EuroScience Open Forum
25 August 2004 - 28 August 2004
Sweden
This pan-European interdisciplinary scientific meeting provides an opportunity to discuss the latest research from leading international scientists. The forum highlights Europe's position, alongside the United States, as the worlds pre-eminent region for scientific research. The eighteen topics presented at the forum include science policy issues, humanity and space, the human brain, communication science, science and ethics and more.
The programme will host approximately 300 scientific speakers from all over the world and the topics will range from discussions on the demographic problems of Europe to new discoveries in brain research and ondontology. The speakers are international leaders in their fields, and include Professor André Berger, of the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics at the Catholic University of Louvain, Catherine Bréchignac, Research Director at CNRS and President of the Institut dOptique, André Sapir, advisor to the European Commission and author of "An Agenda for Growing Europe" and Dr Tim Hunt, Principal Scientist at Cancer Research UK. They are joined by government ministers from around the world, representatives of international organizations, leading journalists and other major opinion formers.
The event holds 14 press briefings throughout the four days and there will be opportunities to speak to many of the speakers:,WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST,9:00-10:00 Psychopathology of organisations,11:00-12:00 Materials: Tougher Chips on the Menu,13:00-14:00 Major exoplanet discovery made with new instrument at ESO,14:00-14:30 Health and disease: does gender matter?,15:00-16:00 New fixed teeth in 30 minutes: from fiction to reality
THURSDAY 26 AUGUST,8:00-9:00 Beyond global warming: where on the Earth are we going? ,10:00-11:00 Ageing: the demographic challenge,11:30-12:30 Olympic Games 2004 and the limitations of human performance ,12:30-13:30 Infectious disease in an expanding Europe ,14:30-15:30 Universal language or polyglot discourse
FRIDAY 27 AUGUST,8:00-9:00 How the study of the human brain helps us understand mental illnesses,10:00-11:00 Europe's Vision for the Future of Particle Physics: The International Linear Collider Project,12:00-13:00 Climate and risk management: are we ignoring the obvious?,12:00-14:00 Press lunch at Forskning&Framsteg ,14:00-15:00 The overlooked evolutionary dimension of fisheries ,15:00-16:00 Can Europe compete in pharmaceutical research & development?,16:00-17:00 World Federation of ScienceAll press briefings will be held in the press briefing room, Folkets Hus, room number 307.
** Other media events are listed on the bulletin board in the press secretariat**
Note to journalists: The schedule is subject to change. Adjustments will be posted on http://www.esof2004.org/for_the_press/index.asp(opens in new window) and on the bulletin boards in the press room, Folkets Hus, 3rd fl, room number 300.
The programme will host approximately 300 scientific speakers from all over the world and the topics will range from discussions on the demographic problems of Europe to new discoveries in brain research and ondontology. The speakers are international leaders in their fields, and include Professor André Berger, of the Institute of Astronomy and Geophysics at the Catholic University of Louvain, Catherine Bréchignac, Research Director at CNRS and President of the Institut dOptique, André Sapir, advisor to the European Commission and author of "An Agenda for Growing Europe" and Dr Tim Hunt, Principal Scientist at Cancer Research UK. They are joined by government ministers from around the world, representatives of international organizations, leading journalists and other major opinion formers.
The event holds 14 press briefings throughout the four days and there will be opportunities to speak to many of the speakers:,WEDNESDAY 25 AUGUST,9:00-10:00 Psychopathology of organisations,11:00-12:00 Materials: Tougher Chips on the Menu,13:00-14:00 Major exoplanet discovery made with new instrument at ESO,14:00-14:30 Health and disease: does gender matter?,15:00-16:00 New fixed teeth in 30 minutes: from fiction to reality
THURSDAY 26 AUGUST,8:00-9:00 Beyond global warming: where on the Earth are we going? ,10:00-11:00 Ageing: the demographic challenge,11:30-12:30 Olympic Games 2004 and the limitations of human performance ,12:30-13:30 Infectious disease in an expanding Europe ,14:30-15:30 Universal language or polyglot discourse
FRIDAY 27 AUGUST,8:00-9:00 How the study of the human brain helps us understand mental illnesses,10:00-11:00 Europe's Vision for the Future of Particle Physics: The International Linear Collider Project,12:00-13:00 Climate and risk management: are we ignoring the obvious?,12:00-14:00 Press lunch at Forskning&Framsteg ,14:00-15:00 The overlooked evolutionary dimension of fisheries ,15:00-16:00 Can Europe compete in pharmaceutical research & development?,16:00-17:00 World Federation of ScienceAll press briefings will be held in the press briefing room, Folkets Hus, room number 307.
** Other media events are listed on the bulletin board in the press secretariat**
Note to journalists: The schedule is subject to change. Adjustments will be posted on http://www.esof2004.org/for_the_press/index.asp(opens in new window) and on the bulletin boards in the press room, Folkets Hus, 3rd fl, room number 300.