Invited Speakers

Wednesday 28th March 2012

Opening session

Luisa Cifarelli, EPS President
Time of presentation: Wednesday 28th March 2012, 09:00-09:15
"Welcome from EPS President"

Felicitas Pauss, Head of International Relations at CERN, Switzerland
Time of presentation: Wednesday 28th March 2012, 09:00-09:15
"Welcome from the Head of International relations of CERN"

Invited Talks

Jørgen ørstrom Møller, Asia Research Center (ARC), Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Time of presentation: Wednesday 28th March 2012, 09:15-09:45
"Megatrends in the skilled jobmarket"
Abstract:
Industrialization and mass consumption (era of plenty) is now coming to an end. Scarcities of food, commodities, energy, water, and clean environment and mass communication take over. Pinpointing new steering factors. Productivity - squeezing more output out of one unit of input. Consumption - less materialistic. Skills - adapting to these new challenges.

  Montserrat Ribas Morales, Hospital de la Santa Creu I, Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain
Time of presentation: Wednesday 28th March 2012, 09:45-10:15
"Being a physicist in Hospitals"
Abstract:
The goal of this presentation is to give an overview of the role of a medical physicist in hospitals and how their education and training is performed. For instance, the experience of this profession in Spain is shown, as it is one of  the countries where this profession is best regulated. Finally a vision in European level is given.

Jacques Schmitt, Senior Consultant PRESANS,  Palaiseau, France
Time of presentation: Wednesday 28th March 2012, 10:15-10:45
"Physicists: from expert to skills in the marketplace"
Abstract:
In the 20th century, shifting from an academic life to an industrial carrier meant quite a big jump across a cultural barrier. The barrier height and the motivations driving the attempt were varying with the individual and the cultural context as countries, even within Europe, are quite different. Physicists can be successful in industry, some simple rules are described. Emphasis is given on an important change of mind set toward research projects. The innovation process is described with focus on two key aspects, the value creation and the management of uncertainty, both important differences in project approach. A physicist should know and understand such differences to collaborate with industry, and he should be able to think and operate within that frame of mind if he is to enter industry. It is made clear that the key facilitator for this shift is a taste for entrepreneurship.
Finally the focus is on nowadays megatrend a paradigm shift affecting innovation in industry. The transition from close to open innovation is gradually changing the context for physicist interaction with industry, the barrier will be lower and work both ways. This new era is an opportunity for the physicist community if it mutates and adapts to this new environment.

Christian Ohler, ABB Corporate Research Ltd, Baden-Dättwil, Switzerland
Time of presentation: Wednesday 28th March 2012, 11:15-11:35
"Being a physicist in Industry"
Abstract:
Modern life depends on electricity. ABB develops and supplies the essential components of the electricity infrastructure - power products - and contributes to their progress. Power products become ever more reliable and powerful, and new kinds of power products enable the transition to a sustainable electricity supply.
The development of power products is a meaningful work for engineers and scientists, - and in particular for physicists. More than 20% of the employees at the ABB Corporate research center in Baden, Switzerland, are physicists. We start from fundamental science, like a university, and cultivate product knowledge at the same time. We study manufacturing processes and designs and propose new concepts, explore them by simulation and experiment, and provide proof of concept devices. the presentation gives examples of a physicist's work in R&D of a multinational manufacturing company

José Mariano Gago, Portugal's Laboratory for Particle Physics (LIP), Lisbon, Portugal
Time of presentation: Wednesday 28th March 2012, 11:35-12:05
"Being a physicist in politics"
Abstract:
I will try to draw from personal experience the following thoughts: how have physics and the physicists (and CERN) shaped my intervention in science policy and how have governmental responsibilities in science and technology policy changed my view of physics.

Michel Dacorogna, SCOR Global Reinsurance Company, Zürich, Switzerland
Time of presentation: Wednesday 28th March 2012, 12:05-12:25
"Being a physicist  in Finance and Business"
Abstract:
I have left the active research in Physics more than 25 years ago, but what I learned back then has always been very important for my work and research in the field of finance, economics and insurance. In this presentation, I will elaborate on the qualities of physicists at are useful in my field as well as on the difficulties, the cultural differences encountered to understand and become a thought leader in these very different fields. I will also touch upon the evolution of the financial industry due to the severe crisis we are currently going though, as well as the perspectives and opportunities offered to physicists in Finance and Insurance.

Thursday 29th March 2012

  Sergio Bertolucci, Director for research and Computing at CERN, Switzerland
Time of presentation: Thursday 29th March 2012, 11:30-12:00
LHC Status and Brief
Abstract:
to come later on