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Okay, let's put the video to gaining method.
So I'm here today, I'm very glad, for me been invited for this talk by the
organizer. And it's specific, especially Bruno, that is a friend since many years.
Your decision of leaving this conference online was quite bold, and I see that the
pace very well. So it's very good. Very happy to be here. So in fact, CERN has
decided the Toronto in sixth of March to establish us So this was established to
collect and coordinate ideas that we weren't already starting to receive from
our community from the scientific community, of course, so the 17,000 people
would write, but also from individuals, people from society that was asking if
ascend could help and giving ideas for possible. So we decided to put together
this taskforce to collect these ideas to see what we could do, of course, in a
humble way, drawing on our expertise and the facilities that we have at CERN, and
in the member state count wrists, and we'll see how we could we could contribute
to society. So essentially, main messages certainly here certainly is present to the
society and research in other fields in this very difficult time. So therefore,
the task force was here, just a few members of the task force is about just
beyond the 2020 Members, they come from all over the senate speciality. So, if you
want so to have a multi culture I moved in, but I had expertise and also from of
course, from the experiments each from from each of the four major religious
spending. So as I said, the passport is as a multidisciplinary composition, this is a
very good element is a key element, in fact that has been enabled, that enabled
us to receive the ideas to be receptive to this idea and see how we could contribute
for for this for this idea that we saved. So several colleagues that are not
officially in tax force have been extremely active. I mean, we count that
beyond the composition of passports around 250 to 200 people have been active in
working with us and this has allowed an enormous acceleration of initiatives.
Finally, short routes to result making Emergency decisions for immediate help to
the neighbors. That was really the society around us but also then larger view
initiatives that are in support of our researchers, and also in unexplored
territories like community leaders. I will tell you today a bit about all this, this
work that we have. So in fact, we received about 300 of the mail exchanges we got
about 100 initiatives proposed somewhat duplication of others but in essence, we
do something divided this into three categories. So medical applications and
you will see something about ventilators according to society, so mainly for PPS
and for sanitizing, either off chronic solution, but also to logistic support and
also to, you will see is a big chapter or now to stabilize So, masks for example, to
avoid increasing the amount of crashes and then last but larger variety of
initiatives in the field of computing and data analysis. So, this water as you can
imagine, based on the folding at home around on on the seven platforms but also
on the general adoption of the mobile as a platform for open data for science. So let
me go through the ventilators. So, HTTP so is the high energy physics immunity
ventilator is a versatile a low cost high quality ventilator that has been developed
at sur starting from a core group in DHCP experiments but then joined immediately by
CERN but joined by the other universities. Liverpool, FL, Rio de Janeiro some
terrible state leak if Manchester crack of Riga Tech University often back so there
was really a big group of people working on this. The idea, of course was
stimulated by the emergency by the fact that ventilators is something that was in
short supply in the seventh countries, and also looking at the future for countries
that are in the low income settings for helping them to get some inexpensive
ventilator, with that is easy to manufacture. So three prototypes were
built, as you can see here in the picture, this is one of the prototypes. It has a
touch screen you see, in the in the middle of this buffer that is one of the main
feature of this ventilator, I don't have time to go through any things but this
buffer allows us to precisely monitor and define the pressure in output. So that
this can be regulated in a very precise Wait for the patient, it supports various
types of ventilation that are similar to the ones that are available in commercial
insulators. But it is much much simpler and as you can see, the number of
components is not very large and then there is this printer secret board that
essentially hosts a microcontroller in the microcomputer that allowed to have the
human interface with the machine and also to have all the controls that are needed
Of course for disability I availability kind of applications. As you can see, the
timeline has been impressive. So the first idea started the village the first work
started on March 27. By the end of April this was finished and now we are in a in a
situation in which essentially we are looking at the market we are looking at
the possible industrial after set bring this to the to the next steps. So, the
prototyping has been completed. We also gain support for software organization and
also to put in lists are we who with which we have been discussing extensively in
several fields to the mechanical ventilator Milano that is also from the
energy physics this came from, from an initiative of from The Global African
backmarker collaboration that essentially in this difficult time started with under
60 collaborators, 60 students and nine companies. So, the third partners
immediately in the game to develop these ventilators and they obtain the emergency
use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration on May 1. Also, in this
case, impressive timeline for the project was conceived on March 19. It was
essentially already tested 10 days after in ospital was hosting a call with
patients and then on May 1, we got to the accreditation from the FDA we have been
also supporting especially for mechanical components, a very simple project that
that is very easy to operate is essentially a bag like the ones that they
use on ambulance so that they are typically manipulated manually to to
ventilate patients, but this in this case with the two stepper motors and this is
extremely low cost object that nonetheless supports a lot of multiple ventilation and
and this is very promising for places where the resources are very low because
this is very easy to assemble and very cheap. But then you have to come so now,
this was emergency now we are also looking a bit at the at this moment. In this
moment. We have a lot of usage of masks everywhere. And we haven't got the request
from several institutions and from from people to see how we could reuse masks.
