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La evolución ha encontrado soluciones ingeniosas para la complejidad cerebral. Dos investigaciones publicadas en Science revelan como mamíferos, aves y reptiles han desarrollado la inteligencia por caminos evolutivos diferentes. Todos tenemos cerebros complejos con funciones parecidas, pero con neuronas de distinto origen. Un hallazgo que nos ayuda a comprender mejor qué elementos son esenciales para la cognición compleja. Hemos hablado con Fernando García Moreno, investigador Ikerbasque del Basque Center for Neuroscience Achúcarro, y autor principal de las publicaciones. Hablando de evolución, uno de los grandes enigmas es la aparición de los organismos eucariotas, aquellos que están formados por células con un núcleo delimitado por una membrana, como por ej., las nuestras. Carlos Briones nos ha hablado de una investigación con herramientas computacionales realizada por científicos españoles que arroja algo de luz sobre ese misterio. Si son seguidores de la saga de La Guerra de las galaxias, sabrán que Luke Skywalker nació en Tatooine, un planeta con dos soles. Montse Villar nos ha contado que una vez más la realidad supera la ficción y se han encontrado planetas con dos y más soles en nuestra galaxia. Este 2025 se celebra el Año Internacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Cuánticas y María González-Dionis, compañera en la Agencia SINC (FECYT) nos hablado del estado actual de desarrollo de la computación cuántica. Con Bernardo Herradón hemos seguido conociendo de cerca a dos elementos químicos de la Tabla Periódica, el rubidio y el cesio: su poca abundancia en la naturaleza, sus escasas aplicaciones y sus isótopos, algunos con no demasiada buena fama como el cesio-137. Escuchar audio

La evolución ha encontrado soluciones ingeniosas para la complejidad cerebral. Dos investigaciones publicadas en Science revelan como mamíferos, aves y reptiles han desarrollado la inteligencia por caminos evolutivos diferentes. Todos tenemos cerebros complejos con funciones parecidas, pero con neuronas de distinto origen. Un hallazgo que nos ayuda a comprender mejor qué elementos son esenciales para la cognición compleja. Hemos hablado con Fernando García Moreno, investigador Ikerbasque del Basque Center for Neuroscience Achúcarro, y autor principal de las publicaciones. Hablando de evolución, uno de los grandes enigmas es la aparición de los organismos eucariotas, aquellos que están formados por células con un núcleo delimitado por una membrana, como por ej., las nuestras. Carlos Briones nos ha hablado de una investigación con herramientas computacionales realizada por científicos españoles que arroja algo de luz sobre ese misterio. Si son seguidores de la saga de La Guerra de las galaxias, sabrán que Luke Skywalker nació en Tatooine, un planeta con dos soles. Montse Villar nos ha contado que una vez más la realidad supera la ficción y se han encontrado planetas con dos y más soles en nuestra galaxia. Este 2025 se celebra el Año Internacional de la Ciencia y la Tecnología Cuánticas y María González-Dionis, compañera en la Agencia SINC (FECYT) nos hablado del estado actual de desarrollo de la computación cuántica. Con Bernardo Herradón hemos seguido conociendo de cerca a dos elementos químicos de la Tabla Periódica, el rubidio y el cesio: su poca abundancia en la naturaleza, sus escasas aplicaciones y sus isótopos, algunos con no demasiada buena fama como el cesio-137. Escuchar audio

¿Es necesario esperar hasta segundo o tercero de escuela para diagnosticar una dificultad de lectura en niños? ¿Es posible anticiparse e intentar compensar esta falta con modificaciones en la enseñanza en una edad temprana? Investigadores de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de la República y del Centro Interdisciplinario en Cognición para la Enseñanza, también de la Udelar, desarrollaron una aplicación llamada Lexiland en colaboración con el Basque Center on Cognition Brain and Language. ¿De qué se trata? Lexiland propone videojuegos para niños de entre cuatro y cinco años. Pero no son videojuegos como el Fortnite, el FIFA o Minecraft, en los que los usuarios se instalan durante horas frente a la televisión o la computadora, sino que son juegos que pueden completarse en un lapso de entre 15 y 20 minutos. Al terminar, permiten elaborar un informe predictivo sobre la capacidad de lectura del niño, con base en sus resultados. Muestran, por ejemplo, la evaluación de la conciencia fonológica, el conocimiento de letras y la memoria. ¿Cómo funciona Lexiland? ¿Cuánta ayuda supone esto para atajar a tiempo problemas en el desarrollo de un niño? En nuestro espacio de Disrupción, Tecnología e Innovación conversamos En Perspectiva con uno de los responsables de este juego: Juan Carlos Valle Lisboa, neurocientífico, profesor de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Udelar, director del Centro Interdisciplinario en Cognición para la Enseñanza y el Aprendizaje del la Udelar.

