Speakers
*Lecture titles might change
Anastasia Ailamaki, Professor, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, CH.
Breaking the Wall of Data Deluge. How Computer Science Enables New Dimensions of Experiments.
Nick Barton, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology, Austria.
Breaking the Wall that Limits Evolution. How Sexual Recombination Accelerates Adaptation.
Rebecca Cassidy, Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.
Breaking the Wall of Gambling. How Multi-Sited Anthropology Can Transform Gambling Regulation.
Paul Chirik, Professor of Chemistry, Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, USA.
Breaking the Wall of Sustainable Chemistry. How Modern Alchemy Can Lead to Inexpensive and Clean Technology.
Aaron Ciechanover, Distinguished University Professor, Tumor and Vascular Biology Research Center, The Rappaport Faculty of Medicine and Research Institute, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa; Nobel Laureate 2004 in Chemistry, Israel.
Breaking the Wall of Diseases. Is Personalized Medicine Going to Cure All Human Maladies?
Robert Darnton, Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and University Librarian, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Breaking the Wall of Inaccessible Knowledge. How Digitization Can Democratize Culture.
Ingrid Daubechies, Professor in Mathematics, Duke University, President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU), USA.
Breaking the Wall of Computer Stupidity. How Wavelet Analysis Improves Science and Design.
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
Wang Hui, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
Breaking the Wall between Chinese Market and State. How Social, Political and Economic Critic Can Counter Authoritarian Marketization.
Mary Kaldor, Professor of Global Governance, Co-Director, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, London School of Economics, UK.
Breaking the Wall of the New Wars. How Cosmopolitan Democracy Can Enhance the Global Human Security.
Sunil Khilnani, Professor of Politics, Director, King’s India Institute, King’s College London, UK.
Breaking the Wall of India’s Personality Disorder. How Socio-Economic Theory Can Change India’s International Relevance.
Matthias Kleiner, Professor, President, DFG German Research Foundation, Bonn, Germany.
Host
Ferenc Krausz, Director, Head of Attosecond- and High-Field Physics Division, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Munich, Chair of Experimental Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany.
Breaking the Wall of Invisible Light. How Attophysics Shows the Way to 4D Electron Imaging.
Jean-Luc Lehners, String Cosmology Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam, Germany.
Breaking the Wall of the Beginning of Time. How Cosmology Will Tell Us What Happened Before the Big Bang.
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Keynote
Jürgen Mlynek, Professor, President, Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres, Berlin, Germany.
Host
Helga Nowotny, Professor em. of Social Studies of Science, ETH Zürich, President, European Research Council (ERC), Vienna, Austria.
Host
Kõji Omi, Founder and Chairman of The Science and Technology in Society (STS) forum Kyoto, former Minister of Science and Technology and former Minister of Finance, Japan.
Message from Kyoto
Annette Schavan, Professor, German Federal Minister of Education and Research, Germany.
Official Opening
Robert Schlögl, Director, Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Honorary Professor, Humboldt-Universität and Technische Universität Berlin, Germany.
Breaking the Wall of Energy Supply. How Heterogeneous Catalysis Can Replace Fossil Fuels
Dennis J. Snower, Professor of Economics , Chair of Economic Theory, University of Kiel, President of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Germany.
Host
Cédric Villani, Professor of Mathematics, Université de Lyon, Director, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, Winner of the Fields Medal 2010, France.
Breaking the Wall of Chaos. How the Mathematical Study of Entropy Leads to Optimal Transportation and Allocation of Resources.
Elke U. Weber, Jerome A. Chazen Professor of International Business, Director, Center for Research On Environmental Decisions, Director, Center for the Decision Sciences, Columbia Business School, Columbia University, New York, USA
Breaking the Wall of Resistance to Change. How Behavioral Decision Theory Enhances Technical and Social Innovation.
Ada E. Yonath, Professor, Director, The Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure and Assembly, Weizmann Institute of Science, Nobel Laureate 2009 in Chemistry, Israel.
