Events 2021
Digitalized public transport systems: Understanding, predicting, improving
- D-BAUG
- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility

D-BAUG Science Talk with Professor Francesco Corman from the Transport Systems research group (TS) at the Institute for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) at ETH Zurich.
A pandemic? Right in the middle of climate change. What does that mean for spatial development in Switzerland? A dialogue.
- D-BAUG
- Past Events
- IVT
- D-ARCH
- Mobility

NSL Forum: A dialogue between practise and higher education. Starting point is the pandemic and climate change is the background of the discussion.
Optimization and control in infrastructure networks
- External
- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility

Summer school featuring large-scale optimization and distributed control with a special focus on applications in both power and transportation systems.
Analysis of heterogeneity in travel behavior changes during the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Los Angeles region
- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility

IVT-Seminar with Professor G. Circella from the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Davis.
Info event CAS Transport Engineering
- CAS/DAS Transport Engineering
- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility
- Spatial planning
- Urban design

Deepen your knowledge and improve your skills in transport planning and transport operations. Info-event with Professor Kay W. Axhausen.
MATSim User Meeting 2021
- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility

This year's MATSim User Meeting is being conducted online. All presentations are ready to be watched in different video formats.
External events
Democratizing tech giants
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Political science
- Economics

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Hans Gersbach from the Department of Management, Technology, and Economics at ETH Zurich.
Managing spatio-environmental trade-offs of wind power deployment
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Sustainability
- Environmental sciences

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Paul Lehmann from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany.
Assessing COVID-19 response using household electricity data
- ETH Risk Center
- SEC
- Past Events
- Energy sciences
- Electrical engineering

ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Assistant Professor Jimmy Chih-Hsien Peng from Future Resilient Systems (FRS) at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
The economics of incomplete plan: On conditions, procedures and design of mission-oriented innovation policies
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Economics
- Business cycle research

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Dominique Foray, Chair of Economics and Management of Innovation at EPF Lausanne.
Linking pension benefits to longevity in public and private retirement schemes
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Seminars
- Economics
- Risk research

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Professor Jorge M.V. Bravo from NOVA IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa in Lisbon.
Emerging diseases and pandemics
- ETH Risk Center
- External
- Past Events
- Health sciences

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr Sylvie Briand, MD, PhD, MPH who is Director of the Global Infectious Hazard Preparedness department (GIH) at the World Health Organization’s (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
Science policy advising in times of a pandemic
- External
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Martin Ackermann about science's interaction with policy-making and with the society during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Physics-guided deep learning methods for learning structural dynamics with uncertainty
- ETH Risk Center
- SEC
- Past Events
- Engineering sciences

ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Dr. Zhilu Lai from Future Resilient Systems (FRS) at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
How humans judge machines
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Machine learning
- Ethics

ISTP Colloquium with Profesor César A. Hidalgo about applied artificial intelligence, moral and ethical aspects.
Technology competition & distributed renewable energy supply
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Mobility
- Electrical engineering

ISTP Colloquium with A. Eckmann and N. Stolz presenting their Master's theses about low-carbon transport transition in Switzerland and net-zero emissions goals in the power sector.
Days of future health: Digital biomarkers and beyond
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Seminars
- Data science

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr. Filipe Barata from the Chair of Information Management at ETH Zurich.
What is The Problem of Solving The Climate Problem?
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Political science
- Environmental sciences
- Climate sciences

ISTP Colloquium with Dr Michael Pahle from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research has insights on implementing CO2 pricing in Germany and the EU.
Too much noise about noise? Health impact of transportation noise
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Seminars
- Mobility

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Professor Martin Röösli from the University of Basel.
Responsible raw material extraction for car manufacturing
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Sustainability
- Mobility
- Engineering sciences

ISTP Colloquium with Franziska Killiches from the Volkswagen Group about strategy and sustainability in supplier relations.
Co-opolis: The collective production of the city
- External
- Past Events
- Spatial planning
- Urban design

NSL Colloquium about the city as a common matter. Exploration of common codes, resources and creative co-living.
Distributed energy resources for distribution grid resilience
- SEC
- External
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Energy sciences
- Engineering sciences

ETH Risk Center Resilience Webinar with Dr Jack Chin from Future Resilient Systems (FRS) at the Singapore-ETH Centre.
Climate extreme and unprecedented weather events
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Climate sciences

