UBICS Outreach

• Introductory course in Version Control with Git On 23th September 2021 UBICS organized an Introductory course in Version Control with Git. Git has become the primary version control system for programming code. This beginners course was given by Dra. Franziska Peter. The course essentially motivated the usage of distributed version control and explained the basic principles in an informal way.

Our dissemination activities are focused on awakening the interest of complex systems among students, teachers, researchers and the general public. Many of our scientists are involved in disseminating every year their research work in popular science journals, events addressed to high school students, popular science events, …. Apart from the high number of activities performed by the researchers individually, the UBICS has worked another year in its own outreach program, which includes:

• Website and Complexifica Project UBICS offers resources to understand science through the Complex Systems perspective, with a general channel for dissemination at the website ubics.ub.edu/divulgacio.php. In this channel, in addition to innovative websites explaining complex system science, there is dissemination material created by UBICS members, such as presentations, booklets, dissemination pills created by UBICS grantees explaining their research. Also, one can find in other channels of the UBICS website the dissemination of the Institute articles published in high impact journals. One of the most innovative resources for high-quality dissemination and outreach, particularly addressed to high school and college students is the site http://ubics.ub.edu/complexifica/, where important statistical physics ideas are described in detail. The Ising and epidemic models, among others, are explained through videos, interactive applets and quizzes.

• Outreach events As one see in the above UBICS Activities section, every year the Institute participates in different outreach events. One of the most successful is the Science Party organized by the University of Barcelona, which presents the research carried out at UB in an educative way. We also contribute to the activities of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, on February 11th every year, and in the European Researchers Night.

• Social Media On 2021 UBICS created more content exclusively for social media to show the research carried out by the Institute to students and general public. The most interesting outreach content generated by UBICS members is disseminated visually on Instagram. UBICS has a profile also in Twitter, mainly used to announce the research achievements and activities. In addition, audiovisual projects mainly developed by predoctoral trainees are always uploaded at the Vimeo and Youtube UBICS accounts.