Instituto de Física y Astronomía

March 5, 2015-IFA Newsticia IFA.

Amelia Bayo, professor and investigator of IFA will partiicpate in Puerto de Ideas Antofagasta 2015, an event which brings together scientists who undertake outreach, in a meeting charaterized by reflections, curiosity and investigation in science in Chile and Latinamerica

Talking about science can be fun - Scientific Outreach Dialogues

¿Why not do science and have fun at the same time? ¿Erudition and entertainment? ¿Why do we assume that science is only for specialists? Science forms part of our daily lives. Apples fall on people´s heads due to something appparently complex yet as simple as the force fop gravity. Two persons cannot bathe together in the same full bathtub without wreaking havoc, if we take into account Archimedes Principle or that of hydrostatic push.

In an attempt to apporach science in a new way, “Stand up Comedy Científico” will be developed by a team from the  Centro Cultural de España, the dramaturg Jesús Codina and actors Carola Paulsen and José Martínez,  around scientific proposals belonging to Dr. Amelia Bayo and Chemist Dr. Marcelo Kogan, originated in the Festival de  Cheltenham and wjhich is very popular today in Spain through FameLab.

Dr. Amelia Bayo, from the Instituto de Física y Astronomia of  our University, has a PhD in Physics from the  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid. She is professor/Investigator of the Universidad de Valparaíso. Support astronomer at ESO´s Observatorio del Cerro Paranal in Chile. Specialist in: low mass stellar formation, disk evolution, substellar objects, Virtual Observatory and Astrostatistics.

Associated links: Puerto de Ideas Antofagasta 2015  -  Invited to the Event