I'll mention some lessons learned from organizing two online events:
1) The Latin American Workshop on Observational Cosmology (www.ictp-saifr.org/lawoc2020)
2) The IV Joint ICTP-Trieste/ICTP-SAIFR School on Cosmology: Challenges for the Standard Cosmological Model
(www.ictp-saifr.org/cosmo2021)
The RECONNECT conference (Remote Conference on New Concepts in Particle Theory) was an international conference, organised by the IPPP in Durham during the first months of the corona pandemic. With this first edition we aimed to provide a forum in which the whole theoretical community can share the latest ideas that drive our field. I will briefly review the challenges and opportunities of the...
Neutrino 2020 was planned to be held in downtown Chicago, but in March 2020 we had to re-plan it in 3 months as an entirely online conference due to COVID-19. I will summarize how we did this, what worked and what did not, and some of the things we learned about the future of conferences in the process.
Writing papers and giving talks at conferences (or seminars at institutes) were pretty good 20th Century ways to share our research with each other. Now that we're in the 21st Century we can try to take advantage of 21st Century tools. On my own and with others I've been trying to think about what this means in practice. Early experiments are the Cosmology from Home conference (a conference...
H02020 took place in June last year and was the European Southern Observatory's e-conference. Originally planned as a classical conference to be held in Munich, we decided to convert the meeting to the virtual domain less than 3 months before the starting date. With little time to prepare and no real blueprint to go by, our goals were to conduct a scientifically engaging meeting and to draw...
More than 1000 researchers gathered online for the inaugural Photonics Online Meetup (POM, http://photonicsonlinemeetup.org/) on January 13th 2020. They simultaneously attend the five hours conference either alone from their personal computer or at their university from hubs distributed across five continents and many time zones.
The organization started in September 2019 with seven members...
An increasingly important aspect of working and living conditions in current times is environmental sustainability, both concerning us as scientists as well as the planet as the basis on which we perform our research.
Being at the forefront of knowledge and innovation, in the young High Energy Physicist Association (yHEP), we take our responsibility as drivers of change and innovation...
Particle accelerators in general and Energy Recovery Linacs (ERLs) in particular, consume a large amount of electricity and emit a large amount of carbon dioxide. Considering ERL's R&D, to continue to gain the support of society, efforts such as energy saving of accelerators and utilization of natural energy are indispensable. In addition, further efforts should be done to build a clean...
The environmental impact of the LHCb experiment and its upgrade has been estimated in terms of CO_2 equivalents. We take into account the effects of travel (conference and collaboration weeks), electricity usage (magnet and online computing), flour-carbon gas leaks, and the lifecycle impact of new muon shield to be installed for the upgrade. This talk will present an overview of the...
