Program (April 8th to 10th 2022)
Organisation
The 2022 Event has already ended. We want to thank all our participants for making it an unforgettable weekend on Green Energy Physics.
All times are in CEST (UTC+02:00). Times and Contents are subject to change.
Friday 8th april
13:00
Meeting at the Lecture Hall and Introduction
13:15 - 14:15
Lecture by Prof. David Tilley on “Semiconductor-Heterojunction Approaches to Solar Water Splitting”
Photoelectrochemical water splitting is an elegant approach to generating a storable, transportable fuel from sunlight and water. In this talk, I will discuss our recent efforts with Cu2O photocathodes generated by high temperature oxidation of copper foils as well as Sb2Se3 photocathodes fabricated by solution promising and relatively low temperature processing for solar hydrogen generation. New strategies for maximizing the photovoltage of water splitting heterojunction devices will be discussed.
14:30 - 15:30
Lecture by Dr. Remo Schäppi on “Thermochemical fuel production from sunlight and air”
15:30 - 16:30
Break, Time for Discussion
16:30 - 18:00
Library Tour with Einstein Notes / Campus Tour in 2 Groups
While the City Tour is giving a broad overview over the main building of the ETHZ, including the most important rooms and some, that are not accessible to regular students, the Library Archive Tour gives insight into the Life and some of the Quirks of Einstein.
18:15 - 19:15
Dinner in the ETHZ Mensa (Mensa PT)
19:30
Check-in at the IBIS Hotel
Saturday 9th APRIL
05:00 - 09:30
Individual Breakfast at Hotel
09:45 - 10:45
Lecture by Prof. Andreas Pautz on “New Nuclear Reactor Concepts for Improved Safety and Sustainability: from Generation-III to Generation-IV and beyond”
“In this presentation, I will start with a brief introduction into the nuclear chain reaction and breeding/burning of radionuclides, followed by an overview of recent development towards increased safety of Light Water Reactors (LWR). In the second part of the presentation, the focus will be towards advanced and innovative reactor systems, cooled by liquid metals or gases, or even the liquid fuel as heat carrier itself, and try to shed a light at their safety and sustainability features.”
10:45 - 11:00
Break
11:00 - 12:00
Lecture by Dr. Christian Theiler on “Nuclear Fusion - Basic Concepts, Current Status and Next Steps”
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch at Polysnack
13:20 - 13:30
Meeting at Lecture Hall
13:30 - 14:30
Voluntary Game-Show based on “Countdown” and “The Big Fat Quiz”
14:30 - 15:00
Break
15:00 - 16:30
Lab-Tour (Quantum Device Lab) and Tour of Hönggerberg
For this Tour, we are visiting the second Campus of the ETHZ at Hönggerberg. While one of the groups does visits one Lab of the Superconducting Quantum Device Group, the other Group gets an overview over the Buildings of the Hönggerberg Campus.
16.30 - 18:00
City Tour cancelled
18.15 - 19.15
Sandwiches at Polysnack
SUNDAY 10th April
05:00 - 08:00
Individual Breakfast at Hotel / Individual Check-Out
08:30 - 09:30
Discussion, Feedback and preliminary Goodbyes
09:30 - 09:45
Break
09:45 - 10:45
Lecture by Prof Evelina Trutnevyte on “Computer models for the energy transition”
Long-range foresight is essential to making decisions in energy and climate policy, industry, and science. Long-range energy projections, computed with energy system models at a national, continental or global level, serve this foresight purpose. These models use past evidence (energy statistics), theory-informed relations of energy, environmental and socioeconomic drivers, and assumptions about the future in order to quantify how national energy demands, technology and fuel mixes, or greenhouse gas emissions could evolve by 2030, 2050 or beyond. In this presentation, I will give an overview of how these computer models are developed and used and what are the latest developments and challenges in this field.
11:00 - 12:00
Lecture by Dr. Testa Duccio on “Technological and Engineering aspects of Fusion and its links to Physics“
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