Inaugural and farewell lectures

Sarah Springman

Since the foundation of the department, D-BAUG has welcomed and bid farewell to numerous professors and private lecturers. The recordings of the public inaugural and farewell lectures can be found in the overview below.

Johan Gaume

Inaugural Lecture 19 December 2023
Professor Johan Gaume


Snow and Avalanche Mechanics: Between Solid and Fluid

Kay Axhausen

Farewell Lecture 07 December 2023
Professor Kay Axhausen


Visions and dilemmas

Farewell Lecture 10 October 2022
Professor Markus Rothacher

Global Navigation Satellite Systems: the surprising wealth of applications

Farewell Lecture 03 June 2022
Professor Sarah Springman


Did the earth move (for you)?

Inaugural Lecture 22 March 2022
Professor Catherine De Wolf

«This is not a pipe - How digital motivation can help circular construction»

Inaugural Lecture 04 October 2021
Professor Benedikt Soja
 

Machine Learning – a New Chapter in Geodetic Earth Observation

Inaugural Lecture 04 October 2021
Professor David Kaufmann

Densification: Acceptance and socio-economic effects of urban development

Inaugural Lecture 10 October 2021
Professor Andreas Taras

Use less, build more: technologies for the future of steel construction

Introductory Lecture 25 February 2019 
Professor Olga Fink

Artificial Intelligence for maintenance systems

Inaugural Lecture 23 September 2019
Professor Michalis Vassiliou

Rocking, chaos, and seismic testing of 3D printed small scale models

Inaugural Lecture 23 September 2019
Professor David Kammer
 

Modeling failure of materials & interfaces  

Inaugural Lecture 28 March 2018
Professor Daniel Hall

The Global Construction Industry: Reorganizing Today for Innovation Tomorrow

Inaugural Lecture 28 March 2018
Professor Francesco Corman
 

Transport systems in the digital revolution  

Farewell Lecture 23 May 2018
Professor Bernd Scholl
 

Design the living space!

Farewell Lecture 10 October 2018
Professor Hans Jürgen Herrmann  
 

As Physicist among Engineers

Inaugural Lecture 16 May 2017
Professor Daniel Farinotti

The past, the present, and the future: Why do we need glaciology at all

Inaugural Lecture 01 November 2017
Professor Ueli Angst
 

The corrosion of our infrastructure

Inaugural Lecture 29 November 2016
Professor Ioannis Anastasopoulos

Design of foundation–structure systems against large tectonic deformation  

Inaugural Lecture 21 May 2015
Professor Walter Kaufmann

Challenges in concrete construction

Inaugural Lecture 21 Oktober 2015
Professor Roman Stocker

Of Fluid Flow and Microbes: Biological Transport in the Environment

Introductory Lecture 29 April 2014
Professor Markus Holzner

Turbulent interfaces - challenges in environmental hydromechanics

Farewell Lecture 18 November 2014
Professor Wolfgang Kinzelbach


Water and more - my random walk through life

Inaugural Lecture 09 April 2013
Professor Bruno Sudret
 

Uncertainty quantification in engineering

Farewell Lecture 24 April 2013
Professor Hilmar Ingensand

Engineering Geodesy in the Age of Technological Change

Inaugural Lecture 06 May 2013
Professor Andreas Wieser

Rockfall, Burj and Laser Scanning: Changes in Engineering Geodesy

Inaugural Lecture 11 November 2013
Professor Max Maurer

Is our use of water sustainable? Urban water management in transition

Inaugural Lecture 19 November 2013
Professor Guillaume Habert
 

Materials: building blocks for sustainable construction

Inaugural Lecture 14 May 2012                                                        
Professor Martin Raubal
 

What is geoinformation for? Decision support for mobile people 

Inaugural Lecture 30 May 2012
Professor Bozidar Stojadinovic
 

Engineering Resilient Communities

Inaugural Lecture 05 November 2012                                                 
Professor Ingo Burgert
 

Can we still improve wood?

Inaugural Lecture 21 February 2011
Professor Bryan T. Adey
 

Our infrastructure

Inaugural Lecture 24 February 2011
Professor Eleni Chatzi

Structural Health Monitoring - From Theory to Implementation

Inaugural Lecture 28 February 2011
Professor Robert J. Flatt
 

Chemical "Spices" for Sustainable Building Materials

Inaugural Lecture 30 March 2011
Professor Jing Wang

Aerosol Technology in Nanomaterial Environmental, Health and Safety Studies

Inaugural Lecture 13 April 2011
Professor Konrad Schindler

How our cars see us - automatic visual person recognition

Inaugural Lecture 10 May 2010
Professor Eberhard Morgenroth
 

Where are we going to get our water from?

Inaugural Lecture 25 October 2010
Professor Robert Boes

Hydraulic engineering in the field of tension between theory and practice 

Inaugural Lecture 30 November 2010
Professor Irena Hajnsek

The relevance of synthetic aperture radar (SAR) for the environment

Farewell Lecture 12 May 2009
Professor Hans-Rudolf Schalcher

Can construction be planned and controlled?

Farewell Lecture 07 October 2009
Professor Hans-Gert Kahle
 

Focus on geodesy and geodynamics

Inaugural Lecture 28 October 2009
Professor Markus Rothacher

GPS/GALILEO - more than navigation: monitoring the Earth system from space

Inaugural Lecture 09 December 2009
Professor Adrienne Grêt-Regamey
 

Landscape and environment - Our capital for spatial development

Farewell Lecture 21 May 2008
Professor Erwin Minor

High velocity flows: Problems and approaches to solutions. 10 years later.

Farewell Lecture 27 October 2008
Professor Alessandro Carosio

Does Switzerland need ETH - Does ETH need Switzerland? Thoughts of a geomatics engineer

Inaugural Lecture 04 April 2007
Professor Holger Wallbaum

The World Building: From Utopia to Reality of Sustainable Construction

Inaugural Lecture 31 May 2007
Professor Bernd Scholl
 

Zukunft Raumentwicklung Schweiz

Inaugural Lecture 27 April 2006
Professor Alexander M. Puzrin
 

A Mechanism of Tsunamic Landslides

Inaugural Lecture 23 October 2006
Professor Stefanie Hellweg

From dirty good to protected good: perspectives for proactive environmental protection

Farewell Lecture 25 January 2005
Professor Edoardo Anderheggen
 

Computers in Civil Engineering - revisited 

Inaugural Lecture 01 June 2005
Professor Ulrich Weidmann

Change and Values: Public Transportation in the 21st Century

Inaugural Lecture 28 October 2004
Professor Georg Anagnostou
 

Stability and deformation in underground mining

Inaugural Lecture 02 December 1999
Professor Kay W. Axhausen

Citizens or customers: The road user's dilemma

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