Everything you always wanted to know about the universe but never dared to ask [ES]
New Paths of Science
- Participant
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Juan José Gómez Cadenas
DIPC - When
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2025/04/01
19:00 - Place
- Ernest Lluch K.E. (Pº de Anoeta 13, Donostia / San Sebastián)
- Organizers
- Ernest Lluch KE (Donostia Kultura), DIPC
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This spring returns the series of talks “New Paths of Science” organized between the Ernest Lluch KE (Donostia Kultura) and DIPC. On April 1st we will have the opportunity to delve into the Universe with the physicist and writer Juan José Gómez Cadenas.
In a comic box of the famous “Galactic Tavern Stories”, one character confesses to another: “The universe is infinite and also very big”.
Is the Universe infinite? How big is it? How was it formed and what happened in the first moments of its existence? Did light come into being, as Genesis wants? When? What has happened in the last thirteen billion years? What is the future of the Universe? And the Multiverse? The Universe, our character could have answered, is not only very large, but also mysterious and full of wonders.
The talk will be in Spanish. Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Previous talks are available in podcast format on Donostia Kultura Irratia.
About the speaker
Juan José Gómez Cadenas is a physicist and writer, Ikerbasque research professor at the DIPC. His research interests include particle and astroparticle physics, neutrino physics and nuclear instrumentation. He directs the NEXT experiment at Canfranc Underground Laboratory. He received the Break-Through physics award in 2016 (co-recipient, K2K and T2K collaborations) and he was part of the Spanish Science selection in 2016. Throughout his scientific career he has been a Fulbright scholar at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, postdoctoral researcher at SCIPP (Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics), member of CERN, associate professor at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, visiting professor at Harvard University, University of Geneva and KEK (Japan Center for Particle Physics), professor at the U. of Valencia and research professor at CSIC. He has received two prestigious grants from the European Union, an Advanced Grant/ERC and a Synergy Grant/ERC. As a writer he has published five novels, two popular essays and directs the scientific section of the online magazine Jot Down.