Icrea Call
‘Premios Rei Jaume I’ 2024
Three ICREA Research Professor received the Premio Rei Jaume I in the 36th edition of this award. Congratulation to: · Antonio Acín Dal Maschio (ICFO) in the category of ‘Basic Research’ · Xavier Trepat Guixer (IBEC) in the category of ‘Biomedical Research’· Luis Serrano Pubul (CRG) in the category of ‘New Technologies’ More information in […]
The 111th ICREA Colloquium ‘Stable isotopes in plants: reconstructing climate and human impacts on the environment’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Laia Andreu Hayles, from the Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals (CREAF) and Carla Lancelotti, from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) When: 28th of May 2024, 18:00h Where: Auditorium FCRI, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Understanding the coupling between human and natural systems is paramount in the current context of […]
Narcís Monturiol Awards 2024
Emilio Palomares (ICIQ) and Gustavo Slafer (UdL) received the ‘Guardó Narcís Monturiol’. These awards are the Government of the Generalitat’s recognition to people and institutions that carry out and promote research in Catalonia More information in this link
The 110th ICREA Colloquium ‘The strain on scientific publishing’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professor Daniel Brockington (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals-Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB)), Wellcome ECA fellow Mark Hanson (University of Exeter Penryn) and Researcher Pablo Gómez Barreiro (Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew). When: 16th of April 2024, 18:00h Where: Auditorium FCRI, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: Scientists are increasingly overwhelmed by the volume […]
The 109th ICREA Colloquium ‘Towards a muon collider’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professor Andrea Wulzer, from the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) and Prof. Chris Rogers, from the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) When: 27th of February 2024, 18:00h Where: Auditorium FCRI, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: During the last several decades, experiments at accelerators and colliders with increasing collision […]
Resolució definitiva ICREA Acadèmia 2023
Canvi climàtic afecta biodiversitat marina: estudi revela impacte preocupant.
Un estudi global sobre el canvi climàtic revela l’impacte alarmant que té en la biodiversitat marina. Els oceans, que són el mateix cor de la vida a la Terra, estan experimentant canvis dràstics a causa de l’augment de les temperatures i l’acidificació de les aigües. Aquests canvis estan afectant una àmplia gamma d’espècies marines, des […]
The 108th ICREA Colloquium ‘Listening to the dark side of the Universe: the dawn and future of gravitational wave detection’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Mario Martínez and Diego Blas, both from the Institut de Física d’Altes Energies (IFAE) When: 19th of December 2023, 18:00h Where: Auditorium FCRI, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: The 2015 direct detection of gravitational waves (GW) opened a new era in our ability to explore the Universe. Since then, the […]
The 107th ICREA Colloquium ‘So far, so close: Two illustrations of how languages and their speakers adapt to their communicative niche’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professor Dan Dediu, from Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Research Professor François Pellegrino, from CNRS Lyon When: 24th of October 2023, 18:00h Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRI, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona In these two talks we will argue that linguistic diversity is not some sort of irrelevant “noise” grafted on a universal […]
The 106th ICREA Colloquium ‘Pay No Attention to That Man Behind the Curtain: Bias and Opacity in Artificial Intelligence’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Marco Baroni and Carlos Castillo, both from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) When: 27th of June 2023, 18:00h Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRI, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: As AI systems start being deployed in a large number of everyday contexts, it is particularly important to study the transparency and trustfulness of […]
