FORUM PHYSICS AND SOCIETY - Final Program

April 19-22, 2006

 
Wednesday, 19 April 2006  
  18:00 - 21:00 Registration
  19:00 Informal Welcome Meeting
     
Thursday, 20 April 2006  
  8:30 Registration
     
  09:00 - 09:05 Welcome: Max Lippitsch
  09:05 - 09:15 Introduction: Ove Poulsen, Martial Ducloy
  09:15 - 10:00 Chair: Ove Poulsen
Keynote Lecture:
Helmut List, AVL List GMBH Graz
  10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break
     
    Presentation of topics by mediators
Chair: Martial Ducloy
  10:30 - 11:00 Topic 1: Peter Kalmus
    Physics, society, culture and the sciences
  11:00 - 11:30 Topic 2: Peter Melville
    Physics, competitiveness and technlogy
  11:30 - 12:00 Topic 3: Helmut Rauch
    Needs in research policies and funding
  12:00 - 12:30 Topic 4: Ann-Marie Pendrill
    Education, quality control and curricula
  12:30 - 13:00 Topic 5: Christoph Bargholtz
    Physics and ethics
     
  13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
     
  14:30 - 16:30 Topical work in groups
  16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break
  17:00 - 18:00 Chair: Risto Nieminen
Preliminary group results (10 min each)
     
  20:00 Reception Govenor of Styria
     
Friday, 21 April 2006  
  09:00 - 09:45 Chair: Helmut Rauch
Keynote Lecture:
Norbert Kroo, Hungarian Academy of Science
  09:45 - 12:30 Topical work in groups cont.
     
  13:00 - 14:30 Lunch
     
    Results and recommendations
Chair: Sonja Draxler
  14:30 - 15:00 Topic 1: Martial Ducloy
    Physics, society, culture and the sciences
  15:00 - 15:30 Topic 4: Urbaan Titulaer
    Education, quality control and curricula
  15:30 - 16:00 Topic 5: Christoph Bargholtz
    Physics and ethics
     
  16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
     
    Results and recommendations
Chair: Norbert Kroo
  16:30 - 17:00 Topic 2: Peter Melville
    Physics, competitiveness and technlogy
  17:00 - 17:30 Topic 3: Helmut Rauch
    Needs in research policies and funding
     
    Finalisation of the Resolution
Chair: Max Lippitsch
     
  20:00 Dinner
     
Saturday, 22 April 2006  
    Festive Closing Session
Moderation: Max Lippitsch
  09:30 - 10:00 Welcome: Representative of Graz University
  10:00 - 10:45

Keynote Lecture:
Walter Kohn
, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 1998

  10:45 - 11:30 Workshop Synthesis: Ove Poulsen
  11:30 - 12:00 Conclusion: Martial Ducloy
     
  12:30 Reception Mayor of Graz
    Handover of resolution to Austrian EU chair

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