Guided visits for all audiences to the IMB-CNM and more scientific activities for Science Week 2024
The IMB-CNM participates one more year in the great outreach event offering guided tours to the public, a workshop for teenagers and collaboration in a colloquium on art and science.
The Setmana de la Ciència is the biggest date with science for all audiences and ages in Catalonia and Spain. The Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona organizes for this edition three Open Days, a workshop at the Museu Nacional de la Ciència i la Tècnica de Terrassa and it collaborates in a colloquium on Art and Science at the CSIC Delegation in Catalonia.
The announcements of the activities are reproduced below.
Guided tours to the IMB-CNM
Taking a guided tour is the best way to get to know the IMB-CNM in depth! If, in addition, they let you see spaces restricted to the public... it is a unique opportunity to learn more about the research center and how the electronics around us work. The IMB-CNM offers scientific guided tours to learn more about the history and evolution of microelectronics, the cutting-edge research being carried out and how the electronic devices we use every day work. We open the doors for Science Week to all interested people in three different shifts: Tuesday 12 at 12 noon, Thursday 14 at 5 pm and Friday 15 at 11 am. Reservations are required.
The visits include the Zenon Navarro Microelectronics Area and the Micro and Nanofabrication Clean Room (the perimeter corridor and service facilities), a Unique Science and Technology Infrastructure (ICTS) recognized by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. They last 1 hour and are given by IMB-CNM research and technical staff with their particular vision of the center. The visits will be made by respectively:
- Cecilia Jiménez, researcher with a background in Chemistry and specialized in sensors in the Chemical Transducers Group (GTQ). Cecilia has a long career at IMB-CNM, of which she was vice-director. She has recently co-founded the technology-based company Aiquos S.L., coordinates the PTI Digital Science and leads several research projects.
- Jordi Antoja, postdoc trained in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology at the UAB, is currently an engineer in quantum technologies lines at the institute and carries out collaborations within the NEMS and Nanofabrication Group (NANONEMS). With Jordi the visit will have a more nanoscientific component!
- Yohana López is a chemist specialized in Electrochemistry and is also part of the GTQ. She works as a technician, mainly in the Hydrosens project, which is based on fabricating devices to detect H2 at room temperature.
Taller El xip: descobreix la comunitat dels transistors!
Workshop at the Museu Nacional de la Ciència i la Tècnica de Catalunya (MNACTEC) at its headquarters in Terrassa, sold out!
Do you know how to distinguish a chip inside a printed circuit board? Do you know what are the parts or components of these small semiconductors? In the workshop you will see with your eyes how chips work, what is their function in all kinds of electronic devices (think, how many chips have you used to be able to read this text?) and how they can be manufactured near your home, in the Clean Room of the Institute of Microelectronics of Barcelona, in Cerdanyola! We will play with electronic circuits, silicon stones and chips to discover more about the world of microelectronics... and what is this transistor community all about.
The people who make this workshop are research and technical staff of the IMB-CNM-CSIC and it is organized with the collaboration of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) - Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities.
Art and Science Colloquium
Within the framework of Inspiraciencia, the CSIC Delegation in Catalonia will host the popularization and dance show Atardecer, with the physicist and popularizer Joaquín Sevilla and the choreographer Carmen Larraz.
There will also be a colloquium to reflect on the relationship between dance and science from different points of view. Sevilla, Larraz, dancer and researcher María Cabrera (CCHS-CSIC) and IMB-CNM researcher Gemma Rius will participate.
A signs interpreter will be available and prior registration is required (registration will open the second week of November).
29a Setmana de la Ciència a Catalunya
The IMB-CNM has been actively participating in the Science Week for years trying to reach audiences of all ages. The initiative is coordinated by the Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca i la Innovació (FCRI) in Catalonia and this year marks the 29th edition. The events are held between November 8 and 17 with activities in different formats in locations throughout the territory and for all audiences.
At the national level, the CSIC's Deputy Vice-Presidency for Scientific Culture and Citizen Science coordinates the Semana de la Ciencia y la Tecnología en el CSIC on the same dates. The event aims to bring science and technology closer to the public and to encourage scientific vocations among the youngest people.