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!!LIGHT, FROM THE EARTH TO THE STARS
!A Multidisciplinary workshop organized by Academia Europaea Barcelona Knowledge Hub and Ciência Viva, the Portuguese Agency for Scientific and Technological Culture, to commemorate the United Nations’ [International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies|http://www.light2015.org/Home.html] (IYL 2015).  The event is also supported by the Academia Europaea 2015 Hubert Curien Fund.
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__Venue:__ Pavilhão do Conhecimento (Pavilion of Knowledge) – Ciência Viva, Alameda dos Oceanos, 1990-223 Lisboa, Portugal. [Map link|https://www.google.es/maps/place/Pavilh%C3%A3o+do+Conhecimento/@38.76231,-9.095596,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0xd19318919abdcad:0x168901727e8b67c8]
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__Date: __July 2-3, 2015\\
__Coordinated by:__ Rosalia Vargas, Ciência Viva, and [Ricard Guerrero|User/Guerrero_Ricard], BKH-AE\\
__[Event website|http://www.pavconhecimento.pt/visite-nos/programacao/detalhe.asp?id_obj=3388]__
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The programme includes several topics, from the structure of matter to the early development of life on Earth, and the connections between light and art. Radiation and the electromagnetic spectrum, the arrival of light to the Earth, the relationship between light and symbiosis, and optoelectronics will be some of the topics addressed by a multidisciplinary group of speakers. The meeting will be divided into five sections: Cosmic Light, Light and Technology, Light and Life, the Light of History, and Light and Art.
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The Workshop will also include a homage to Prof. [José Mariano Gago|User/Gago_José_Mariano] (1948-2015), a reception at the City Council on July 2, and a piano concert with a light show at the Pavilhão do Conhecimento on July 3.
!Registration

Free entrance but online registration required: [http://www.pavconhecimento.pt/visite-nos/programacao/detalhe.asp?id_obj=3388]
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![LIFE FROM LIGHT, LIGHT FOR LIFE|Acad_Main/LIFE FROM LIGHT], essay by Ricard Guerrero, Mercedes Berlanga, Rubén Duro, Barcelona Knowledge Hub – Academia Europaea, and Rosalia Vargas, Ana Noronha, Ciência Viva, Portugal.

!!PROGRAMME

!July 2, 2015 (Thursday)

__09:30__	Registration
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__10:00__	Opening: ''THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT AND LIGHT-BASED TECHNOLOGIES 2015''\\
__Fernando Medina__, Mayor of Lisbon\\
__[Denis Weaire|User/Weaire_Denis]__, FRS, Academia Europaea\\
__Carlos Fiolhais__, President of Portuguese Committee for IYL 2015\\
__Ana Martinho__, Presidente da Comissão Nacional da UNESCO
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__10:30__	Hommage to [José Mariano Gago|User/Gago_José_Mariano] (1948 - 2015)\\
__Rosalia Vargas__, Ciência Viva
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__11:00__	Break
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__11:30__	Inaugural Lecture: ''PHOTON, THE PARTICLE OF LIFE, AND HER COUSINS''\\
__Álvaro de Rújula__, CERN, AE

!COSMIC LIGHT

__12:30__	Panel: ''THE NIGHT SKY, AND HIPPARCOS PROJECT''
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Unique to Europe was the very first space mission for measuring the positions, distances, motions, brightness and colours of stars. ESA's Hipparcos satellite pinpointed more than 100 000 stars, 200 times more accurately than ever before. The primary product from this pioneering and successful mission was a set of stellar catalogues, The Hipparcos and Tycho Catalogues, published by ESA in 1997. \\
__Pedro Russo__, coordinator of the IYA2009, University of Leiden | ''The Next Light Wave: why too much light is an issue for astronomy''\\
__André Moitinho__, University of Lisbon | ''3D visualization of stars and galaxies from Hipparcos to Gaia''
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__13:30__	Break for lunch
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!LIGHT AND TECHNOLOGY