And so one big chapter of this is the provider with light disinfection. So this
is far we've got a violet in the one to 280 nanometers, so it's quite energetic.
You be like, this is not something new, we know that you'd be like and essentially
necrotizing cells and this, this is essentially what we are looking for.
As I said, you'd be like this not something new. You see here a Bhasin shung
guide that is completely sanitized by by UV lamps. So for this reason, ATMs have
been developmental of these boxes in which there are several mercury vapor paste
lamps, and that these boxes are meant to be used for studying digital tools. Me
Whatever you whatever you want and masks, but then, so, we developed together with
the company a small box in which essentially you can recognize one of these
such masks that are so frequently seen nowadays around and this is something that
we have developed and we just received it sir and we will exploit for having some
tests to see if this can become a tool that is cheap and readily available, but
can make masks reusable. Of course, serving we looked also given the issue
with cobalt 60 cobalt 60 and semi tissue electro beams, the idea is the same is out
to reuse
essentially peepees adding them suddenly in in this way.
We also looked at the 3d printed masks these are muscular build with a 3d
printer. They have a center on the plugin objects that allow essentially to to put
several type of filters it can arrive at even to the FFP to kind of filtration
standard and is completely washable. There has been in fact also some development by
the sandbox group to have a washable Empire playground that build filters that
they essentially make this mask to be completely reusable. So, of course, 3d
printing is very slow. We have now moved with the two building with a 3d printer
Oles where we can inject silicone and essentially now we are looking for
possible partners because there is quite some interest for also for this approach.
Okay, now, the other point on the rehabilitation of mask is coating so you
can pass the guy who's used coating for UV light treatment. This subject is component
is called the liquid glass essentially, silicone dioxide solution in water. This
makes a very thin coating on glass that is supplied by aerosol spray or deeping. The
mask into this solution is hydrophobic and the octopus you understand that it
protects you from droplets of water salts. But there is also possibility to add an
antiviral agent in the matrix to allow even further protection. So, this is a
very interesting object. This material does not make the mask to be stiffer, it's
very flexible, it's breathable. So we are looking into these kind of things to see
again in the field over reusing the protection that we would have to wear
every day. Okay, another chapter as being the production of sanitized So sanitizer
according to the who of ICP that has been the producer selling the chemical lab of
the vacuum group, we have produced 10,000 liters to date and the 6000 they'll be
donated to the local community you can see a very rare picture of a military track on
the same site loading 10,000 meters this solution and then we have at the also a
very interesting phase in which we started to produce this phase shifts phase shift
that we have in three different types. The type one is completely manually built a
second guy but like two is by injection molding, and then type three that is also
completely manual that is adapted to the to the elements. It has been developed in
CMS. This became a really a factory for the fish eat up one we produced 15,000
shoots in in quite a little time. With any impressive increase of the rate of
production per day we base past the from 50 per day to thousand per day. And the
more than 10,000 sheets have been donated that some are reserved for some usage for
TV stuff. I finish up the areas to computing computing has been very
important for fighting COVID and we have received requests from researchers outside
of AI energy physics for this. So of course as you can imagine, have been
contributed for the motto but with the great results when we started we bought
position 160 out of this 160 thousand teams worldwide. We are now 31st but for
sure in this moment while I speak. We have increased this we were fifth in May out of
more than this to under 50,000 tips. So this has been a great contribution. For
this, we deployed the 15,000 cores together with the other cores from the
experiments. But then we started to eat. But we have seen the sense that the
centers were not able to feed the queue for processing fast enough. So that's why
CERN has teamed up with other IoT physics labs to deploy Rocio and FDS that use for
data management and in this way, given the possibility for being a tool to be more
effective in feeding the computing course put available. So
yes,
Senado is been very, very popular two plus nodes and all the resources at CERN is
part of the CERN open data portal. We have we have a really an increase in requests
for Australia. Thanks and although from folding a dog but from a variety of
researchers we'll see in a moment some some examples and looking for example on
on buying there a popular notebook execution framework. Nowadays it shows at
15 difference in auto base flows, that is mean big success and they are all
connected to the core. So, example data set when we go from medical type of
application biological, but also about the standardization and the transport
logistics This is something that they've been quite, quite interesting we are in
discussion now with who because they have the problem of studying the supply chain
disruption because of the cobit and they also will be Austin with data in a lot.
