PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
1st Out of the Box Conference 15-17 May 2012
University of Maribor
Venue: University Main Building, Slomškov trg 15, Great Hall/Velika Dvorana |
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08:30 - 09:30 | Registration |
09:30 - 10:10 |
Rector of the University of Maribor, Danijel Rebolj Minister Žiga Turk President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Felix Unger Feguš String Quartet |
Chair: Marko Robnik |
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10:15 - 11:00 |
Keynote speaker: Denis Noble, University of Oxford, UK |
11:00 - 11:30 | >>> Coffee & Tea <<< |
Chair: Danijel Rebolj | |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Invited speaker: Ivo Boscarol and Gregor Veble, Pipistrel, Ajdovščina, Slovenia |
12:00 - 12:30 |
Invited speaker: Tomo Križnar, Naklo, Slovenia How to make the world and humanity aware of the worst sufferings of people: The case of Sudan |
12:30 - 13:00 |
Invited speaker: Thomas Ruzicka, LM University of Munich, Germany |
13:00 - 14:00 | >>> Lunch <<< |
Chair: Dejan Dinevski |
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14:00 - 14:45 |
Keynote speaker: Steven Bishop, University College London, UK |
14:45 - 15:30 |
Keynote speaker: Piero Ferrucci, Firenze, Italy |
15:30 - 16:00 | >>> Coffee & Tea <<< |
Chair: Dušan Repovš |
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16:00 - 16:30 |
Invited speaker: Tassos Bountis, University of Patras, Greece |
16:30 - 17:00 |
Invited speaker: Sara A. Solla, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA |
17:00 - 17:30 |
Invited speaker: Maja Rupnik, University of Maribor, Slovenia |
17:30 - 18:00 |
Invited speaker: Andreas Kornherr, Mondi, Ulmerfeld-Hausmening, Austria From flirt to innovation |
18:00 - 18:15 |
Ipshita Bansal and Ms. Niharika Bajpai, Banastahli University, Rajasthan, India |
19:00 - | >>> Wine tasting and light dinner <<< |
Venue: Slovenian National Theatre (SNG), Maribor, Slomškov trg, Large Hall | |
09:00 - 10:00 | Registration |
Special session: SNG Maribor, Large Hall, Moderator: Rector of UM, Danijel Rebolj | |
10:00 - 12:00 Special session |
His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Denis Noble, University of Oxford, UK Life as process: a systems biology reply to the question "what is life"?
Dirk Helbing, ETH, Zuerich, Switzerland New ways to promote sustainability, resilience and well-being in our complex world: The FuturICT approach
Siegfried Grossmann, University of Marburg, Germany "The n-fold road" - Towards better way(s) of life |
11:00 - 12:00 | Panel discussion |
12:00 - 13:00 | >>> Lunch <<< |
Afternoon session: Venue: University Main Building, Slomškov trg 15, Great Hall/Velika Dvorana | |
Chair: Sara A. Solla |
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13:00 - 13:10 |
Invited speaker: Dušan Petrač, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, USA About the Cultural Center of the European Space Technology-KSEVT |
13:10 - 13:55 |
Keynote speaker: Thomas Bauer, University of Vienna, Austria After media industry: Media culture - the future dispositive of society’s development |
13:55 - 14:40 |
Keynote speaker: Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki, Finland |
14:40 - 15:10 | >>> Coffee & Tea <<< |
Chair: Marjan Slak Rupnik |
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15:10 - 15:55 |
Keynote speaker: Mirjam Cvetič, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA String theory and quests for unification of fundamental forces of nature |
15:55 - 16:25 |
Invited speaker: Dušan Repovš, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia How to improve fundamental research in developing countries: |
16:25 - 16:45 | >>> Coffee & Tea <<< |
Chair: Denis Noble |
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16:45 - 17:15 |
Invited speaker: Tomaž Prosen, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Quantum physics out of equilbrium: |
17:15 - 17:45 |
Invited speaker: Roman Jerala, National Institute of Chemistry, Ljubljana, Slovenia Synthetic biology announcing the coming technological revolution |
17:45 - 18:15 |
Invited speaker: László I. Komlósi, University of Pecs, Hungary |
19:00 - 21:30 | >>> Conference Dinner<<< |
Venue: University Main Building, Slomškov trg 15, Great Hall/Velika Dvorana | |
Chair: Steven Bishop |
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09:00 - 09:45 |
Keynote speaker: Dirk Helbing, ETH, Zürich, Switzerland FuturICT – Global participatory computing for our complex world |
09:45 - 10:30 |
Keynote speaker: Amarjit Singh, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA |
10:30 - 11:00 | >>> Coffee & Tea <<< |
Chair: Mirjam Cvetič |
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11:00 - 11:30 |
Invited speaker: EU Commissioner John Dalli, Brussels, Belgium Innovative ways to improve the culture of living towards health and wellness |
11:30 - 12:00 |
Invited speaker: Marjan Slak Rupnik, University of Maribor and CIPKEBIP, Slovenia |
12:00 - 12:30 |
Invited speaker: Volker Ribitsch, University of Graz, Austria |
12:30 - 13:00 |
Invited speaker: Rosanna Santesso, UNESCO, Venice, Italy |
13:00 - 14:00 | >>> Lunch <<< |
Chair: Tassos Bountis | |
14:00 - 14:45 |
Keynote speaker: Siegfried Grossmann, University of Marburg, Germany |
14:45 - 15:00 |
Andrej Kirbiš and Sergej Flere, University of Maribor, Slovenia Conventional religiosity and new age beliefs as predictors of subjective well-being in Europe |
15:00 - 15:30 |
Invited speaker: Geshe Ngawang Samten, Central Univ. of Tibetan Studies, India |
15:30 - 15:45 | Concluding remarks: Rector of UM Danijel Rebolj |
16:00 - |
Lecture of Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Social Business: A way to solve society's most pressing problems |
20:30 |
Venue: Maribor Cathedral, Slomškov Trg Concert: The Grazer Universitäts Orchester |
Venue: University Main Building, Slomskov trg 15, Great Hall/Velika Dvorana
Chair: Danijel Rebolj
11:00 Out of the Box Conference follow up event
Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize Laureate (for Chemistry)
From matter to life: Chemistry ? chemistry !