La física matemática es compleja, hablan de objetos matemáticos y se comunican en lo que, para el resto de mortales, parece clave. ¿Por qué no hacer una breve incursión en lo profundo de su mente, aclarar conceptos y poner sobre la mesa esa sopa de términos? ¿Qué es el operador de Dirac? ¿Qué relación hay entre físicos y matemáticos?Para ello tenemos con nosotros a Miguel Camarasa se graduó en Matemáticas por la Universitat de València y seguidamente en Ingeniería Aeroespacial, Aeronáutica y Astronáutica por la Universitat Politècnica de València. Tras un máster en la UPV, actualmente realiza su doctorado en Basque Center for Applied Mathematics en Análisis de Ecuaciones en Derivadas Parciales. Desde 2020 es conocido en redes como Mates Mike por su canal de YouTube, que ya suma más de 320 000 suscriptores.

The San Inazio festival kicks off tomorrow on the Basque Block. So, we're getting insider tips from festival chairman Joseba Criswell at the Basque Center. He shares the forgotten history of this Basque celebration with host Lindsay Van Allen, which started at a park in the 1930s. He also discloses the location of a secret, underground handball court. And, he teaches us some helpful phrases to help you order your first kalimotxo. Want some more Boise festival info? Head over to our Hey Boise newsletter where you'll get a cheatsheet to what's happening in the city every weekday morning. Learn more about the sponsor of this July 25th episode: Babbel - Get up to 60% off at Babbel.com/CITYCAST Interested in advertising with City Cast Boise? Find more info HERE. Reach us at boise@citycast.fm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hablamos con Manuel Carreiras, director científico del Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, sobre el proyecto que lidera para descubrir el origen de la dislexia

Como éste es mi podcast, en él puedo hablar de los temas que me apetezca. Y, como no tengo patrocinadores, puedo pronunciarme sobre esos temas con total libertad. Y, como no es la primera vez que toco un tema controvertido y, hasta el momento (cruzo los dedos), nadie se me ha echado encima por haber hecho propuestas polémicas (como, por ejemplo, sostener que la legalización de las sustancias dopantes podría tener ventajas, que recibir masajes no tiene beneficios objetivos, que la ratio 1:0'8 glucosa-fructosa tiene poco sentido, que tomar un par de cervezas post-entreno, ni es un buen recovery, ni tampoco es una bomba para tu balance energético o tu anabolismo, o que los coches grandes, pesados y poco aerodinámicos, con motor híbrido, son poco más que un green-washing), pues hoy me voy a tirar a la piscina de nuevo y voy a abordar otro tema sensible: el veganismo. Aún a riesgo de que me lluevan las críticas de uno y otro lados, del lado pro- y del lado anti-, me he propuesto intentar enfocar la cuestión con ecuanimidad. Es decir, vamos a ver los pros y contras de cada opción dietética, la que excluye y la que incluye los productos animales. Pros y contras que tienen que ver con la salud, con el rendimiento y con la preservación del medio ambiente (su atmósfera, su agua, sus suelos y su biodiversidad). Por el camino, desmontaremos un buen puñado de mitos, como que la grasa saturada es mala, que el consumo abundante de carne produce cáncer, que la proteína es proteína, el hierro es hierro, el omega 3 es omega 3 y el calcio es calcio, y no importa la fuente de donde vengan, o que la agricultura es siempre más respetuosa con el medio ambiente que la ganadería. Más todavía: me voy a atrever a discutir las famosas estadísticas que calculan los litros de agua necesarios, para producir un kilo de carne, o las toneladas de metano, que emiten las flatulencias de las vacas. (Si esto no es crear hype, es que yo no tengo ni idea de marketing… ) Por supuesto, nada de lo que voy a decir voy a decirlo a la ligera. Todo tendrá, como es mandatorio en este podcast, fundamento científico. Vamos a apoyarnos, entre otros trabajos, en la revisión de estudios de 2021 titulada “Update on vegetarian and vegan athletes, a review”, en la revisión de estudios de 2023 titulada “Nutritional considerations for the vegan athlete” o en las investigaciones de Pablo Manzano, experto ecólogo en el BC3 (el Basque Center for Climate Change), como “Towards a holistic understanding of pastoralism”, y en su entrevista en el podcast Radio Fitness Revolucionario de Marcos Vázquez. Ah, y antes de que me tildéis de anti-vegano radical o pro-vegano radical y desechéis todo el discurso que viene, porque, quizás, cuestiona vuestras creencias y porque pensáis que he elegido la evidencia de forma interesada, reconozco ya de antemano que no sigo una dieta vegana estricta, pero sí mayoritariamente vegetal (y sólo complementada con huevos ecológicos, quesos artesanos, marisco y, puntualmente, carne alimentada con pasto o pescado salvaje), y comparto con el movimiento vegano todo lo relativo al bienestar animal. Es decir, no estoy en ninguno de los dos bandos, de modo que, humildemente, creo que puedo afrontar el debate con mirada amplia y no ciega. Insisto, es lo que creo, tal vez me equivoque (por cierto, si eso ocurre, si me equivoco en algún punto, agradezco que me lo hagáis saber en los comentarios; aquí hemos venido a aprender, no a hacer propaganda de ningún tipo). En fin, hechas las menciones y aclaraciones de rigor y tras esta turra de introducción, sin más dilación, vamos al turrón. ----- Sígueme en https://www.instagram.com/correrporsenderos/ donde publico píldoras sobre trail running a diario en Stories . Lee el guion de los episodios en: https://correrporsenderospodcast.blogspot.com/

