The best Spanish science on the catwalk

This Friday, October 9th at five o’clock in the afternoon, the ceremony of the stone laying for the biggest Cherenkov telescope in the northern hemisphere, the prototype of the LST (Large Size Telescope) with a diameter of 23 metres, will take place at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory (ORM) on the island of La Palma. Takaaki Kajita, newly awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics, will be present at the event.

Antonio Calvo Roy is the President of the Spanish Association of Science Communication (AECC) and strongly supports the professionalization of science outreach, as indeed he must. He insists on the importance of support for science among communicators, and in the need for specialized journalists, both in the editorial offices of the media and in the press offices of scientific institutions. Calvo Roy will be a member of one of the panels during the meeting “100Xciencia” which will take place between 7th and 9th October in La Palma.

“Every seven seconds a dementia is developed somewhere in the world”.  The Institute of Neurosciences (IN) is a centre belonging to the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) and to the University Miguel Hernández (UMH), created fifteen years ago, and one of the twenty Spanish centres which has won the Severo Ochoa award of Quality. Its Director, Juan Lerma, will deliver one of the lectures to the “100Xciencia” Forum, in which he will give an account of the present and future challenges it faces. In his capacity as a researcher, he says that “Understanding the brain is one of

The “100XCIENCIA” forum has brought together for the first time all 20 of che Severo Ochoa centres of excellence, with science popularization as the link

Pere Estupinyà is a biochemist. He gave up on his doctorate in genetics to devote his efforts to the popularization of science. He has published two books of this kind, and we will shortly be seeing him on television. He will be one of those participating in “100xCIENCIA” and he thinks highly of an event where the Severo Ochoa centres of excellence can meet together with specialists in outreach, and science journalists.