Short films of the 2nd Comas i Solà Contest will be screened in an exhibition at the Historical Building
On Thursday June 2, the ten short films which were presented in the 2nd Comas i Solà Contest will be screened in an event taking place in the Historical Building of the University of Barcelona. The activity will start at 19.30 h. The exhibition -aiming to be a meeting point for doctorate students of the University- will be driven by the astronomer and member of the scientific monologuist group Big Van, Xavier Luri. After the screening of these films, the three winners will be announced and the award delivery will proceed. Among the attendance there will be the members of the jury Enric I. Canela, vice-Rector of Scientific Policy; Estrella Montolío, representing the Doctoral School, and Olga Giralt, representing the Audio-visual Services of the University of Barcelona, as well as the contest participants and the responsible of La UB Divulga, Marga Becerra.
On Thursday June 2, the ten short films which were presented in the 2nd Comas i Solà Contest will be screened in an event taking place in the Historical Building of the University of Barcelona. The activity will start at 19.30 h. The exhibition -aiming to be a meeting point for doctorate students of the University- will be driven by the astronomer and member of the scientific monologuist group Big Van, Xavier Luri. After the screening of these films, the three winners will be announced and the award delivery will proceed. Among the attendance there will be the members of the jury Enric I. Canela, vice-Rector of Scientific Policy; Estrella Montolío, representing the Doctoral School, and Olga Giralt, representing the Audio-visual Services of the University of Barcelona, as well as the contest participants and the responsible of La UB Divulga, Marga Becerra.
The 2nd Comas i Solà Contest is jointly organized by the Doctoral School and the Scientific Culture and Innovation Unit (UCC+i) with the aim of bringing closer the research done in the university to people, through a visual and flexible channel, as well as making visible doctoral students being the engine of the University research. The jury has assessed the originality of the videos as well as their scientific rigour, the synthesis capability when explaining the scientific concepts and the clarity of the message so as to make the videos understandable to a non-specialized public or not used to scientific language.
The contest is named after the astronomer Josep Comas i Solà (1868-1937) from Barcelona, who was interested in astronomy and became a great scientific disseminator. When he as 15 he studied a meteorite which had fallen near Tarragona and its results were published on the magazine Astronomie. He was known for his studies on asteroids; he found eleven and developed a new research method to calculate their orbit. Apart from his scientific research on astronomy, he also experimented with photography and cinema applied to astronomy observation and also developed studies on seismology. He was Director of the Fabra Observatory of the Royal Academy of Arts and Sciences of Barcelona since its creation. He also contributed to the founding of the Spanish Society of Astronomy and was its first President.
More information about the contest can be found in this link.