Speakers 2012
Yanis Ben Amor
Director of Tropical Laboratory Initiative, Earth Institute, Columbia University, Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Coordinator, Millennium Villages Project
Breaking the Wall of Tropical Diseases. How the Tropical Laboratory Initiative is Increasing Access to Healthcare in Low Resource Countries
David Awschalom
Professor of Physics, Electrical, and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara and the Peter J. Clarke Director of the California NanoSystems Institute
Breaking the Wall of Traditional Electronics. How Embracing Disorder in Nanotechnology May Lead to Quantum Machines
Monique Breteler
Director of Population Health Sciences at the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases (DZNE), Professor of Population Health Sciences at the University of Bonn, Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts
Breaking the Wall of Brain Degeneration. How Population Studies Can Help Prevent Neurodegenerative Diseases
Denis Broun
Executive Director of UNITAID
Breaking The Wall Of Inaccessible Drugs. How Innovative Healthcare Finance Increases Treatment Coverage for HIV, Malaria and TB
Michael Bruter
Professor of European Politics, London School of Economics, UK
Breaking the Wall of the Polling Booth. How Electoral Psychology Enlightens Democratic Citizenship
David Harel
William Sussman Professor, Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Breaking the Wall of Biocomplexity. How a Reactive Systems Approach May Lead to Full Dynamic Models of Multi-Cellular Organisms
Peter Herzig
Executive Director of GEOMAR | Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Breaking the Wall of the Dark Side of the Oceans. How Marine Sciences Discover Hidden Resources
Reinhard F. Hüttl
Professor, Scientific Executive Director, Helmholtz Centre Potsdam – GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, President, acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering, Berlin, Germany.
Host
Aaron Kaplan
Founder of Funkfeuer FREE NET, Vienna
Breaking the Wall of Internet Censorship. How Peer to Peer Wireless Mesh Networks Are Replacing Centralized Connectivity
Alan I. Leshner
Chief Executive Officer, AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) and Executive Publisher, Science
Conclusion 2012
Daniel Libeskind
Architect, Studio Daniel Libeskind
Breaking the Wall of Convention. How Architecture Can Provoke New Thought
Rachael McDermott
Researcher at Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching
Breaking the Wall to Control Fusion Power. How Tokamak Research is Paving the Way for Successful Fusion Energy Reactors
Jürgen Mlynek
Professor, President, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Berlin, Germany.
Host
Per Møller
Professor at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen
Breaking the Wall of Bad Taste. How Psychophysics and Neurophysiology Can Improve our Food Choices
Helga Nowotny
Professor em., ETH Zürich, President, European Research Council (ERC), Vienna, Austria
Host
Nicola Pugno
Professor of Solid and Structural Mechanics, Università di Trento, Italy
Breaking the Wall of Super Materials. How Biology Inspires Nanomechanics
Cornelia Quennet-Thielen
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Official Opening
Tomás Saraceno
Artist, Studio Tomás Saraceno
Breaking the Wall Between Earth and Sky. How Art Challenges Gravity and Light in Our Habitat
Annette Schavan
Professor, Former German Federal Minister of Education and Research
Festive Address
Ina Schieferdecker
Director of ICT for Smart Cities initiative at Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin
Breaking the Wall of Uninformed Cities. How Open Data Makes Urban Life Smarter
Awa Marie Coll Seck
Senegal's Health Minister
Breaking the Wall of Child Mortality. How Immunisation and Malaria Control are Saving Senegal's New Generations
Stefan Treue
Professor, Director of the German Primate Center - Leibniz Institute for Primate Research
Breaking the Wall of Sensory Overload. How Primate Neuroscience Reveals the Mechanisms of Our Perception
Hal Varian
Chief Economist at Google Inc.
Breaking the Wall of Economic Uncertainty. How Online Data Can Help us Understand the Economy
Daniel Zajfman
President of the Weizmann Institute of Science
Breaking the Wall between Science and Society
