PhD Thesis defenses

Description:

On 6 and 7 June, the EPSI UAB will hold the International Congress on Autonomous Driving and Legal Safety of Transport, in the framework of the homonymous project funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. The event will feature a panel of top-level speakers who will address issues such as: automation of automobile functions, regulatory challenges in various fields such as vehicle insurance, multi-purpose drone driving, and the navigability of autonomous ships.

The opening will be given by the director of Prevention and Integral Safety of the FUAB Training School, Montserrat Iglesias, and Eliseo Sierra, principal investigator of the Autonomous Driving and Transport Legal Safety (ADLAW) project. Registration is free and you can choose to attend in person or attend online.

Place: Edifici Blanc (Room 307) and Online via Microsoft Teams

Date: Thursday 6, June2024 - 09:00h

End date: Friday 7, June2024 - 13:30h

Description:

The Computer Vision Centre (CVC) will be hosting the inaugural event of the sixth edition of AI4ALL, a training programme specialising in artificial intelligence applied to industry and organised by the Parc de Recerca UAB (PRUAB), the CVC, the School of Engineering and the CSIC's Artificial Intelligence Research Institute.

The welcoming speeches will be given by Lluís Juncà, director general for Innovation, Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship of the Government of Catalonia; Rosa Maria Sebastián, vice-rector of Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship at the UAB and director of the Parc de Recerca UAB; Josep Lladós, director of the Computer Vision Centre (CVC); Ian Blanes, director of theUAB School of Engineering, and Lissette Lemus, innovation manager of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the CSIC. The event will also include a presentation of the RDI network in Artificial Intelligence and of a successful case. The second part of the event will focus on explaining the programme to participants and offering a motivational dynamics.

Programme

3:00 – 4:00 p.m. Institutional welcome

• Lluís Juncà, director general for Innovation, Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship of the Government of Catalonia
• Rosa Maria Sebastián, vice-rector of Innovation, Transfer and Entrepreneurship at the UAB and director of the Parc de Recerca UAB
• Josep Lladós, director of the Computer Vision Centre
• Ian Blanes, director of theUAB School of Engineering
• Lissette Lemus, innovation manager of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute (IIIA) of the CSIC

3:40 – 3:50 p.m. Presentation of the RDI-AI Network 

• Sergi Besonias, head of the RDI-AI Network

3:50 – 4:00 p.m. Successful case

• Jordi Clarà and Albert Gil, participants of the 5th edition and founders of MIA Experts.

4:00 – 4:30 p.m. Description of the programme

• Júlia Palma, head of the Entrepreneurship Area of the Parc de Recerca UAB.

4:30 – 4:40 p.m. Break

5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Motiviational dynamics

•  Raquel Rodríguez, technician of the Entrepreneurship Area of the Parc de Recerca UAB.

Place: Computer Vision Centre (Sala d'actes), UAB Bellaterra Campus

Date: Thursday 6, June2024 - 15:00h

Organiser: Parc de Recerca UAB, CVC, UAB School of Engineering and IIIA CSIC

Description:

On 6 and 7 June, the EPSI UAB will hold the International Congress on Autonomous Driving and Legal Safety of Transport, in the framework of the homonymous project funded by the Ministry for Science, Innovation, and Universities. The meeting will bring together panels of experts to reflect on the challenges related to safety and the increasing use of automated transport vehicles. It will be offered in hybird format, in Room 307 of the Edifici Blanc and also through the online platform Teams.

Place: Edifici Blanc (Room 307), Vila Universitària, and Online via Microsoft Teams

Date: Friday 7, June2024 - 09:00h

Description:

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, June2024 - 12:00h

End date: Sunday 9, June2024 - 13:30h

Organiser: Barcelona City Council

Description:

As part of the PhD programme in Journalism and Communication, the UAB will host a conference entitled I’m Sorry You Feel That Way: Affect, Authority and Antagonism in the Cultures of Customer Service with Diane Negra, professor of Film Studies and Screen Culture at the University College Dublin. The event will take place at the Sala de graus of the Faculty of Communication Studies on 11 June at 12:30 p.m.

Place: Faculty of Communication Studies (Sala de graus)

Date: Tuesday 11, June2024 - 12:30h

Description:

Diane Sabenacio Nititham, professor at Murray State University (USA), will give a talk on “Bringing Stories to Life: Visual Methods and Emerging Themes” on 12 June at 11 a.m., in the meeting room of the MRA building (UAB Parc de Recerca). The researcher will reflect on the visual methodology in her work on Filipino migrant women in Ireland. This conference, which is organised by the Immigration and Ethnic Minorities Studies Group (GEDIME) and the CER Migrations of the UAB, is an accredited training activity for PhD students of the PhD programme in sociology at the UAB.

Place: MRA Building (Sala de reunions)

Date: Wednesday 12, June2024 - 11:00h