This is a collection of some material that I have prepared for different outreach activities and some appearances in media.
Most of the contents are in Spanish.
Dissemination talks
Activity organized by the Faculty of Mathematics and Informatics of the University of Barcelona for high-school students (16-18 years old). It consists of a talk followed by a workshop in the faculty's computer rooms.
Now you see me: (mathematical) tricks to reveal what is inside our body (2023)
What is the mathematical idea behind medical imaging techniques like the CT scan? An approach to tomography with games and exercises with the computer.
Iniciative to promote the organization of activities to commemorate February 11, International Day of Women and Girls in Science . Its website helps to arrange talks with educational centers.
Mathematics in images (2022, 2023)
What mathematics can be found in photographs or CT scans? An introdution to some mathematics in imaging. Illustrated with images of women mathematicians. (In Spanish, the words "mathematics" and the female of "mathematicians" agree.)
Program of the Community of Madrid in which ICMAT takes part for high-school students (15-16 years old).
Train your X-ray vision (2024)
The super power of the X-ray vistion: from comic to reality.
Human calculators (2018)
What big calculations had to be done in the past? How were they addressed? Which tools were developed to simplify them? From prosthaphaeresis and logarithms to the Harvard and the West Area Computers.
Clocks, control digits and multiples (2016)
How to calculate the letter of your ID? A brief description of modular arithmetic, congruences and mathematical induction.
Event organized by NAUKAS, BCAM and the Chair of Scientific Culture of the Univeristy of the Basque Country which consists of scientific talks of 15 minutes for general public and which takes place around March 14, pi day.
Mathematical images
Naukas - BCAM: Pi day (2022)
A short and entertaining introduction to inverse problems in images. For general audiences.
Outreach articles
On the section Coffee and Theorems of the Spanish newspaper El País
Mathematics for the artificial pancreas (2020)
On mathematical modelling for the automated treatment of diabetes.
The physicist who never lost her humanity (2020, with J. García Ferrero)
On the life and work of Lise Meitner, co-discoverer of the nuclear fission.
Katherine Johnson, the human computer who helped Apollo 11 to reach the Moon (2018, with L. Moreno)
A review of her work, which helped to rise the spatial race in USA, on occasion of her 100th birthday.
The modernization of Spanish Mathematics by the Navy three centuries ago (2017)
On the 300th anniversary of the Royal Company of Midshipmen, where the formal training in Mathematics was introduced in the Spanish Navy, and where Jorge Juan incorporated the main scientific advances of the rest of Europe in the 18th century.
Videos and media appearances
Videos and round tables about women and science
#Cuéntame 11F: 3-minute video to bring my research closer to the public, promoted by the initiative 11 February to raise awareness of the work of women in STEM (2022).
12 questions on May 12th: short video answering questions to female researchers in mathematics, organized by the Women committee of RSME and WOMAT (2020).
February 11th at ICMAT: short interview about my motivation to pursue mathematics and research on ocassion of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (2018).
Round table "Female presence in STEM careers" organized by Afi Escuela de Finanzas on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (2022).
Round table "Female scientists who changed and will change the world" organized by the Residencia de Estudiantes on the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (2021).
Some media coverage
Regarding José Luis Rubio de Francia Prize:
BBVA Foundation (interview and speech, introduction of the Mathematics Prizes, summary of the ceremony, all with videos).
El País (interview with awarded female mathematicians).
Notices of the American Mathematical Society (in English).
La Gaceta de la RSME, Agencia Sinc, InnovaSpain, Boletín de la RSME (interviews).
Diario de León, ICMAT, Leonoticias, EuropaPress, elEconomista.
Regarding Vicent Caselles Prize:
BBVA Foundation (video introducing the prizes)
Diario de León, Diario de Valladolid (El Mundo) (profiles).
Raíz de 5 (Radio 5) (radio interview).
La Gaceta de la RSME, Diario de León (outlines of the ceremony).