Internal Events
**Video available*** Coffee Talk (PiPlates Special Series): Challenge 0 – “Disaster risk assessment in Catalonia”, by Liliana Carreño and Ernest Bladé
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See video ABSTRACT Challenge 0 of the πPlateS project assesses the probable losses due to seismic and flood risks initially in the Pla de Barcelona and...
**Video available!** Coffee Talk (PiPlates Special Series): Challenge 3 – “Design of tools to predict episodes of exceeding ozone concentration limits”, by Cecilia Soriano and Eva Pérez
Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. Time: 15h See video ABSTRACT Challenge 3 of the Pi-Plates project aims to design objectives tools to help air quality managers in a given region to predict the incidence of episodes when tropospheric ozone immission concentration...
***Video available*** Coffee Talk (PiPlates Special Series): Challenge 4 – “A micro-scale pollutant distribution model for urban areas”, by Ignasi de Pouplana
Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video ABSTRACT Air pollution in urban areas has become a topic of major concern for all relevant institutions. It is well established that living in...
[Video available!] Coffee Talk (PiPlates Special Series): Challenge 2 – “Estimation of beach width scenarios on the Catalan coast”, by Pere-Andreu Ubach and Marc Catasús
Wednesday, January 19th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video on Youtube Channel ABSTRACT The beaches of the Catalan coast support an intense human and economic activity. To the extent that economic activity...
[Video available!] Coffee Talk (PiPlates Special Series): Challenge 1 – “Patterns of occupation of spaces for more predictive urban management and planning”, by Gerard Mor and Julia Trias
Wednesday, May 11th, 2022. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/ywr-jgsi-pzw See on Youtube ABSTRACT Multiple departments of the Government of Catalonia and CIMNE are working on the development of a predictive tool to help in...
[Video available!] Severo Ochoa Coffee Talk – “Research lines of AULA CIMNE – UPM ETSII”, by David J. Vicente (CIMNE Madrid) and Jorge Rodríguez (Aula CIMNE-UPM)
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video ABSTRACT In this talk, we will talk about one of the most recently created AULAS CIMNE: the AULA ‘CIMNE-ETSI UPM’, attached to the...
CIMNE Coffee Talks Programme 2021 – Special Series
CIMNE launches an Special Series of Coffee talks to explain in more detail some research projects. These training events will take place at the Zienkiewicz Conference Room located in the CIMNE premises (UPC Campus Nord, c/ Gran Capità S/N, 08034, BCN)...
Severo Ochoa Coffee Talk at CIMNE – “Virtual Laboratory of Structures”, by Francisco Zárate and Diego E. Aguilera
See video Wednesday, September 29th, 2021. Time: 15h Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr ABSTRACT The Virtual Laboratory of Structures includes in a modeling tool the usual materials testing techniques in order to support the...
[Video available!] Severo Ochoa Coffee Talk at CIMNE – “Was the Mediterranean once a desert? The Messinian Salinity Crisis: 50 years of controversy and recent advances from a modelling perspective”, by Hanneke Heida
Wednesday, September 1st, 2021. Time: 15h See video Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr ABSTRACT About 5.5 million years ago the Mediterranean Sea underwent a dramatic hydrological, environmental and biological crisis, as its...
[Video available!] Severo Ochoa Coffee Talk – “Generalized finite difference and infiltration patterns in porous media”, by Daniel Santana
Wednesday, July 7th, 2021. Time: 15h. Online - Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr See video on Youtube ABSTRACT The Richards equation models phenomena of great importance in engineering. Said differential equation is a non-linear parabolic...





