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Xavi Luri entre el grup de persones que han pres possessió de càrrec, amb el rector de la Universitat de Barcelona.
ICCUB Director takes office
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Today, Tuesday 29th of May, Xavier Luri has taken office as Director of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB). At the same time, Antonio Solanas took office as the Dean of the Faculty of Psycology and Santiago Sánchez as Director of the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT).

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Taller física de Partícules 2018, xerrada de LL. Garrido
Masterclasses Introduce High School Students to Particle Physics
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Today the ICCUB is hosting a new edition of the Masterclass in Particle Physics, held at the ICCUB under the name of Taller de Física de Partícules. A second edition of this activity will be held on 16 March. Altogether, 160 bachelor students from 149 different Catalan high schools will take a day off from school to come to the ICCUB and dive into the actual data.

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A new perspective on the universe with gravitational waves

In 2015, a new window was opened to observe the universe: the first signal of gravitational waves was detected on Earth. What are gravitational waves?

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Helena Ubach Raya, ICCUB
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Astroalella
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Talks
Open to all
Cosmology
Gravitation
Toni Bertólez, ICCUB
The Legos of matter. Beyond protons, neutrons and electrons
What is everything we know made of? Beyond atoms, protons, neutrons and electrons, matter can be many other things. The goal of particle physics is to understand what the most fundamental pieces of nature are and how they relate to each other to form the world around us.
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Toni Bertólez, ICCUB
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Particle Physics

Featured Materials

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Video demo of the double slit experiment
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Video of the doubleslit.py module, which solves the 2D time dependent Schrodinger equation with a configurable grid of slits.

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Daniel Allepuz
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Atomic-Nuclear
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Classical vs quantum traps module's video
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Video of the clavsqua.py module which solves the evolution of a gaussian wave packet on a configurable external trap in one dimension.

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Jan A. Iglesias
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Atomic-Nuclear
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Assumpta Parreño. Internacional Day of Women and Girls in Science
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Assumpta Parreño, a researcher in nuclear physics at the University of Barcelona and deputy director of the Institute of Cosmos Sciences, talks in this video about when she decided to be a sci

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Assumpta Parreño, ICCUB
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Atomic-Nuclear