| Date |
Title |
Speaker |
Additional Information |
| December 9, 2021 |
Higher Education in Palestine and Forum
[Description_Muayad_Abusaa]
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Prof. Muayad M. Abu Saa,
Arab American University
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See slides [Muayad_Abusaa_Slides]
Complement to the October 28 PHYSICS MATTERS colloquium by Prof. Dr. Ghaleb Natour. See recording: https://youtu.be/scVy3nuZUKI
The event was followed by a forum including:
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Ercan Alp (Argonne National Laboratory and SESAME senior scientist)
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Bernard Amadei (Engineer-Without-Frontiers founding president)
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Zafra Lerman (Malta Conferences Foundation president)
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Ghaleb Natour (Julich ZEA Institute director)
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November 29, 2021
|
The Scientific Expedition Polarquest2021 – Save the Arctic White
[Description_Paola_Mike_Kevin]
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Poala Catapano, Kevin Monneron and Mike Struik
CERN
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See slides [Paola_Mike_Kevin_Slides]
Colloquium celebrating the One Year Anniversary of PHYSICS MATTERS launching event dating back from November 23, 2020. See the first event in this table.
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| October 28, 2021 |
Building Capacity for Palestine Research and Innovation
[Description_Ghaleb_Natour]
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Ghaleb Natour
RWTH Aachen University
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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. |
| September 30, 2021 |
New Horizons in Quantum Mechanics
[Description_Vahid_Karimipour]
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Vahid Karimipour
Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran
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See slides [Vahid_Karimipour].
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 [Reza_Ejtehadi_IntroSlide]. |
| August 26, 2021 |
Sirius: The New Bright Lights to Science From the Southern Hemisphere
[Description_Harry Westfahl]
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Harry Westfahl
Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory, LNLS’s Director |
|
| July 15, 2021 |
The Music of Physics
[Description_Eliam_Gross]
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Eliam Gross
Weizmann Institute of Science |
See slides [Eliam_Gross]
See 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. |
| June 15, 2021 |
SESAME: The New Adventure of the Middle East Women Scientists
[Description_Gihan_Kamel]
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Gihan Kamel
SESAME
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See slides [GihanKamel]
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 |
| May 20, 2021 |
Fluid Dynamics of Wildfires
[Description_Rod_Linn]
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Rod Linn
Los Alamos National Laboratory and UCSD
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Introduction to the Pakistani National Center for Physics (NCP) in Islamabad (Slides)
Hafeez Hoorani |
| March 29, 2021 |
Introduction to PHYSICS MATTERS 2021 and the SESAME Project
|
Christine Darve
APS Forum on International Physics Vice-Chair
Andrea Lausi
Scientific Director of SESAME |
See slides [AndreaLausi] |
| March 29, 2021 |
How Physics Can Measure Tempo and Mode of Human Evolution
[Description_Claudio_Tuniz]
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Claudio Tuniz
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste, Italy |
See slides [ClaudioTuniz] |
| December 21, 2020 |
The Adventure of Physics in Timing and Positioning – From a Cesium Atom to the Global Navigation Satellite Systems
|
Patrizia Tavella
Bureau International des Poids et Mesures, Sèvres, France – Director of the Time Department |
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| December 14, 2020 |
Governing the Digital Transformation
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Sergio Bertolucci
University of Bologna, Italy – Past CERN Director of Research and Scientific Computing, Geneva, Switzerland |
|
| December 7, 2020 |
Playing Lego With Layered Materials
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Petra Rudolf
University of Groningen, The Netherlands – President of the European Physical Society |
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| November 30, 2020 |
Metrology and Inspiration for Science: The New International System of Units
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Diederik Wiersma
University of Florence, Italy – President of the Italian Metrology Institute, Turin, Italy |
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| November 23, 2020 |
POLARQUEST – A Sailing Expedition to Measure Cosmic Rays (And Not Only) Beyond the Arctic Circle
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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)
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