Program of the event

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9:00

Registration

9:30

Opening Addresses

Francisco Javier Lafuente, Vicerector of Innovation & Strategic Projects of UAB

Arcadi Navarro, Secretary of Universities and Research of GenCat

Carmen Vela, Secretary of State of Investigation, Development & Innovation of MINECO

9:50

IFAE at 25

Ramon Miquel, Director of IFAE

10:10

Keynote talk: ‘The Quantum Universe’

Hitoshi Murayama, MacAdams Professor of Physics at UC Berkeley and director of the Kavli Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe at the University of Tokyo

11:00

Coffee break

11:30

Pre-history & history of IFAE

Ramon Pascual, Alba Synchrotron

Enrique Fernández, Director founder of IFAE

Matteo Cavalli-Sforza, Former director of IFAE

Manel Martínez, Scientific director of IFAE’s Severo Ochoa award

12:00

Alumni mini-talks: careers beyond IFAE

Gaelle Boix, Egon Zehnder (Geneva, Switzerland)

Pere Comas, Deutsche Bank (Barcelona, Spain)

Francesc Ferrer, Washington University (St. Louis, USA)

Vicens Gaitan, Grupo AIA (St. Cugat del Vallès, Spain)

Lluís Miralles, CERN (Geneva, Switzerland)

Federico Nova, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (Didcot, UK)

Anna Pascual, Corporació Sanitària Parc Taulí (Sabadell, Spain)

Antonella Succurro, CEPLAS, University of Cologne (Cologne, Germany)

Thomas Schweizer, Max Planck Institute for Physics (Munich, Germany)

Frederic Teubert, CERN (Geneva, Switzerland)

13:00

Video: 25 years in images

13:00

Closing remarks

Andreu Mas-Colell, President of the Board of Trustees of BIST

13:00

Lunch at CCCB Restaurant