WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.230 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: I'll let. I'll let Dave thank you. Young 2 00:00:05.123 --> 00:00:13.646 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: so 1st of all, welcome. Welcome to the 4th edition of the sustainable High energy Physics Conference. 3 00:00:14.250 --> 00:00:21.309 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: this is the 1st day of fall. We will be running from today, the 12th of May until the 15th of May. 4 00:00:21.520 --> 00:00:32.139 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: We've set it up so that we have 2 main time zones. So today and tomorrow will be more time zone friendly for North and South America. 5 00:00:32.810 --> 00:00:40.540 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: and then Wednesday and Thursday will be more time zone friendly for Europe, Africa, Asia, Oceania. 6 00:00:41.151 --> 00:00:48.000 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: in in the aim to try to make sure that as many people as possible can attend some of the sessions online. 7 00:00:52.560 --> 00:00:56.770 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: So introducing our organizers, I'm Hannah. 8 00:00:57.010 --> 00:01:09.090 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: and we have a wonderful group of people that have put together this conference, including Shreyasi, Chandra, Molly, Jan, Stefania, Vasiliki, and Sukenya. 9 00:01:09.330 --> 00:01:15.910 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: Additional thanks also to some earlier organizers from Bryce, Ellis, and Luca. Sorry 10 00:01:16.420 --> 00:01:36.579 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: if you do need to contact us throughout the Conference. The best way to contact us is by emailing us, because then we all see it. So if you email us at sushep 25@physics.ox.a/C dot uk. Then one of us will try to get back to you as soon as possible. 11 00:01:37.810 --> 00:01:49.049 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: There are the other ways to contact us. Contact us. You can try in the zoom, zoom, chats or matter most as well. But email is is where we can guarantee that we'll see your message. 12 00:01:51.010 --> 00:01:59.460 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: So we're really excited to say that this year we've got over 200 registrations from 37 different countries. 13 00:02:00.201 --> 00:02:05.190 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: So really wonderful to see such an international group of you join us this year. 14 00:02:05.470 --> 00:02:21.290 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: We do still have 3 days left to register, and we've left it this way, so that if others do wish to join, they can still access the recordings and the resources of this conference afterwards. And so, if you think of any of your colleagues or peers 15 00:02:21.570 --> 00:02:31.889 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: who you think would find this interesting or useful? Please do share the conference with them, and the fact that they can still register until the end of the conference. 16 00:02:34.770 --> 00:02:46.699 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: Also we asked you, when you signed up to give us some of your data in how much distance you would have traveled if you had come to an in person conference potentially hosted at Cern, in Europe. 17 00:02:46.820 --> 00:02:54.499 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: and in the majority of you did give us your data. So thanks so much for that. Jan kindly put together this graph this morning. 18 00:02:54.700 --> 00:03:16.870 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: which showed as an estimate by having an online, only meeting that we avoided quite a large carbon footprint from our travel at around 71 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. So we are already starting to think about how we can mitigate our impacts. And this is one of them. So we're quite happy to be able to show that 19 00:03:19.440 --> 00:03:24.730 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: some of the goals of why we're having this conference, why we why we organize sustainable hep 20 00:03:25.060 --> 00:03:31.050 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: is to increase the awareness of the impact of our field of high energy physics on the environment 21 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:35.360 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: to discuss the intersection of high energy physics and the climate crisis 22 00:03:35.770 --> 00:03:47.059 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: highlight. Some of the sustainability initiatives that are going on already within our community and also alongside the high energy physics community. And we also want to exhibit and deliver 23 00:03:47.790 --> 00:03:58.630 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: positive, tangible steps forward. So we want you to feel hopeful after this conference, not depressed, that the climate crisis and this really what's the word? The 24 00:03:59.010 --> 00:04:07.480 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: wicked problem, is is overwhelming. We want you to walk away thinking this that there's hope. And there's people who are working and care about this. 25 00:04:09.490 --> 00:04:16.579 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: I'll touch on a sustainability context. But we've got some fantastic talks coming up that will go into a lot more detail. 26 00:04:17.150 --> 00:04:27.720 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: But sustainability by definition is to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. 27 00:04:29.000 --> 00:04:39.559 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: It's generally agreed that sustainability has 3 main pillars, environmental, social, and economic. We'll be focusing a little more on environmental throughout this conference. 28 00:04:39.850 --> 00:04:54.249 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: But we also do not want to forget the fact that social and economic, we don't want to forget the social and economic inequities of big science projects at the heart of energy physics. So they're not separate from each other. They are interlinked. 29 00:04:57.300 --> 00:05:02.550 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: as most of you are aware. Over the last hundreds of thousands of years. 30 00:05:02.700 --> 00:05:22.849 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: We've had a pretty flat distribution of our Co. 2 parts per 1 million in the atmosphere, and we've seen over the last century or so, a very direct and almost indisputable link to human activities and their greenhouse gases. 31 00:05:22.970 --> 00:05:29.030 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: and these can come from things like burning of fossil fuels, deforestation, agriculture, transport, etc. 32 00:05:32.190 --> 00:05:42.550 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: We have extreme danger of exceeding 1.5 degrees of global warming. According to the International Panel of Climate Change reports. 