WIT Diversity Talk with John Ellis

Friday Sep 29, 2017, 12:00 PM → 1:00 PM Europe/Zurich

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

WIT Steering Committee

The WIT Diversity talks interviews senior male colleagues around their experiences and thoughts on gender diversity and gender balance, and why this has been important to them both professionally and personally.

The purpose is to raise awareness and provide role models on how one as a (male) ally can participate in progressing the issue.

The WIT Diversity Talks are a complement to the WIT Talks, as the former somehow turn the tables with regards to the latter: in the WIT Talks, women are interviewed around their careers, acting as role models in that sense. With the WIT Diversity Talks, the focus would be to talk about personal experiences on diversity and provide male role models to show that this is also a question for men. Normally interviews like this are the other way around, men about career and women about diversity!

WIT_Diversity_Talk.pdf

WIT_Diversity_Talk.pptx

12:00 PM → 1:00 PM WIT Diversity Talk with John Ellis

Sudeshna Datta Cockerill, CERN Ombudsperson, will interview John Ellis, a renown British theoretical physicist with a long career both at CERN and externally. John Ellis has also been awarded several prizes for his work in physics. Among many other outstanding roles and positions, he was Division Leader of the Theory Division at CERN from 1988-1994. John Ellis is currently Clerk Maxwell Professor of Theoretical Physics at King's College London.

Speakers: Jonathan R. Ellis, Sudeshna Datta Cockerill (CERN)

Recording