Welcome to another captivating episode of Dementia Researcher, the podcast that delves into the fascinating world of dementia research. In this special edition, we bring you highlights from the renowned BNA 2023 - Festival of Neuroscience, as we sit down with five brilliant researchers to hear their personal experiences and insights. Our guest host this week is Dr Kamar Ameen-Ali, she is joined by Dr Charlie Arber from UCL, Dr Dorothy Tse from Edge Hill University, Dr Nora Bengoa-Vergniory from Anchucarro, Basque Center for Neuroscience and Dr Dayne Beccano-Kelly from the UK Dementia Research Institute at Cardiff University. Join us as we embark on a riveting journey through the festival, where our guests share their best moments, favourite research presentations, and the exciting events that explored academic and research careers. Our guests, as experts in their respective fields, paint a vivid picture of the festival, offering glimpses into the cutting-edge research that caught their attention and ignited their curiosity. They share their thoughts on the emerging trends, innovative methodologies, and potential breakthroughs that could revolutionize our understanding and treatment of dementia. But it's not just about the science. Our guests also shine a light on the various events that focused on academic and research careers. From panels and workshops to networking sessions, they discuss the invaluable opportunities the festival provided to connect with fellow researchers, forge collaborations, and learn from the brightest minds in the field. Whether you're an aspiring researcher, a healthcare professional, or someone affected by dementia, this episode offers a treasure trove of knowledge and inspiration. So, join us as we dive into the enriching world of the BNA 2023 - Festival of Neuroscience through the eyes of these remarkable researchers. Get ready to be inspired, informed, and captivated by the incredible discoveries and the unwavering dedication that fuels the fight against dementia. -- For more information on the event visit: https://meetings.bna.org.uk/bna2023/ Full biographies on all our guests and a transcript can be found on our website: https://www.dementiaresearcher.nihr.ac.uk -- Like what you hear? Please review, like, and share our podcast - and don't forget to subscribe to ensure you never miss an episode – and if you prefer to watch rather than listen, you'll find a video version of this podcast on our YouTube Channel and in Spotify: https://youtu.be/Wi1htbbMsek -- This podcast is brought to you by University College London / UCLH NIHR Biomedical Research Centre in association with Alzheimer's Association, Alzheimer's Research UK, Alzheimer's Society and Race Against Dementia who we thank for their ongoing support.

Cancel Culture continues to hit spotify as artists pull their music from the platform because they don't like that Spotify has chosen to keep the Joe Rogan podcast. Speaking of the push to cancel, Nate discusses a school choice event that was supposed to be held at the Basque Center. The event was cancelled by the Basque Center, but the event featuring speaker Corie DeAngeles, has been rescheduled at a different venue. (2/3/22)

El BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics trabaja en un proyecto de investigación en colaboración con la empresa Runnea con el objetivo de desarrollar e implementar modelos matemáticos y herramientas de inteligencia artificial para la monitorización del rendimiento y la mejora de física de los usuarios de la plataforma Runnea Academy. El proyecto se denomina Runnea NEXT y se desarrolla en el marco de HAZITEK, un programa del Gobierno Vasco para promover proyectos de investigación. Conversamos con Dae-Jin Lee, líder de la línea de investigación de Estadística Aplicada del BCAM - The Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, y con Jorge García, CEO de Runnea.

