Vienna International School Choir
Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo
opened the conference
f.l.: Lassina Zerbo, Ahmet Üzümzü, Frank Klotz and Robin Grimes
f.l.: IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano and
Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo
f.l.: Executive Secretary Lassina Zerbo and South African Minister for Science and TechnologyNaledi Pandor
f.l.: Ahmet Üzümcü, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Lassina Zerbo, Naledi Pandor
f.l.: Des Browne, Alexander Kmentt, Michael Linhart, Lassina Zerbo
Randy Bell and Nadja Bernard
Message by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Keynote speech by South African Minister for Science and Technology Naledi Pandor
Keynote speech by OPCW Director-General Ahmet Üzümcü
Keynote speech by Des Browne, Former Defence Secretary, UK, and Vice-Chairman of the Nuclear Threat Initiative
ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
The CTBT: Science and Technology 2015 Conference (SnT2015) took place from 22 to 26 June 2015 at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, Austria. It was the fifth in a series of multidisciplinary conferences designed to further enhance the strong relationship between the scientific and technological community and the CTBTO. See website story on the opening day and summary.
The conference series provides a forum for scientists from around the world to exchange knowledge and share advances in monitoring and verification technologies of relevance to the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT). Such interaction helps ensure that the Treaty’s global verification regime remains at the forefront of scientific and technical innovation.
With nearly 1110 registered participants and over 550 abstracts, SnT2015 is the largest such conference to date.
Awards
Young Scientist award: Sophie Guillon
for: Variability in Subsurface Gas Transport in the Light of Field Experiments and Numerical Modelling
Best poster: Gilbert Le Petit
(collected by Thierry Héritier)
for: High Resolution Electron Photon Detection System: A Major Breakthrough for Fission Product Analysis
Best oral presentation: Walter Dekin
for: Understanding the Challenges of On Site Inspection Drilling to Safely Recover Relevant Radiological Samples from an Underground Nuclear Explosion
EU Star Award: Munkhsaikhan Adiya
for: Seismic Swarm near the Capital of Mongolia Investigated Using Double Difference Tomography
Academic Forum
The 2015 CTBT Academic Forum was a results-oriented, interactive event for academics already engaged in, or interested in, CTBT education aiming to identify ways to integrate Treaty-related topics into existing policy or science-based academic curricula and to develop educational resources to further this objective. The Academic Forum was held on Friday June 26. See forum agenda (PDF).
Publications
Additional Information & Contact
For specific inquiries or information on the conference not available on these web pages, please contact SnT@ctbto.org.
Conference Goals
- Enlarge the scientific community engaged in test-ban monitoring
- Promote the wider scientific application of data that are used for test-ban verification
- Enhance the exchange of knowledge and ideas between the CTBTO and the broader scientific community
THEMES AND SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
The conference covers four themes:
1. The Earth as a complex system
2. Events and their characterization
Speakers & Moderators
- Ban Ki-moon - message
- Randy Bell - closing speech
- Des Browne - keynote speech
- Paolo Cotta-Ramusino
- Mark Fitzpatrick
- Robin Grimes
- Frank Klotz
- Patricia Lewis - Moderator
- Michael Linhart - opening speech
- Tate Nurkin
- Naledi Pandor - keynote speech
- Laura Rockwood - Moderator
- Elena Sokova
- Ahmet Üzümcü - keynote speech
- Lassina Zerbo - opening speech
Media
See media advisory (10 June) for media opportunities at the conference and logistics. For spin-off uses of CTBTO data, see press release "Nothing Escapes The Global Ear: Nuclear Tests, Volcanoes, Earthquakes or Meteors" (17 June). For additional information, please contact press@ctbto.org or tel. +43 1 26030 6457.
In the news
- Tapping a nuclear test ban treasure-trove (Science Magazine)
- Nuclear monitoring body urges scientists to use its data (SciDevNet)
- CTBT Conference looks to enhance cooperation (Radio Vatican)
- Nuclear monitoring agency reaches out to scientists (Nature)
- Giant 'Earth Stethoscope' Spies on Planet's Wonky Behavior (livescience)
- Nothing escapes The Global Ear: Nuclear tests, volcanoes, earthquakes or meteors (phys.org)
- Was das globale Ohr alles hört (Wiener Zeitung)
- 4 Gejala Aneh Bumi Saat Jadi Target 'Mata-mata' (Liputan6)
- The World's Ears and Nose: This Monitoring System Detects Nuclear Threats (Vice)
- Tratado de Prohibición Completa de Ensayos Nucleares: 18 años espiando a la Tierra (ABC.es)