Faculty day

Alberto Lesarri gave a historical talk at the Faculty Day meeting last November 14th. Faculty staff, friends and relatives heard about the former dean Arturo Pérez Martín (1872-1936) and the Spanish Science in the 30’s. Please ask me for the presentation if interested.

A excerpt from the presentation: Erwin Schrödinger addressing the XIV Meeting of the Spanish Association for the Progress of Science (AEPC) in Santiago de Compostela (1934). His notes are on top of a cake box.

Higgs boson at home

Prof. Mariano Santander gave a great talk on the Higgs boson at the Faculty of Science last November 13th. The talk is freely available. I recommend a visit to Prof. Santander’s blog: A Circular View [Spanish].

R&D going down

R&D in Spain: the largest fall in a decade. Five EU countries (Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Austria) spend more than 2.5% of the GNP in research effort. Spain is below 1.3%. Expert: The worst is yet to come. Minister: “I didn’t talk much about R&D …”

New academic year

The UVa started officially the new academic year with an interesting talk by Prof. Espinet (Inorganic Chemistry).

Letter for Science (again)

The year we did Literature. A new Letter for Science backed by the Spanish scientific societies, the presidents of Universities and other groups will be presented to the Ministry of Economy next June 14: “The only door left for young scientists is the door of the airport”.

Enantiomer detection

An article featured on Nature cover reports on detecting chiral species by MW spectroscopy.

“Nature” editorial

A “Nature” editorial: “Spain’s science policy needs a U-turn”

Magazine of Science

New Journal of our Faculty: Moving Science to the public.

Letter to the Prime minister

A letter from 30000 spanish scientists to the Prime minister: Science in danger.