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Past PHYSICS MATTERS Colloquia Below

🇨🇭Nov. 2024: “CERN: 7 Decades of Scientific Achievements and Innovation” by Dr. Luciano Musa

Thursday, November 21, 2024

"CERN: 7 Decades of Scientific Achievements and Innovation" by Dr. Luciano Musa”

🇯🇵October 2024: “The accelerator BNCT System for Sustainable Quality of Life”

🇬🇧🇨🇭September 2024: "Transforming Cancer Treatment in Low-Resource Settings"

🇲🇪August 2024: "Beating Cancer with SEEIIST while Shaping Science in South-East Europe" 

Thursday, August 29, 2024

"Beating Cancer with SEEIIST while Shaping Science in South-East Europe" by Dr. Sanja Damjanovic

See Slides:

For complementary information: 

🇺🇸July 2024: "TechWomen-Harnessing the power of global women in STEM" 

Thursday, July 25, 2024

"TechWomen-Harnessing the power of global women in STEM"

See Slides:

For complementary information: 

Speaker contacts:

🇿🇦🇯🇴🇫🇷🇺🇸June 2024: "Forum on Sustainable Development Complexity #2" 

🇸🇪May 2024: " Neutron Scattering: Exploring Cell Membrane Mechanisms" by Prof. Giovanna Fragneto

Thursday, May 24, 2024

"Neutron Scattering: Exploring Cell Membrane Mechanisms"

See Slides:

For complementary information:

  • See Also: Nobel Laureate Prof. Ada Yonath explaining "How do intruders take over their hosts?" (SCIENTIFika event organized in collaboration with ESS, MAXIV on the basis of APS March meeting “Chat with the Experts”) Prof. Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer, received her Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome.  [PHYSICS MATTERS - July 2021]

  • PHYSICS MATTERS Colloquium - Thursday, April 27, 2023- "Role of large-scale facilities for battery research and innovation" by Prof. Aleksandar Matic

Speaker: Prof. Giovanna Fragneto, European Spallation Source (ESS) Science Director

🇸🇪🇨🇲🇨🇩🇯🇴April 2024: "Forum to accelerate a global digital world" by Dr. Christine Darve and Dr. Stephane Kenmoe

Thursday, April 25, 2024

"Forum to accelerate a global digital world"

See Slides:

Feel free to register to the following MOOC free of charge:

For complementary information:

Speaker: Dr. Christine Darve and Dr. Stephane Kenmoe

🇫🇷March 2024: "Strengthening Basic Sciences: Towards Sustainable Societies" by Prof. Amal Kasry (UNESCO)

Thursday, March 28, 2024

"Strengthening Basic Sciences: Towards Sustainable Societies"

See Slides:

For complementary information:

Speaker: Prof. Amal Kasry, Chief of Section for Basic Science, UNESCO HQ

🇿🇼🇬🇧February 2024: "Roadshow on synchrotron science and X-ray imaging techniques in Zimbabwe"

"Roadshow on synchrotron science and X-ray imaging techniques in Zimbabwe"

See Slides:

For complementary information:

February 29, 2024 Annoucement: 100th Birthday of Herwig Schopper, SESAME Light Souce founding father:

Speaker: Kudakwashe Jakata - Diamond Light Source DLSLtd,RAL,SCI, UK and Zimbabwe

🇺🇸🇨🇭🇿🇦🇫🇷January 2024: "Forum on Sustainable Development Complexity"

Thursday, January 18, 2024

"Forum on Sustainable Development Complexity"

The context was presented by Barbora Bruant Gulejova (Uni. of Bern and S4SF) and followed by a forum, including:

See Slides:

For complementary information, see Physics Matters editions:

🇿🇦December 2023: "The interactions of Physics, Environmental, and Developmental Issues: Taking complexity Seriously"

Thursday, December 14, 2023

"The interactions of Physics, Environmental, and Developmental Issues: Taking complexity Seriously"

See Slides: [Slides_GeorgeEllis]

Speaker: Prof. George Ellis - University of Cape Town  (SA)

🇬🇧November 2023: "Accelerating Science and Society"

Thursday, November 30, 2023

"Accelerating Science and Society"

See Slides: [Slides_Carsten]

Speaker: Prof. Carsten P Welsch - Distinguished Scientist @ U Liverpool, CERN and INFN

🇦🇪🇬🇧October 2023: "Physics Matters when imaging life in deep time"

Thursday, October 26, 2023

"Physics Matters when imaging life in deep time"

See Slides: [Slides_PhillManning]

Speaker: Prof. Phil Manning, FGS, FRGS (Natural Historian, Author, Broadcaster and Explorer)

🇺🇸September 2023: "Macromolecular Mapping with Magnetic Resonance Imaging—Beyond Free Water!"

