Aixecament 3D del mur nord-oest i porta romana, del claustre de la Catedral de Tarragona

Aquest projecte neix de la necessitat de documentar gràficament el mur medieval nordoest del claustre de la catedral de Tarragona i la porta romana. Cal ampliar l’estudi i donar continuïtat als resultats dels treballs arqueològics desenvolupats anteriorment. Aquest projecte esdevé pel conveni de col·laboració específic entre la UPC i l’Institut Català d’Arqueologia Clàssica (ICAC) de Tarragona. La porta romana es troba al mig del mur d’època medieval i dona accés a un altre mur d’època romana. Aquest últim, el mur romà, es troba solapat amb el mur medieval. Aquest conjunt dels dos murs d’èpoques diferents fa que sigui particular. Molt poques vegades s’ha trobat un conjunt arqueològic d’aquestes característiques. La part interna, és a dir el mur romà, forma part del mur que envoltava el recinte del temple de culte i hauria servit per donar pas posteriorment a la construcció del claustre. L’estudi i la documentació d’aquest mur romà es desenvolupa en un altre projecte paral·lel a aquest que porta el títol “Levantamiento 3D del muro romano, ubicado al noroeste del claustro de la catedral de Tarragona”. Aquest projecte tracta d’obtenir el model vectorial 3D, utilitzant la tècnica del làser escàner i de la topografia per referenciar tot el treball en el sistema de referència ETRS89 i en coordenades projectades UTM 31N. Les cotes seran ortomètriques i el geoide utilitzat serà el EGM08D595. Del resultat d’aquest model vectorial 3D esdevindran plànols en planta, plànols de detall, seccions, mapes temàtics i és possible que doni peu a altres estudis o projectes. S’adjunta a la memòria Annexes i un cd on s’inclouen càlculs, plànols i fotografies que han estat necessaris per a la realització d’aquest projecte final de gra

Fostering English-taught higher education programs in a Spanish university: the "TechEnglish" innovative project

In recent years, coinciding with adjustments to the Bologna process, many European universities have attempted to improve their international profile by increasing course offerings in English. According to the Institute of International Education (IIE), Spain has notably increased its English-taught higher education programs, ranking fifth in the list of European countries by number of English-taught Master's programs in 2013. This article presents the goals and preliminary results of an on-going innovative education project (TechEnglish) that aims to promote course offerings in English at the Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, UPM). The UPM is the oldest and largest of all Technical Universities in Spain. It offers graduate and postgraduate programs that cover all the engineering disciplines as well as architecture. Currently, the UPM has no specific bilingual/multilingual program to promote teaching in English, although there is an Educational Model Whitepaper (with a focus on undergraduate degrees) that promotes the development of activities like an International Semester or a unique shared curriculum. The TechEnglish project is an attempt to foster courses taught in English at 7 UPM Technical Schools, including students and 80 faculty members. Four tasks were identified: (1) to design a university wide framework to increase course offerings, (2) to identify administrative difficulties, (3) to increase visibility of courses offered, and (4) to disseminate the results of the project. First, to design a program we analyzed existing programs at other Spanish universities, and other projects and efforts already under way at the UPM. A total of 13 plans were analyzed and classified according to their relation with students (learning), professors (teaching), administration, course offerings, other actors/institutions within the university (e.g., language departments), funds and projects, dissemination activities, mobility plans and quality control. Second, to begin to identify administrative and organizational difficulties in the implementation of teaching in English, we first estimated the current and potential course offerings at the undergraduate level at the UPM using a survey (student, teacher and administrative demand, level of English and willingness to work in English). Third, to make the course offerings more attractive for both Spanish and international students we examined the way the most prestigious universities in Spain and in Europe try to improve the visibility of their academic offerings in English. Finally, to disseminate the results of the project we created a web page and a workspace on the Moodle education platform and prepared conferences and workshops within the UPM. Preliminary results show that increasing course offerings in English is an important step to promote the internationalization of the University. The main difficulties identified at the UPM were related to how to acknowledge/certify the departments, teachers or students involved in English courses, how students should register for the courses, how departments should split and schedule the courses (Spanish and English), and the lack of qualified personnel. A concerted effort could be made to increase the visibility of English-taught programs offered on-line

Search for dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks in √s = 13 TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector

A search for weakly interacting massive particle dark matter produced in association with bottom or top quarks is presented. Final states containing third-generation quarks and miss- ing transverse momentum are considered. The analysis uses 36.1 fb−1 of proton–proton collision data recorded by the ATLAS experiment at √s = 13 TeV in 2015 and 2016. No significant excess of events above the estimated backgrounds is observed. The results are in- terpreted in the framework of simplified models of spin-0 dark-matter mediators. For colour- neutral spin-0 mediators produced in association with top quarks and decaying into a pair of dark-matter particles, mediator masses below 50 GeV are excluded assuming a dark-matter candidate mass of 1 GeV and unitary couplings. For scalar and pseudoscalar mediators produced in association with bottom quarks, the search sets limits on the production cross- section of 300 times the predicted rate for mediators with masses between 10 and 50 GeV and assuming a dark-matter mass of 1 GeV and unitary coupling. Constraints on colour- charged scalar simplified models are also presented. Assuming a dark-matter particle mass of 35 GeV, mediator particles with mass below 1.1 TeV are excluded for couplings yielding a dark-matter relic density consistent with measurements