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Program 2022

Venue: Conrad Washington, DC; 950 New York Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001

Sunday, 30 October 2022

Welcome Reception, Conrad Hotel
06:00 PM

Monday, 31 October 2022

Registration Opens / Continental Breakfast
09:00 AM
Networking
Opening Session
10:00 AM
Welcome and key notes by high-level representatives
Participants:
  • Video message from Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, Chairwoman, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
  • Video message from Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF, introduced by Volkmar Dietz, Deputy Director-General, BMBF
  • Martin Penny, European Commission, Directorate-General, Research & Innovation
  • Sethuraman Panchanathan, Director, NSF
  • Otmar D. Wiestler, President, Helmholtz Association
Session 1 - Basic Science
Chair: Young-Kee Kim (U Chicago)
11:00 AM
Key Topics:
  • Experiences from the past and guidance for the future
  • Overcoming barriers in international collaboration
Panel participants:
  • Chair: Young-Kee Kim, Louis Block Distinguished Service Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago, and Elected President (2024) of the American Physical Society
  • Fabiola Gianotti, Director General, CERN
  • Robert Shelton, President, Giant Magellan Telescope GMTO
  • Michel Spiro, President of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics IUPAP
  • Daniel Zajfman, Chair of the Academic Board - Israel Science Foundation and former President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Pre-Lunch Key Note on Transatlantic Relations
12:30 PM
  • Wolfgang Ischinger, President of the Foundation Council, Munich Security Conference Foundation
Thematic Lunch Tables
12:45 PM
The thematic tables will be hosted by organizations/foundations and are intended to bring together participants for networking and exchange on a specific topic. More Information
Session 2 - Challenges & threats in big science
Chair: Francesco Sette (ESRF)
02:15 PM
Key Topics:
  • Climate Change, energy transformation and sustainable development
  • Pandemics
  • Technology sovereignty
  • International science resilience during crises
Panel participants:
  • Chair: Francesco Sette, Director General, ESRF; Chair of EIROforum
  • Antje Boetius, Director, Alfred Wegener Institute
  • Michael Kaschke, Chair, Supervisory Board KIT and Former CEO, Carl ZEISS AG
  • Thomas Mason, President and CEO of Triad National Security, LLC (Triad) and Director of Los Alamos National Laboratory
  • Mary Woolley, President, Research!America
  • Roger Falcone, Professor UC Berkeley and Past President of the American Physical Society APS
Coffee break
03:45 PM
Session 3 - Challenges of digital transformation
Chair: John Kelly III
04:30 PM
Key Topics:
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Quantum Computing / technology
  • HPC / Exascale Computing
  • Cyber Security
Panel participants:
  • Chair: John Kelly III, IBM Executive Vice President - Retired
  • Tommaso Calarco, Director, Institute for Quantum Control, FZ Jülich
  • Beate Heinemann, Director in charge of Particle Physics, DESY
  • Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director, ANL
  • Holger Hanselka, President, KIT
Close-Out of Day 1
06:00 PM
  • Helmut Dosch, Chair of Board of Directors at DESY
  • Eric Isaacs, President Carnegie Institution for Science
Networking Reception, Planet Word Museum
06:30 PM

Tuesday, 01 November 2022

Networking / Continental Breakfast
07:30 AM
Session 4 - Demystifying Science Through Public Participation
Chair: Marcia McNutt (NAS)
08:30 AM
Key Topics:
  • Regaining trust and confidence in science
  • Engaging public participation in science & innovation
  • Empowering the future generation
  • Diversity and gender equality
Panel participants:
  • Chair: Marcia McNutt, President, The National Academy of Sciences NAS
  • Magdalena Skipper, Editor in Chief, Nature
  • Gerald Haug, President, Leopoldina Academy
  • Jürgen Mlynek, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Falling Walls Foundation
  • Sudip Parikh, Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
Session 5 - Science & Diplomacy
Chair: Ottoline Leyser (UKRI)
10:00 AM
Key Topics:
  • Supporting global science diplomacy
  • Protecting academic freedom and values
  • Global participation and collaboration in science
  • Re-building science collaboration and research capacity
Panel participants:
  • Chair: Ottoline Leyser, Chief Executive, UK Research and Innovation UKRI
  • Rolf Heuer, President of the Council, Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East SESAME
  • Mohamed H.A. Hassan, President of the Council, The World Academy of Sciences for the advancement of science in developing countries TWAS
  • Kimberly Montgomery, Director of International Affairs and Science Diplomacy, AAAS
  • Mykola Shul’ga, Academician of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, Director General of the National Science Center Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology (NSC KIPT)
  • Andrei Afanasev, George Washington University/DOE Office of Nuclear Energy
Coffee break
11:30 AM
Closing Session - Moon & Mars shot projects
Chair: Anthony Cheetham, (UCSB)
12:00 PM
Key Topics:
  • What are mars/moon shot projects/ideas for the transatlantic partnership in
    • Sessions 1, 2, 3
    • Engaging the public/regaining trust in science
    • International cooperation / science diplomacy
Panel participants:
  • Chair: Anthony Cheetham, Research Professor, Materials Department, UC Santa Barbara
  • Speakers from other sessions
  • Eric Isaacs, President of the Carnegie Institution
  • Helmut Dosch, Chairman of the DESY Board of Directors