Universitat de València participates at the Pint&Science, an annual three days festival simultaneously celebrated at bars all over the world. A space is offered so that people can talk about science with people who perform this work. For the first time, on 18th, 19th and 20th May, Madrid, Barcelona, Zaragoza, Murcia, Valencia, Pamplona, Donostia-San Sebastián and Santiago de Compostela will welcome this initiative.
Science bars are one of the most successful activities which Universitat de València will organise through the Unit chair for Scientific Dissemination since 2004, which goal is to talk about science at a leisure space with researchers, experts in different matters.
The idea started in 2012 thanks to two researchers from the Imperial College following the “Meet the Researchers” event, dealing matters such as with Parkinson and Alzheimer, they gathered the affected people in their labs. Such experience became an inspiration for the following year first Pint&Science, which many famous people attended to in order to explain their work to the lovers of science and beer.
The Pint&Science at Valencia is organised by the Inndea foundation and it will be developed in three sessions which there will be several researchers of prestige, expert in the matter:
Monday 18: “From atoms to galaxies: from quarks to the dark matter”, with Miguel Ángel Sanchis (full university professor of Theoretical Physics of Universitat de València and Vice-President of the Real Sociedad Española de Física. Member of the IFIC), Elena Pinilla Cienfuegos (Researcher of the Nanophotonics Technology Centre of Universitat Politécnica de Valencia.), Francesc Monrabal (hired scholar, member of the IFIC), Susana Cabrera (scientific principal of the CSIC, member of the IFIC), Gabriela Barenboim (principal professor of Theoretical physics of Universitat de València, member of the IFIC) and José Valle (research professor of the CSIC, member of the IFIC).
Tuesday 19: “Our body: when health fails”, with Santiago Vega García (dean of the Veterinary Faculty UCH-CEU), Juan Nàcher (Ph.D. Cellular Biology professor, Universitat de València, CIBERSAM (Research Centre Mental Health Network) and Andrea Palomar Ríos (Final degree project student. Molecular Oncology Laboratory. FIHgU).
Wednesday 20: “Our body: going nuts for biotechnology”, Ángel Alberich-Bayarri (researcher of the Research Unit on Biomedicine in image (GIBI2^30) of the Institute for Health Research the Fe) and Vicente Rubio (researcher of the Valencia Biomedical Institute, Spanish Research Council).
Every Pint&Science will take place at the Birras&Blus pub, at 19h.
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Last update: 15 de may de 2015 07:00.
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