and member of the RedOTRI Work Group in Social Science and Humanities Transfer.
• Nadal Bayà, head of the Area of Knowledge Transfer (AGAUR).
• María José Herrero, member of the European project Revalorise and head of Connexió amb l’Ecosistema. Servei de Suport a l’Emprenedoria i la Innovació (UC3M). 
• Teresa Sordé Martí, professor of Sociology (UAB).

1:15 - 1:45 p.m. Conclusions with Anna Matamala, director of the Xarxa AccessCat, and institutional closing speech by Rosa María Sebastián Pérez, vice-rector for Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship at the UAB.

Place: Rectorat building (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 9, May2024 - 10:00h

Organiser: AccessCat Network, with the support of the UAB Vice-Rector's Office for Transfer, Innovation and Entrepreneurship and the AGAUR R&D&I Network Grants (2021XARDI00007), the UAB Parc de Recerca, and the Directorate General of Transfer

Description:

One more year, the Centre for University Entrepreneurship (CIEU) of the UAB organises its CIEU-FEiE Award to the most entrepreneurial person. The event will take place in the conference hall (Sala d'actes) of the Faculty of Economics and Business Studies. The session will begin with a presentation by Alan Fusté, founder of the company Mathew. This will be followed by the awards ceremony presented by the director of the CIEU, Andreu Turró. The categories awarded in this edition are: hotel management, archiving and document management, prevention and integral security, tourism, Faculty of Economics and Business and general UAB.

Place: Faculty of Economics and Business Studies (conference hall)

Date: Thursday 9, May2024 - 11:30h

Description:

Cristina Blasi from the UAB Department of Public Law and Legal History Studies organises a conference to talk about legal terminology and the use of legal terms in real case scenarios. This activity will be divided into two parts, the first will last 60 minutes and will focus on general legal terms and definitions. In addition, the first activity will conduct an interview about a legal case. The second activity will also last 60 minutes and will deal with the terms and definitions used in legal proceedings. The second activity will consist in a Moot Court, which simulates a real court hearing.

Place: Faculty of Law (Aula 8)

Date: Friday 10, May2024 - 11:00h

Description:

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, May2024 - 12:00h

Organiser: Faculties of Science and Biosciences

Description:

Laia Arañó, researcher from the UAB Centre for Dictatorships and Democracies, will present her book on Catalan prisoners i concentration camps in the town of Agde entitled El camp dels catalans. Agde en el sistema concentracionari francès (1939-1940) . The event will take place at the Museu Memorial de l'Exili (MUME) in the town of La Jonquera, on 10 May at 6 p.m.

Place: Museu Memorial de l'Exili, La Jonquera (Carrer Major 43-47)

Date: Friday 10, May2024 - 18:00h