News
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Department scholarship open until the 20th of September
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Clara Prats and Nura Ahmad rely on mathematical models to improve tuberculosis control in Nigeria
Researchers from the Department of Physics of the Higher School of Agriculture of Barcelona (ESAB), design a pilot plan to improve the diagnosis and control of tuberculosis in the city of Gombe, located northeast of Nigeria. The project has received funding in the last call for aid from the Center for Development Cooperation (CCD) of the UPC.
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Enrique García and Manel Soria reproduce the formation of polar storms on Saturn
The work of researchers Enrique García and Manel Soria of the Department of Physics of the UPC, is part of an international scientific collaboration led by the researcher Agustín Sánchez Lavega, from the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU), which has discovered multiple storms at different latitudes of the second largest planet in the solar system and just published in the journal "Nature Astronomy"
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Dra. Giulia De Rosi joins with a postdoctoral fellowship the Department of Physics
Dr. Giulia De Rosi was awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual postdoctoral Fellowship to join the Department of Physics
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David Pino coordinates the creation of the most complete catalog of floods in the peninsular Mediterranean slope over a thousand years
The 'MEDIFLOOD' project, coordinated by the department, has created the first archive that compiles, identifies and analyzes 14,500 cases of rain and river flooding in the Spanish Mediterranean watershed in a period of almost a millennium. The information provided by this catalog will allow to increase the forecast capacity of extreme weather events in order to design the most effective adaptation and response actions.
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Interview with David Pino in the science section of the newspaper El Punt Avui
Professor Davi Pino has been interviewed in the newspaper "El Punt Avui" on the publication of a flood catalog in the Mediterranean watershed
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2019
James Peebles, Michel Mayor i Didier Queloz hwere awarded by the Nobel Prize 2019
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Ricard Gonzalez organizes the 26th Symposium and General Assembly of the European Low Gravity Research Association
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David Pino invited to the program "Aquí, amb Josep Cuní" along with the president of the Valencian Community Ximo Puig
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Jorge Enrique Velasco Cruz defends his thesis on metallic glasses
Jorge Enrique defended his thesis coadvised by Daniel Crespo and Eloi Pineda on the 28th of June in Campus del Besos. Entitled "Study of the elastic inhomogeneity in metallic glass in the mesoscale", the thesis presents an analysis of the anisotropy of glasses using molecular dynamics simulations