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SYCE: Symposium Climate and energy: Challenges and options from a physics perspective

SYCE 1: Climate and energy: Challenges and options from a physics perspective

Thursday, September 30, 2021, 13:30–16:15, Audimax 1

Climate change poses pressing challenges about its implications as well as about understanding complex systems, including the transition of our energy system to completely renewable supply, understanding boundary conditions and understanding climate function and impact. Physics essentially contributes to this issue because it underlies developing and improving renewable energy supply devices and plants and also adds a holistic perspective towards planning and operation of fully renewable energy systems as well as socio-economic systems as a whole. The Symposium on the energy transition, climate and its impact as well as human interactions with these processes brings together approaches from physics and the exact sciences to provide a platform for cross-disciplinary discussions. Specifically, we address the pivotal issue how to most effectively and quickly make the transition to renewable generation and distribution in the areas of heating, and mobility, both in the private and industrial sectors.

	13:30	SYCE 1.1	Invited Talk: Why Ergodicity Breaking from Climate Change matters in Ecosystems? — •Jan Nagler
	14:00	SYCE 1.2	Invited Talk: Towards a carbon-free energy system: Expectations from R&D in renewable energy technologies — •Bernd Rech and Rutger Schlatmann
	14:30	SYCE 1.3	Invited Talk: A tale of stability, volatility, and uncertainty: What robust climate diagnostics can contribute to the design of climate mitigation approaches — •Kira Rehfeld
	15:00		15 min. break
	15:15	SYCE 1.4	Invited Talk: Electrons and molecules -- what role will hydrogen play in decarbonising our economy? — •Philipp C. Verpoort, Falko Ueckerdt, and Gunnar Luderer
	15:45	SYCE 1.5	Invited Talk: Path bifurcations ahead: critical transitions in World-Earth system dynamics of the Anthropocene — •Jonathan F. Donges