Meetings

With the event "Seven questions that will change the world" we aim to take a well-meaning look at what lies ahead. We want to play at imagining what science will be like in ten, twenty, fifty years' time... What will it have to face? What challenges will it have to take on? What capacities will we be able to achieve?  We are going to try to describe the future as realistically as possible. But, as we have already said, we are not going to succeed. If the history of science and technological development shows us anything, it is that the smart thing to do is to refrain from trying to predict anything. New disruptive technologies will emerge, paradigms will change, seemingly immovable foundations will fall, ideas that nobody imagined will emerge and unexpected discoveries will be made... or perhaps none of this will happen. The only thing that is certain is that the horizon looks worrying. That there are things that must be changed, and that science and technology must help us to do so. To lead the way. But to do so, we must listen to those who know. And this is what we are going to do.  

Eight expert voices will speak today about the science of the future. They will try to answer seven key questions that will mark the path of what is to come, of the future that awaits us. And all this wrapped in music that emerges from the most traditional and classical past to the present. Art of always for the science and technology of the future. 

"Seven questions that will change the world" (The state of the "art" of the science of the future) is part of 100xCiencia.7, the annual meeting of the SOMMa alliance that brings together the scientific community of the Severo Ochoa Centres of Excellence and María de Maeztu Units of Excellence, which in this seventh edition will bring together representatives of the 65 entities that currently form part of the alliance.

The 20th Electromagnetic and Light Scattering Conference (ELS-XX) will be held in Hotel “Bahía Tropical” located in Almuñecar, one of the most popular tourist destinations on the Costa Tropical of Granada, Spain. The conference will build on the remarkable success of the previous ELS conferences held in Amsterdam, Helsinki (twice), New York, Vigo, Halifax, Gainesville, Bremen, Salobreña, St. Petersburg, Bodrum, Hatfield, Taormina, Lille, Leipzig, College Park, College Station, Hangzhou, and the 19th conference held online on July 2021. The main goal of the ELS conference series is to bring together scientists and engineers studying various aspects of light scattering and to provide a relaxed academic atmosphere for in-depth discussions of theoretical advances, measurements, and applications.​

The Galactic Center has often been called a "unique astrophysical laboratory”. This is as true as ever and the Galactic Center  keeps providing rich inspiration and data to study an impressive number of science questions. In this conference we will review the progress in our field over that past four years and focus on some spectacular results. We will also link the physics of the Galactic Center to other galactic nuclei and galaxy evolution in general. The last meeting of the Galactic Center community took place in Yokohama in October 2019 (GCWS 2019 http://aysheaia.phys.keio.ac.jp/GCWS2019/index.html). It is high time for the next edition of this series of conferences, which will be held in Granada, Spain, at the end of April 2023.

Main science topics:

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• Sagittarius A*

• The inner parsec

• The ISM and magnetic fields at the GC

• Star formation and feedback

• High energy processes, Dark Matter

• Extreme/singular objects

• Stellar population and dynamics

• Structure and formation history of the GC

• The GC in the context of nearby nuclei and galaxy evolution