Celeste Saulo, Grand Témoin 2024 of the Global Issues course
Event details
| Date | 27.02.2024 |
| Hour | 17:00 › 19:00 |
| Speaker | Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Jan Hesthaven, Vice President for Academic Affairs; Rudolf Mahrer, Director of the SHS Program |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
| Event Language | French, English |
The Grand Témoin ceremony is the key event of the “Global Issues” course offered by the College of Humanities to all EPFL students in propedeutics (1st year of Bachelor studies). It recognizes the best student work from the year and invites a leading figure to give a lecture tied to global issues in their area of specialization. This year, we have the great pleasure of welcoming Celeste Saulo, Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
PROGRAM:
- 5:00 pm - Words of welcome by:
Jan Hesthaven, Vice President for Academic Affairs
Rudolf Mahrer, Director of the SHS Program - Presentation of the SHS 2022 Best Teacher Award to Jean-François Bert
- Award ceremony for the best SHS 2023 Master's project
- Presentation of winning student posters from the "Global Issues 2023" course and prize ceremony
- 6:00 pm - Lecture by Celeste Saulo followed by a question and answer session for the public
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The three outstanding students works:
- Communication B - Privacy or cookies, which tastes better? Accepting cookies: what are you willingly trading your privacy for?
- Energy B - L'éco-immeuble du futur
- Mobility B - The cycling infrastructure of Amsterdam - How does it impact the daily lives of its inhabitants?
The “Global Issues” course:
This course is organized by the College of Humanities and reaches all EPFL students in the first year of the Bachelor program. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective on six current themes: food, climate, communication, energy, mobility, and health.
Each course is taught by a pair of instructors, including one expert in natural sciences and engineering and one expert in social and human sciences. In the second half of the semester, the students work in teams to complete a project related to the theme that they have selected, which they present through a poster. The best poster from each group is recognized during this annual Grand Témoin ceremony.
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Celeste Saulo is the first female and South American Secretary-General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). Her four-year term began on 1 January 2024. Prof. Saulo launched her academic career as a teaching assistant in Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), where she earned an undergraduate degree in 1987 and a PhD in 1996. She is today full professor at the University of Buenos Aires and research scientist at the National Council for Scientific and Technical Research.
Her extensive teaching experience is in the areas of numerical weather prediction, atmosphere dynamics and thermodynamics, mesoscale meteorology, cloud dynamics and cloud microphysics. Her scientific career specialized in numerical weather prediction, ensemble forecasting, data assimilation, short-to-medium range prediction and predictability, land-atmosphere interactions and the study of heavy precipitating systems in southern South America.
Her focus over the last few years has been on interdisciplinary problems such as wind energy production, climate services for agricultural applications and early warning systems.
Practical information
- General public
- Invitation required
Organizer
- EPFL College of Humanities