Workshop ‘Credit, diversity, and research quality in science’
Prof. Joshua Shepherd, who will become an ICREA Research Professor in May 2023, will be hosting the workshop entitled ‘Credit, diversity, and research quality in science’. This workshop will address credit assignment in science – who gets credit for which discoveries and achievements – and how credit assignment impacts and is impacted by [a] […]
The 105th ICREA Colloquium ‘Gravitational waves from the 5th dimension’
Speaker: ICREA Research Professor David Mateos, from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) When: 28th of March 2023, 18:00h Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRI, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: Our understanding of the Universe at the most fundamental level is based on two seemingly radically different theories. Einstein’s General Relativity describes the […]
The 104th ICREA Colloquium ‘Understanding colorectal cancer; from genetics to physics’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Eduard Batlle, from IRB Barcelona, and Xavier Trepat, from the Institut de Bioenginyeria de Catalunya (IBEC) When: 31st of January 2023, 18:00h Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRi, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: Colorectal cancer (CRC) kills around 700,000 people worldwide every year. The majority of these deaths […]
The 103rd ICREA Colloquium ‘Renewable fuels: from science to technology and beyond’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors María Escudero-Escribano, from the Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2) and José Ramón Galán-Mascarós, from the Institut Català d’Investigació Química (ICIQ) When: 29th of November 2022, 18:00h Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRi, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: The substitution of fossil fuels by renewable fuels may […]
Award ceremony of The Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize
The Barcelona Hypatia European Science Prize in its third edition recognises Nancy Cartwright, philosopher of science, Professor of Philosophy at Durham University and Director of its Centre for Humanities Engaging Science and Society (CHESS), for her outstanding contributions to philosophical research. These have resulted in a new understanding of the nature of scientific theories and […]
The 102nd ICREA Colloquium ‘PDE: Mathematical equations for physical models’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professor Xavier Ros, from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) and Prof. Javier Gómez, from Brown University When: 11th of October 2022, 18:00h Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRi, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: Partial Differential Equations (PDE) have become a universal language to describe natural phenomena from a […]
Workshop ‘Should democracy be direct?’
ICREA Research Professor Santiago Zabala and Prof. Josep Ramoneda organize the workshop ‘Should democracy be direct?’ The event will be held on the 13th and 14th of July 2022. Please click here for further information.
The 101st ICREA Colloquium ‘From the inside out and back: Cognitive, neural and communicative pressures that shape human language’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Gemma Boleda from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and Ruth de Diego from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) When: 28th of June 2022, 18:00h Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRi, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: Why is human language the way it is? Much of the discussion about […]
The 100th ICREA Colloquium ‘Dominant firms in the Digital Age’
Speakers: ICREA Research Professors Jan Eeckhout and Massimo Motta, both from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) When: 26th of April 2022, 18:00h Where: Zoom & Auditorium FCRi, Passeig de Lluís Companys, 23, 08010 Barcelona Abstract: Since 1980, we have experienced a sharp and steady rise in market power by dominant firms which sell at very high prices […]
Jean-Pierre Bourguignon Conference at IEC
Erstwhile President of the ERC comes to Barcelona and will be giving a talk at Institut d’Estudis Catalans (IEC) “How to improve dynamics and ambition of European researchers, a key effort for the future of Europe” This is not an ICREA event, and has been organised by the Secció de Ciències i Tecnologia at […]
