NPSS Climate Workshop on Nuclear and Plasma Solutions for Energy and Society

Contribution List

10. Opening

27/10/2024, 08:30

1. Welcome and Introduction

Alberto Del Guerra, Cinzia Da Via (University of Manchester (GB))

27/10/2024, 09:00

2. A Glaciological Perspective on Climate Change

Prof. Matteo Spagnolo (Scottish Alliance for Geoscience, Environment and SocietyThe University of Aberdeen)

27/10/2024, 09:10

Climate represents the main driver controlling the growth and demise of Earth’s ice masses, which in turn play a major role in many physical and biological processes, including sea level, ocean currents, ecosystems, and climate itself, not to mention human activities. Thus, it is no surprise that shrinking and disappearing glaciers are often referred to as amongst the most dramatic evidence of...

3. Nuclear Fission: Present Status, Challenges and Advanced Reactors

Prof. Raymond Cao (Ohio State University)

27/10/2024, 10:00

Electricity is the foundation of modern society. New technologies such as electrified vehicles, AI, data centers, and cryptocurrency are driving electricity demand at a rate far exceeding the supply. A mix of energy sources is needed to meet this demand. While renewable energy sources like solar and wind are fast growing, nuclear energy offers unique features that make it a crucial part of the...

4. The impact of fusion energy on the climate change landscape: are we there yet?

Prof. Martin Nieto-Perez (Penn State University)

27/10/2024, 11:10

5. Low temperature plasma solutions to climate change: renewable energy, cleaning environment, smart agriculture, and better health

Prof. Chunqi Jiang (Old Dominion University)

27/10/2024, 12:00

Low temperature plasmas (LTPs) are plasmas with relatively low plasma density and energy (typically <10 eV) have been playing critical roles in technology advancement in microfabrication, light sources, and other established industrial applications. With the versatility and relative low capital cost in the technology development, LTPs present a myriad of opportunities to technology innovation...

6. Accelerators Based Solutions – from Subcritical Reactors to Hadron Therapy & Isotopes

Prof. Tor Raubenheimer (Stanford University)

27/10/2024, 14:00

Particle Accelerators for Applications from Medicine to Sub-Critical Reactors

Nuclear power has the benefit of being a carbon-free energy source but generates long-lived radioactive waste and has the potential for impactful accidents. Particle accelerators were developed as scientific instruments but are also being used in industry and medicine. Hadron accelerators are increasingly being...

7. Sustainable Computing at Scale

Dr Shrilatha (Bobbie) Manne (AMD)

27/10/2024, 14:50

Organizations across the globe are facing growing pressure to address climate change, and companies providing at scale computing services are no exception. The existing cloud services combined with the more recent growth in machine intelligence are rapidly increasing the demand for compute resources and outpacing hardware efficiency improvements. This talk covers carbon emissions from a...

8. Big Data and High Performing Computing

Prof. David Abbott (Jefferson Lab)

27/10/2024, 16:00

Continuous advances in electronics technology have finally brought us into the age of “Exascale” computing. One of the next big challenges is the management of the deluge of data that is now being generated in scientific research, observation and simulation. Whether it is the ever expanding study or our Earth’s rapidly changing climate and biology or probing the fundamental structure of...

9. Q/A Discussion

27/10/2024, 16:50