Category Archives: General News

Faculty day

Category : General News

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.

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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.

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Higgs boson at home

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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].

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R&D going down

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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

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

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Letter for Science (again)

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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”.

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Enantiomer detection

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

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IBER2013 Meeting

The next Iberian Meeting on Atomic and Molecular Physics – IBER2013 (Sept. 9-11th.) will be organized in Seville. Alberto Lesarri and José A. Fernández will be given oral talks.

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Magazine of Science

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

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Letter to the Prime minister

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

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