| | More than 160 students from different schools in Bilbao attended the first edition of Be Zientzia, organised by the three BERC centres of Bizkaia. This 1st edition of Be Zientzia was met with enthusiastic participation from students and teachers, who enjoyed a range of activities including statistics, calculation games, logical origami, the exploration of banana DNA, and calculating its carbon footprint using ping-pong balls.
BCAM was represented by Diana Pérez, Postdoc Fellow (Mathematical Design, Modelling and Simulations); Leire Garmendia, Research Technician (Mathematical Design, Modelling and Simulations); and Mikel Pérez, Research Technician (Applied Statistics), who prepared a Stat Wars workshop. Also present at Be Zientzia was José Ignacio Royo, Professor of the Department of Applied Mathematics of the UPV/EHU, who prepared an origami workshop. |
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| | | The Center, represented by its Scientific Director José Antonio Lozano, Novi Quadrianto (PI), Thomas Kehrenberg, and Javier Sanguino, participated, along with the rest of Tango Horizon project partners, in a two-day work meeting in Paris for a comprehensive review and discussion on the progress of the TANGO Project. The gathering featured several working sessions, each focused on key aspects of the project, including algorithms, ecosystem development, and case studies |
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| | | BCAM hosted a workshop -funded by Grant ID 62828 from the John Templeton Foundation- entitled “Theoretical and Experimental Approaches to Goal-Directed Behavior” from October 16-18, 2024. Experts from a wide range of disciplines gathered to explore goal-directedness in biological and non-biological systems. |
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| | | The workshop of the IN-DEEP project, a a MSCA Doctoral Network project for training PhD students in Deep Learning techniques, recently brought together students and consortium members in an exclusive training and scientific collaboration event. IN-DEEP, focused on providing high-level training to nine PhD students, seeks to develop explainable, knowledge-based Deep Learning algorithms to rapidly solve inverse problems governed by partial derivative equations (PDEs). This area of research has grown significantly in the last five years, due to its promising results in applications such as image recognition and natural language processing. The workshop was organized by Judit Muñoz-Matute, Postdoctoral Researcher at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics. |
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| | | Manuel Cañizares, studied Physics and Mathematics at Universidad de Sevilla, and then a master’s degree in Mathematical Physics at Universidad de Granada. His interests have always been in understanding physical phenomena with mathematical rigor. Cañizares works as a PhD student at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM) in the Harmonic Analysis and inverse problems research group (HA). His thesis, titled Identifying quantum hamiltonians in the presence of electric interactions. An analytic approach is under the supervision of Pedro Caro (BCAM & Ikerbasque). |
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BCAM was part of
José Antonio Lozano gave a talk, organised by the newspaper El Correo, on curiosities and everyday uses of AI
More than 170 people were able to enjoy this talk, part of El Correo's Aulas de Cultura cycle of talks, in which José Antonio Lozano was accompanied by Jon Garay, a journalist specialising in science.
BCAM was part of Eurocities network's 2024 Economic Development Forum
Lorea Gómez, BCAM's General Manager, participated in a round table within the Economic Development Forum of the Eurocities network, which addresses various issues related to innovation and the role of cities in tackling major global challenges. In this round table the main focus was the lack of skills in key sectors that many European cities lack, and how to implement policies to attract talent, although the risk of “brain drain” aggravates the situation.
Kick-off meeting of the RUL-ET project
RUL-ET is the acronym for ‘Remaining useful life of anchorages and umbilicals for offshore renewables’, is part of the ELKARTEK 2024 programme funded by the Basque Government. The main objective of the project is to develop new approaches based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the creation of datasets for the estimation of the remaining useful life (RUL) of mooring systems and dynamic power evacuation cables for floating marine energy devices. The coordinator of the project is TECNALIA Research & Innovation and it also has the participation of five other partners from BCAM, Mondragon Unibertsitatea, University of the Basque Country, Vicinay Marine Innovación and the Basque Energy Cluster
Aula BCAM
BCAM offered a session of its Aula BCAM addressed to the students of the UPV-EHU's Master's Degree in Mathematical Modelling and Research, Statistics and Computer Science about the centre where it shared the opportunities for students to collaborate with BCAM through its internship programmes. The session was led by Felipe Ponce, BCAM's Postdoc Fellow. |
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BCAM will be part of Innobasques's Global Innovation Day
4 November
18:00 horas
Azluna Zentroa (Bilbao)
Website Those who attend will be able to immerse themselves in the exciting universe of artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence, with the collaboration of the Basque Artificial Intelligence Center (BAIC) and the Basque Center For Applied Mathematics (BCAM), exploring its impact on all sectors.
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Luca Fanelli, BCAM's researcher, will be part of Zientzia Astea
9-11 November
19:00
9 November - Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga Conservatory Auditorium (Sarriko) / 11 November - Musikener (San Sebastian)
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His intervention will take place in the event entitled “Debussy: mathematical innovation and musical revolution” (in Spanish). This event, a commented concert of the repertoire of the first volume of C. Debussy's Preludes, will address the fascinating intersection between mathematics and music, taking as an example the work of the mentioned musician. | | |
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María Ángeles Gil (Oviedo University, Spain) and Virginia Kiryakova (Bulgarian Academy of Science, Bulgaria)
6 November, 2024
Sala Aketxe - Edificio Sede at UPV/EHU Leioa
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Mateus Costa de Sousa BCAM
2-20 December, 2024
Maryam Mirzakhani Seminar Room at BCAM
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