Annual meeting of the Swiss Physical Society 2018

Session

Public Lectures

28 Aug 2018, 19:30

CE 6 (EPFL)

172. 【3】 Thorium-Based Systems – A new concept for nuclear waste elimination and energy production.

Prof. Maurice Bourquin (University of Geneva and iThEC)

28/08/2018, 19:30

Talk

We live in a world where the demand for energy is increasing and where the use of fossil fuels (coal, gas, oil) is threatening the environment. While nuclear power plants produce no CO2 and no atmospheric pollutants, the issue of the long-standing problem of management of the long-lived nuclear waste is not solved. I will show how Accelerator Driven Systems, using thorium instead of uranium as...

248. 【8】 Let’s Talk About Open Science

Prof. Martin Vetterli (EPFL)

29/08/2018, 20:00

Talk

The physics community has been at the forefront of many aspects of open science. With the advent of big science, international collaborations have required tools to share information at scale. The world wide web, preprint servers (arXiv.org) and many other platforms (such as the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid and the CERN data portal) have been developed to allow the rapid and efficient...

256. 【16】 Let there be light

31/08/2018, 13:30

Talk

This documentary on fusion energy research uses the form of interviews of physicists and engineers, either from the large international project ITER at the halfway pint of its construction in the south of France and involving many partner countries, or other smaller projects mainly in North America. Directed by two Canadian filmmakers, Mila Aungh-Thwin and Van Royko, it follows researchers in...