Making the invisible visible and the impossible possible
Event details
| Date | 06.03.2012 |
| Hour | 17:15 › 19:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. Felicitas Pauss | Laureate of the 2012 Erna Hamburger Prize |
| Location | |
| Category | Cultural events |
Tuesday, 6 MARCH 2012, 17H15 at the EPFL, Forum du Rolex Learning Center
Prof. Felicitas Pauss | Laureate of the 2012 Erna Hamburger Prize
Making the invisible visible and the impossible possible
Professor Felicitas Pauss received her PhD degree in Theoretical Physics and Mathematics at the University of Graz (Austria) in 1976. In 1978 she started to work as a postdoc at the Max-Planck Institute (MPI) in Munich where she changed to the field of Experimental Particle Physics. She continued her research at Cornell University (USA) and CERN before she was elected professor at ETH Zurich in 1993. From 1997 till 2007 she was the director of the Institute for Particle Physics of ETH Zurich. Since January 2009 she has been in charge of coordinating CERN’s external relations. Her research activities concentrate on two main fields: Particle Physics at the High Energy Frontier and Astroparticle Physics, addressing fundamental open questions about the structure of the universe and the underlying mechanisms that govern its evolution. Professor Pauss received many awards and is author of more than 540 publications.
17H15 Opening : Dr Farnaz Moser, Equal opportunities office, EPFL
17H20 Address : Mme Cristina Gaggini, Directrice romande d’economie suisse
1 7H30 Presentation of the Laureate : Prof. Philippe Gillet, Vice-president for academic affairs EPFL
1 7H35 Conference of Laureate
1 8H20 Presentation of Prize and of the EPFL–WISH Foundation : Prof. Karen Scrivener, President of the Wish Foundation
1 8H30 COCKTAIL
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