Program Planning
2nd Workshop on Sustainability in the Digital Transformation of Basic Research on Universe & Matter (2025)
What happened so far:
- 2023: In-person Workshop: https://indico.desy.de/event/37480/
- 2024: Follow up paper and online meetings
- Publication: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.01169
- Online Discussion: https://indico.desy.de/event/44490/
- Online Discussion: https://indico.desy.de/event/45927/
- 2025: In-person Workshop: https://indico.desy.de/event/47133/
- 28 July - 1 August 2024
- (Erholungsgesellschaft) Aachen
First Meeting with the Program Committee 19.02.2025
Participation: Jan Bürger, Markus Demleitner, Günter Duckeck, Martin Erdmann, Benjamin Fischer, Martin Gasthuber, Thomas Kuhr, Judith Reindl, Markus Schumacher, Judith Steinfeld, Dwayne Spiteri, Achim Streit, Angela Warkentin, Sebastian Wozniewski
Second Meeting with the Program Committee 11.03.2025
- Tuesday, March 11 from 4 - 5:30 pm: https://rwth.zoom-x.de/j/65088391540
Goals (Up to discussion on March, 11) |
| Author / Contact (optional) |
| Definition | What exactly is meant by “sustainability” | Achim S., Judith R. |
| Track Progress / Review | What is the concrete progress since the last workshop, what worked, what not. | Thomas K, Judith R. |
Verbindung zwischen Review und Outlook (Connection/Linking) | Based on input from referees I think one topic is whether we should collect data to effectively represent progress | |
| A paper detailing how to combat the practicalities of tackling sustainability issues (in Germany) | ||
| Outlook & Concrete Recommendation for Action | What new ansatzes (approaches) exist, what should we try | Achim S. |
Konkrete Empfehlungen ans BMBF bzw. Projekte als einige white papers. (Concrete recommendations to the BMBF and projects in the form of white papers) | ||
Bildung von Fokusgruppen zur Umsetzung gefundener Leitlinien aus mehreren Projekten, über den Workshop hinaus. (z.B. Connect Workshop 2024) Formation of focus groups for the implementation of identified guidelines from multiple projects, beyond the workshop (e.g. Connect Workshop 2024) | ||
Prüfsteine für einen dritten Workshop, der die Umsetzung der Fokusgruppen überprüfen kann. Criteria for a third workshop that can assess the implementation of the focus groups. |
Goals:
- Last workshop was impulse, this should enable implementation by developing concrete action points.
- Focus is on implementation
- Do we need a paper? How can the results be optimally prepared?
- At the end, concrete measures should emerge and be recorded (e.g. white paper, without publication, but with the aim of disseminating the measures widely)
- Concrete assignments: Show on DPG, concrete “tasks” with responsible persons (to be reported, e.g. to Overview Board or next year in the workshop)
Topics (Up to discussion on March, 11) | What do we want to cover in terms of content? (Subgroups 2023: Footprint, Dynamic Energy Supply, Hardware Lifetime, Hardware & Algorithms, Smart Data, Cultural Change, Autonomization, Inquiries & Dynamics, Algorithms & Software, Machine Models, Injected Intelligence, Workflows & Stakeholders) | Author / Contact (optional) |
CO2 / Footprint with regards to hardware | How to handle CO2-budget of the production of the hardware (+1) | Achim Stahl, support by Markus Sch (may contact Öko Institut e.V.) |
| Ethical implications of Life Cycle analysis (where machines are made - where they end up) | ||
Operation of Data Centres / Use of Energy | Sustainable operation of compute and data centres | Markus Sch. |
| How can we integrate datacentres/experiments with their environments | ||
| What metrics are we use to decide how clean energy is/ optimal time for greenest use of energy | ||
| Von Stromerzeugenden und Netzbetreibern Input bekommen, was wir eigentlich tun sollen. BnetzAgentur beiholen? | (Raum1) | |
Sustainable Programming & Implications / User
| Sustainable programming is a topic frequently requested by the community. How can we drive this forward? | Angela Warkentin |
| Ethical question: if software gets more efficient by factor n will then e.g. simualtion run factor n more or will stop after initial goal reached? | Markus Schh. | |
| Wie managen mir die Wirkungen auf die Nutzenden, so dass diese mitgehen? Wie können wir für diese Motivation schaffen? | (Raum 1) | |
| Motivation & Ethics | Wie managen mir die Wirkungen auf die Nutzenden, so dass diese mitgehen? Wie können wir für diese Motivation schaffen? | |
| Introductions to Ethics and/in Sustainability | ||
| UN sustainability points and the impact to physics | ||
| Sustainability Communication: how to spread motivation among scientists | ||
| Politics & Stakeholder | Mit BMBF-Leuten darüber reden, wie wir unsere Erkenntnisse umgesetzt bekommen | (Raum 1) |
| Allgemeiner: Leitlinien für konkretes Handeln mit den Stakeholdern ausarbeiten. | (Raum 1) | |
| Umgang mit politischen Zwängen (“wir gehen nicht nach Polen, weil deren Strom so dreckig ist” bzw. die Zurückweisung so einer Erwägung aus politischen Gründen)? (Or: If we fund it here we also want to run it here and not in Norway, Iceland ,... ) | ||
| Political barriers to sustainability (local laws/regulations) | ||
| What does the BMBF expect? (Invite BMBF representative) | ||
| Teaching & Science | In view of abilities of Humans versus Machines (see table below): how will ErUM science change in future | Martin E. |
| Knowledge transfer, education, what concepts will stay to be important, what will be new | Judith Reindl, Martin E. | |
| Wie managen mir die Wirkungen auf die Nutzenden, so dass diese mitgehen? Wie können wir für diese Motivation schaffen? | ||
| Sustainability Communication: how to spread motivation among scientists |
