PROGRAM

Wednesday, 20^th July 2016

17:30 - 18:00  Registration

18:00 – 18:30  Opening of the I "Julio Palacios" International Symposium

 

Public Conference “Julio Palacios and his time”, 20^th July (all conferences in Spanish)

18:30 – 19.15 Albino Arenas, UPM

• Julio Palacios: recuerdos de un maestro / Julio Palacios: Memories from a master

19:15 – 20:00 Francisco González de Posada, UPM

• Julio Palacios: Relatividad y análisis dimensional / Julio Palacios: Relativity and dimensional analysis

 

“Julio Palacios” International Symposium, 21^st and 22^nd July (all conferences in English)

 

Thursday, 21^st July 2016

 

9:00 – 10:00 Registration

Chair: Philip Mayles

10:00 – 10:45 Helen Mayles, Clatterbridge Cancer Center, UK

• Harnessing X-Rays to treat cancer – Challenges in modern radiotherapy physics

10:45 – 11:30 Maria Paula Diogo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

• Julio Palacios: Balancing science and politics during the portuguese dictatorship

11:30 – 12:00 Pause

Chair: J. Arturo Santaballa

12:00 – 12:45 Fernando Martín, UAM, Spain

• Attosecond light: The superslow-motion camera of physics, chemistry and biology

12:45 – 13:30 Juan Hermoso, CSIC, Spain

• X-ray crystallography: Exploring the life at atomic level

13:30 – 16:00 Pause

Chair: José I. Burgos

16:00 – 16:45 Pilar Bayer, University of Barcelona, Spain

• Fourier coefficient estimates of automorphic forms: known results and conjectures

16:45 – 17:30 William Seitz, Texas A&M University, USA

• A new relationship between complexity and entropy

17:30 – 18:00 Pause

Chair: Ricardo Cao

18:00 – 18:45 Ángel Carracedo, Institute of Forensic Sciences, USC, Spain

• The genomic revolution

18:45 – 19:00 Margarita Cimadevila

• "Avant-garde in science" exhibition
  

19:00 - 20:00 Poster session

 

 

Friday, 22^nd July 2016

Chair: Gerardo Delgado-Barrio

9:15 – 10:00 Ignacio Cirac, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, Germany

• On the difficulty of simulating complex quantum systems

10:00 – 10:45 Daniel Roca-Sanjuán, University of Valencia, Spain

• Chemistry, light, and computers

10:45 – 11:15 Pause

Chair: Moisés Canle

11:15 – 12:00 José I. Burgos, CSIC, Spain

• Can you tell if a number is new?

12:00 – 12:45 Douglas Klein, Texas A&M University, USA

• Partial orders: Substitution reactions

12:45 – 13:30 Javier Brey, University of Sevilla, Spain

• Granular matter: a biased overview

13:30 – 16:00 Pause

Chair: Douglas J. Klein

16:00 – 16:45 Eluvathingal Jemmis, Indian Institute of Sciene, Bangalore, India

• Importance of early questions

16:45 – 17:30 Harald A. Helfgott, Georg-August Universität Göttingen, Germany, and CNRS, France

• The ternary Goldbach conjecture

17:30 – 18:00 Pause

Moderator: Gerardo Delgado-Barrio

18:00 – 19:30 Multidisciplinar round table  

19:30 – 20:00 Closing