Dietrich Liko
(Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna)
26/08/2009, 09:00
Biomedical Sciences
Irradiation with photons and electrons is a commonly used technique for curative or palliative treatment of malignant tumours for since many years. Clinical treatment with proton and ion beams as a promising radiotherapeutic modality has been explored during the last 60 years: protons were first clinically used in humans in the 1950s, therapies using light ions have their origin in 1975. In...
Nicolas Ray
(UNEP and University of Geneva)
26/08/2009, 09:45
Biomedical Sciences
Knowing the past demography of human populations over the last 100'000 years is a fascinating, but difficult endeavor. Inferring this past demography has been classically approached through data from the archaeological record, but more recently by the use of genetic data from contemporary samples. Building realistic demographic models at the continental scale is also a necessary step toward...
Antonio Calanducci
(INFN Catania)
26/08/2009, 10:30
Often the "grid" term brings to people's mind the concept of powerful and distributed computing resources to run long-lasting simulations or storm of tasks. But the existence of "data" grids are not of second importance for real and virtual communities coming from the scientific and industry
worlds.
Those communities, indeed, could have a lot of data to be shared in a secure way and have...