Thursday, September 28, 2023

"Macromolecular Mapping with Magnetic Resonance Imaging—Beyond Free Water!"

See Slides: [Slides_RickSpencer]

Speaker: Speaker: Prof. Rickard Spencer, NIH/NIA/IRP

🇨🇳August 2023: "Accelerator driven systems – a solution to multiple problems of society"

Thursday, August 31, 2023

"Accelerator driven systems – a solution to multiple problems of society”

See Slides: [Slides_YuanHe_ADS]

See Also:  "The perspectives of MYRRHA in contributing to solve the energy crisis" by Prof. Hamid Aït Abderrahim

Presented at APS April23 Session M06

Speaker: Prof. Yuan He, Director of Linac Center, Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CHINA

🇨🇴July 2023: "More synchrotron light for Latin America in the Greater Caribbean?"

Thursday, July 27, 2023

"More synchrotron light for Latin America in the Greater Caribbean?"

See Slides: [Slides_Leo_Violini_GCLS]

Speaker: Prof. Galileo Violini, Director Emérito CIF, Colombia

🇺🇸June 2023: "Navigating the Complexity across the Peace-Sustainability-Climate security NEXUS"

Thursday, June 29, 2023

"Navigating the Complexity across the Peace-Sustainability-Climate security NEXUS"

See Slides: [Slides_Bernard_Amadei_EWB]

Description: [Description_Bernard_Amadei_EWB]

Speaker: Prof. Bernard Amadei, Founding President of Engineer-without-Borders (EWB)-USA and co-founder of EWB-International

🇦🇷May 2023: "Entering the new century of IUPAP with a renovated vision"

Thursday, May 25, 2023

"Entering the new century of IUPAP with a renovated vision"

See Slides: [Slides_Silvina_IUPAP]

Description: [Description_Silvina_IUPAP]

More Information: Short Introduction to IUPAP 100 by CERN

Speaker: Prof. Silvina Ponce Dawson, Physics Department, FCEN-UBA and IFIBA, UBA-CONICET; President Designate, IUPAP

🇸🇪Apr 2023: "Role of large-scale facilities for battery research and innovation"

Thursday, April 27, 2023

"Role of large-scale facilities for battery research and innovation"

See Slides: [Slides_Aleksandar_Matic_Battery]

Description: [Description_Aleksandar_Matic_Battery]

Speaker: Prof. Aleksandar Matic, Chalmers University of Technology, Gottenburg, Sweden

🇫🇷🇨🇭Mar 2023: "Gamma Factory — a tool-driven revolution?"

Thursday, March 23, 2023

"Gamma Factory — a tool-driven revolution?"

See Slides: [Slides_Witek_Gamma_Fatory]

Description: [Description_GammaFactory_Witek_Krasny]

Speaker: Mieczyslaw Witold Krasny, Sorbonne University Paris, CNRS-IN2P3, and CERN

🇫🇷🇵🇸🇯🇴🇳🇴 Feb 2023: “

Thursday, February 23, 2023

Description: [Description_CBI_Nicolas_Delerue]

This event was followed by a forum including:

  • Reema Atlamimi - I.FAST / CBI (PS, FR)
  • Messaoud Harfouche - SESAME (JO, DZ)
  • Juha Vierinen - University of Tromsø (NO, SE)

More Reading: 

Speakers: Nicolas Delerue ICJLab/IN2P3/CNRS (FR)

🇮🇱 Jan 2023: “

Thursday, January 19, 2023

See Slides: [Slides_Eliezer_Rabinovici]

More Reading: From dreams to beams: SESAME’s 30 year-long journey in science diplomacy” (Jan 9, 2023)

Description: [Description_SESAME_Eliezer_Rabinovici]

