Conveners
Input and Discussion: Best-practise examples
- Melissa Quinnan (Moderator) (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
- Valerie Lang (Chair) (Albert Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg (DE))
Input and Discussion: Sustainability initiatives
- Peter Millington (Chair) (University of Manchester)
- Melissa Quinnan (Moderator) (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
Input and Discussion: Summary of SDG Discussions
- Melissa Quinnan (Moderator) (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
- Peter Millington (Chair) (University of Manchester)
Input and Discussion: SDGs in HEP and APP
- Shankha Banerjee (Chair) (CERN)
- Melissa Quinnan (Moderator) (Univ. of California San Diego (US))
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Rodney Walker (Ludwig Maximilians Universitat (DE))05/09/2022, 16:00Best-practise example
In view of the particular gas shortage in Germany, we propose a method to scale back HEP computing usage at times where the electricity production mix has an increased gas component. The predicted gas component is dependent on weather and demand forecasts. It is freely available and has very pronounced peaks due to the merit-order model. A compute site could use this to minimize consumption at...
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Ryan Peter Mckenzie (University of the Witwatersrand (ZA))05/09/2022, 16:12Best-practise example
In 2019 99% of people were found to breathe air that exceeds WHO air quality limits, and 7 million people die from air pollution annually. This motivated the formation of the South African Consortium of Air Quality Monitoring. The international consortium was founded with the goal of bringing together government institutions, HEP research institutions, and private enterprises into a mutually...
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Wouter Deconinck05/09/2022, 16:24Best-practise example
Modern HEP experiments are heavily reliant on software, but the traditional model of software training has relied on air travel to in-person training events (often associated with workshops or conferences). The HEP Software Foundation has developed a software training program to respond to the above challenge and the long-term sustainability of the HEP research software ecosystem. The open...
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Christian Preuss (ETH Zürich), Peter Skands (Monash University (AU))05/09/2022, 16:36Best-practise example
During 2020, I was working on a grant proposal in precision particle physics, on so-called matching and merging strategies, for the widely used Pythia event generator. For complex processes, these types of calculations can be quite resource-intensive. That same summer, my home country of Australia had experienced catastrophic bush fires. It made me reconsider what I was doing, proposing...
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Rudolf Lohner05/09/2022, 16:48
Modern Data Centers are runnung the latest and often very efficient hardware in terms of power consumption. However, when it comes to cooling or even waste heat recovery most data centers do a bad job by sticking to very old fashioned concepts of using low temperature air cooling, waisting additional power for chillers and a lot of water for evaporative cooling which alltogether is very...
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Dr Alexia Marie Yiannouli (Imperial College (GB))07/09/2022, 16:40Initiatives
The CERN Webfest - CERN's annual hackathon based on open web technologies - celebrated its tenth anniversary this year. Different to previous Webfest hackathons, this year's event ran through the summer, with the participants working in small teams on challenges relating to climate action and sustainability, with the aim of creating solutions.
This talk will outline the some of the...
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Stefan Fredenhagen07/09/2022, 16:55Initiatives
In the last IPCC report one reads that "..., reduction of excess meat (and dairy) consumption is amongst the most effective measures to mitigate green house gas emissions, ...". Besides changing individual behaviour regarding food, we as community can also contribute here by changing common practice when it comes to catering at events or food offer at regular canteens.
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Nicolas Bellegarde (CERN)07/09/2022, 17:10
With the growing environmental awareness of the recent decades, CERN strives to be an example for environmentally-friendly research. Energy is one of the factors in reducing the Organization's ecological footprint. In continuation with efforts to improve energy efficiency since 2015 through the Energy Management Panel (EMP), the Organization has initiated the process of obtaining the ISO 50001...
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Sabrina Oppermann07/09/2022, 17:25
Mobility at universities does not only concern business trips but also the way to work as well as the own vehicle fleet. A survey was conducted at the University of Freiburg to determine the mobility behavior of employees. The evaluation shows a clear desire to strengthen the bicycle infrastructure. This is one of the many points of the mobility concept.
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Dr Ayan Paul (Northeastern University)07/09/2022, 17:40