The EPS FORUM 2024

25 Mar 2024, 00:45 → 27 Mar 2024, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Henry Ford Building

Monday 25 March

08:30 → 09:00 Foreword by EPS President - Welcome by the Dean of FUB Faculty of Physics, the President of the German Physical Society and Berlin Physical Society Representative

OpeningSession_FOREWORD_LB_Day1.pdf

OpeningSession_FOREWORD_LB_Day1.pptx

08:55 → 09:15 Young Minds Leadership Meeting: Welcome by YM Chair

Convener: EPS YM Chair

09:00 → 09:30 Why an EPS Forum? How does it work?

Convener: Luc Bergé

09:15 → 10:00 Young Minds Leadership Meeting - Chair presentation

09:30 → 10:00 Tutorial Talk: Neutron and X-ray synchrotron large-scale facilities as major tools for science and industry: Chair: Inti Lehmann

Convener: Gregory Chaboussant

Talk GC EPS Forum Berlin 2024 vF.pdf

10:00 → 11:00 Masterclass on Scientific Writing: Part I: “Understanding scientific journal publishing”

The Masterclass on Scientific Writing at the EPS Forum is organized by publishing experts at EDP Sciences and Springer Nature in collaboration with the EPS Young Minds. The Masterclass will be facilitated by Isabelle Auffret-Babak (Executive Publisher at EDP Sciences), Christian Caron (Executive Publisher at Springer Nature), Sabine Lehr (Associate Publisher at Springer Nature), and Anne Ruimy (Publishing Director Journals at EDP Sciences). The Masterclass is sponsored by the journals EPL and EPJs.

10:00 → 10:30 Tutorial Talk : Earth Observation for global change assessment and evidence based decision making: Chair: Alessandra Fantoni

Conveners: Doris Klein (Earth Observation Center (EOC), DLR, München, Germany), Max-Kade Auditorium, Henry Ford Building

10:30 → 11:00 Tutorial Talk : VECSEL for quantum technologies: Chair: Alessandra Fantoni

Convener: Jussi-Pekka Penttinen (Vexlum, Tampere, Finland)

11:00 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:30 Masterclass on Scientific Writing: Part II: “Workshop: How to write effective titles and abstracts”

11:30 → 12:00 Tutorial Talk : Nuclear and Particle Physics In Everyday Life: Chair: Inti Lehmann

Conveners: Marek Lewitowicz, Max-Kade Auditorium, Henry Ford Building

12:00 → 12:30 Opening speech by European Commissioner Ms Iliana Ivanova: Chair: Luc Bergé

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 Impostor Syndrome: truth or fake?

The talk will be given by Antigone Marino. Dr. Antigone Marino is researcher at the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR).
She is in the board of directors of the OPTICA Foundation, President of the IEEE Photonics Society Italy Chapter, member of the editorial board of Optics & Photonics News (OPN).

14:00 → 15:30 Round Table : Emerging applications and challenges in Photonic Integrated Circuits: Moderator : Sofia Pazzagli

Conveners: 1. Lars Hohmuth, 2. Ronald Holzwarth, 3. Matthias Lauermann, 4. Robert Rölver, 5. Anton Stroganov

14:00 → 15:30 Round Table : Start-up companies in condensed matter physics: applications and challenge: Moderator: Maria José Calderon

Conveners: 1. Sergey Borisenko, 2. José Llorens, 3. Dafiné Ravelosona, 4. Tobias Scharff, 5. Tomek Schulz

14:00 → 15:30 Round Table: Quantum communications for free space: Moderator: Enrique Sanchez Bautista

Conveners: 1. Carlos Abellán, 2. Gilles Lequeux, 3. Matteo Schiavon, 4. Johanna Sepulveda, 5. Eric Wille

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 → 17:30 "From PhD to CEO" Panel discussion

"From PhD to CEO" panel discussion is aimed to introduce audience about transitioning from academia to industry and about about the challenges and opportunities of founding and working in a startup company.
The panelists are Imran Khan, Co-founder and Managing director of Keequant, Jan F. Kischkat and Nikolaus Hahne, Co-founders of Quantune.
The panel discussion is organised in collaboration of EPS Young Minds with OPTICA.

16:00 → 17:30 Round Table : Energy management, air pollution and climate: Moderator: Christophe Rossel

Conveners: 1.Sonja Berlijn, 2. Héloise Goutte, 3. Jurgen Kurths, 4. Mario Michan

Slides Round table Energy management etc. Rossel 25.03. 2024.pdf

Slides Round table Energy management etc. Rossel 25.03. 2024.pdf

Slides Round table Energy management etc. Rossel 25.03. 2024.pptx

16:00 → 17:30 Round Table : High Performance Computing and Quantum Computers for a sustainable future: Moderator: Barbora Gulejova

Conveners: 1. Tommaso Boccali, 2. Daniele Bonacorsi, 3. Morten Hjorth-Jensen, 4. Francesca Poli, 5. Sofia Vallecorsa

