Previous Events





2026


05 June 2026,
18.30h

A Journey into the Quantum World: What Is the Smallest Thing in the Universe?
(with Gonzalo Villa, University of Cambrdige)

Rural Science Sessions
Ciclo: From the Universe to the countryside
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras,
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

04 June 2026,
20.00h

HUM – Humans using Metaphors
(Musically accompanied lecturE with Ariel Ninas)

Program Musica meets Anthropology
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras,
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

04 June 2026,
18.30h

The footprint of the Universe – A journey toward the origin of the universe (with Facundo Rost, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

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

02 June 2026,
18.30h

What do we know about the universe?
(with Carlos Duaso Pueyo, Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)

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

10 May 2026

A walk through the sounds and culture of Southern Italy
(Musically accompanied lecturE with the duo Malarazza)

I Aniversary Espazo La Ricotta: Alén da Lúa
Ciclo: Music meets Anthropology
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras,
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

10 May 2026

Eclipse
(with José Edelstein,
IGFAE & Santiago de Compostela University)

I Aniversario Espazo La Ricotta: Alén da Lúa
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras,
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

10 May 2026

La Ricotta, …one year after
(with Paolo Benincasa, «La Ricotta» Project)

I Aniversary Espazo La Ricotta: Alén da Lúa
Espazo La Ricotta
As Barreiras,
Castro Caldelas (Ourense)

07-08 May 2026

Climate change: Experiments to understand climate and its variations

Congreso Científico de Montaña
Cervantes (Lugo)

21 April 2026,
18.00 h

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

Aulas +55 Program
Centro Socio-Cultural
Zigoitia (Álava)

23 March 2026,
11.30 h

Information and disinformation. Facts, alternative facts, spreading of false beliefs, and science

Student Engagement Activity
I.E.S. Ramón María Aller Ulloa
Lalón (Pontevedra)

23 February 2026,
15.00 h

Mathematics of Society

Training course
I.E.S. Lagoa de Antela
Xinzo de Limia (Ourense)

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)