Forum on New International Research Facilities for South East Europe

from Thursday 25 January 2018 (09:00) to Friday 26 January 2018 (16:00)
ICTP, Trieste

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
25 Jan 2018
26 Jan 2018
AM
09:00
INTRO (until 09:30)
09:00 Fernando Quevedo, Director, ICTP  
09:05 Martin Krause, Director, Division for Europe, IAEA  
09:13 Meera Venkatesh, Director, Division of Physics and Chemical Sciences, IAEA  
09:21 David Lee, Secretary General, European Physical Society  
09:30
INTRO (until 09:45)
09:30 EC Perspectives, Robert-Jan Smits, DG for Research and Innovation, European Commission  
09:45
KEYNOTE (until 11:15)
09:45 Proposal for Large facilities in SEE, S.Damjanovic, Minister of Science, Montenegro  
10:10 The benefits of international collaboration in SEE, I. Slaus, Honorary President WAAS, Zagreb  
10:30 SESAME - A Science for Peace Project Breeding Scientific Excellence and Technology Transfer in the Middle East, Yasser Khalil, Administrative Director, SESAME, Jordan  
10:55 International cooperation and Training, A. Bogojevic, Director IPB Belgrade  
11:15 --- Coffee Break ---
11:45
PLENARY SESSION (until 13:00)
11:45 Synchrotron Radiation Applications, Dr. Zehra Sayers, Director Foundations Development Program, Sabanci University, Istanbul  
12:20 From Bench to Bedside: Development of Hadron Therapy and Clinical Results, J. Debus, Scientific and Medical Director of the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT)  
09:00 --- Coffee Break ---
09:30
PLENARY SESSION (until 11:00)
09:30 The value of technological know-how transfer, G. Anelli, Head of Knowledge Transfer CERN  
10:00 A success story with accelerator technology transfer into the SEE region, M. Plesko, COSYLAB, Ljubljana  
10:30 'Large research infrastructures' relation with industry, key aspects, A. Zennaro, Industrial Liaison Officer, CERIC  
11:00
CONCLUDING SESSION (until 12:30)
11:00 Smart Growth as a corner stone of the Regional Economic Area, Goran Svilanovic, Secretary General of the RCC (Regional Cooperation Council)  
11:20 Trieste European City of Science, Stefano Fantoni, President FIT  
11:40 Training opportunities for young students and researchers at FAIR/GSI, Pradeep Ghosh, Deputy Head, Council Issues Office, FAIR  
12:00 Announcement of the forthcoming IAEA Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Science and Technology: Addressing Current and Emerging Development Challenges, Meera Venkatesh, Director Division of Physics and Chemical Sciences, IAEA  
12:10 General discussion and summary  
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:15
PLENARY SESSION (until 15:15)
14:15 Presentation of a 4th generation Synchrotron Light source for SEE, Dieter Einfeld. Former Technical Director at SESAME and ALBA  
14:45 Presentation of a Hadron cancer research and treatment facility, Sandro Rossi, Director of CNAO  
15:15 --- Coffee Break ---
15:45
PLENARY SESSION (until 18:00)
15:45 Trevor Rayment, Synchrotron light: a bright future for SEE scientists and society, Diamond, UK  
15:55 Aleksandar Milosavljević, Reinforcement of fundamental and applicative scientific research by state-of-the-art synchrotron-based gas-phase soft X-ray spectroscopy, SOLEIL, France  
16:05 Dusan Bozanic, Advancement in studies of hybrid nanostructures by using synchrotron radiation, SOLEIL, France and Vinca Institute, Serbia  
16:15 Ljiljana Sjekloća, Shared Strategy for an Innovation Research Centre and for the Advancement of Science in the South East Europe, Montenegro  
16:25 Manjit Dosanjh, Hadron Therapy and ENLIGHT, CERN, Switzerland  
16:35 Leandar Litov, Hadron therapy facility - benefits for the region, Bulgaria  
16:45 Aleksandar Celebic, Hadron Cancer Therapy and Research - the Needs for the Region, Montenegro  
16:55 Milko Jaksic, International users access to the RBI accelerator facility, Institute Rudjer Boskovic, Croatia  
17:05 Andrej Studen, Proton radiation therapy at Jozef Stefan Institute and collaborating partners, Slovenia  
17:15 Ivan Petrovic and Aleksandra Ristic Fira, A Large Regional Research Facility: Challenges for SEE and EU, Institute Vinča, Serbia  
17:25 Sonja Veljovic, The New Scientific Platform: opportunities for research and cooperation, Serbia  
17:35 Goran Buturac, The Institute of Economics, Zagreb, in light of new research facilities for SEE, Croatia  
17:45 Nebojsa Neskovic, Technology transfer in the SEE region, Vinca Institute, Serbia  
17:55 Garry Jacobs, CEO&Chair Executive Committee of the World Academy of Art and Science  
19:00 --- EVENING FORUM DINNER ---
12:30
LUNCH (until 14:00)
14:00
AFTERNOON (until 16:00)