Speakers: Prof. Eliezer Rabinovici Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)

🇪🇸 Dec 2022: “ALBA and the science for sustainability"

Thursday, December 15, 2022

“ALBA and the science for sustainability"

See Slides: [Slides_Caterina_Biscari]

See Also: ALBA Synchrotron

Description: [Description_ALBA_Caterina_Biscari]

Speakers: Prof. Caterina Biscari ALBA Synchrotron (ES)

🇫🇷🇦🇷🇺🇸🇨🇭 Nov 2022: “PHYSICS MATTERS to celebrate the 100 years of existence of the IUPAP”

Tuesday November 22, 2022

“PHYSICS MATTERS to celebrate the 100 years of existence of the IUPAP”

See Slides:

See Also: International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) has turned 100 years

Description: [Description_IUPAP_SPIRO_DAWSON _GREENE_PEPEALTARELLI]

Speakers: 

  • Michel SPIRO IUPAP, CERN, IN2P3 & CEA (FR)
  • Silvina Ponce Dawson University of Buenos Aires & IUPAP (AR)
  • Laura Greene NHMFL, APS & IUPAP (US)
  • Monica Pepe-Altarelli CERN & IUPAP (CH)

🇬🇧Oct 2022: Physics for Development and International Cooperation

Thursday, October 27, 2022

Physics for Development and International Cooperation

See Slides: [Slides_Kate_Shaw]

See Also: Physics Without Frontiers - ICTP

Description: [Description_Kate_Shaw]

Speakers: Dr. Kate Shaw Univ. Sussex, UK and ICTP, Trieste (UK - IT)

🇿🇦Sept 2022: Momentum grows for the African Light Source

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Momentum grows for the African Light Source

See Slides: [Simon_Connell Slides]

See Also: African Light Source Web page

Description: [Description_Simon_Connell]

Speakers: Prof. Simon Connell Johannesburg University, SA (South Africa)

🇹🇷Aug 2022: Turkey in SESAME & SESAME in Turkey: a “Physics Matters” Relationship

Monday, August 22, 2022

Turkey in SESAME & SESAME in Turkey: a “Physics Matters” Relationship

See Slides: [Zehra Sayers]

Description: [Description_Zehra Sayers]

Speakers: Prof. Zehra Sayers Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (Turkey)

🇺🇸🇯🇴July 2022: FORUM to Celebrate ”The Origin of SESAME and beyond" with Prof. Herman Winick

Thursday, July 28, 2022

FORUM to Celebrate ”The Origin of SESAME and beyond" with Prof. Herman Winick

More Reading: 

Description: [Description_ForumSESAMEOrigin], [PODCAST_ForumSESAMEOrigin]

Speakers: 

  • Herman Winick
  • Herwig Schopper
  • Ada Yonath
  • Rolf Heuer
  • Chris Llewellyn-Smith
  • Zafra Lerman
  • Zehra Sayers
  • Clarissa Formosa gauci
  • Tord Ekelof
  • Giorgio Margaritondo
  • Eliezer Rabinovici
  • Ercan Alp
  • Gihan Kamel
  • Kirsi Lorentz
  • Simon Connell
  • Sekazi Mtingwa
  • Maedeh Darzi

🇨🇭June 2022: Building small, fast and hot Si spin qubits

Thursday, June 30, 2022

Building small, fast and hot Si spin qubits

More information: National Center of Competence in Research SPIN QUBITS IN SILICON: NCCR SPIN 

Description: [Description_DominikZumbuhl]

Speakers: Prof. Dominik Zumbühl University of Basel (Switzerland)

🇮🇹🇨🇭May 2022: POLARQUEST – A sailing expedition to measure cosmic rays (and not only) beyond the Arctic Circle

Thursday, May 19, 2022

POLARQUEST – A sailing expedition to measure cosmic rays (and not only) beyond the Arctic Circle

See Slides: 

Description: [Description_LuisaCifarelli_Ombretta Pinazza ]

Speakers: 

  • Prof. Luisa Cifarelli Bologna University (IT)
  • Prof. Ombretta Pinazza CERN (CH)

🇨🇾🇯🇴🇨🇭🇬🇧🇳🇴🇫🇷Apr 2022: "FORUM ”Science to facilitate Human heritage"