Breaking the Wall of Ineffective Antibiotics. How Cryo Bio-Crystallography Will Lead to Structure-Based Drug Design
Speakers List 2009/2010:
Jutta Allmendinger, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin – Host
Alain Aspect, Institut d’Optique, Palaiseau – Breaking the Wall of Quantum Weirdness
Jean-Michel Borys, EPODE – Breaking the Wall of Childhood Obesity
Michel Brunet Collège de France – Breaking the Wall Around the Secrets of Our Origins
Dipesh Chakrabarty, University of Chicago – Breaking the Wall of “Two Cultures”
Dalton Conley, New York University – Breaking the Wall of Nature and Nurture
Frederick Cooper, New York University – Breaking the Wall of National History
Helmut Dosch, Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron – Breaking the Wall of Quantum Cinema
Matthias Driess, Technische Universität Berlin – Breaking the Wall of Limited Resources
Wolfgang Eberhardt, Helmholtz Centre Berlin – Breaking the Wall of Energy and Pollution
Olafur Eliasson, Universität der Künste Berlin – Breaking the Wall to the Future
Detlef Günther, ETH Zürich – Breaking the Wall of Timing Our History
Doug Guthrie, The George Washington University – Breaking the Wall of Efficient Innovation
Yael Hanein, Tel Aviv University – Breaking the Wall of Blindness
John-Dylan Haynes, Charité Berlin – Breaking the Wall of the Human Mind
Rolf-Dieter Heuer, CERN – Breaking the Wall of the Hidden Universe
Norbert Holtkamp, ITER – Breaking the Wall of Fusion
Olga Holtz, Berkeley/Technische Universität Berlin – Breaking the Wall of Complexity
Wolfgang Holzgreve, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin – Breaking the Wall in Global Maternal/Child Health
Reinhard F. Hüttl, acatech German Academy of Science and Engineering – Host
Ichiro Inasaki , Chubu University/Keio University – Breaking the Wall of Manufacturing
Harold James, Princeton University – Breaking the Wall of Finance
Stefan Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute Berlin – Breaking the Wall of Unequally Distributed Diseases
Joachim Knebel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – Breaking the Wall of High Level Nuclear Waste
Gerhard Knies, Desertec Foundation – Breaking the Wall of the Fossil Age
Wilhelm Krull, Volkswagen Foundation – Host
Sabine Kunst, Universität Potsdam/DAAD – German Academic Exchange Service – Host
Thomas Lengauer, Max Planck Institute Saarbrücken – Breaking the Wall of Viral Drug Resistance
Julie Livingston, Rutgers University – Breaking the Wall of Pain
Karl Ulrich Mayer, Leibniz Association – Host
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany – Breaking the Walls of the 21st Century
Jürgen Mlynek, Helmholtz Association – Host
Christoph Möllers, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – Breaking down the Breakthroughs
Richard Morris, The Wellcome Trust – Breaking the Wall of Research Funding
Glenn Warren Most, University of Chicago – Breaking the Wall around Ancient Greece
Klaus Robert Müller, Technische Universität Berlin – Breaking the Wall between Mind and Machine
Amélie Mummendey, Einstein Foundation Berlin/Friedrich Schiller University Jena – Host
Miguel Nicolelis, Duke University – Breaking the Wall of Neurological Disorder
Manfred Prenzel, Technische Universität München – Breaking the Wall of Mindless Schools
Shalini Randeria, University of Zürich – Breaking the Wall of Privatisation of the Commons
Stephanie Reich, Freie Universität Berlin – Give Me a Break
Annette Schavan, German Federal Minister of Education and Research – Official Opening
Ina Schieferdecker, Fraunhofer Institute Berlin – Host
Sabine Schmidtke, Freie Universität Berlin – Breaking the Wall of Religious Public Opinion
Martin E. Schwab, University of Zürich – Breaking the Wall of Paraplegia
Peter Seeberger, Max Planck Institute Potsdam – Breaking the Wall of Expensive Vaccines
Tania Singer, Max Planck Institute Leipzig – Breaking the Wall between People
Tricia Striano, City University of New York – Breaking the Wall of Infant Development
Eckhard Thiel, Charité Berlin – Breaking the Wall of HIV
Franz-Josef Ulm, MIT – Breaking the Wall of Concrete Pollution
Daniël Vanmaekelbergh, Universiteit Utrecht – Breaking the Wall of Seeing Atoms and Molecules
Wendelin Werner, École Normale Supérieure/Université Paris-Sud – Breaking the Wall of Randomness
Thomas Wiegand, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute Berlin – Breaking The Wall of the Flat World of TV
Katja Windt, Jacobs University Bremen – Breaking the Wall of Unpunctuality
Christian Wulff, President of the Federal Republic of Germany – Keynote
Muhammad Yunus, Yunus Centre, Grameen Bank, Nobel Peace Laureate –Breaking the Wall of Poverty