So, they're being open access data initiatives. So initiative certainly
Concerning biological aspects and also concerning social economical aspects with
governments lab to see how to the COVID has impacted in several fields of our
life. So, here are just two examples. So, we who, with the emergency and disaster
risk management, we are looking at the support on data architecture limitation
for risk analysis and supply chain management. I was I was mentioning before
and we need diversity Bocconi on the right you see, first example of data aggregation
coming from data coming from several sources to build a map for the problems in
this case equally, but this will be the worldwide and to see how the, the effect
of the problem is on the session. So, socio economical aspect.
So, here you see
Examples also video logical simulation that is by a dynamo. That is a
collaboration that is based also at CERN, the University of Geneva. And on the
right, you see, some simulation have been done by CERN, the pH department
colleagues. These are petition there are many. And it's one of the aspects of the
of this of this work. So what is the long term impact on this? Well, we have a base
a lot of relations with organizations, both in high energy physics and outside
energy physics, with who with the biological labs, so this has strengthened
even more our our collaborations and our community seamless and we seen as a
reference for, especially for open data open science. So we have learned a lot and
this lessons are being shared With the other organizations, as I said, especially
who given also our our closeness in Geneva, but also with the World Economic
Forum now beyond the emergency so that's for us allowed sim to provide emergency
now this is a model of working that for sure we remain part of the surf culture we
can learn from as happened are we reacted and also to be prepared to respond even
better in future. So, you know, landscape is really changing that is worldwide
response to this to this emergency that has been outstanding and they've been
inputs from all parts of research, not only high energy physics, of course, so
concluded. So we responded at CERN with this task force joining a worldwide effort
to the scientific community as I was mentioning a second ago, we assured that
we will look at this not for Bolton we had the barrage Your ideas that is so high,
and also soy quality that we prevented many, but we have still some in our
pipeline to be connected. Certainly this emergency has increased our contact with
social media society and also research in other fields. And of course, I have a deep
cut for all the members of the Black Swan second colleague has said, we are about
150 200 person I've been working on this, because this really was important to make
this a success. So we take our best up, we will continue diligence is not over. And
we are still in operation.
Thank you very much for this really excellent summary and also for all of the
you know, important work that everybody is doing in this area. It's really impressive
to see that.
So I open the floor now for questions. He's raising See your hands and zoom or
put a message in the chat window?
Yes. While we are waiting, I can ask. I mean, you talked off several important
projects. I was wondering if there was one in particular that you thought was really
most challenging to undertake? And if and then what people are doing to overcome
those challenges?
Yes, well, the ventilator certainly has been a challenge because clearly I mean,
we have expertise attorney controlling the speculator several legal, really good good
level of controls and very precise. We are also mean expert in the gas manipulation.
So this was certainly certainly a good aspect. But now, going from a prototype
something to the patient is extremely challenging because it has to go standards
that are not easy to meet them. That circle we are not what we we do every day.
So, it is for these reasons that we have been lifting with who and seeking their
data expertise. And we are looking for, for investment partner in medical field so
that this could that could bring this to a solution. So this has been probably the
most challenging of the projects that we have been been doing.
Thank you.
Questions from the audience or from the panelists. If you're a panelist and you
have a question, you can just speak up or you cannot probably Raise your hands.
Looks like not. So again, I would like to thank you again for everything you're
doing and for your one