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Dark Matter Day is coming

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Atomic-Nuclear
Cosmology
Gravitation
Particle Physics

On or around October 31, 2018, the world will celebrate the historic hunt for the unseen—something that scientists refer to as dark matter. More than 110 global, regional, and local events were held on and around October 31, 2017 by institutions and individuals looking to engage the public in discussions about what we already know about dark matter and the many present as well as planned experiments seeking to solve its mysteries.

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Saul Perlmutter, awarded honorary doctorate by the UB: “Science is being open to be wrong”
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Astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter, who led the discovery of the accelerated expansion of the Universe in the nineties and received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2011, was awarded an honorary doctorate by the UB in a ceremony presided by the rector, Joan Elias, together with his patrons, professors Ramon Canal, from the Department of Quantum Physics and Astrophysics, and Pilar Ruiz Lapuente, member of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences of the UB (ICCUB, UB-IEEC), and the dean of the Faculty of PHyi

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Cosmology
Gravitation
A simulation of the large-scale structure of the Universe that shows density filaments in blue and places of galaxy formation in yellow.
La matèria fosca

Què és la matèria fosca? Si no la veiem, com és que en podem parlar? Una revisió dels fonaments observacionals d’aquest concepte i l’estat actual del seu coneixement.

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Xavier Luri, ICCUB [IEEC-UB]
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Talks in educational centres
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Cosmology