How Big Physics Tools are Helping to Address the Covid-19 Pandemic

by Dr Robert F. Fischetti (Argonne National Laboratory)

Thursday Mar 4, 2021, 3:30 PM → 4:30 PM Pacific/Honolulu

Zoom

The U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science operates highly 
complex accelerator machines - light sources - that produce 
very high brightness x-rays. Scientists from around the world 
use these facilities to investigate problems in many scientific 
disciplines, from materials science to biology, chemistry, 
environmental, geological, and planetary science, and 
fundamental physics. The spread of the SARS CoV-2 virus and the 
ensuing COVID-19 pandemic created an urgent need for tools to 
guide the development of therapeutics and vaccines against the 
virus. In this talk, I will present how the DOE light sources 
are playing a critical role to end the pandemic.

Dr. Fischetti video

Fischetti_BigPhysicsTacklesCovid_2021-03-04.pdf