Outreach Activities

in 2020


In 2020 IFAE organized a number of outreach activities:

1. BOJOS PER LA FÍSICA

One-year educational program targeted for high- school students. 150 students applied. Activity Coordinated in collaboration with ICN2 and Funded by Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera. https://bojos-ciencia.fundaciocatalunya-lapedrera.com/cursos/fisica

  • Aurelio Juste: La física de partícules al detector ATLAS de l’LHC - January 2019
  • Giulia Giannini, Umut Demirbozan, César Ramírez: Cosmologia Observacional - April 2019
  • Abelardo Moralejo: Astrofísica amb dades dels telescopis MAGIC de la Palma - March 2019
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2. SUMMER FELLOWSHIPS AT IFAE

Educational activity for undergraduate students that offer a 1-month stay at IFAE in July. 80 applications in 2020. Activity funded by the Severo Ochoa program. https://summerfellowships.ifae.es/

  • Malgorzata Siduek, Martin Eriksen: “Determining galaxy properties with PAUS using machine learning”.
  • Mario Martínez: “Gravitational Waves detect”
  • Pere Masjuan: “Particle physics for the early universe and beyond”
  • Abelardo Moralejo: “High Energy Astrophysics with the MAGIC Telescopes”
  • Imma Riu, Pilar Casado :“Particle Physics with the ATLAS Experiment @ the LHC”
  • Sebastián Grinstein: “Characterization of Pixel Detectors”
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3. BIYSC - Barcelona International Youth Science Challenge

Two-week international excellence program for high-school students: https://biysc.org/. IFAE collaborated with the program developing an activity focused on designin and build a cosmic ray detector based on SiPm.

Activity cancelled in 2020 because of the COVID pandemic.

4. CAZADORES DE RAYOS GAMMA

Web Application for High Energy Astrophysics outreach targeted for high-school students. Activity Funded by FECYT. https://www.cazadoresderayosgamma.com/

  • Òscar Blanch, Sebastián Grinschpun
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5. BUILD THE UNIVERSE BRICK BY BRICK

The outreach team in collaboration with Pere Masjuan at IFAE developed a Lego activity targeted for different audiences to explain particle physcis processes.

Activity cancelled in 2020 because of the COVID pandemic.

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6. HIGH-SCHOOL STUDENTS AT IFAE & PIC

IFAE offers schools visits through the Escolab project. More than 200 students have viisted IFAE in 2019. More than 10 high-school students have had their first experience in research at IFAE in 20189 through different programs, namely Joves i Ciència, Premis Extraordinaris de Batxillerat and Treballs de Recerca.

Activity cancelled in 2020 because of the COVID pandemic.

7. TALKS BY IFAE RESEARCHERS

IFAE researchers have given more than 50 outreach talks in 2019 in the context of different outreach programs, , the Science at School Day, the Science Week, and science fairs like Ciència entre Tots and Festa de la Ciència.

  • Laura Cabayol, Talk at Highschool, “l’Energia Fosca”, Torelló (Spain),November 2020
  • Giuilia Giannini, 100tífiques talk at high school, “How to study the evolution of the Universe”, Barcelona, February 2020
  • Malgorzata,Siudek, 100tífiques talk at high school, “Galaxy Evolution”, Barcelona, February 2020
  • Abelardo Moralejo, Online Workshop, “Explorando el universo más extremo desde Canarias con CTA”, Organized by CTAO, December 2020
  • Javier Rico, Online Talk, “Mis papás son astrónomos”, Col.legi Closa in Barcelona, Part of the on-line activities organised during the Covid19 lockdown,2020
  • Rafel Escribano,Talk, “L’ALBA i l’LHC: dues eines útils per a la ciència i la tecnologia”, Institut Manuel Raspall, Cardedeu,Setmana de la Ciència 2020,,Novembre 2020
  • Oriol Pujolas,Talk, “Forats negres: d’estranys a quotidians”,Facultats de Ciències i de Biociènciesiència UAB, Conferències al voltant de la Ciencia - Premis Nobel 2020",,December 2020
  • Pol Forn-Díaz, Talk, “Computació quàntica a la pràctica”, Residència d’investigadors CSIC, Barcelona, Spain,2020
  • Pilar Casado, Video, BIST Research Pitch Competition (third position),https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqYGKjMm0oE,,,
  • Adrià Salvador, Regular guided CERN visits.
  • Aurelio Juste, Talk, “Un Universo Insólito”,Associació Astronòmica Sant Cugat-Valldoreix, Sant Cugat del Vallès, Spain,October 2020
  • Martine,Bosman,Talk, “Los aceleradores de partículas para el estudio de la física de partículas y aplicaciones en la sociedad”, IES Castellar del Vallès, Castellar del Valles, Spain",February 2020