It was over half a century ago that humanity’s view of itself was transformed by the breath-taking photographs of earth taken from outer space. They brought home to us not only earth’s ethereal beauty but also its fragility in the vast expanse of the cosmos. Twenty years on, world leaders put their heads together to…
Prof. Prajval Shastri (Vice Chair of the IYBSSD Steering and Advisory Committee and Adjunct Professor at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research) is visiting TRIUMF, Canada’s particle accelerator centre in Vancouver. The program includes several highlights: – Monday, September 11th: Science for Sustainability – an open dialogue in a key moment of global mobilization…
El cambio climático es un problema global que afecta a todo el planeta, y su solución requiere de un enfoque interdisciplinario y de una comprensión profunda de los procesos científicos que lo causan. Es aquí donde desde etapas tempranas de la educación, la enseñanza STEM (Ciencia, Tecnología, Ingeniería y Matemáticas) cobra relevancia, pues los estudiantes…
Breaking Barriers, Inspiring Scientific Excellence The African Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS), with the support of the Henry Luce Foundation (HLF), announces today the launch of the Africa Science Week (ASW) of the Next Einstein Forum (NEF), which will take place simultaneously in 10 African countries from 19th to 28th of June 2023. This Pan…
This initiative seeks to disseminate crystallography and X-ray techniques, especially powder diffraction, in the Latin American scientific-technological community. It also seeks to orient research supported by crystallographic methods toward the SDGs, mainly promoting quality education. In its first edition, this initiative seeks to train (mainly junior) Latin American researchers so that from a scientific approach,…
Africa is dotted by more than 150 known volcanoes, some of which are dormant while many are active. Several others are extinct, eroded, and in remote areas. Some may even be in yet unknown volcanic fields or buried below younger formations. The large majority of these volcanoes have been scarcely studied as regards their eruptive…
Inequality is generally perceived as a cause of concern and one of the prime roadblocks towards a sustainable future. Indeed inequality correlates with many socio-economic bads, and it’s rise has been a persistent trend in the last half century. The accumulation of empirical evidences on inequality and its correlates calls for a parallel effort to…
This conference aims to bring together physicists to explore the interconnections between the physics of the two infinities. In search of new discoveries, these fields explore what the Universe is made of, or was made of, and what its basic laws are on the smallest and largest scales. The history of our universe has been…
The First SKA Open Science School is organised under the IAA-CSIC Severo Ochoa Program and it is endorsed by the SKA regional centre partner training programme. It will be a hybrid event that will allow remote participation to make it more inclusive, sustainable and accessible to the global astronomy community. SKA will be a world-leading…
This programme setup for the IYBSSD and beyond aims to offer travel grants of 5k$ to early career researchers working in low-income countries and wishing to spend a couple of months in their alma mater (Western universities where they prepared their PhD) in order to keep a good scientific level. The selection committee is composed…
