RevelationScience

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

• Propose session/setup to the MetaMeet
• Determine the first date
• Start looking for speakers
• Organize a recording setup, video & sound for youtube/web dissemination

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
• < please add an idea! >