News — Department of Physics — UPC. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Researchers from the BIOCOM-SC research group, Ciutat de Barcelona 2021 award in the experimental science and technology category

The City of Barcelona Awards 2021 have recognized the researchers Clara Prats, Martí Català, Dani Lopez, Sergio Alonso and Enric Alvarez of the research group of Computational Biology and Complex Systems (BIOCOM-SC) in the category of experimental sciences and technology for their contribution to the mathematical modeling of the epidemiological dynamics of COVID-19 and for its work in disseminating and communicating science.

By-elections to the board of the Department of Physics

CALL FOR THE ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES TO THE COUNCIL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS (2021)

Offer of two positions of Research Support Staff in the Ris3CAT project

Submission of applications until May 24, 2021

The Master in Engineering Physics participates in the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master degree BIOPHAM, which will start in the academic year 2021-2022.

The BIOPHAM Programme is a 2-year study programme with courses in the University of Pisa (Italy), the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (Spain), the University of Lille (France) and the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). The programme courses are taught 100% in English at all partner institutions

Three Professors of the Physics Department publish a textbook on Quantum Computation

Santiago Torres, Pere Bruna and Pietro Massignan publish a collection of exercises and problems in the "Edicions UPCGrau", aiming at introducing advanced engineering students to the exciting world of Quantum Information and Computation

CALL FOR THE ELECTION OF REPRESENTATIVES TO THE COUNCIL OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS (2020)

PhD offer in the Research group DONLL

We offer a predoctoral contract (PhD grant) within the project Smart management of Light and Sound waves by Metamaterials, Metasurfaces and non-Hermitian systems (SMARTWAVES). 4 years’s contract with the research group of “Nonlinear Dynamics, Nonlinear Optics and Lasers” (DONLL) at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC).

Ramon Vilaseca elected as a Fellow Member of The Optical Society (OSA) for pioneering research in nonlinear optics, nonlinear laser dynamics, and ultra-fast laser pulse propagation in photonic crystals

Alvaro Meseguer published the book “Fundamentals of Numerical Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers”

Professor Alvaro Meseguer of the research group of Nonlinear Fluid dynamics (DF) has recently published a book based on his experience on the teaching of Numerical and Computational Methods on Physics Engineering in the UPC