Minister of Science and Education Thomas Ăstros will open the conference on August 25, and the introductory session will feature, among others, director general PĂ€r Omling as a representative of the largest Swedish sponsor, the Swedish Research Council. During the conference more than 300 speakers from Europe and the US will appear, in some one hundred sessions, lectures, and debates at Stockholm City Conference Centre.
The roster includes Nobel laureate Tim Hunt, EU advisers André Sapir and Helga Nowotny, and other prominent researchers from some 35 countries. The subjects span a broad field, from the aging population of Europe and particle physics to new findings about the function of the heart and language development.
Several Swedish research funders and companies are engaged in the conference, which will be a recurrent forum to highlight and discuss research in Europe.
A broad program of activities is also in place for the general public in the Stockholm area. Universities, organizations, and research institutes will be staging science shows and activities in Swedish and in English, among other venues. A few examples are a podium on a bicycle for professors, a âProfmobile,â a play about clinical testing of drugs, and âbuoysâ with intriguing questions that will be placed at bathing sites and elsewhere.
Klara Soup Theater will be staging science plays in collaboration with the Swedish Research Council, including a new play about Lady Newton, Voltaireâs friend and associate. Ămilie de ChĂątelet, her real name, was a pioneer in primarily natural science. Trained in mathematics, physics, languages, horsemanship, and fencing, she came to play a major role in the history of science. She received the nickname Lady Newton for her translations of Newtonâs works, including Principia, which she translated from Latin to French, with her own explanatory notes and addenda. The play,which will premier on August 27, is written and directed by Agneta Ginsburg.
âItâs been an inspiration to bring Ămilie de ChĂątelet to the fore. Like other women pioneers, she has received all too little attention,â says Agneta Ginsburg.
EuroScience Open Forum is to be a recurrent event, hosted by various countries. The initiative comes from EuroScience with support from organizations, institutions, research councils and companies all over Europe, including the European Commission, the European Science Foundation, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Robert Bosch Stiftung, Nature, the Swedish Science Forum, Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research, the Bank of Sweden
Tercentenary Foundation, Astra Zeneca and Affymetrix.
For more information and the complete program, please see www.esof2004.org
13 January, 2017 - SLU
Infertile shrublands in Australia host an exceptionally high number of plant species. How the species can coexist while competing for limiting resources has puzzled ecologists for decades. Researchers, including two from SLU, suggest that part of the answer for such high plant diversity could reside in the myriad of root-associated organisms that live in soils. The study is published in Science.
30 July, 2015 - SLU
It is in moderately complex landscapes that it is most effective to deploy local conservation management measures to enhance biodiversity, such as flowering border zones. The SLU-researcher Mattias Jonsson has together with colleagues from New Zealand, Australia and USA recently published evidence for this in Journal of Applied Ecology.
26 June, 2015 - SLU
The genome of the parasite that is causing clubroot disease on several agricultural and horticultural crops is now released. The new knowledge will hopefully be useful to develop better diagnostic methods, breeding strategies and elucidating the biology of this unique plant pathogen group.
9 October, 2014 - SLU
Ultraviolet patterns can make window glass visible to birds, thus preventing fatal collisions. However, it has now been shown that such windows are not likely to work for all species, but only for birds like small passerines, gulls and parrots, who have a special type of colour vision. For birds of prey, geese, pigeons and crows, these patterns should be difficult to detect. These conclusions appear today in an article by Olle HĂ„stad and Anders Ădeen in PeerJ.
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