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Se presenta en Cienciando el Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), por su director el Dr. José Antonio Lozano, en la serie "Conociendo nuestros Centros de Investigación", detallando el objetivo y la misión desde su creación, las líneas de investigación del centro así como algunos ejemplos de transferencia de conocimiento entre el BCAM y la sociedad.

Today it's great to have Dr Jovana Pejovic on the podcast. Dr Pejovic is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Lisbon BabyLab. She completed her PhD studies in 2019 at the Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian, Spain, with a thesis on the development of audiovisual speech processing in monolingual and bilingual infants. Listen to this episode to hear more about Dr Pejovic's research journey, her research on the audiovisual speech processing in infants, and on the challenges that female researchers face in Academia.Time stamps:[00:48] Dr Pejovic's introduction[01:10] Dr Pejovic's research journey[03:21] Obstacles in research journey[05:12] Work/life balance[07:52] Dr Pejovic's research on the role of bilingualism and visual cues in infant speech perception[10:00] Plans for future research[11:27] Issues that women in Academia are facing today according to Dr Pejovic[15:04] Dr Pejovic's advice for everyone thinking about a career in Academia or for those just starting a career in AcademiaLinks: Dr Pejovic's Lisbon BabyLab personal page: https://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/English/jovana_pejovic.htmLisbon BabyLab: http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/babylab/english/index.htmlThe Phonetics and Phonology Lab (LabFon): http://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/english.htmGet in touch:e-mail: podcast.irenalovcevic@gmail.comtwitter: @IrenaLovcevicinstagram: @irenalovcevicwebsite: https://munduslibrium.com/

Katherine Drabiak of the University of South Florida on vaccine laws. Stunt Driver Jeremy Fry on the wild world of Hollywood stunt driving. James Hartzell of the Basque Center on Cognition in Spain on memorizing Sanskrit enlarges memory parts of brain. Michael Adams of Indiana University on slang. Tiffany Munzer of the University of Michigan on making the most of story time. John Salmon and Spencer Rogers of BYU on a sleeping mat for all sizes and situations.

In the 1930s and 40s, hundreds of Basques were brought to the western United States to do the desolate work that no one else would do—herding sheep. Alone for months at a time with hundreds of sheep the Basque’s improvised songs, baked bread in underground ovens, carved poetry and drawings into the Aspen trees, and listened to The Basque Radio hour beaming to Idaho, Washington, Colorado, California, traditional music and messages between the herders out in the isolated countryside. “You say Basque to a Westerner and you think sheepherder,” said Mark Kurlansky, author of The Basque History of the World. “In Basque country very few people were shepherds. The seven provinces of Basque country are about the size of New Hampshire. No one has huge expanses of land there.” “Teenagers were ripped up out of their communities back home, brought to a foreign land, with a foreign language, put up on top of a mountain … crying themselves to sleep at night during the first year on the range,” says William Douglass, Former director of the Center for Basque Studies at the University of Nevada. Francisco Franco, the Spanish dictator who repressively ruled the country for nearly 40 years, made life miserable for the Basque people, suppressing their language, culture and possibilities. The result was a massive exodus, and the only way to come to the United States for many Basques was to contract as sheepherders. There was a shortage of shepherds in the American West, and legislation was crafted in 1950 that allowed Basque men to take up this lonely and difficult job. Francisco and Joaquin Lasarte came to America in 1964 from Basque country in northern Spain. Each Lasarte brother had his own flock, and they rarely saw each other or anyone else for months on end. Mostly they ate lamb and bread cooked in a Dutch oven in a hole they dug in the ground. Hotels like the Noriega in Bakersfield, CA were home in the winter months for these isolated men. They piled into these Basque boarding houses that sprung up in Elko and Winnemucca, Nevada, and Boise, Idaho. The men ate family style — big bottles of red wine, accordion music, conversation and card games. For 25 years, the voice of the Basque was Espe Alegria. Every Sunday night, sheepherders across the mountains of the American West would tune in to listen to her radio show on KBOI in Boise.  Dedications, birthday greetings, suggestions of where to find good pasture, the soccer scores that her husband got off the shortwave from Spain, and the hit tunes from Spain and the Basque region. She would help the sheepherders with immigration issues, with buying plane tickets home, with doctor’s appointments. She did her show for free, but once or twice a year the owners of the sheep camps would give her a lamb. The family would take it home, throw it on the kitchen table, cut it up and put in the freezer. The Sheepherder’s Ball was the highlight of the year in Boise. The men wore denim, the women wore simple house dresses. Lambs were auctioned off and proceeds given to a charity. Huge platters of chorizo and stew and pork sandwiches were served. The ball continues to this day every December at the Euzkaldunak Club’s Basque Center.  

