Livestream https://youtu.be/Egi8CmGJ6SM Series: Chemistry Speaker: Brigitte Van Tiggelen (Science History Institute) Talk: "It's Not Elementary! The Successive Lives of Eka-Manganese aka Element 43" Abstract In 1988, a contribution appeared in the journal Nuclear Physics, signed by the Belgian nuclear chemist Pieter Van Assche with the title “The ignored discovery of the element Z = 43”.… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Brigitte Van Tiggelen, “It’s Not Elementary! The Successive Lives of Eka-Manganese aka Element 43”

Livestream https://youtu.be/Nd81pK9G1u8 Series: Urban Metabolism Speakers: Nicola Bertoldi, Ehsan Ahmadian, Elisabetta Rosa, and Daniela Perrotti (UCLouvain, Urban Metabolism lab) Abstract As part of the “AISt-nexus” project, this session presents work-in-progress research aiming to establish a model decision system for supporting support researchers, practitioners, and policymakers interested in studying metabolic dynamics at the urban level. This model… Continue reading CEFISES Seminar: Urban Metabolism lab, “How can conceptual analysis inform decision-making on model selection? Modelling the urban metabolism in light of the concept of ‘agency'”

Series: Metametaphysics