Virtual immersive and interactive project exhibition during the contest
Virtual immersive and interactive project exhibition during the contest
Online live streaming at eucys2021.com and interactively through the virtual contest platform.
An on-site exhibition of EUCYS will be open to the public
at Arzobispo Fonseca College, from the 13th to the 26th of September.
19:30h. CEST
Pre-EUCYS Outreach Show
Confirmed invited participants:
Eduardo Saéz de Cabezón, Alfredo Corell, Ricardo Moure Ortega, Natalia Ruiz Zelmanovitch, Ignacio Crespo (S de Stendhal), Javier Santaolalla and Conchi Lillo
Cloister of Arzobispo de Fonseca College, University of Salamanca
Outreach talks by the participants will be available at eucys2021.com and at the virtual contest platform
(Note that this show will not be streamed online)
Event open to all public, but pre-registration is required for on-site attendance
09:30h. CEST
Opening Ceremony
Presentation of the 32nd edition of EUCYS
Confirmed speakers:
Ricardo Rivero (chancellor of the University of Salamanca), Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (president of Junta de Castilla y León), Carlos García Carbayo (major of Salamanca), Ignacio S. Galán (Chairman and CEO of Iberdrola), Karen Slavin (head of EUCYS), on-line Jean Eric Paquet (Director-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission) and José Manuel Pingarrón (Secretary General of Universities for the Ministry of Universities)
Presentation of the 158 contestants
Estimated duration: 1 hour.
Presented by Fran López Galán
Paraninfo University of Salamanca
and online live streaming here
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10:30h. CEST
Virtual Platform Contest
and Jury interviews
Contestants show their projects at the virtual venue
and on Instagram live videos
All projects are available here
Two rounds of Jury interviews:
from 10.30h to 13.30h. and from 15.00h. to 18.00h.
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18:00h. CEST
Plenary Talk by Dr. William D. Phillips
Nobel Prize in Physics 1997
“A new measure: the quantum reform of the International System of Units”
The metric system began with the French revolution, and now we are experiencing the greatest revolution in measurement since the French revolution. The definitions of the kilogram, ampere, kelvin, and mole are all changed, being based on chosen and fixed values for Planck’s constant, the electron charge, Boltzmann’s constant, and Avogadro’s number. This talk will explain how this is possible and why it was necessary
Online live streaming here
09:30h. CEST
Virtual Platform Contest
and Jury interviews
Contestants show their projects at the virtual venue
and on Instagram live videos
All projects are available here
Two rounds of Jury interviews:
from 10.30h to 13.30h. and from 15.00h. to 18.00h.
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11:00h. CEST
National Organisers Meeting
Estimated duration: 2 hours.
Zoom Platform
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18:00h. CEST
Round Table with Recognized Scientists
Topic:
“The challenges that young scientists will face in our world”
Confirmed Invited participants:
Adolfo García-Sastre
Professor of Medicine and Microbiology
and co-director of the Global Health & Emerging Pathogens Institute
at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City.
Laura Lechuga
Full Professor at CSIC.
Group Leader at the Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (ICN2)
and at Networking Biomedical Research Center (CIBER-BBN), Barcelona
Samuel Sánchez Ordoñez
ICREA Research Professor, Senior Group Leader and Deputy Director
at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC), Barcelona.
Honorary visiting professor at HIT in Shenzhen, China.
Susana Marcos
David R. Williams Director of Center for Visual Science;
Nicholas George Professor of Optics, The Institute of Optics;
Professor of Ophthalmology, Flaum Eye Institute. University of Rochester, New York
Ángeles G. Borrego
Vice-president for international affairs
at Spanish National Research Council (CSIC).
Hot topic discussions about climate change, artificial intelligence, pandemics, pseudosciences, etc.
Estimated duration: 1 hour 30 minutes.
Presented by Fran López Galán
Salamanca Congress Palace
and online live streaming here
Event open to all public, but pre-registration is required for on-site attendance
10:00h. CEST
Reception of the Jury at the City Hall
Hosted by the Major of Salamanca
Salamanca City Hall
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Event open to all public, but pre-registration is required for on-site attendance