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Sonia I. Seneviratne on the conclusions from the latest IPCC report.
The insurability of pandemic risks
- ETH Risk Center
- External
- Past Events
- Seminars

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr. Anastasia Kartasheva from the University of St Gallen.
21st Swiss Transport Research Conference
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility
- Spatial planning

STRC 2021 - Swiss transportation scientists' and spatial planners' annual conference.
Symposium: ASTRA - SVI 2021
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility

Study programme results: Consequences of automated driving (ASTRA) and Traffic of the future (SVI)
Optimization and control in infrastructure networks
- External
- Past Events
- IVT
- Mobility

Summer school featuring large-scale optimization and distributed control with a special focus on applications in both power and transportation systems.
How do we design micromobility to add value to urban transportation?
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility

Presentation & panel with Daniel J. Reck about (e-) bikes, (e-) scooters and other mini vehicles which serve as individual people mover.
How can emerging mobility services contribute to more sustainable urban transport?
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility

Latest research on emerging mobility services by Daniel Reck at the Mobility4Future Ringvorlesung hosted at TU Dresden.
Transport planning: Is it the same after the pandemic?
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility

AET COVID-19 Webinar: New approaches, methods and resources, as well as emerging modes and services.
Energy trilemma in active distribution networks design: Balancing cost, emissions and security
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Electrical engineering

ISTP Colloquium with Giovanni Sansavini who is an Associate Professor of Reliability and Risk Engineering at ETH Zurich.
New national disaster risk assessment in Switzerland
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Engineering sciences

ETH Risk Center Seminar Series with Dr. Stefan Brem from the Federal Office for Civill Protection of Switzerland.
Urban climate modelling for high density city resilience
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Urban design
- Environmental sciences
- Climate sciences

Online ETH Risk Center Lunch Webinar with Prof. Chao Yuan from the Singapore ETH-Centre.
Microplastic regulation should be more precise to incentivize both innovation and environmental safety
- External
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Environmental sciences

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Denise Mitrano from the Department of Environmental Systems Science (D-USYS) at ETH Zurich.
Digitalisation – The key to the future of mobility
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility

Dr. Daria Martinoni, head of SBB Region East gives a public lecture within Society on the Move: The Digital Transformation of Mobility at the University of Zurich.
Digital innovation for a circular built environment
- External
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Engineering sciences

ISTP Colloquium with Catherine de Wolf who is Assistant Professor of Circular Engineering for Architecture at D-BAUG ETH Zurich.
Modelling COVID19 using an agent-based-model of travel
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility

Online seminar with Professor Kay Axhausen about agent-based micro-simulation with the current GPS tracking study on modelling the COVID19 pandemic.
Manage the worst to achieve the best: The hidden power of robust optimization
- ETH Risk Center
- SEC
- Past Events
- Energy sciences

Online ETH Risk Center Lunch Webinar with Dr. Alberto Costa from the Singapore ETH-Centre.
Revenge of the plastic bag: How unregulated trash management affects health
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Engineering sciences
- Environmental sciences

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Elizabeth Tilley from Global Health Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering at ETH Zurich.
Sustainability of global food systems – From understanding to actions
- External
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- World food system

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Alexander Mathys from the Department of Health Sciences and Technology at ETH Zurich.
Biodiversity and ecosystem services: A business case for Re/insurance
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Biology

Zoom Webinar with Dr Oliver Schelske and Anna Retsa from the Swiss Re Institute in Zurich.
Low-rank modeling for spatiotemporal mobility and traffic data
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility

Online talk by Dr Lijun Sun who is assistant professor at the Department of Civil Engineering at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
365 days of COVID19 (tracking) in Switzerland – What comes next?
- External
- Past Events
- Mobility

Online seminar with Professor Kay Axhausen for the Institute of Transport Studies at the University of Hong Kong.
Modeling the recovery process: A key dimension of resilience
- SEC
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Urban design

Online ETH Risk Center Lunch Webinar with Dr. Beatrice Cassottana from the Singapore ETH-Centre.
The role of economic geology research in the 21st century
- ISTP Colloquium
- Past Events
- Geology

ISTP Colloquium with Professor Cyril Chelle-Michou from Mineral Resource Systems at the Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology in the Department of Earth Sciences at ETH Zurich.
Why is it so hard to make self-driving cars?
- ETH Risk Center
- Past Events
- Machine learning
- Robotics

Webinar-Series Trustworthy, Complex and Intelligent Systems with Professor Josef Sifakis.