Year: 2019
Ada Yonath
“Next generation eco-friendly antibiotics and thoughts about origin of life“
Ada Yonath, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2009
Conference held on December 17th, 2019
Ed Winters
“The hidden costs of our food choices”
Ed Winters, co-founder and co-director of Surge
Conference held on December 16th, 2019
Giulia Galli
“Marveling at materials through in-silico lenses”
Giulia Galli, Liew Family professor of Electronic Structure and Simulations in the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering and Professor of Chemistry at the University of Chicago
Conference held on November 13th, 2019
Alessio Figalli
“From optimal transport to soap bubbles and clouds: a personal journey“
Alessio Figalli, mathematician and laureate of the 2018 Fields Medal
Conference held on November 11th, 2019
Hiroshi Amano
“Gallium nitride (GaN) as a key material for establishing a sustainable society”
Hiroshi Amano, physicist, engineer and inventor
Conference held on October 14th, 2019
Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
“Algorithms to Live By”
Authors of Algorithms to Live By, The Computer Science Of Human Decisions
Conference held on October, 7th, 2019
Fiona Watt
“Exploring heterogeneity of human skin cells”
Director of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), King’s College London
Conference held on 27 September 2019
Yuval Noah Harari
Conversation with Yuval Noah Hariri
Historian, philosopher and bestselling author
Conference held on July 10th, 2019
Stephen Quake
“A cell is a bag of RNA“
Stephen Quake, Professor of Bioengineering and Professor of Applied Physics at Stanford University
Conference held on July 3rd, 2019
Richard Baldwin
“The Globotics Upheaval: globalization, robotics, and the future of work“
Richard Baldwin, professor of international economics at the Geneva Graduate Institute
Conference held on May 15th, 2019
Klaus von Klitzing
Conversation with Klaus von Klitzing
Laureate of the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics
Conference held on April 15th, 2019
Saul Perlmutter
“Science, Reality, Credibility“
Saul Perlmutter, professor of physics. Laureate of the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics
Conference held on April 8th, 2019
Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Conversation with Elizabeth H. Blackburn
Researcher and co-recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Conference held on March 6th, 2019