16:00 → 17:30 Round Table: Quantum sensing: Moderator: Mathieu Guisselbrecht

Conveners: 1. Frederic Domps, 2. Robert Roelver, 3. Stefan Kröll, 4. Vincent Menoret, 5. Martin Plenio

17:30 → 18:30 Networking Session: Chair: Anne Pawsey

Conveners: 1. Marta Fajardo, 2. Ronald Holtzwarth, 3. Nathalie Lenke, 4. Emily Meads, 5. Francesca Poli, 6. Ursula Wurstbauer, 7. Marek Lewitowicz

18:30 → 20:30 Welcome Reception

Tuesday 26 March

08:15 → 08:30 Opening: Nobel session: Chaired by Luc Bergé

EUCommissioner&NobelSession_Day2 (1).pdf

EUCommissioner&NobelSession_Day2 (1).pptx

08:30 → 09:15 Attosecond light pulses for studying ultrafast electron dynamics: Chair: Luc Bergé

Convener: Anne L'Huillier, 2023 Nobel Physics Laureate

09:15 → 10:00 The quantum revolution in metrology: Chair: Luc Bergé

Convener: Klaus von Klitzing, 1985 Nobel Physics Laureate

10:00 → 10:45 Molecule-scale resolution and dynamics in fluorescence microscopy: Chair: Luc Bergé

Convener: Stefan Hell, 2014 Chemistry Nobel Laureate

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee Break

11:15 → 12:15 "Writing a successful scholarship application"

The talk will be given by Tatevik Chalyan, a Post-doc Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

11:15 → 11:45 How to get an ERC grant?: Chair : Enrique Sanchez Bautista

Convener: Nicola Spaldin

11:45 → 12:30 Round Table: The European Research Infrastructures and research funding system: Chair : Enrique Sanchez Bautista

Conveners: 1. Michael Arentoft, 2. Nicola Spaldin, 3. José Luis Martinez, 4. Volkmar Dietz

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch Break

14:00 → 15:00 "Why We Bother - The Urgency of Education & Outreach"

The talk will be given by Steven Goldfarb, former chair of IPPOG.

14:00 → 16:00 Parallel Session - Applications of nuclear and particle physics: Chair: Teresa Pena

Conveners: 1. Eduardo Alves, 2. Lena Bassel, 3. Alfredo Portone, 4. Ulli Koester

14:00 → 14:30 Tutorial Talk: Quantum tools for macromolecule analysis: Chair: Ian Bearden

Conveners: Markus Arndt, Max-Kade Auditorium, Henry Ford Building

2024 EPS Berlin ARNDT.pdf

2024 EPS Berlin ARNDT.pptx

14:01 → 15:30 Round Table : Inspiring new generation of physicists and future ambassadors of science: Moderator - Barbora Gulejova

Conveners: 1. Paolo Acunzo, 2. Menattallah Elserafy, 3. Eilish McLoughlin, 4. Sascha Schmeling, 5. Nora Teuwsen

A recording of the session can be found  on YouTube 

14:30 → 15:00 Tutorial Talk: Many-body effects and collective behavior in van der Waals bilayers: Chair: Ian Bearden

Convener: Ursula Wurstbauer

2024_EPS_Wurstbauer_final.pdf

2024_EPS_Wurstbauer_final.pptx

15:00 → 16:00 Networking session organised by EPS Young Minds

15:00 → 15:30 Tutorial Talk: Chip-scale laser frequency combs: Chair: Ian Bearden

Convener: Victor Torres-Company

EPSForum_TutorialTalk_26March_vtc_SessionPhotonics.pdf

15:30 → 16:00 Tutorial Talk: In-memory computing, artificial neural networks with phase change synapses: Chair: Ian Bearden

Convener: Abu Sebastian

Y2024_03_26_EPSForum_vFinal.pdf

Y2024_03_26_EPSForum_vFinal.pptx

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee Break

16:30 → 18:30 Parallel Session - Condensed Matter Physics in a changing world: Chair: José Maria de Teresa & Laurence Noirez

Conveners: 1. Florence Gazeau, 2. Marta Giber, 3. José Ignacio Pascual, 4. Kostya Trachenko

16:30 → 18:30 Parallel Session - Lasers as an enabling technology: Chair - Richard Zeltner

Conveners: 1 Marta Fajardo, 2, Dennis Kirsch, 3. Nathalie Lenke, 4. Andreas Wicht

16:30 → 18:30 Parallel Session - Perspectives of AI and machine learning in a changing world: Chair - Christian Beck

Conveners: 1. Emanuela Girardi, 2. Mirco Hünnefeld, 3. Gian Piero Siroli, 4. Benjamin Schaefer

16:30 → 18:30 Parallel Session: Quantum Physics at ultra-cold or ultra-fast regime: Chair - Rosario Gonzalez-Ferez

Conveners: 1. Francesca Ferlaino, 2. Alejandro González-Tudela, 3. Thomas Pfeiffer, 4. Françoise Remacle

16:30 → 18:00 Young Minds Poster session

18:30 → 19:00 "Young Minds Best Activity Award by EPL" ceremony

19:00 → 19:15 FORUM CLOSES

Wednesday 27 March

09:30 → 13:30 EPS Council