The ICTA-UAB organizes its 1st Spring Symposium, on 16 and 17 May, with the aim of addressing some of the main environmental and sustainability challenges, and mainly those related to global and climate change. The uniqueness of this symposium is its transdisciplinary and global approach.
The competition will begin on 15 May at 10 a.m. at the UAB Theatre Hall. The event will be streamed live and will consist in ten PhD students who will have a maximum of four minutes to defend their thesis. At the end of the competition the jury will select the two best thesis and all those attending will be able to vote for the thesis they liked best.
The ASOME research group resumes archaeological excavations at La Bastida six years after the discovery of an impressive fortification system which surrounded the city some 4,000 years ago. The new excavation campaign is funded by a grant from the National Geographic Society.
The cafeteria of the Social Sciences Library will open on weekends (19, 20, 26 and 27 May and 2, 3, 9 and 10 June), and on Monday 21 May (public holiday). The café will be open from 9:30 a.m.to 5:30 p.m.
The UAB obtains the highest score in 24 of 34 indicators evaluated by the Knowledge and Development Foundation (CYD). The CYD ranking evaluates 73 Spanish universities and is based on the European Commission's U-Multirank.
The UAB ranks third in Spain according to Reuters' World's Most Innovative Universities. It is located in 93rd position in the Reuters News ranking, which assesses patents and the commercial impact of university research.
As part of the Feynman Year 2018, Kaiser will give a conference in "Following His Own Path: The Life and Science of Physicist Richard Feynman", on Wednesday 9 May at 12 noon at the conference hall of the Faculty of Sciences.
As partof its 50ty annivesary celebrations, the UAB has decided to award five honorary doctorates to experts from different fields of knowledge: Caddy Adzuba, Marie-Paule Kieny, Jaume Plensa, Joaquim Mª Puyal and Lisa Randall.
Candidates have until 18 May to submit their applications to the call for emeritus and honorary titles for teaching staff in the 2018/19 academic year. Departments and institutes can present applications for professors who have already retired and fulfil all requirements stated in the call details.