"Civil rights and social justice", a conversation with Angela Davis and Mònica Terribas

May 27 at 11.30 a.m., in the auditorium of the Ciutadella campus

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Art and Spirituality. Conferences about art and spirituality in the work of Picasso, Tàpies and Miró

From 21 to 24 May 2024 at Pompeu Fabra University, the Antoni Tàpies Foundation, the Joan Miró Foundation and the Picasso Museum

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On 3 June, UPF is to invest the physicist, philosopher and activist Vandana Shiva honoris causa
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On 3 June, UPF is to invest the physicist, philosopher and activist Vandana Shiva honoris causa

UPF will be awarding its highest distinction to Shiva, a physicist and a doctor of Philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, in recognition of her academic contribution to fields such as intellectual property rights, biodiversity, biotechnology, bioethics and genetic engineering. The event will be held on the Ciutadella campus and the laudatory speech for the ecofeminist activist will be given by the full professor of Ethics and Political Economy of Communication of the Department of Communication, Núria Almiron.

Xavier Amatriain, doctor in engineering from the UPF and AI expert: "It will soon be unthinkable to work without artificial intelligence"
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Xavier Amatriain, doctor in engineering from the UPF and AI expert: "It will soon be unthinkable to work without artificial intelligence"

Xavier Amatriain, a renowned telecommunications engineer and AI expert, has spent much of his career in Silicon Valley, USA, and is currently vice-president of Product AI Strategy at Google. On 21 May he will return to the UPF, where he obtained his doctorate in Information and Communications Technologies in 2005. He will give a talk during the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Engineering studies at the UPF.

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Technology using microwave sensors provides images for real-time clinical endoscopes

The MiWEndo project promoted by AGAUR is highly innovative and is to be carried out by Òscar Cámara and Marta Guardiola, members of the PhySense research group at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies.
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The Catalan Government's agency AGAUR has awarded Seed funds for the MiWEndo project, a project based on microwave sensors that provide real-time images in endoscopic explorations and interventions.

It is to be carried out by Òscar Cámara as principal investigator and Marta Guardiola, as junior researcher, both attached to the PhySense (Sensing in Physiology and Biomedicine),  research group at the Department of Information and Communication Technologies (DTIC) at Pompeu Fabra University (UPF).

This project is under a collaboration agreement with Gloria Fernández, coordinator of the Digestive Endoscopy Unit at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, with the participation of members of the Simbiosys research group directed by Miguel Ángel González Ballester, ICREA lecturer, as well as members of AntennaLAB at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

MiWEndo is to develop a system of microwave image generation for clinical endoscopic applications. The device consists of an endoscopy probe that has various microwave sensors or antennas capable of forming an image depending on the electrical properties of the tissues in which the device is found.

 

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The main advantage of microwaves is their ability to penetrate opaque materials, providing a new mechanism of contrast that gives complementary information to the imaging technologies available today. 

The AGAUR Seed programme is part of the Knowledge Industry Programme which aims to create new science-based companies. This proposal is structured according to three distinct stages, depending on the stage each business project is at:  Seed, Product and Market.

Within the project, AGAUR grants funding to innovative projects that are in their initial stages of technological maturity, in order to improve in knowledge, and provide sufficient potential so that they can join the productive sector. In addition, the Seed funds include a training programme, organized by the American University of California, Berkeley, whose main goal is to strengthen the process of teamwork among the innovative projects selected.

UPF participated in the pilot test of the programme, carried out between the months of March and July 2014, with six projects related to the fields of Information and Communication Technologies and Biology. Each proposal received a grant of 25,000 euros to develop an idea of knowledge transfer that was at the Seed or initial stage.


 

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