About
Mary Ann Mansigh Conversation Series
The Mary Ann Mansigh Conversation series focuses of non-strictly technical topics of cultural interest for the simulation and modelling community. The format reflects the informative and informal nature of these sessions, with talks introducing the subject followed by a conversation between the speakers and the audience.
The lecture series "Mary Ann Mansigh Conversation series" is co-organized by CECAM (https://www.cecam.org) and MARVEL (http://nccr-marvel.ch/) at EPFL.
Science and Diplomacy
Gihan Kamel - SESAME Facility, Jordan
Atish Dabholkar - International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy
Tatsujiro Suzuki - Nagasaki University (RECNA), Japan
Ronald Buffonais - University of Geneva, Switzerland
Lausanne, February 28 2025
Starting at 10:00 CET
In these complex times, the theme of Science and Diplomacy is of utmost relevance. We plan to address it from points of view that include education and scientific exchange in developing countries, the potential of computational science as a facilitator for diplomacy, actions of international institutions promoting peace and disarmament, and the management of cooperative research infrastructures in problematic areas.
Science writing and science editing - from journals to journalism
Nina Meinzer - Senior Editor and Team Leader, Nature Physics
Mark Peplow - Science journalist
Tuesday April 23 2024
Starting at 15:00 CEST
The lecture will take place on the EPFL campus, in room BCH2103 (Batochime building) and will be broadcasted live on Zoom.
Zoom link: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69623560691?pwd=QWkwckkvT3BmanY3b3RSTUl4L1dWUT09
Fascination and industrial value of materials modeling
Erich Wimmer
Thursday May 5 2022
Starting at 15:00 CEST
Join us for a conversation on the potential of materials modeling to create industrial value while satisfying human desire to understand the processes that form and transform materials around us.
The lecture will take place on the EPFL campus, in room BCH2103 (Batochime building) and will be broadcasted live on Zoom.
Programma 101, the little computer that could
Beniamino De’Liguori Carino, Foundation Adriano Olivetti
Pierpaolo Perotto, Finsa – Technology for people
Tuesday November 9 2021
1965 New York World Fair. Long before Microsoft and Apple and at a time when computers were big and expensive machines largely unknown to the general public, the Olivetti industries presented the Programma 101, the world’s first desktop computer.
Did you know it?
Join us to learn more about this revolutionary machine, get to know the scientific and design team behind it, and (re)discover the unusual philosophy of the industry where it was born and died.
Computer modelling for industrial applications
Massimo Noro
Daresbury Laboratory, United Kingdom
Wednesday May 8 2019
In this conversation, Massimo Noro, formerly at Unilever and current Business Development Director at Daresbury labs, will discuss with Prof. William Curtin, EPFL, and with the audience the relevance of simulation for industry and his role as the leader of an important computing facility that interacts directly with industry. This conversation will offer insight on how to promote and facilitate industrial use of simulation and modelling, and will allow us to meet a “living example” of a carrier path for simulators outside academia.
Almost famous a woman behind the codes
Mary Ann Mansigh Karlsen
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Wednesday November 15 2017
Many of the breakthroughs of the early days of simulation would not have been possible without skilled programmers who translated new scientific ideas into efficient codes that would run without errors on the supercomputers of the 1950s and 1960s.