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The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Rainer Weiss, Barry C. Barish and Kip S. Thorne

Gravitational waves are revolutionizing the world of physics and providing first level headlines.

Friday, February 2, 2018 Sala Pere i Joan Coromines, Institut d’Estudis Catalans, Carrer del Carme, 47. Barcelona

On Friday, February 23, Professor Edgar Knobloch, a professor at the Department of Physics of the University of California at Berkeley, was awarded a Doctor Honoris Causa by the Polytechnic University of Madrid, at the proposal of the Technical School of Aeronautical Engineering and the Space.

Researchers from the UPC and the CSIC will study the currents, waves and movement of the sand on the beach of Castelldefels (Barcelona) (MUSA campaign, March 2018)

Researchers from the UPC and the IAC discover one of the most massive neutron stars

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded "for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics"

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the United States, the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) and the UPC uses experiments with ultra-cold atoms, trapped and driven by lasers, to create a new topological insulator induced by the disorder.

Ramon y Cajal researcher in the Physics department Sergio Alonso publishes, in collaboration with Brazilian Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora and the Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, a novel simulation method to understand how the hearts can beat anomalously with a signal originating from the same heart (ectopic beat) instead of our natural external pacemaker.