The IFT joins the European Night of Researchers at CSIC

• On Friday, September 23rd and Friday, September 30th, 2022, the centers of the National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) located on the Cantoblanco campus will join together one more year to celebrate the European Night of Researchers.

On the morning of Friday 23rd, we are going to La Casa Encendida with a pre-event: we will warm up the engines for the most scientific night of the year with scientific workshops given by staff from these centers and a gymkhana on Nobel women.

On Friday 30th, we will be at the CSIC headquarters, Calle Serrano, 117, where we will carry out several activities aimed at educational centers in the morning; and others opened to the general public and families in the evening.

All the activities will be held in Spanish.

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La Noche de los Investigadores en La Casa Encendida

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La Noche de los Investigadores

Anyone who visits the CSIC headquarters will find workshops and scientific demonstrations that bring research in materials science, biotechnology, food technology, chemical technology, physics and mathematics closer to the population. Not only that: there will also be a gymkhana to learn about the discoveries of great pioneering women scientists.

At the evening, those people interested in science will be able to attend the conferences, in which we will tell how our research projects impact society. Of course, all the activities are carried out by research staff, so this is a unique opportunity to dialogue with people doing science in Spain today.

IFT researcher Miguel Ángel Sánchez Conde will close the event by giving the conference The violent (and dark) universe in the light of gamma rays.

All the activities will be held in Spanish.

The violent (and dark) universe in the light of gamma rays

Taught by: Miguel Ángel Sánchez Conde (IFT)

When: Friday, September 30 at 8:00 p.m.

Where: National Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) HQ. Serrano Street 117, 28006 Madrid.

Abstract: The enormous advances in high-energy astrophysics in recent years have revealed an unexpected and furious cosmic 'bestiary' full of surprises: insatiable supermassive black holes dwelling at the center of almost all galaxies, colossal explosions of stars with tens of times the mass of our Sun, neutron stars acting as black widows in double star systems… This revolution has been possible thanks to powerful gamma-ray telescopes located both in orbit and on the ground, for example, Fermi-LAT and MAGIC. As if that were not enough, gamma rays may be the key to deciphering one of the greatest challenges of contemporary science: the nature of the enigmatic dark matter, which is believed to make up more than 80% of the matter content in the Universe and of the However, we still do not know almost everything. In this talk, we will look at the Universe to amaze us with its most violent, darkest and least known face in the light of gamma rays.

You can enjoy this talk with the passes at 7:00 p.m. (IFT pass) and 8:00 p.m.

Registration form for the talk 'The violent (and dark) universe in the light of gamma rays' will be available soon.

Participating CSIC centers: Institute of Materials Science of Madrid (ICMM), Institute of Catalysis and Petrochemicals (ICP), National Center for Biotechnology (CNB), Institute for Research in Food Sciences (CIAL), Institute of Ceramics and Glass (ICV), Institute of Mathematical Sciences (ICMAT), Institute for Theoretical Physics (IFT), Institute of Micro and Nanotechnology (IMN), Institute of Molecular Biology (CBM), Institute of Biomedical Research "Alberto Sols" (IIBM)

For more information write to:

comunicacion@ift.csic.es