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text: Conference travel contributes to the climate footprint of academic research.
Here, we provide a quantitative estimate of the carbon emissions associated with
conference attendance by analyzing travel data from participants of 10 international
conferences in the field of magnetic resonance, namely EUROMAR, ENC and ICMRBS.
We find that attending a EUROMAR conference produces, on average, more than 1 t CO2 eq..
For the analyzed conferences outside Europe, the corresponding value is about
2–3 times higher, on average, with intercontinental trips amounting to up to 5 t.
We compare these conference-related emissions to other activities associated with
research and show that conference travel is a substantial portion of the total
climate footprint of a researcher in magnetic resonance. We explore several strategies
to reduce these emissions, including the impact of selecting conference venues
more strategically and the possibility of decentralized conferences. Through a
detailed comparison of train versus air travel – accounting for both direct and
infrastructure-related emissions – we demonstrate that train travel offers considerable
carbon savings. These data may provide a basis for strategic choices of future
conferences in the field and for individuals deciding on their conference attendance.
acknowledgement: 'First and foremost, we are grateful to the conference organizers
who have provided data, either in the form of tables or by pointing us to abstract
books. We thank the reviewers and the handling editor (Gottfried Otting) for the
careful reading and suggestions. This project emerged from an interactive course
about energy and climate, held at IST Austria by Jeroen Dobbelaere, Georgios Katsaros
and Paul Schanda. We are grateful to ISTA''s Graduate School for enabling this interdisciplinary
course and to all participating students. We thank the following persons for discussions
and/or comments about the manuscript: Helene Van Melckebeke, Mei Hong, Jeff Hoch,
Gottfried Otting and Matthias Ernst. For the preparation of the manuscript, AI tools
have been used, namely for finding relevant literature (ChatGPT) and for correcting
the text (Writefull, within Overleaf LaTeX).'
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ama: 'Kapoor L, Ruzickova N, Zivadinovic P, et al. Quantifying the carbon footprint
of conference travel: The case of NMR meetings. Magnetic Resonance. 2025;6(2):243-256.
doi:10.5194/mr-6-243-2025'
apa: 'Kapoor, L., Ruzickova, N., Zivadinovic, P., Leitner, V., Sisak, M. A., Mweka,
C. N., … Schanda, P. (2025). Quantifying the carbon footprint of conference travel:
The case of NMR meetings. Magnetic Resonance. Copernicus Publications.
https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-6-243-2025'
chicago: 'Kapoor, Lucky, Natalia Ruzickova, Predrag Zivadinovic, Valentin Leitner,
Maria A Sisak, Cecelia N Mweka, Jeroen A Dobbelaere, Georgios Katsaros, and Paul
Schanda. “Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Conference Travel: The Case of NMR
Meetings.” Magnetic Resonance. Copernicus Publications, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5194/mr-6-243-2025.'
ieee: 'L. Kapoor et al., “Quantifying the carbon footprint of conference
travel: The case of NMR meetings,” Magnetic Resonance, vol. 6, no. 2. Copernicus
Publications, pp. 243–256, 2025.'
ista: 'Kapoor L, Ruzickova N, Zivadinovic P, Leitner V, Sisak MA, Mweka CN, Dobbelaere
JA, Katsaros G, Schanda P. 2025. Quantifying the carbon footprint of conference
travel: The case of NMR meetings. Magnetic Resonance. 6(2), 243–256.'
mla: 'Kapoor, Lucky, et al. “Quantifying the Carbon Footprint of Conference Travel:
The Case of NMR Meetings.” Magnetic Resonance, vol. 6, no. 2, Copernicus
Publications, 2025, pp. 243–56, doi:10.5194/mr-6-243-2025.'
short: L. Kapoor, N. Ruzickova, P. Zivadinovic, V. Leitner, M.A. Sisak, C.N. Mweka,
J.A. Dobbelaere, G. Katsaros, P. Schanda, Magnetic Resonance 6 (2025) 243–256.
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text: "In [KW06] Kapustin and Witten conjectured that there is a mirror symmetry
relation between\r\nthe hyperkähler structures on certain Higgs bundle moduli
spaces. As a consequence, they\r\nconjecture an equivalence between categories
of BBB and BAA-branes. At the classical\r\nlevel, this mirror symmetry is given
by T-duality between semi-flat hyperkähler structures on\r\nalgebraic integrable
systems.\r\nIn this thesis, we investigate the T-duality relation between hyperkähler
structures and the\r\ncorresponding branes on affine torus bundles. We use the
techniques of generalized geometry\r\nto show that semi-flat hyperkähler structures
are T-dual on algebraic integrable systems.\r\nWe also describe T-duality for
generalized branes. Motivated by Fourier-Mukai transform\r\nwe upgrade the T-duality
between generalized branes to T-duality of submanifolds endowed\r\nwith U(1)-bundles
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mla: Sisak, Maria A. T-Dual Branes on Hyperkähler Manifolds. Institute of
Science and Technology Austria, 2024, doi:10.15479/at:ista:18443.
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and Technology Austria, 2024.
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