Vamos hablar de la parte científica del bilingüismo, vamos hablar de la neurociencia cognitiva.Comenta este episodio en Twitter con el hashtag #Abilingüe48Para hablar de neurociencia cognitiva me acompaña en el Doctor Jon Andoni Duñabeitia, que trabaja y realiza sus estudios en el Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language.Con él hablo sobre:-¿Qué ventajas hay en el cerebro de las personas bilingües más allá de la lengua, cuales son las ventajas cognitivas?-¿Son diferentes los cerebros bilingües?-¿Es positiva la educación bilingüe a nivel científico?Os dejo las coordenadas:Blog https://jonandoni.com/Twitter @jdunabeitiaCómo siempre estoy disponible para cualquier duda y podéis escribirme desde el formulario de contacto. No olvides comentar este episodio vía Twitter con el hashtag #Abilingüe48 y os espero la semana que viene a las 13:05 en Aventura Bilingüe.

Tres investigadores del Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language de San Sebastián han descubierto que las personas bilingües utilizan diferentes redes neuronales para leer en los idiomas llamados transparentes, que se pronuncian como se escriben –caso del euskera, por ejemplo– o en los que no existe esta correspondencia, y por tanto son considerados idiomas opacos, como el inglés. Los resultados son muy valiosos para la enseñanza de la lectura en adultos y niños.

Tres investigadores del Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language de San Sebastián han descubierto que las personas bilingües utilizan diferentes redes neuronales para leer en los idiomas llamados transparentes, que se pronuncian como se escriben –caso del euskera, por ejemplo– o en los que no existe esta correspondencia, y por tanto son considerados idiomas opacos, como el inglés. Los resultados son muy valiosos para la enseñanza de la lectura en adultos y niños.

Prof. Enrique Zuazua is a Distinguished Professor of Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) and Founding Scientific Director at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), which he pushed into life in 2008. He is also Professor in leave of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and a Humboldt Awardee at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) as well. He was invited by the PDE-group of our Faculty in Karlsruhe to join our work on Wave Phenomena for some days in May 2015. In our conversation he admits that waves have been holding his interest since his work as a PhD student in Paris at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in the world famous group of Jacques-Louis Lions. Indeed, waves are everywhere. They are visible in everything which vibrates and are an integral part of life itself. In our work as mathematician very often the task is to influence waves and vibrating structures like houses or antennae such that they remain stable. This leads to control problems like feedback control for elastic materials. In these problems it is unavoidable to always have a look at the whole process. It starts with modelling the problem into equations, analysing these equations (existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions and well-posedness of the problem), finding the right numerical schemes and validating the results against the process which has been modelled. Very often there is a large gap between the control in the discrete process and the numerical approximation of the model equations and some of these differences are explainable in the framework of the theory for hyperbolic partial differential equations and not down to numerical or calculation errors. In the study of Prof. Zuazua the interaction between the numerical grid and the propagation of waves of different frequencies leads to very intuitive results which also provide clear guidelines what to do about the so-called spurious wave phenomena produced by high frequencies, an example of which is shown in this podcast episode image. This is an inherent property of that sort of equations which are able to model the many variants of waves which exist. They are rich but also difficult to handle. This difficulty is visible in the number of results on existence, uniqueness and regularity which is tiny compared to elliptic and parabolic equations but also in the difficulty to find the right numerical schemes for them. On the other hand they have the big advantage that they are best suited for finding effective methods in massively parallel computers. Also there is a strong connection to so-called Inverse Problems on the theoretical side and through applications where the measurement of waves is used to find oil and water in the ground, e.g (see, e.g. our Podcast Modell004 on Oil Exploration). Prof. Zuazua has a lot of experience in working together with engineers. His first joint project was shape optimization for airfoils. The geometric form and the waves around it interact in a lot of ways and on different levels. Also water management has a lot of interesting and open questions on which he is working with colleagues in Zaragoza. At the moment there is a strong collaboration with the group of Prof. Leugering in Erlangen which is invested in a Transregio research initiative on gasnets which is a fascinating topic ranging from our everyday expectations to have a reliable water and gas supply at home to the latest mathematical research on control. Of course, in working with engineers there is always a certain delay (in both directions) since the culture and the results and questions have to be translated and formulated in a relevant form between engineers and mathematicians. In dealing with theses questions there are two main risks: Firstly, one finds wrong results which are obviously wrong and secondly wrong results which look right but are wrong nonetheless. Here it is the crucial role of mathematicians to have the right framework to find these errors. Prof. Zuazua is a proud Basque. Of the 2.5 Mill. members of the basque people most are living in Spain with a minority status of their culture and language. But since the end of the Franco era this has been translated into special efforts to push culture and education in the region. In less than 40 years this transformed the society immensely and led to modern universities, relevant science and culture which grew out of "nothing". Now Spain and the Basque country have strong bonds to the part of Europe on the other side of the Pyrenees and especially with industry and research in Germany. The Basque university has several campuses and teaches 40.000 students. This success could be a good example how to extend our education system and provide possibilities for young people which is so much a part of our culture in Europe across the boundaries of our continent.