Thursday, April 28, 2022

"FORUM ”Science to facilitate Human heritage"

See Slides: 

See Also: Watch the “75 Years of Science with Synchrotron Light" - virtual symposium recording organized by Diamond and Lightsources.org

Description: [Description_Forum_Heritage]

Speakers: 

🇸🇪March 2022: Physics Matters in Artificial Intelligence: Natural and Artificial Cognition

Thursday, March 31, 2022

Physics Matters in Artificial Intelligence: Natural and Artificial Cognition

See Slides: [Slides_Kalle_ Åström]

See Also: AI Lund

Description: [Description_Kalle_ Åström]

Speakers: Prof. Kalle Åström Centre for Mathematical Sciences at Lund University (Sweden)

🇨🇾 Feb 2022: Physics Matters in (Bio)archaeology: Metals, human health and beyond

Thursday, February 24, 2022

Physics Matters in (Bio)archaeology: Metals, human health and beyond

See Slides: [Slides_Kirsi_Lorentz]

See Also: SESAME Cultural Heritage Day

Description: [Description_Kirsi_Lorentz]

Speakers: Prof. Kirsi Lorentz Cyprus Institute Cyprus Government’s Delegation to the SESAME Council (Cyprus)

🇸🇬Jan 2022: Dimensionality in Materials Science

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Dimensionality in Materials Science

See Slides: [Antonio Castro Neto]

See Also: 

Description: [Description_Antonio Castro_Neto]

Speakers: Prof. Antonio Castro Neto Centre for Advanced 2D Materials Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials National University of Singapore (Singapore)

🇵🇸Dec 2021: Higher Education in Palestine and Forum

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Higher Education in Palestine and Forum

See Also: 

More: 

The event was followed by a forum including:

  • Ercan Alp (Argonne National Laboratory and SESAME senior scientist)

  • Bernard Amadei (Engineer-Without-Frontiers founding president)

  • Zafra Lerman (Malta Conferences Foundation president)

  • Ghaleb Natour (Julich ZEA Institute director)

Description: [Description_Muayad_Abusaa]

Speakers: Prof. Muayad M. Abu Saa Arab American University (Palestine)

🇨🇭Nov 2021: The Scientific Expedition Polarquest2021 – Save the Arctic White

Monday, November 29, 2021

The Scientific Expedition Polarquest2021 – Save the Arctic White

See Slides: [Paola_Mike_Kevin_Slides]

Colloquium celebrating the One Year Anniversary of PHYSICS MATTERS launching event dating back from November 23, 2020.

Description: [Description_Paola_Mike_Kevin]

Speakers: Poala Catapano, Kevin Monneron and Mike Struik CERN (Switzerland)

🇩🇪🇵🇸Oct 2021: Building Capacity for Palestine Research and Innovation

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Building Capacity for Palestine Research and Innovation

See Slides: [Ghaleb_Natour]

A follow-up event will take place on December 9th, when Prof. Muayad Abu Saa, Vice-President for Academic Affairs, will describe Palestinian Academic and Science.

Description: [Description_Ghaleb_Natour]

Speakers: Ghaleb Natour RWTH Aachen University (Germany-Palestine)

🇮🇷Sept 2021: New Horizons in Quantum Mechanics

Thursday, September 30, 2021

New Horizons in Quantum Mechanics

See Slides:

This event has been co-hosted by Prof. Reza Ejtehadi, President of the Physics Society of Iran, who gives a short introduction on Physics in Iran 

Description: [Description_Vahid_Karimipour]

Speakers: Vahid Karimipour Sharif University of Technology, Tehran (Iran)

🇧🇷Aug 2021: Sirius: The New Bright Lights to Science From the Southern Hemisphere

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Sirius: The New Bright Lights to Science From the Southern Hemisphere

See Slides: [Harry_Westfahl]

Description: [Description_Harry Westfahl]

Speakers: Harry Westfahl Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, LNLS’s Director (Brazil)

🇮🇱July 2021: The Music of Physics

Thursday, July 15, 2021

The Music of Physics

See Slides: [Eliam_Gross]

See Also: Weizmann Nobel Laureate Prof. Ada Yonath explaining "How do intruders take over their hosts?" (SCIENTIFika event organized in collaboration with ESS, MAXIV on the basis of APS March meeting “Chat with the Experts”) Prof. Ada Yonath, Israeli crystallographer, received her Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2009 for her pioneering work on the structure of the ribosome.  