33 00:05:43.130 --> 00:05:52.089 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: At the moment the world is heading towards a warming of 2.4°C, with our 2030 targets, and perhaps even higher, with current policies. 34 00:05:52.570 --> 00:06:01.460 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: And so that begs the question, if a 4 degrees cooling created an ice age, can we really handle 2 to 3 degrees of heating in the next 70 years. 35 00:06:04.240 --> 00:06:12.479 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: So where does high energy physics actually intersect with these emissions of greenhouse gases? Well, we'll be seeing a lot of that over the next 4 days. 36 00:06:12.750 --> 00:06:19.350 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: But some of the examples are the construction of our facility and the components within them 37 00:06:19.600 --> 00:06:24.320 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: the consumption of resources. So energy, gases, water, etcetera. 38 00:06:24.976 --> 00:06:29.259 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: the computing that we use. So either processing data or storing data 39 00:06:29.871 --> 00:06:32.400 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: and also our travel as we touched upon earlier. 40 00:06:33.310 --> 00:06:51.540 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: So we're hoping to within our field to aim towards sustainably and mindfully moving forward in the future. We want to facilitate the use of greener technologies and systems and join the global effort of the climate crisis mitigation and achieve some real positive outcomes. 41 00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:56.680 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: So a bit more about the conference in terms of communication. 42 00:06:56.790 --> 00:07:01.649 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: we do encourage you to turn on your cameras when you're speaking, especially if you're asking a question 43 00:07:01.900 --> 00:07:06.379 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: we don't expect you to. There's no, it's not compulsory, but we we really do encourage this 44 00:07:06.800 --> 00:07:11.630 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: we will have to be quite strict with timing your talks. We have a wonderfully packed schedule. 45 00:07:11.860 --> 00:07:15.760 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: and we really don't want to have to interrupt you, so please do keep to your time. 46 00:07:16.210 --> 00:07:25.130 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: and also it would also be great if you were to upload your slides before your talk to and help with accessibility, but also any technical issues. If we have any. 47 00:07:26.220 --> 00:07:31.949 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: all of the sessions will be recorded and we will upload them to the indico page as soon as possible. 48 00:07:32.800 --> 00:07:50.270 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: We'll also be using a website called Slido, which for the panel discussion, so you can submit any questions there. You're able to do that anonymously if you so wish, and the links for those will be published on the day and also on the indigo page, and you'll be able to access those. 49 00:07:51.230 --> 00:07:58.229 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: We also have a matter most channel. So this is a server where you can join and have discussions via text 50 00:07:58.885 --> 00:08:12.420 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: during and after the workshop. So this is this can become a community space. And I provided the link here. Obviously, you don't want to be typing this out. So if you download or open the slides from the indigo page, you will just be able to click on that 51 00:08:14.032 --> 00:08:28.619 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: we also have a link tree linking to all of our social media presence, and also a Linkedin group that we've created to help connect and provide networking throughout. And after the conference 52 00:08:30.770 --> 00:08:40.180 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: a little bit on code of conduct. We do ex. We do encourage everyone to include their full name and your preferred pronouns in your zoom display name. 53 00:08:40.994 --> 00:08:49.540 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: Please ensure that your microphones are muted when you're not speaking, and if you do wish to wish to talk or ask, ask a question, please raise your hand. 54 00:08:49.750 --> 00:08:52.749 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: but please don't interrupt speakers while they're giving their talk 55 00:08:53.280 --> 00:08:59.360 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: or or you can use the chat window to try to attract attract the attention of the session conveners. 56 00:09:00.420 --> 00:09:16.319 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: We do expect you to treat one another with courtesy, respect, kindness, and professionalism. We cannot tolerate inappropriate language or behavior, and this applies across all of the program sessions, including mattermost and our other virtual platforms. 57 00:09:16.850 --> 00:09:24.179 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: And so we do expect you to act with sensitivity towards the many distressing and ongoing troubles around the world. 58 00:09:26.230 --> 00:09:37.910 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: I'd also like to say thank you to our in-kind sponsors. So thank you to the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science at the University of Oxford. Thank you to Royal Holloway University of London. 59 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:43.520 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: to Cern, and to the Department of Physics, the University of Oxford again. 60 00:09:45.770 --> 00:09:58.479 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: So with that we have a very exciting agenda for you today, and we'll be starting off with Professor Ruth Wood, followed by Dr. Katerina Vonieri, followed by Professor Yemina Saheb. 61 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:11.970 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: We'll then take a quick health, break for you to stretch your legs and take a break from the screen, and then we'll have some. A mixture of flash talks from organizations and from individuals, and following that and ending our day. 62 00:10:13.327 --> 00:10:22.959 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: So with that welcome again, we're really excited for today. And if I stop sharing my screen 63 00:10:23.110 --> 00:10:29.559 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: can invite Ruth, to share her screen, and while you do that I can give you a short introduction. 64 00:10:33.820 --> 00:10:35.519 Hannah Wakeling - STFC UKRI: If I can find my screen.