Previous Events





2026


09 February 2026,
17.00 h

Physics For Citizenship

Programa Aulas 55+
Sala Bazterra
Oyón (Álava)


2025


26 November 2025,
18.00 h

Why is the night dark?
From a starrY night to
the secrets of the universe

Programa Aulas 55+
Centro Cívico Ribabellosa
Ribabellosa (Álava)

06 November 2025,
18.30 h

More Than Just a House:
Communal Ways of Living from the Nordic Countries
(with Rodrigo Antonio Riero Díaz,
DIS-Copenhague, Dinamarca)

Programa Ideas for rural restoration
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

30 October 2025,
18.30 h

Quantum mechanics in your house:
Experiments revealing the nature of our daily life
(with Maria José Fernández-Lozano,
U. Mainz, alemania)

Rural Science Sessions
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

01 August 2025,
18.00 h

Eating our tomorrow:
Why there is no planet
left for dessert
(with rafael Carrasco Carmona,
IFT-UAM/CSIC, madrid)

Rural Science Sessions
Series: From the universe to the countryside
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

30 July 2025,
18.00 h

What the heck is relativity?
(with Martí Berenguer Mimó,
IGFAE-USC/Xunta de Galicia, Santiago de compostela)

Rural Science Sessions
Series: From the universe to the countryside
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

28 July 2025,
20.00 h

Golondrinas
(musically accompanied lecture with Pilar AlmaLé)

Programa Entre música e antropoloxía
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

28 July 2025,
18.00 h

A Walk through space-time
(with Dionysios Anninos,
King’s College London, reino Unido)

Rural Science Sessions
Series: From the universe to the countryside
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

25 July 2025,
18.00 h

Cosmic rays in your house
(Experiment with:
Martí Berenguer Mimó, Rafa Carrasco Carmona, Lucas Vicente García-Consuegra, Silvia Plá García)

Rural Science Sessions
Series: From the universe to the countryside
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

24 July 2025,
18.00 h

From physics to life:
What is this symmetry business?
(with Lucas Vicente García-Consuegra, King’s College London,
Reino Unido)

Rural Science Sessions
Series: From the universe to the countryside
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

23 July 2025,
18.00 h

When the universe creates matter
(with Silvia Plá García,
TU Múnich, Alemania)

Rural Science Sessions
Series: From the universe to the countryside
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

10 May 2025,
20.00 h

Astronomical observation
(with Kepa Sousa Sánchez,
U. Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares)

Espazo La Ricotta Innauguration:
From the Earth to the Moon
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

10 May 2025,
16.30 h

Songs and tarÁntula
(Musically accompanied lecture
with BepPe Branca)

Espazo La Ricotta Innauguration:
From the Earth to the Moon
Programa: Between music and antropology
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

10 May 2025,
14.00 h

La ricotta,
a rural educational project
(with Paolo Benincasa,
creator of the «La Ricotta» project and spokeperson of the
«La Ricotta» cultural association)

Espazo La Ricotta Innauguration:
From the Earth to the Moon
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

23 April 2025,
19.00 h

La física dEl Quotidiano:
dalla colazione all’Ospedale
(in italian)

Student engagement activity
Escola Oficial de Idiomas
Ourense

05 April 2025,
18.00 h

Corn:
gastronomy, history and science
in a grain

XXV Encontro-Degustación
do Millo Corvo
Bueu (Pontevedra)

01 Abril 2025,
18.00 h

Climate change:
understanding climate and its changes

Student engagement activity
CPI Virxe dos Remedios
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

17 March 2025,
todo el día

Socio-scientific issues:
Understanding them and
their use in the classroom

Training course
IES Lagoa de Antela
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)

06 March 2025,
16:00 h

Information and misinformation
Fact, alternative facts, the spread of false beliefs, and science

Student engagement activity
IES Taboada Civite
Verín (Ourense)

17 February 2025,
18:00 h

Why is the night dark?
From the starry night to
the secrets of the universe

Programa Aulas 55+
Sala San Prudencio
Yécora (Álava)



2024


31 August 2024,
18.00 h

Why is the night dark ?
From a starry night to

the secrets of the universe

X AstroTrevinca,
Centro Astronómico de Trevinca,
A Veiga (Ourense)

28 February 2024,
10.10 h

What do we know about
our universe?
(with Carlos Duaso Pueyo,
Cambridge U.)

Student engagement activity
IES Lagoas de Antela,
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)



2023


25 November 2023,
11.00 h

Numbers, theorems and minotaurs

XXXVI ENCIGA Congress,
IES Lagoas de Antela,
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)

16 March 2023,
11.30 h

Sustenible energy,
without the hot air

Student engagement activity
IES Lagoas de Antela,
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)

16 March 2023,
09.00 h

Reality is not what it looks like: understanding the world and the scientific method

Student engagement activity
IES Taboada Chivite,
Verín (Ourense)

03 February 2023,
10.00 h

Why is the night dark ?
From a starry night to

the secrets of the universe

Student engagement activity
IES Lagoa de Antela,
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)



2022


03 March 2022,
09.30 h

Perception, color, vision

Student engagement activity
CEIP Padre Crespo,
Xunqueira de Ambía.



2021


02 December 2021,
10.30 h

Reality is not what it looks like: understanding the world and the scientific method

Student engagement activity
IES Blanco Amor,
Ourense

12 November 2021,
19.00 h

The spherical horse and
climate change

Public colloquium,
A Arca da Noe,
Vilar de Santos (Ourense)

12 November 2021,
11.30 h

The spherical horse and
climate change

Student engagement activity
IES Lagoa de Antela,
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)

12 November 2021,
11.30 h

From the infinitely large to
the infinitely small:
the cosmos, particles and us

Student engagement activity
IES Lagoa de Antela,
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)

31 July 2021,
20.30 h

Infodemic.
(Mis)information in Covid times

Public colloquium,
CSA Camba·Lhota,
Allariz (Ourense)

19 February 2021,
11.30 h

Reality is not what it looks like: understanding the world and the scientific method

Student engagement activity
IES Lagoa de Antela,
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)

18 February 2021,
11.30 h

From the infinitely large to
the infinitely small:
the cosmos, particles and us

Student engagement activity
IES Lagoa de Antela,
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)



2020


09 Dicember 2020,
16.00 h

Dall’infinitamente grande all’infinitamente piccolo
(in Italian)

Student engagement activity
Ecola Oficial de Idiomas,
Ourense

02 Dicember 2020,
16.00 h

Perché la notte è scura?
(in Italian)

Student engagement activity
Escola Oficial de Idiomas,
Ourense

15 November 2020,
19.00 h

Numbers, theorems and minotaurs: simple mathematics for
freedom of thought

Public colloquium,
A Arca da Noe,
Vilar de Santos (Ourense)

19 January 2020,
12.30 h

Freedom of thought, absurd beliefs and innumeracy

Public colloquium-debate,
CSA Camba·Lhota,
Allariz (Ourense)