Made in the UPM & friends

🕒 17:30 – Bernat Ibáñez Martínez (MIT Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence Laboratory - CSAIL)

Bernat Ibáñez Martínez is a Computer Science and Mathematics student at CFIS-UPC and a researcher at MIT’s CSAIL. His background combines cutting-edge research at UPC and MIT with practical experience at Semidynamics, one of Europe’s leading chip design startups.

At MIT, Bernat is developing a prototype for a new accelerator architecture designed to solve sparse computations orders of magnitude faster than existing CPUs and GPUs. His work has the potential to revolutionize scientific computing, graph algorithms, and machine learning by overcoming the limitations of current general-purpose designs.

🕒 18:00 – Roxana Beatriz Martínez (Harvard Department of Classics)

Roxana Beatriz Martínez is a Tenured Professor at the International University of La Rioja (UNIR) and a research associate on the ANDRÓMEDA Research Project (UCM). A specialist in cultural myth criticism, her work investigates the symbolic and discursive construction of women in ancient Greek thought.

Currently at Harvard, Roxana conducts a discursive analysis of the feminine in Greek founding myths. Using the hermeneutic method of myth criticism, she explores whether feminine figures were reconfigured or subordinated to the Olympian patriarchal model. Her research demonstrates a fascinating discursive continuity between founding goddesses and the evolution of Olympian genealogy, shedding new light on the roots of Western thought.