EPS grand challenges : physics for society in the horizon 2050 / edited by Carlos Hidalgo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hidalgo, Carlos, editor.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks. 2024 collection.

IOP ebooks. [2024 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

European Physical Society.

Physics--Social aspects.

Physics.

Science--Social aspects.

Science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

European Physical Society grand challenges : physics for society in the Horizon 2050.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2024]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Carlos Hidalgo received his PhD degree from Madrid Complutense University with his work on structural defects in solids and positron annihilation spectroscopy. His next area of research was related to plasma turbulence, transport and plasma diagnostics at CIEMAT where he is currently leading the Spanish National Fusion Laboratory. Carlos has worked in different international laboratories, initially as a PhD student (Technical University of Denmark, Nuclear Research Centre of Grenoble, Technical University of Helsinki) and later as visiting scientist (Fusion Centre at the University of Austin (US), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (US), Joint European Torus (UK), Max Planck Institute (Germany), National Institute Fusion Studies (Japan), Southwestern Institute of Physics (SWIP, China)). He has led different research teams in the framework of the International Fusion Programme and participated in European and International Advisory Committees on Fusion Science and Technology. He has chaired the Division of Plasma Physics and the Forum on Physics and Society of the European Physical Society.

Summary:

There are many images of science and the activities of scientists. Some would imply that science will eventually reach the limits of knowledge while others create an expectation of endless horizons. Some people would believe that science has or will provide the answers to key open questions that lie ahead, while others experience fear regarding its development. In this book, we will look at all these aspects, going from particles, via atoms, cells, stars, galaxies, our place in the universe, to explore what makes us, human beings, really unique in nature: our ability to imagine and shape the future by making use of the scientific method. The book is an EPS action designed to address the social dimension of science and the grand challenges in physics that will bring radical change to developed societies, raise standards of living at the global scale, and provide basic understanding of nature on the horizon 2050.

Contents:

1. Introduction

part I. Physics as global human enterprise for understanding nature. 2. Physics bridging the infinities / Freya Blekman, Angela Bracco, Nelson Christensen, Emmanuel Dormy, Patrick Eggenberger, Claus Kiefer, Franck Lépine, Mairi Sakellariadou, Emmanuel N. Saridakis, Jochen Schieck and Claudia-Elisabeth Wulz

3. Matter and waves / Marco Baldovin, Antoine Browaeys, José María De Teresa, Claudia Draxl, Frédéric Druon, Giacomo Gradenigo, Jean-Jacques Greffet, Franck Lépine, Jan Lüning, Lucia Reining, Pascal Salières, Pierre Seneor, Luis Silva, Thomas Tschentscher, Kees van Der Beek, Antje Vollmer and Angelo Vulpiani

4. Physics for understanding life / Patricia Bassereau, Angelo Cangelosi, Jitka éCejková, Carlos Gershenson, Raymond Goldstein, Zita Martins, Sarah Matthews, Felix Ritort, Sara Seager, Bart Van Tiggelen, David Vernon and Frances Westall

part II. Physics developments to tackling major issues affecting the lives of citizens. 5. Physics for health / Ralph Assmann, Darwin Caldwell, Giulio Cerullo, Henry Chapman, Dana Cialla-May, Marco Durante, Angeles Faus-Golfe, Jens Hellwage, Susanne Hellwage, Christoph Krafft, Timo Mappes, Thomas G Mayerhöfer, Thierry Mora, Andreas Peters, Chiara Poletto, Juergen Popp, Felix Ritort, Petra Rösch, Lucio Rossi, Marta Sales-Pardo, Iwan Schie, Michael Schmitt, Friedrich Simmel and Aleksandra Walczak

6. Physics for the environment and sustainable development / Ankit Agarwal, Philippe Azais, Luisa Cifarelli, Jacob de Boer, Deniz Eroglu, Gérard Gebel, Carlos Hidalgo, Didier Jamet, Juergen Kurths, Florence Lefebvre-Joud, Søren Linderoth, Alberto Loarte, Norbert Marwan, Natalio Mingo, Ugur Ozturk, Simon Perraud, Robert Pitz-Paal, Stefaan Poedts, Thierry Priem, Bernd Rech, Marco Ripani, Shubham Sharma, Tuan Quoc Tran and Hermann-Josef Wagner

7. Physics for secure and efficient societies / Felicia Barbato, Marc Barthelemy, Christian Beck, Jacob D. Biamonte, J. Ignacio Cirac, Daniel Malz, Antigone Marino, Zeki Can Seskir and Javier Ventura-Traveset

8. Science for society / Tobias Beuchert, Alan Cayless, Frédéric Darbellay, Richard Dawid, Bengt Gustafsson, Sally Jordan, Philip Macnaghten, Eilish McLoughlin, Christophe Rossel, Pedro Russo, Luc van Dyck, François Weiss and Ulrich von Weizsäcker.

Notes:

"Version: 20240301"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on April 11, 2024).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750363402

0750363401

9780750363426

0750363428

OCLC:

1429236047

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access.