Welcome Session

Monday, September 14, 2026

Room V12M (all students)

• 09:30-09:55 Welcome address and general remarks, Ricardo Vázquez Gómez (master's coordinator)
• 09:55-10:00 Mentoring for Master Students, Pau Carles, Laia Montellà
• 10:00-10:10 Advanced Cosmology, Cristiano Germani
• 10:10-10:20 Mathematical and Statistical Techniques, Lluis Garrido
• 10:20-10:30 Instrumentation, Data Analysis and Machine Learning, Pol Bordas

Faculty Bar

10:30-10:50 COFFEE BREAK

Room V12M (students from Particle Physics and Gravitation)

• 10:50-11:00 Students' self-presentation
• 11:00-11:10 Elementary Particles, Joan Soto 
• 11:10-11:20 Quantum Field Theory, Jordi Salvado 
• 11:20-11:30 Advanced General Relativity, Roberto Emparan
• 11:30-11:40 Frontiers of Theoretical Physics, David Mateos 
• 11:40-11:50 Gauge theories of the Standard Model, Domenec Espriu

Room V13P (students from Astrophysics and Space Sciences)

• 10:50-11:00 Students' self-presentation
• 11:00-11:10 High-Energy Astrophysics, Marc Ribó
• 11:10-11:20 Extragalactic Astrophysics and Galaxy Formation, Alberto Manrique
• 11:20-11:30 Galactic Astronomy, Teresa Antoja
• 11:30-11:40 Space-based Astronomy, Josep Manel Carrasco
• 11:40-11:50 Stellar Structure and Formation, Gemma Busquet 

Corridor outside rooms V12M and V13P

12:00-12:30 TOUR OF THE PREMISES, Ricardo Vázquez Gómez (master's coordinator)