Initiative Seminars

Initiative Seminars at Chalmers represent crucial meeting places for people representing research, innovation and society. The seminars address challenging questions for humanity, important for a sustainable future. Renowned scientists are invited to talk about their work, discuss and in other ways interact with scientists and students at Chalmers. Representatives from industry and society are engaged in the program. Students are involved in workshops and poster exhibitions. An Initiative Seminar always includes a popular science component.

Upcoming Initiative Seminars

2022

PRODUCTION: May 4 (preliminary title: Resilient production)

2021

MATERIALS SCIENCE: November 17
Materials for Tomorrow 2021 "Additive Manufacturing – From academic challenges to industrial practice"

Previous Initiative Seminars

2021

TRANSPORT: September 21
Where are we going? Trends and research directions in transports

PRODUCTION: May 4
Production in Space

HEALTH ENGINEERING: April 13-14
Engineering Health

2020

MATERIALS SCIENCE: Nov 18 (online event)
Materials for Tomorrow

2019

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: 4-5 March
Advancing AI - with official kickoff for Chalmers AI Research Centre
LIFE SCIENCE ENGINEERING: 20-21 March
Engineering Health 2019
PRODUCTION: 26 March
The mind of the machine – digital twins and processing intelligence
TRANSPORT: 26 September
Transportation in the Age of Digitalisation
MATERIALS SCIENCE: 4 December
Materials for Tomorrow
EXCELLENCE INITIATIVE NANO and MOLECULAR FRONTIERS: 5-6 December
Light at the Nanoscale: From Molecules to Quantum Computers

2018

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY, 15 March
Digitalisation - Security & Privacy | Machine Intelligence
BUILDING FUTURES, 18 april
Virtual Cities - Opportunities and challenges
PRODUCTION, 8 May
Industrial Digitalisation and Future Work

ENERGY, TRANSPORT, 13 September
Electromobility - Back to the future

NANO and GRAPHENE CENTRE, 1-2 October
2D materials beyond graphene

LIFE SCIENCE ENGINEERING: 6-7 November
Marine Challenges - Blue Solutions

MATERIALS SCIENCE: 8-9 November
Innovation for global challenges

2017

NANO, ENERGY, MATERIALS SCIENCE: 6-8 December
Sustainable Energy
TRANSPORT: 15 November
Transition to future travel and transport
LIFE SCIENCE ENGINEERING: 8-9 November
Engineering Health – The Legacy of William Chalmers
MATERIALS SCIENCE: 6-7 November
Materials of Tomorrow 2017
PRODUCTION: 11-12 October
Frontiers of Additive Manufacturing
ENERGY: 18-21 June
International Sustainability Transitions Conference
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES: 15-16 March
Digitalisation - opportunities and challenges

2016

LIFE SCIENCE ENGINEERING: 30-31 August
Healthy Ageing - From microorganisms to humans
TRANSPORT: 27 October
Autonomous Transport Systems - the good, the bad and the unknown
MATERIALS SCIENCE: 8-10 November
Materials of Tomorrow 2016
NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY: 13-15 December
Quantum Technology

2015

BUILT ENVIRONMENT: 8 September 2015 (in Swedish)
Nya grepp för hållbara städer
TRANSPORT 6 October 2015
Boundary Crossing Transport Research
MATERIALS SCIENCE: 3 - 4 November 2015
Materials for Tomorrow 2015
PRODUCTION: 24 February 2015
Continuous Production

2014

MATERIALS SCIENCE: 4 - 6 November 2014
Materials for Tomorrow 2014
TRANSPORT: 16 October 2014
Green, safe, and effecient transports
NANO: 9 - 13 June 2014
Topological States of Matter
PRODUCTION: 4 June 2014
Vitalizing Process Engineering
INFORMATION- AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: 25 - 26 March 2014
Big Data: From Life Sciences, Engineering and Social Sciences to Business Analytics

2013

BUILT ENVIRONMENT: 5 December 2013
Global Challenges - Local Actions
NANO: 28-29 November 2013
Exploring the molecules of life
PRODUCTION: 3 October 2013
Grand opening Manufacturing Processes lab
MATERIALS SCIENCE: 30 September - 2 October 2013
Materials for tomorrow 2013
TRANSPORT: 12 September 2013
The road to transports of tomorrow (in Swedish)
LIFE SCIENCE ENGINEERING: 29 August 2013
Technology and Human Health: Advances in Systems Medicine
ENERGY: 14-16 May 2013
Chalmers Energy Conference

2012

LIFE SCIENCES: 19 November 2012
From Human health to Biosustainability
MATERIALS SCIENCE: 23-25 October 2012
Materials for Tomorrow 2012
NANO: 16-17 October 2012
Nano for Life Sciences
INFORMATION- AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: 4 October 2012
Green ICT
PRODUCTION: 20 September
Inaugeration of Production Systems Labratory
TRANSPORT: 28-29 August 2012
Transport efficiency (in collaboration with CLOSER and University of Gothenburg)
ENERGY: 28-29 March
Electricity for tomorrow

2011

BUILT ENVIRONMENT: October 28-29
Computational Design (Design och Kontruktionsdagen will be part of the event)
MATERIALS SCIENCE: October 18-19
Materials for Tomorrow 2011
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY: September 20-21
Future World-Class Information & Communication Engineers
TRANSPORT: September 8
Samverkan och demonstration – vägen till gröna, säkra och effektiva transporter!
PRODUCTION: September 13
Sustainable Production - A Global Challenge
ENERGY: 26-27 January
Bridging to Sustainable Energy Systems

2010

NANO: May 27–28
Nanotechnology for a Changing World: Science, Opportunities, Challenges
LIFE SCIENCES: August 18–20
Industrial Systems Biology, Sustainable production of fuels and chemicals
BASIC SCIENCES: September 15-16
Mathematics; Vetenskapliga modeller - en bild av verkligheten (in Swedish)
TRANSPORT: September 28-29
Förbränningsmotorer i ett uthålligt transportsystem – från förbränning till avgaser (in Swedish)
MATERIALS SCIENCE: October 13-15
Materials for tomorrow 2010

2009

June 1-2
At the interface between life and matter

2008

April 9-10
Evolution of sustainable human settlements
April 22-23
Visualization - a global language
October 7-8
Samspelet människa och teknik
October 15-16
Teknik och byggande för en åldrande befolkning

2007

November 7-8
Material för framtiden