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Espec Ial St Armu S ESPECIAL STARMUS Apreciadas personas lec- toras de nuestra– vuestra revista, Hoy me dirijo a voso- Sobre Starmus tras con el motivo de la edición de este número tan especial para mí. A finales de junio y princi- Welcome VIP Cocktail pio de julio de 2016, tuve la suerte de poder asistir a Starmus III “Más allá del horizonte”, en el cual se ho- menajeó a una de las men- tes brillantes y que ha con- Discover CIVIE tribuido a la divulgación Stand E2IN2 científica del conocimiento sobre el Universo en el que habitamos. Queremos compartir la experiencia vivida por el equipo que asistió y las perso- Equipo #E2INCanarias nas que hicieron un seguimiento IYTS en Starmus de este evento tan singular y Hablamos con tan en sintonía con uno de los objetivos de E2IN2, que es el fomento de la vocación exploratoria del Espacio. Por mi parte, solamente me resta El humor también decir que eché de menos el no tener un mejor nivel de inglés, para haber disfrutado más, es ciencia si cabe, de esos momentos vividos. Recalco la impor- tancia de los idiomas en el mundo global. Que paséis un buen rato con este número y sigamos contando con vuestra atención en el futuro. Lo que no Valentín de Torres-Solanot se vio WWW.E2IN2.COM sobre starmus ¿QUE ES? tarmus nació con el ob- S jetivo de hacer univer- sal y accesibles las cuestio- nes principales que se plantean en la ciencia y el arte. El festival reúne a las dustrias creativas para mentes más brillantes de la debatir y aportar claves astronomía, física, química, sobre el futuro de la hu- líderes de negocio de la in- manidad. MÁS INFO: dustria tecnológica e in- Página web de Starmus: www.starmus.com MAS ALLA DEL HORIZONTE La tercera edición del Festival Starmus tuvo lugar en las Islas Canarias, concretamente en Tenerife, desde el 27 de ju- nio al 2 de julio de 2016. PROXIMA EDICION La cuarta edición del festi- val,“Starmus IV: Life and the universe” tendrá lugar en Trondheim (Noruega) desde el 17 al 23 de junio de 2017. WWW.E2IN2.COM sobre starmus UN PANEL ESTELAR Premios Nobel, científicos punteros, leyendas del espacio y expertos de prestigio en otras disciplinas debatieron sobre ciencia y futuro Premios Nobel Leyendas del espacio Sonic universe Starmus Festival 2016 congre- Leyendas del espacio como gó a premios Nobel como David Garrett Reisman, Claude Nicollier, concert Gross, Brian Schmidt, Robert Wilson, Chris Hadfield, Eric Betzig, Elizabeth Blackburn, Rusty Schwei- La soprano Sarah Edvard Moser, Adam Riess o Joseph ckart, Sergey Brightman, la Orquesta Stiglitz. Volkov, Roman Sinfónica de Tenerife, el ex Romanenko o, guitarrista de Queen Brian incluso, Alexei Leonov, el primero May o el sonido real de en dar un paseo espacial, tampoco las estrellas de mano de faltaron. Brian Eno, así como Anat- hema y hasta Rick Wake- man que, junto con el as- Expertos de prestigio tronauta Chris Hadfield, A estos también se sumaron homenajeó a David Bo- otros perfiles, como los de Eugene wie, pusieron la nota mu- Cientificos punteros Kaspersky, experto en ciberseguri- sical que se sumó al War- ped Side of the Universe También reunió a científicos dad o Robert J. Sawyer y Anthony McCarten, escritores. de los oscarizados Hans punteros como Neil deGrasse Ty- Zimmer, Paul Franklin y son, Kip Thorne, Martin Rees, Ri- Todos ellos, debatieron sobre Oliver James, junto con el chard Dawkins, Alfred McEwen, Joel el futuro de la humanidad y acerca- científico Kip Thorne, para Parker, Brian Cox, Jill Tarter, Brian ron la ciencia a los asistentes a tra- confluir en un espectáculo Greene, Roger Penrose, Steven Bal- vés de esclarecedoras conferencias único. bus, Barry Barish, Chris Rapley, Ca- de primer nivel, que se complemen- rolyn Porco, Danny Hillis, Peter Sch- taron con el entretenimiento de MC wartz y, por supuesto, Stephen Hawking y David Zanbuka y, sobre LAS FOTOGRAFÍAS Hawking, homenajeado en esta ter- todo, con arte, en el Sonic Universe Álbum de #E2INCanarias: cera edición “Beyond the horizon”. Concert. Bit.ly/E2INCanariasFotos WWW.E2IN2.COM sobre starmus TRIBUTE TO STEPHEN HAWKING l profesor Stephen Hawking fue el homena- E jeado en Starmus III. El científico contó su “Breve historia” a los asis- tentes y respondió a las preguntas de los asistentes en la actividad Ask Hawking, que se desarrolló en el Sonic Universe Concert. Además, presentó las meda- llas a la comunicación sobre ciencia que llevan su nombre. Kaplan, por el documental “Locos por las partículas”, en Cine. MEDALLA En la categoría de Ciencia, se alzó con la medalla el físico, escritor y locutor STEPHEN HAWKING Jim Al-Khalili, que explicó a E2IN2 la im- A LA DIVULGACION CIENTIFICA portancia de la labor divulgativa. ara completar el festival, tuvo lugar la P ceremonia de entrega de la Stephen Hawking Medal for Science Communica- tion, galardón que, respaldado por Star- mus, reconoce el mérito de la divulgación científica a nivel internacional. En esta primera