CITIC held a day of presentation of the prototypes for the CITIC Demonstrator in which 9 researchers from the center showed the prototypes in operation in order to install them in the Demonstrator Room.
Patricia Concheiro, CITIC researcher and graduate in Occupational Therapy from the Universidade da Coruña, has been awarded one of the San Rafael – UDC Foundation Grants in its postdoctoral modality in the ceremony held last Monday, October 23rd at the San Rafael Hospital.
The Cycle of Conferences on Artificial Intelligence, entitled “Electricity in the 21st century”, organized by the Royal Galician Academy of Sciences (RAGC) in collaboration with the Diputación da Coruña, comes to an end today, with the conference given by the CITIC researcher Verónica Bolón, head of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence area of the Universidade da Coruña.
The researcher of the Artificial Intelligence area of CITIC Amparo Alonso will participate as a speaker at the Corunna Innovate Summit, which will take place at the Advanced Services Center (CSA) of the Cidade das TIC on October 26th and 27th.
Xunta has approved the agreement with the UDC, which exceeds 560,000 euros, to co-finance the hiring of 8 people in predoctoral stage in the framework of the European program COFUND, which is developed in the CITIC.
CITIC researcher Ricardo Cao participated in the Session on Statistical Innovation in the European Statistical System, held in Madrid on Monday 23 October. This is the first of two events organized by the National Statistics Institute (INE) to coincide with the Spanish Presidency of the Council of the European Union. The session was inaugurated by Elena Manzanera, the president of INE.
On October 18 and 19 CITIC organizes a conference on the practical aspects of the preparation of proposals in Horizon Europe in view of the new calls for proposals in 2024. These sessions will be attended by Marina Martínez, senior responsible for European programs at CDTI in Brussels; Sabina Guaylupo, Project Manager at FECYT and co-founder and privacy officer of the mydatamood initiative; and María Luisa Pérez Aliende, from the Autonomous University of Madrid.
The Inspira STEAM educational program is looking for mentors and centers interested in participating in the project. The registration period ends next Sunday, October 15 and can be done from the program’s intranet.
Minia Manteiga and Carlos Dafonte, the CITIC researchers involved in Gaia, the ESA mission that is producing the most detailed map of the Milky Way, have been instrumental in validating the data and in the scientific papers that will be published after the archive is opened.
The Royal Galician Academy of Sciences awards the Enrique Vidal Abascal medal to CITIC researcher Ricardo Cao, in recognition of his work in the Mathematics, Physics and Computer Science section. The medal ceremony will take place on Wednesday October at the Pazo de Fonseca, in Santiago.
