We are pleased to invite you to the following Future Lecture about The World Avatar:
"Beyond Connected Digital Twins: The World Avatar - Building Resilient Cities"
with Prof. Markus Kraft, Fellow des Churchill College Cambridge und Professor am Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
In the words of Prof. Kraft: “In a world increasingly vulnerable to extreme weather events, The World Avatar (TWA) hopes to offer interoperable solutions to build urban resilience. TWA is a groundbreaking initiative that uses dynamic knowledge graphs to create a digital replica of our world – from molecules to cities and beyond. With TWA, we can model and test solutions for the most pressing challenges in managing complex systems, enabling both disaster planning and response to extreme weather events.”
In his lecture Prof. Kraft will focus on TWA’s ability to predict the impact of future flood scenarios by combining data from water, energy, and telecom industries. TWA addresses interoperability issues by bridging the gaps between individual data siloes, facilitating dynamic impact analyses that can determine how failures would propagate across networks. Beyond predicting impacts, TWA supports holistic disaster response through flood-avoiding route optimization, infrastructure accessibility assessment before and during floods, and critical path analysis. Additionally, TWA enhances long-term climate resilience through assessing economic and cultural impacts on cities due to sea-level rise.
The Future Lecture will take place on Wednesday, 29 January 2025, at 5:00 p.m. in Audimax 2.
Future Lectures are rounded off by a get-together afterwards.
To attend the event on site, please register at: https://intranet.tuhh.de/anmeldung/futurelecture_jan29
For those who cannot be present in person, we also offer the option of online participation (broadcast only).
Please register to receive the relevant link: https://intranet.tuhh.de/anmeldung/futurelecture_jan29_zoom
After a very exciting and successful start in Beijing, the second part of the trip took Prof. Stefan Heinrich and the four SPE PhD students to the 14th International Conference on Circulating Fluidized Beds (CFB 14) in Taiyuan, China.
The conference included a total of 200 contributions from 15 nations on a range of topics from dynamics, heat and mass transfer of gas-solid flow, modeling and simulation, combustion, pyrolysis and gasification to fine particle and nano-particle systems.
At this conference:
Many thanks to the organizers for hosting an unforgettable conference. We gained numerous new insights and had the opportunity to contribute exciting topics.
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