PHYSICS MATTERS — Video

Thursday, February 23, 2023

“The I.FAST CBI: a challenge to engage students on the application of particle accelerators to the environment"

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: 

• “I.FAST / CBI advert. :How can particle accelerators address environmental issues?"
• [Slides_Nicolas_Delerue]
• [Slides_Reema_Altamimi]
• [Slides_Messaoud_Harfouhce]
• [Slides_Juha_Vierinen]

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

Thursday, January 19, 2023

“SESAME: a Source of Light in the Middle East"

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)

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)

Tuesday November 22, 2022

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

See Slides:

• [Slides_Michel_SPIRO]
• [Slides_Silvina_Ponce_Dawson]
• [Slides_Laura_Greene]
• [Slides_Monica_Pepe_Altarelli]

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)

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)

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)

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)

Thursday, July 28, 2022

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

More Reading: 

• The Wall-of-Ideas content, Important Archives, Memoires, Photos and Q&A to the Guests of Honor: "the Origin of SESAME and beyond" with Herman Winick
• Bio of the Guests of Honor
• Wall-of-Ideas

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

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)

Thursday, May 19, 2022

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

See Slides: 

• [Luisa Cifarelli]
• [Ombretta Pinazza]

Description: [Description_LuisaCifarelli_Ombretta Pinazza ]

Speakers: 

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

Thursday, April 28, 2022

"FORUM ”Science to facilitate Human heritage"

See Slides: 

• [Margaux_Schmeltz]
• [Kate_Shaw]
• [Kirsi_Lorentz_Trans-disiplinarity]

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: 

• Kirsi Lorentz Cyprus Institute (CY)
• Gihan Kamel SESAME (JO, EG)
• Margaux Schmeltz PSI (CH)
• Kate Shaw ICTP/ Sussex Uni. (UK)
• Björn Nilsson Bergen Uni. / LINXS (NO)
• Kudakwashe Jakata ESRF (FR, SA)

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)

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)

Thursday, January 27, 2022

Dimensionality in Materials Science

See Slides: [Antonio Castro Neto]

See Also: 

• Prof. Sonia Haddad (University of Tunis El Manar) courses to the ASP
• "Topological Matter School"

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)

Thursday, December 9, 2021

Higher Education in Palestine and Forum

See Slides: [Slides_Caterina_Biscari]

See Also: 

• [Muayad_Abusaa_Slides]
• Complement to the October 28 PHYSICS MATTERS colloquium by Prof. Dr. Ghaleb Natour. See recording: https://youtu.be/scVy3nuZUKI

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)

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)

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)

Thursday, September 30, 2021

New Horizons in Quantum Mechanics

See Slides:

• [Vahid_Karimipour]
• [Reza_Ejtehadi_IntroSlide]

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)

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)

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)

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)

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Description: [Description_Gihan_Kamel]

Speakers: Gihan Kamel SESAME (Jordan)

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)

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)

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)

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

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

Monday, December 7, 2020

Playing Lego With Layered Materials

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

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

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)