13 October 2022 to 1 December 2022
Europe/London timezone

Societal impact of CERN Accelerator Technologies: From Cancer Therapy to Artwork Analysis

27 Oct 2022, 15:45
1h

Speaker

Dr Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

Description

This seminar will take place in the Fisher Room, Denys Wilkinson Building, University of Oxford, and will also be available via Zoom.

After introducing the different CERN programmes aiming at maximising the impact of CERN technologies on society, the seminar will present some recent examples of applications of CERN accelerator technologies, mainly related to the medical field, but extending towards environmental issues and the analysis of artworks. In the field of medicine, some new collaborative initiatives for cancer therapy with particle beams will be described, giving, in particular, an overview of two new proposed facilities making use of CERN technologies, the South East European International Institute for Sustainable Technologies and the Baltic Advanced Particle Therapy Centre.

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