The director of the Instituto de Óptica "Daza de Valdés", Juan Diego Ania Castañón and the institutional delegate of the CSIC in Castilla y León, Mar Siles, inaugurated this Monday the exhibition "Universe of Light", which can be visited throughout this November in the High Courtyard of the Casa de las Conchas. The exhibition has been prepared on the occasion of the Science Week, an event of scientific dissemination that is celebrated throughout Europe.

"A Universe of Light", as explained by the representative of the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Mar Siles, “enters us in a playful and didactic way in the world of light and its associated technologies, from the first light of the cosmo to the system Human visual through phenomena such as mirages or rainbows "and the goal is to be" as informative as possible. "

This exhibition will be accompanied by a variety of informative activities in which the three CSIC centers in Salamanca and the centers of Valladolid and León are involved.

After the inauguration, Juan Diego Ania has given a talk-workshop to students of high school about ‘The impact of light and light-based technologies in our day to day’.

The complementary activities to the exhibition also include, on November 29, the conference "Optics and Light: from astronomy to the eye" in the auditorium of the Casa de las Conchas, which will be given by our colleague Susana Marcos, who received this year the National Research Prize.
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