Scholar session: "Gravity" with Leire Larizgoitia
Cinema and Science Series
- Invited Scientists
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Leire Larizgoitia
DIPC - When
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2025/03/17
09:30 - Place
- Bizkaia Aretoa UPV/EHU - Mitxelena Auditorium, Bilbao
- Organizers
- DIPC, Basque Film Archive, Donostia international Film Festival
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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 Basque. The presentation will be in Basque.
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About the speaker
Leire Larizgoitia Arcocha is a predoctoral researcher at DIPC. Her research focuses on experimental neutrino physics, specifically on the development of detectors. She participates in several neutrino experiments, such as NuESS at the European Spallation Source (Lund, Sweden) and NEXT, located at the Canfranc Underground Laboratory (LSC). During her Physics degree (UPV/EHU) she stayed at Queen's University (Canada) and later obtained a master's degree from the University of Valencia. She had the opportunity to do internships at both CERN and DIPC. In 2022 she obtained the a predoctoral grant from the Basque Government to carry out her PhD thesis at DIPC and in 2023 she received the Fulbright grant for a research stay at the University of Chicago to develop a neutron chamber.