IMDEA Institutes at the Madrid por la Ciencia y la Innovación 2019
March 26, 2019
From Thursday 28 to Sunday, March 31, the IMDEA Institutes will participate in the Madrid por la Ciencia y la Innovación, organized by the Fundación para el Conocimiento madrimasd in Pavilion 5 of IFEMA.
The IMDEA Water Institute will organize three workshops in which the public will be able to know how some electroactive microorganisms work in the purification of wastewater without energetic cost; how can water quality be evaluated in real time with remote data; or what biological indicators of ecological status of rivers can be used to perform toxicity tests of different chemical products.
Siri, what can I have for lunch, today? Ask your genesis the activity programmed by IMDEA Food. In this activity, researchers at the Institute will help you discover how your genetics can contribute to making some nutrients or others more beneficial for you. Knowing our genetic characteristics can help us to better choose the food we eat. Discover how to do it!
Meanwhile, IMDEA Energy Institute researchers will operate a Stirling engine using the temperature difference between two surfaces, one at room temperature and one heated with an infra-red lamp or hot water, without using any type of fuel. They will also show how a battery is capable of illuminating a light bulb, built with copper and zinc bars inserted in a ionic medium so common in our lives as a lemon or some other fruit with watery and acidic pulp.
IMDEA Materials researchers will invite us to Develop new materials, design the future workshop in which, with the help of the audience, they will carry out experiments in which they will demonstrate the importance of some new materials, on which there is still much to discover, and what can be done with them to improve them. They will also analyse "traditional" materials to see how they can turn into "new" materials thanks to additives or new manufacturing processes. They will also go further in their study by using computational calculations. And all this to show that these materials can be used in fields as diverse as aeronautics or the manufacture of biomaterials.
Nanoscience and Nanotechnology: great ideas for small worldsis the suggestive title that includes the activities that the IMDEA Nanoscience Institute will carry out at the Madrid por la Ciencia y la Innovación. The workshops in which the audience can participate are framed within the program of scientific dissemination of the Institute, Nanoscience for all, a program that wants to show that when things get small, they can behave differently than expected.
The electromagnetic spectrum: from FM radio to the Internet of Thingsis the participatory demo that IMDEA Networks Institute researchers will use to explain the audience the operation and applications of one of the fundamentals of wireless communication: the electromagnetic spectrum. The public will be able to observe what happens when a radio is turned on and our voice travels through the airwaves to the listeners, or the real-time flights over Spain at that precise moment, and they will be able to experience how wireless networks work in virtual reality.
The software is behind … almost everything surrounding us in our daily lives. It operates cars, mobile applications, medical diagnostic equipment, … and directs aircrafts during take-offs, during the flight and landings. IMDEA Software Institute researchers will try to explain their contribution to the development of all this aforementioned software at the Madrid por la Ciencia y la Innovación. They will tell us where the complex software is hiding, how their possible errors affect our lives and how they and their colleagues at the Institute work to prevent such errors from occurring.
More information available at: http://www.madrimasd.org/feriamadridcienciainnovacion
