{"id":2460,"date":"2017-12-19T13:16:28","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T12:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/?p=2460"},"modified":"2018-01-22T16:17:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-22T15:17:17","slug":"bsc-annual-meeting-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/2017\/12\/19\/bsc-annual-meeting-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"BSC Annual Meeting 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"
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BSC Annual Meeting 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

BSC celebrated its Annual Meeting 2017 on Monday the 18th of December. The meeting started with a speech by BSC Director Mateo Valero<\/strong> and BSC Associated Director Josep Martorell<\/strong> about the BSC achievements<\/strong> in 2017 and the outlook<\/strong> for 2018, including answers to a number of questions raised<\/strong> by the personnel prior to the meeting.<\/p>\n

The directors highlighted new processor, personalized medicine and artificial intelligence<\/strong> as the three current strategic key projects.<\/p>\n

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BSC Associated Director Josep Martorell giving a talk at the BSC Annual Meeting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mateo\u2019s and Josep\u2019s speech was followed by 8 short talks<\/strong> by different BSC personnel on their work at BSC. The talks covered cancer genomics, artificial intelligence, atmospheric dust, the journey of BSC spin-off Mitiga, among others, highlighting the wide range of activities taking place at BSC<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The best short talk award<\/strong>, decided on a popular online vote, was given to David Vicente and Javier Bartolom\u00e9<\/strong> on their talk entitled \u201cMareNostrums, Linpacks & viceversa\u201d<\/em>. The talk entitled by \u201cHow do atmospheric particles affect our climate?\u201d<\/em> by Carlos P. Garc\u00eda\u2010Pando<\/strong> was voted to be the second best<\/strong> and was given a travel award.<\/p>\n

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BSC distinctions awardees in the BSC Annual Meeting 2017.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The awards for the best talks were followed by the first BSC distinctions ceremony<\/strong> which it planned to become an annual occasion in the years to come. All the ICREA Research Professors at BSC<\/strong>, including our Fusion Group Manager ICREA Prof. Dr Mervi Mantsinen, and ERCs grant holders together with other outstanding awardees received an original MareNostrum 1 node.<\/p>\n

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An original MareNostrum 1 node awarded to our Group Manager ICREA Prof. Mervi Mantsinen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The meeting was closed with a talk entitled \u201cCiencia optimista\u201d<\/em> by Science Communicator Josep Mainat<\/strong>, followed by a group photo and lunch.<\/p>\n

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Josep Mainat.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BSC celebrated its Annual Meeting 2017 on Monday the 18th of December. The meeting started with a speech by BSC Director Mateo Valero and BSC Associated Director Josep Martorell about the BSC achievements in 2017 and the outlook for 2018, including answers to a number of questions raised by the personnel prior to the meeting. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2460"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2552,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2460\/revisions\/2552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusion.bsc.es\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}