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Cohen-Tannoudji, among atoms and photons

The Nobel Prize inPhysics Claude Cohen-Tannoudji have talked about light and matter. "Understanding light and matter, and their interactions is vital for physics" says Cohen-Tannoudji. "Light is a source of vital information for understanding the structure of atoms, and also can be used as a tool to manipulate atoms," he adds. During his speech, he has presented several examples of applications that demonstrate the importance of the issue, including a technique that allows very accurate detection MRIs.

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Displayed impressive graphene
 

JoséMaría Pitarke talked about graphene in his lecture, and he even shew a sheet of graphene synthesized in Graphenea, ie two-dimensional sheet formed by carbon atoms linked together. It is said that graphene is two-dimensional, as it has the thickness of a single carbon atom. Pitarke has indicated that this material has properties "impressive"; for example, it is "more flexible and stronger than any other material. A sheet of graphene the weight of a cat whisker could hold a whole cat, without breaking".

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Black holes, vacuums of space

Like yesterday in Bizkaia Aretoa (Bilbao), the british astrophysicist Jocelyn Bell has discussed today at the Victoria Eugenia theatre in San Sebastian, a different theme of the heard so far: black holes. "Black holes are the vacuums of space. They absorb everything that comes near them and the stuff that goes into it, disappears,"says Bell. But how can we approach a black hole and not be swallowed? "It depends on the object's mass" answers. And what happens if we approach one of them? Bell insists that is not a good idea to approach them, because they would destroy us.

Did you know that ... 

Passion forKnowledge - Quantum 13 festival has two candidates for the Nobel Prize, in addition to the four Nobel laureates? John Pendry and Juan Ignacio Cirac have been candidates for the Nobel Prize in Physics  more than once. John Pendry, the “invisibility cloak” man, has appeared on more than one occasion in the pools. Juan Ignacio Cirac, however, is the Spanish with more options to win a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the development of the quantum computer, according to polls. Time will tell if these two scientists enter in the Nobel firmament.

TRAINING WORKSHOPS

Workshop to find applications for research

Today began training workshops for young researchers. Asier Rufino, at Tecnalia Ventures, gave the workshop on research valorization. Rufino gave the keys and ingredients needed to develop applications based on research. One of the most important keys he gaveis that "the raw material in these processes should be the problems that may have an entity or company, and we are able to solve through technology we can develop. No technology must be developed before knowing who would be interested in it. "

Besides the recovery, this week there is offering workshops on presentations and popularization, designed for this audience.