The series begins on 28 September 2026 with a lecture by Vicente Daniel Rodríguez Armas, Professor of Physics at the University of La Laguna, on the 1824 volcanic eruptions on Lanzarote. This will be followed by the opening of his exhibition "From the Big Bang to Tinguatón, Lanzarote's last volcano". On 19 October, there will be a double lecture to mark the 250th anniversary of the first precise survey of Mount Teide by Jean-Charles de Borda: at 17:30, Marie-Christine Meléndez López from the Musée de Borda in Dax will paint a picture of the scientist, and at 18:30, Ignacio Rodríguez Alemparte will explain the survey itself.
The autumn programme continues with Samuel Yanes Luis discussing errors and biases in algorithms (9 November) and Jorge Sánchez Almeida from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias speaking about Juan Valderrama y Aguilar, the Canary Islands' first astronomer (30 November).
In 2027, the programme will include, amongst other topics, neuroscience and philosophy (Asier Arias Domínguez, 18 January), mathematics and mythology (Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón, 25 January), the social value of engineering (María Vallet-Regí, 15 February), quantum physics (Rafael Sala Mayato, 1 March) and the history of the concept of energy (Justo Roberto Pérez Cruz, 29 March). On 12 April, Pedro Antonio Hernández Pérez from the INVOLCAN Volcanological Institute will explain how science interprets the signals from Tenerife's volcanoes, whilst Ana María Rojas Mendoza from the CSIC will speak on 26 April about artificial intelligence in biology. The series concludes with a history of light, from Newton to photonics.
The event is organised by the Fundación Canaria Orotava de Historia de la Ciencia. The lectures begin at 18:00, except on 19 October, when the lecture starts at 17:30.