Activities
Friday, February 9 2024
Dia · Setmana
09:00
Exhibition: "Women Scientists and Engineers to Come"
Description:
The Faculties of Science and Biosciences, the School of Engineering and the Library of Science and Technology (BCT), with the support of the Observatory for Equality, organise the exhibition "Women Scientists and Engineers to Come", which can be visited from 9 February to 10 March in the displays of the BCT and the general hall. Associated with the exhibition, which was created by the BCT, are other activities such as a colloquium, a bibliographic exhibiion, a debate and lecture on Scikus with gender perspective, a session on the Hypatia MArs project, and a self-defense workshop.
More information on International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the UAB can be found here.
Place: General hall and displays of the Science and Technology Library, UAB
Date: Friday 9, February2024 - 09:00h
End date: Sunday 10, March2024 - 09:00h
Monday, February 12, 2024
09:30
Ceremony commemorating the CED's 40th anniversary
Description:
The Centre for Demographic Studies (CED) will be turning 40 on 10 February. On Monday 12 February, the centre will hold an institutional celebration at the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya, and an academic commemoration event at the UAB Casa Convalescència will be held on Tuesday 13 February.
INSTITUTIONAL COMMEMORATION EVENT
Monday 12 February at 6:00 p.m. at the Auditorium of the Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Attending the event will be the rector of the UAB, Javier Lafuente; founding member and honorary director of the CED, Anna Cabré; director of the CED, Albert Esteve; and Minister for Research and Universities Joaquim Nadal.
Programme: https://ced.cat/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/newsletter-12-1.pdf
ACADEMIC COMMEMORATION EVENT:
Tuesday 13 February from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the UAB-Casa Convalescència
Programme: https://ced.cat/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/newsletter-13-2.pdf
Guests will be welcomed to the event starting at 9:30 a.m. From 10:00 to 11:30 a.m a conference will be held on "Ageing: Past, present and future", which will be given by Eileen Crimmins, Chair in Gerontology de la USC Davis School of Gerontology of the University of Southern California, and by Iñaki Permanyer, ICREA researcher from the Centre of Demographic Studies and head of the Research Group in Health and Ageing.
After a 30-minute pause, from 12:00 to 1:30 p.m. another conference entitled "Too many migrants? Migration and policy", will be offered by Silvia Giorguli, president of the Colegio de México and research lecturer of its Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambiental and by Andreu Domingo, deputy director of the Centre for Demographic Studies and head of the Research Group in Globalisation, Migrations and Space.
Following a break for lunch, from 3:00 to 4:30 p.m the ceremony will focus on "Families in the 21st century", a subject that will be presented by Aart Liefbroerm, senior researcher at the Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI), and by Diederik Boertien, Ramon y Cajal researcher at the Centre for Demographic Studies and head of the Research Group in Family, Inequalities and Social Change.
Simultaneous interpreting from/to English will be offered.
Place: Palau de la Generalitat de Catalunya and UAB Casa Convalescència, Barcelona
Date: Monday 12, February2024 - 09:30h
End date: Tuesday 13, February2024 - 16:30h
15:00
Base genética de la coloración de la pulpa de melón, de Laura Valverde Carvajal
Description:
PhD thesis defense
PhD in Plant Biology and Biotechnology
| PhD candidate: | Laura Valverde Carvajal |
| Academic tutor: | Jordi García Mas |
| Thesis supervisors: |
Manuel Rodríguez Concepción Jordi García Mas |
Place: Auditorium - CRAG
Date: Monday 12, February2024 - 15:00h
Tuesday, February 13, 2024
12:00
Study of chitinase 3-like 1 as a prognostic biomarker of neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis, by Rucsanda Pinteac
Description:
PhD thesis defense
PhD in Medicine
| PhD candidate: | Rucsanda Pinteac |
| Academic tutor: | Manuel Comabella López |
| Thesis supervisors: |
Manuel Comabella López Xavier Montalban Gairín |
Place: Conference Hall. Traumatology, Rehabilitation and Burns Hospital. Hospital Vall d¿Hebrón.
Date: Tuesday 13, February2024 - 12:00h
13:00
Debate and lecture: "Scikus with perspective"
Description:
The Science and Technology Library (BCT), in collaboration with the Catalan Association of Scientific Communication (ACCC), organises an event on the role of Scikus with gender perspective as a way of discovering and raising awareness about women in science, which includes a lecture on Scikus and a debate on male and female authors of these types of poems that combine science and haikus. The event is organised under the framework of activities related to International Day of Women and Girls in Science at the UAB and complementary of the exhibition on “Women Scientists and Engineers to Come”.
Place: BCT Space at the Science and Technology Library, UAB
Date: Tuesday 13, February2024 - 13:00h
16:00
From healing democracy to chainsaw. Key aspects in understanding the rise of the right in Argentina
Description:
The next session of the permanent seminar offered by the Research Group on Dictatorships and Democracies at the UAB (GReDD-CEDID) will take place on 13 February at 4 p.m. The conference is entitled "De la democracia que cura a la motosierrra. Algunas claves históricas para comprender el ascenso de la derecha en la Argentina (1983-2023)" [From healing democracy to chainsaw. Some historical keys to understanding the rise of the right-wing in Argentina (1983-2023)] and will take place at the conference hall of the UAB Faculty of Arts & Humanities.
The conference will be given by Alfredo Azcoitia, member of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICETI) and lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Río Negro in Argentina. The event will also be streamed live.
Place: Faculty of Arts & Humanities (Sala d'actes)
Date: Tuesday 13, February2024 - 16:00h