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SUMMARY:Science for Sustainability
DTSTART:20260306T123000
DTEND:20260306T143000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Sustainability is an integral component of the strategic prior
 ities of our School. In 2023\, EPFL launched “Solutions for Sustainabili
 ty”\, an ambitious initiative to create demonstrators on our campuses th
 at will lead to solutions ready for scale-up. In parallel\, long-term effo
 rts are pursued in the areas of Energy Transition\, Environmental Sustaina
 bility and Climate Change.\nThis conference will highlight the diversity a
 nd complementatiry of research projects\, in a highly interactive format. 
 Updates of research projects will be followed by moderated rountables allo
 wing ample time for discussions and debates.\n\nProgramme\n\n12:30pm – 1
 2:40pm / Welcome notes and Introduction by Prof. Ambrogio Fasoli\, Vice Pr
 esident and Provost\n\n12:40pm – 13:15pm SESSION I: Energy Transition\n\
 n	Prof. Mario Paolone\, “Reimagining Data Centers as Energy Assets: t
 he EPFL HeatingBits project”\n	Prof. Chris Moser\, “Decarbonization 
 toward electrical self-reliance at EPFL”\n	Moderated roundtable discussi
 on with the participation of Matthias Gäumann\, CEO of HYDRO Exploitatio
 n SA\n	\n		Moderator: Max Chevron\, Services industriels Lausanne \n	\n	
 \n\n13:15pm – 13:50pm SESSION II: Technologies for Climate Neutrality\
 n\n\n	Prof. Josie Hugues\, “Robotics for Improving the Circularity of F
 ood Systems” \n	Prof. Kumar Agrawal\, “From Lab to Plant: Scaling Di
 sruptive CCUS Technologies at EPFL” \n	Moderated roundtable discussion\
 n	\n		Moderator: Julian Barth\, President EPFL Carbon Team\n	\n	\n\n13:50p
 m – 14:25pm SESSION III: Land and Soil Health\n\n\n	Prof. Ianina Altshul
 er\, “Soil ecosystem services and microbe-mediate greenhouse gas fluxes
 ”\n	Prof. Rizlan Bernier-Latmani\, “Can soil microbes control arsenic
  accumulation in rice?”\n	Moderated roundtable discussion\n	\n		Moderato
 r: Fatima Azahraa El-Zein\, Management of Technology and Entrepreneurship
 \, EPFL\n	\n	\n\n14:25pm – 14:30pm / Concluding remarks
LOCATION:RLC E1 240 https://plan.epfl.ch/?room==RLC%20E1%20240
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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