The "Bojos per la Física" initiative allows 20-25 students to interact during 10 work sessions with researchers from ICN2, IFAE, UAB, ICMAB, ICFO and ALBA Synchrotron. Our shared objective is to design a challenging experience for the students and offer them some hints about what does being a researcher in physics mean. 

In 2017, the ICMAB participated with a session with a lot of "energy", in which solar cells and batteries were the stars. The researchers in charge were Antonio Sánchez, from the NANOPTO group, and Roberta Verrelli, from the Solid State Chemistry group. In 2018, the topic of our session was piezoelectricity and magnetism, with Ferran Macià, Ignasi Fina and Marc Font from the MULFOX group (Laboratory of Multifunctional Thin Films and Complex Structures)

This year 2019, the session was focused on piezoelectricity and on molecular simulation. Ignasi Fina, from the MULFOX group, and Jordi Faraudo, from the Theory and Simulation group, were in charge of the 24 secondary school students from 1r BTX, who came to the ICMAB on the sunny Saturday, 8 June 2019, to participate in this session, from 10 am to 2 pm. 

The students had the opportunity to interact with the researchers, and to learn more about molecular simulation, by moving atoms and molecules at the UAB computer room, and about piezoelectricity, in an interactive way and seeing its applications. 

Thank you to Ignasi Fina and Jordi Faraudo for participating in this initiative, to Anna May Masnou for coordinating the session, and thank you to all the students who came! This year the session was a real success, like always!

More information at: https://bojos-ciencia.fundaciocatalunya-lapedrera.com/cursos/fisica

The calendar for the 2019 edition is:

• La física de partícules al detector ATLAS de l’LHC
• Treballant amb electrons
• Caos i Complexitat a la Natura
• El paper dels sensors i sensors de paper
• Cosmologia observacional
• Visita al Sincrotró ALBA
• L'aigua sobre les superfícies nanoestructurades
• L’astrofísica amb dades dels telescopis MAGIC de la Palma
• Tecnologies de detecció de partícules
• Del BIT al QUBIT: Criptografia Quàntica i el test de Bell
• Nanomaterials: del laboratori al carrer
• Nanoelectrònica
• El fenomen trivial no existeix
• Descobreix el poder de la fotònica
• Anàlisi d’observacions astronòmiques