edición, se premió al compositor Hans Zimmer, en la categoría de Arte, y a Mark Levinson y David E. WWW.E2IN2.COM Welcome VIP Cocktail by E2IN2 WELCOME VIP COCKTAIL by a tercera edición de Starmus co- L menzó con el Welcome VIP Cocktail, que E2IN2 brindó a los ponentes del festival y a sus respectivas familias, el día previo al inicio de las conferencias. UNA VELADA DE ALTURA WWW.E2IN2.COM Welcome VIP Cocktail by E2IN2 l equipo de E2IN2 tuvo UN OBSEQUIO MUY ESPECIAL E el placer de compartir con las mentes más brillan- Starmus, E2IN2 ofreció a Algunos, como el as- tes una agradable velada, premios Nobel y demás trofísico y premio Nobel, en la que también les hizo prestigiosos ponentes del Brian Schmidt, manifesta- entrega de un obsequio estelar panel del evento, las ron su curiosidad durante muy especial. primeras llaves de CIVIE, el evento. Sumándose a la cade- proyecto que E2IN2 pre- na de reconocimiento de sentará a finales de año. EL DATO Cada llave se activa en una fecha muy concreta y especial para el portador WWW.E2IN2.COM STAND E2IN2 WWW.E2IN2.COM Stand e2in2 Una ventana a e2in2 2IN2 desplazó un equipo E a Tenerife e instaló un stand en La Pirámide de Arona, complejo en el que se desarrollaron las confe- rencias, durante toda la semana. Allí, los que no pudieron asistir al Welcome VIP Cocktail tuvieron la oportunidad de recoger su obse- quio y los asistentes al festival, de conocer E2IN2 y el proyecto CIVIE. WWW.E2IN2.COM Civie en starmus os asistentes que visitaron el stand de En el vídeo que se proyectó en el stand, E2IN2 pudieron ver unas pinceladas de ya se pudo advertir el festival Starmus dentro CIVIE, proyecto que la empresa presentará a del propio proyecto. finales de año. #discovercivie WWW.E2IN2.COM Equipo #E2INCanarias #E2INCANARIAS ara Arantxa de Zatarain, miembro del equipo que P E2IN2 desplazó a Starmus, el feedback de los asis- tentes fue “muy positivo, ya que hicimos networking con mucha gente interesada que se acercaba y pre- guntaba”. “Muchos alucinaban con lo que les contába- mos y querían más información”, comenta Arantxa. El equipo pudo disfrutar del festival y de la ex- periencia de formar parte de #E2INCanarias. “Formar parte de E2IN2 en Starmus fue algo increíble y el com- pañerismo, espectacular”, destaca Nacho Ardid. Una experiencia profesional y personal, que Arantxa y Nacho compartieron en redes sociales a lo Ha sido una gran experiencia personal y largo de todo el festival. “ profesionalmente que no me gustaría haberme perdido por nada del mundo Arantxa de Zatarain miembro de #E2INCanarias ” WWW.E2IN2.COM IYTS en Starmus IYTS EN STARMUS E n la cobertura en redes sociales y audiovisual también participaron dos estudiantes universitarios, que fueron premiados con asistir al fes- tival en el I International Young Talent Seminar (IYTS), evento que organizó E2IN2 el pasado 31 de marzo en Madrid. Clara Solà, estudiante de psicología y Pere He- rrero, estudiante de ingeniería civil, fueron los afortu- nados que pudieron vivir Starmus y trabajar codo con codo con el equipo de E2IN2. no fue la única presencia IYTS en Starmus, ya que Y otros dos estudiantes, en este caso de Bachillera- to, también fueron premiados en el International Young Talent Seminar y pudieron disfrutar del festival. Ernesto Guillermo Batista Moreau y Alejandra Teresa Vallejo Atienza, alumnos del Colegio La salle San Ildefonso, fueron los privilegiados. “He podido conocer, escuchar y EL STARMUS DE aprender de gente muy importante ” PERE HERRERO en el mundo de la ciencia” “Difícil de creer el haber tenido la oportunidad de vivir algo tan grande como Starmus” “A la gente le entusiasmaba E2IN2 y CIVIE” “La posibilidad de escuchar a 10 premios Nobel fue increí- ble” “El equipo de E2IN2, muy agradable, nos acogió como dos más de la empresa” “ “Ha sido un placer trabajar con el equipo #E2INCanarias” WWW.E2IN2.COM WE ALSO HABLAMOS CON... JAVIER SIERRA l también multipremiado escritor de misterios E históricos tampoco faltó a lo que define como “un cambio de coordenadas muy enriquecedor”. El turolense nos reconoció lo maravilloso que le resulta “la posibilidad de encontrar, en la ciencia, respuestas a las grandes preguntas filo- sóficas“. ROBERT SAWYER Live long and prosper! uvimos la oportunidad de hablar con T Robert J. Sawyer, multipremiado es- critor canadiense de ciencia ficción y re- cientemente nombrado Miembro de la Orden de Canadá. Hablamos de ciencia y de ciencia ficción, género literario que vive “una EL CONSEJO DE época dorada”, según el canadiense, “a pesar de que cada vez conocemos más la realidad”. RUSTY “Los descubrimientos científicos no “ sólo no han reducido el campo para la “Para triunfar en literatura de ciencia ficción, sino que ayu- cualquier ámbito: dan a abrir nuevos horizontes”, asegura estudia, trabaja el escritor, antes de duro, obedece las despedirse, cual Spock THE GIF reglas y persevera” en Star Trek, con el icó- ¿Robert J.
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