CONFERENCES AND GENERAL ACTIVITIES
Wednesday 21st October 2015, 7:30 p.m. Centre of Contemporary Culture Octubre, 12 San Ferran Street, Valencia
On the occasion of the anniversary of the 17th Week of Science of the Universitat de València and the 18th International Conference of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence, Carles Sierra, researcher of the Research Institute of Artificial Intelligence-CSIC, will impart the conference:
“Ramon Llull: del Ars Magna al cálculo de acuerdos”.
The philosopher Ramón Lull (1212-1316) wrote Ars lul•liana. It was methodology for arguing in order to convince non-Christian population to convert to Christianity. Although this purpose was obviously of little importance for Ramon Llull, it certainly meant an important contribution to one of the most interesting research subjects in the field of multi-agent systems: The Calculation of Agreements. Lull created a basic alphabet (later extended by Leibniz), that contained numbers. By making multiple combinations, he managed to build a consistent vision of the world that nobody would be able to refute. Lull’s contribution to logic, reasoning and social election will be explained in the conference, as well as the current tendencies of discussion. Particularly, the conference will focus on certain techniques for negotiating, arguing and regulating.
Saturday 21st November 7:30 p.m. OCCC Panel of Discussion: Science in literature on the occasion of the publication of Xavier Duran’s book “La ciencia en la literatura”
(UB Edition). Anna Moner and Martí Domínguez will discuss with the author. Moderated by: Juli Peretó.
This activity is part of the programme of events of Plaza del Libro 2015
Monday 23rd November at 7 p.m. Cafeteria of the OCCC Science bar: Where are we from?
On the occasion of the publication of the book “Orígenes” (Edition Crítica) and the number 87 (Tardor 2015) of the magazine Mètode, which addresses the origin of life.
Participants: Carlos Briones (Centre of Astrobiology, INTA-CSIC) and Alberto Fernández Soto (Institute of Physics of Cantabria, UC-CSIC).
Moderated by: Reis Juan, journalist.
Thursday 26 November 7 p.m., Room 1 of OCCC Meeting with the Maleta de la Ciencia: this is a project of the Chair of Science Dissemination of the Universitat de València based on Enric Ramiro.
La Maleta de la Ciencia is a teaching resource that includes simple experiments for families and schools.
Presented by Enric Ramiro and Fernando Sapiña