Description: [Description_Eliam_Gross]

Speakers: Eliam Gross Weizmann Institute of Science (Israel)

🇪🇬🇯🇴June 2021: SESAME: The New Adventure of the Middle East Women Scientists

Tuesday, June 15, 2021

SESAME: The New Adventure of the Middle East Women Scientists

See Slides: [GihanKamel]

See Also: 

Following the lecture, more insights are shared with a scientific expert panel composed of:
• Andrea Lausi, SESAME Scientific Director
• Ghaleb Natour, Central Institute of Engineering, Electronics and Analytics – Engineering and Technology (ZEA-1), Jülich, Director
• Bernard Amadei, UC Boulder and Engineers-without-Borders, President
• Zafra Lerman, Malta Conferences Foundation, President
• Joe Niemela, ICTP and FIP elected-Chair
• Alan Hurd, Los Alamos Laboratory and FIP Chair
• Christine Darve, ESS and FIP vice-Chair (organizer)

You can also support us by filling the 5 min survey: https://tinyurl.com/f6wbkcxh

Description: [Description_Gihan_Kamel]

Speakers: Gihan Kamel SESAME (Jordan)

🇺🇸🇵🇰May 2021: Fluid Dynamics of Wildfires

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Fluid Dynamics of Wildfires

See Slides: Introduction to the Pakistani National Center for Physics (NCP) in Islamabad (Slides)
Hafeez Hoorani

Description: [Description_Rod_Linn] 

Speakers: Rod Linn Los Alamos National Laboratory and UCSD (USA - Pakistan)

🇯🇴March 2021: Introduction to PHYSICS MATTERS 2021 and the SESAME Project

Monday, March 29, 2021

Introduction to PHYSICS MATTERS 2021 and the SESAME Project

See Slides: [AndreaLausi]

Speakers: 

  • Christine Darve APS Forum on International Physics Vice-Chair (Jordan)
  • Andrea Lausi Scientific Director of SESAME (Jordan)

🇮🇹March 2021: How Physics Can Measure Tempo and Mode of Human Evolution

Monday, March 29, 2021

How Physics Can Measure Tempo and Mode of Human Evolution

See Slides: [ClaudioTuniz]

Description: [Description_Claudio_Tuniz]

Speakers: Claudio Tuniz Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (Italy)

🇫🇷Dec 2020: The Adventure of Physics in Timing and Positioning – From a Cesium Atom to the Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Monday, December 21, 2020

The Adventure of Physics in Timing and Positioning – From a Cesium Atom to the Global Navigation Satellite Systems

Speakers: Patrizia Tavella Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, Sèvres, France – Director of the Time Department

🇨🇭Dec 2020: Governing the Digital Transformation

Monday, December 14, 2020

Governing the Digital Transformation

Speakers: Sergio Bertolucci University of Bologna, Italy – Past CERN Director of Research and Scientific Computing, Geneva, Switzerland

🇳🇱Dec 2020: Playing Lego With Layered Materials

Monday, December 7, 2020

Playing Lego With Layered Materials

Speakers: Petra Rudolf University of Groningen, The Netherlands – President of the European Physical Society

🇮🇹Nov 2020: Metrology and Inspiration for Science: The New International System of Units

Monday, November 30, 2020

Metrology and Inspiration for Science: The New International System of Units

Speakers: Diederik Wiersma University of Florence, Italy – President of the Italian Metrology Institute, Turin, Italy

🇨🇭🇮🇹Nov 2020: POLARQUEST – A Sailing Expedition to Measure Cosmic Rays (And Not Only) Beyond the Arctic Circle

Monday, November 23, 2020

POLARQUEST – A Sailing Expedition to Measure Cosmic Rays (And Not Only) Beyond the Arctic Circle

Speakers: 

  • Paola Catapano (CERN, Geneva Switzerland – Head of the Audiovisual Production Service for the CERN Communications Group and Project Leader of Polarquest)
  • Luisa Cifarelli (University of Bologna, Italy – FIP Chair and past President of the Centro Fermi, Rome, Italy)