Prof. Enrique Zuazua is a Distinguished Professor of Ikerbasque (Basque Foundation for Science) and Founding Scientific Director at the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), which he pushed into life in 2008. He is also Professor in leave of Applied Mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (UAM) and a Humboldt Awardee at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) as well. He was invited by the PDE-group of our Faculty in Karlsruhe to join our work on Wave Phenomena for some days in May 2015. In our conversation he admits that waves have been holding his interest since his work as a PhD student in Paris at the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in the world famous group of Jacques-Louis Lions. Indeed, waves are everywhere. They are visible in everything which vibrates and are an integral part of life itself. In our work as mathematician very often the task is to influence waves and vibrating structures like houses or antennae such that they remain stable. This leads to control problems like feedback control for elastic materials. In these problems it is unavoidable to always have a look at the whole process. It starts with modelling the problem into equations, analysing these equations (existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions and well-posedness of the problem), finding the right numerical schemes and validating the results against the process which has been modelled. Very often there is a large gap between the control in the discrete process and the numerical approximation of the model equations and some of these differences are explainable in the framework of the theory for hyperbolic partial differential equations and not down to numerical or calculation errors. In the study of Prof. Zuazua the interaction between the numerical grid and the propagation of waves of different frequencies leads to very intuitive results which also provide clear guidelines what to do about the so-called spurious wave phenomena produced by high frequencies, an example of which is shown in this podcast episode image. This is an inherent property of that sort of equations which are able to model the many variants of waves which exist. They are rich but also difficult to handle. This difficulty is visible in the number of results on existence, uniqueness and regularity which is tiny compared to elliptic and parabolic equations but also in the difficulty to find the right numerical schemes for them. On the other hand they have the big advantage that they are best suited for finding effective methods in massively parallel computers. Also there is a strong connection to so-called Inverse Problems on the theoretical side and through applications where the measurement of waves is used to find oil and water in the ground, e.g (see, e.g. our Podcast Modell004 on Oil Exploration). Prof. Zuazua has a lot of experience in working together with engineers. His first joint project was shape optimization for airfoils. The geometric form and the waves around it interact in a lot of ways and on different levels. Also water management has a lot of interesting and open questions on which he is working with colleagues in Zaragoza. At the moment there is a strong collaboration with the group of Prof. Leugering in Erlangen which is invested in a Transregio research initiative on gasnets which is a fascinating topic ranging from our everyday expectations to have a reliable water and gas supply at home to the latest mathematical research on control. Of course, in working with engineers there is always a certain delay (in both directions) since the culture and the results and questions have to be translated and formulated in a relevant form between engineers and mathematicians. In dealing with theses questions there are two main risks: Firstly, one finds wrong results which are obviously wrong and secondly wrong results which look right but are wrong nonetheless. Here it is the crucial role of mathematicians to have the right framework to find these errors. Prof. Zuazua is a proud Basque. Of the 2.5 Mill. members of the basque people most are living in Spain with a minority status of their culture and language. But since the end of the Franco era this has been translated into special efforts to push culture and education in the region. In less than 40 years this transformed the society immensely and led to modern universities, relevant science and culture which grew out of "nothing". Now Spain and the Basque country have strong bonds to the part of Europe on the other side of the Pyrenees and especially with industry and research in Germany. The Basque university has several campuses and teaches 40.000 students. This success could be a good example how to extend our education system and provide possibilities for young people which is so much a part of our culture in Europe across the boundaries of our continent.