__15:00__	Panel: ''HARNESSING THE POWER OF LIGHT''

''Leds, Oleds, cheaper solar cells, will change the way we illuminate our homes and life in developing countries.''\\
__Adélio Mendes__, University of Porto | ''Direct conversion of sunlight into usefull energy: a whole new world''\\
__Guilherme Carrilho da Graça__, University of Lisbon | ''Sustainable architecture''\\
__António Sá da Costa__, APREN – Associação Portuguesa das Energias Renováveis | ''Renewable energies: solar and wind energies''
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__16:30__ Panel: ''FROM HEALTH TO SATELLITES, FROM BRIDGES TO TELECOMMUNICATIONS, OPTOELECTRONICS IS THERE FOR YOU''
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''Optoelectronics is widely used in applications, from health to building, from telecommunications to space industry''\\
__Miguel Castelo-Branco__, Instituto de Ciências Nucleares Aplicadas à Saúde, Coimbra | ''Health Sciences''\\
__Paulo André__ (IT) Optical communications\\
__Luís Ferreira__, HBM FiberSensing, S.A. | ''Fiber optic sensors for the real world''\\
__Ricardo Mendes__, Tekever | ''Technology for high precision flight of satellites in the ESA Proba-3 project''
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__18:00__	End of the sessions
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__19:30__	Reception at Lisbon City Hall

!July 3, 2015 (Friday)

!LIGHT AND LIFE
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10:00__	Key- Note Lecture: ''THE FAINT SUN AND THE BRIGHT MOON: EARLY DEVELOPMENT OF LIFE ON EARTH''
[Ricardo Guerrero|User\Guerrero_Ricardo] (BKH-AE)

__11:00__	Break

__11:30__	Panel: ''LIGHT AND SYMBIOSIS: LIFE AFTER THE PHOTOSYNTHESIS''
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''Cyanobacteria evolved into harnessing light to generate their own energy and later, by several endosymbiotic processes, the cloroplast emerged. Life on Earth would never be the same again: a “toxic” gas emerged and invaded the atmosphere, and almost annihilated the whole incipient biosphere. This gas was oxygen, without which we all would not be here.''\\
__José Feijó__, University of Maryland, USA \\
__José Matos__, Portuguese Committee for IYL 2015, Portuguese Association of Biologists and INIAV | ''Feeding the Biosphere'' \\
__[Ricardo Guerrero|User/Guerrero_Ricard]__, Barcelona Knowledge Hub-Academia Europaea
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__13:00__	Break for lunch
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__14:30__ Key-note lecture: ''LIGHT IN ANIMAL COMMUNICATION AND BIOLUMINISCENCE''\\
__Anna Omedes__, Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona
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__15:15__ Panel: ''LIFE FROM LIGHT, LIGHT FOR LIFE. IN REMEMBRANCE OF LYNN MARGULIS (1938-2011)''\\
''Exhibition of the documentary film specially made for this occasion on behalf of the Academia Europaea.''\\
Director: __Rubén Duro__
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__15:45__ Debate: ''HOW TO TRANSMIT SCIENCE TO SOCIETY''
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__Rosalia Vargas__ (Ciência Viva) (Coordinator)\\
__Anna Omedes__, Natural Sciences Museum of Barcelona (Coordinator)\\
__Rubén Duro__, Director of the film\\
__Carmen Chica__, Centre for Microbiological Research
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!IN THE LIGHT OF HISTORY
__16:30__	Key-note: ''THE BIRTH OF OPTICS: IBN AL-HAZEN, ONE THOUSAND YEARS AFTER''\\
__Mònica Rius__, University of Barcelona
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__17:30__	Break
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!LIGHT AND ART

__18:00__	Debate: ''LIGHT AND ART''
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''How light inspires art and how some forms of art are made of light.''\\
__João Paulo André__, Chemistry Department, University of Minho\\
__Clara Azevedo__, Photographer\\
__João Tiago Aguiar__, Architect\\
__João Ribeiro__, Cinematographer (tbc)\\
__João Botelho__, Film Director\\
__Pedro Cabrita Reis__, Plastic artist (tbd)
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__19:30__	Cocktail and Light Show
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__DOCUMENTS__
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*[Final programme|2 Lisbon FINALPROGRAMME.pdf]\\
*[Report on the event|20150724HCFund_Lisbon_report.pdf]
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