Scholar session: "Gravity" with Francesc Monrabal

Cinema and Science Series

Invited Scientists: Francesc Monrabal
DIPC
When: 2025/03/13
09:30
Place: Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián
Organizers: DIPC, Basque Film Archive, Donostia international Film Festival
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Scholar session: "Gravity" with Francesc Monrabal — Still from GRAVITY (Alfonso Quaron, 2013).

With the aim of transmitting cinematographic and scientific culture, the Basque Film Library, the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) and the San Sebastian International Film Festival (SSIFF) are organizing the eighth edition of the Cinema and Science Cycle. As every year, as part of the series, there will be sessions aimed at schools in Donostia/San Sebastian, Bilbao and Vitoria-Gasteiz. The purpose of this activity is to bring current scientific topics closer to the new generations by showing films presented by invited scientists. The space adventure GRAVITY, directed by Alfonso Cuarón in 2013, will be the starting point for this year's scientific debate.

Since the film deals with space exploration, the research being done at the DIPC in particle physics and how it relates to our understanding of the universe will we covered. Thanks to Hubble and other more modern telescopes images of what happens at different times in the universe are reconstructed. To try to explain and understand what we see it is necesary to understand what the universe, stars and other celestial elements are made of. This is where research in particle physics plays an important role in understanding the cosmos. At DIPC, in particular, researchers investigate fundamental particles called neutrinos that could be related to the matter/anti-matter asymmetry of the universe. In addition, it is important to remark the need for scientists to explore unknown things in all directions, from the largest, the universe, to the smallest, the fundamental particles.

To discuss this topic, we will be joined by scientists from the COSMOS area of the Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC). There they work to answer the basic questions about the origin, composition, structure and evolution of the universe at the forefront of scientific research.

The film will be broadcast in the original version in English with subtitles in Spanish. The presentation will be in Spanish.

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About the speaker

Francesc Monrabal holds a PhD in Physics from the University of Valencia. He has developed his research at the University of Valencia and the University of Texas (Arlington). He is currently an Ikerbasque researcher at DIPC in the line of experimental particle physics.