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Event Revelation Science with Vered Blass on Electronic Waste

Name	Revelation Science with Vered Blass on Electronic Waste
Duration	2011/10/04 - 2011/10/04
Information	Vered Blass on Electronic Waste * Location: RevSpace * Open from: 20:00

Next event

4 October 2011 : 20:00
Dr. Vered Blass, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Title " Electronic waste, what? where? who? "
Background reading:
- United Nations Environmental Programme report "E-waste, the hidden side of IT equipment's manufacturing and use" (4 pages)

What

An evening, where an invited scientist/engineer talks about the latest/greatest/weirdest topic they work with. Goal is to present a topic or problem so that an an intelligent but lay audience can follow it. After a talk (say 45 mins to 1 hour) an hour long discussion Q&A session will take place, followed by an informal drinks and further discussion. The topics are not set or limited, as long it has a solid scientific base and can be related to things hackers / geeks care about.

When

Estimated frequency 12 or 6 times a year.

For who

For all RevSpace members plus any other guest that is interested in coming.

By whom

Gori will be contacting and inviting scientists from his own network + whoever else gets suggested. Please feel free to suggest a person to invite, or a topic to find a expert for below

To Do

Organize a recording setup, video & sound for youtube/web dissemination (gmc will help with this Tuesday)

List of potential speakers / topics

4 october - Vered Blass - Tel Aviv University, - E-waste, End of Life networks and you
[httphttp://wiki.tudelft.nl/bin/view/Main/IgorNikolic Igor Nikolic] TPM/ TU Delft Complex Adaptive Systems theory and how to understand and model the co-evolution between social and technical systems.
Rene Kleijn from CML Leiden about (rare earth) metal flows through the economy/ecology
Chris Davis about wikis, open data, social processes and structuring complexity
Mark de Bruijne TPM/TU Delft about robustness and resilience in infrastructure systems
Frank Boons, EUR, social systems / industrial systems
Quantum Computing - Floor Paauw for example
Nanotechnology : possible contact via diggie
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