Open Science Day
Forum Rolex, EPFL Lausanne
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of EPFL, we wanted to give the important topic of open and reproducible research the attention it deserves.
To give participants an idea of the possible future trajectories of scientific disciplines present on our campus, world-class researchers and policy makers shared their answers to some pressing questions: How can we successfully transition to digital scholarship? What will knowledge production and dissemination look like in the future?
All the presentations were recorded and are available on our Youtube channel.
Programme and presentations
The slides of the presentations are now available by clicking on the title of the talks. The final programme of the EPFL Open Science Day can be downloaded here in pdf format.
08:15 – 08:45
Doors open and badge collection
08:45 – 09:00
“Welcome address” by Martin Vetterli, EPFL President
09:00 – 10:45
Session 1 – Research is an Open Enterprise
Chair Bruno Strasser, University of Geneva
- Maria Leptin, EMBO Director – “Open Science – What Will it Take to Get There?”
- José Moura, 2018 IEEE President-Elect – “IEEE: Open Access and Open Science“
- Sir Philip Campbell, Springer Nature – “Research as an open enterprise: an editor’s perspective”
Followed by a conversation and Q&A
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 13:00
Session 2 – Research Skills and Tools for the 21stCentury
Chair: Mercè Crosas, Harvard University
- Jeannette Wing, Columbia University – “Data Science Meets Open Science”
- Marcel Salathé, EPFL and Extension School – “Open Science and Benchmarks”
- Fernando Pérez, UC Berkeley – “Open Source in Science: Beyond the Code”
Followed by a conversation and Q&A
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30
Presentation by Katie Bouman, California Institute of Technology
“Imaging the Unseen: Taking the First Picture of a Black Hole”
14:45 – 15:15
Session 3 – Open Science at EPFL
- Katrin Beyer, EPFL – “The Open Science Initiative”
- Coming soon: video presenting the Open Science Champions
- Nicola Marzari, EPFL – “Computational science as a paradigm for openness”
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 – 17:15
Session 4 – Visions for Open Science
Chair: Martin Vetterli, EPFL President
- Robert-Jan Smits, TU Eindhoven Executive Board President – “The Importance of Open Science for University Research”
- Fabiola Gianotti, CERN Director-General – “Open Science at CERN”
- Ingrid Daubechies, Duke University – “Open Science = Diversity!“
Followed by a conversation and Q&A
17:15 – 17:30
Closing remarks by Andreas Mortensen, EPFL Vice President for Research
17:30 – 19:00 Drinks reception
Contact
Luc Henry, DPhil
Scientific Advisor
Presidency | EPFL PRES
BC 342 (Bâtiment BC) Station 14
CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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