People | Out of the box Conference 2012

Under the auspices of

Danilo Türk, the President of the Republic of Slovenia

Honorary Committee:

Žiga Turk, Minister of education, science, culture and sports of the Republic of Slovenia

Stane Pejovnik, rector of the University of Ljubljana

Danijel Rebolj, rector of the University of Maribor

Suzana Žilič-Fišer, director general of European Capital of Culture Maribor2012

Nobel laureates (all confirmed) (3):

H.H. Dalai Lama, Nobel Peace Prize

Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Prize

Jean-Marie Lehn, Nobel Prize in Chemistry (conference follow-up seminar)

Keynote speakers (all confirmed) (9):

Thomas Bauer, University of Vienna, Austria

Steven Bishop, University College London, UK

Mirjam Cvetič, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

Piero Ferrucci, Firenze, Italy

Siegfried Grossmann, University of Marburg, Germany

Dirk Helbing, ETH Zürich, Switzerland

Denis Noble, University of Oxford, UK

Juhani Pallasmaa, Helsinki, Finland

Amarjit Singh, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA

Invited speakers (all confirmed) (18):

Ivo Boscarol and Gregor Veble, Pipistrel, Ajdovščina, Slovenia

Tassos Bountis, University of Patras, Greece

John Dalli, EU Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Roman Jerala, Institute of Chemistry, Slovenia

László Imre Komlósi, University of Pecs, Hungary

Andreas Kornherr, Mondi, Ulmerfeld-Hausmening, Austria

Tomo Križnar, Naklo, Slovenia

Geshe Ngawang Samten, Sarnath, Varanasi, India

Dušan Petrač, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA, Caltech, Pasadena, USA

Tomaz Prosen, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Dušan Repovš, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Volker Ribitsch, University of Graz, Austria

Maja Rupnik, Publich Health Center Maribor, and University of Maribor, Slovenia

Thomas Ruzicka, LM University of Munich, Germany

Rosanna Santesso, UNESCO, Venice, Italy

Marjan Slak Rupnik, University of Maribor and CIPKEBIP, Slovenia

Sara A. Solla, Northwestern University, Chicago, USA

Felix Unger, European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg, Austria

Programme Committee:

Yoji Aizawa, Waseda University, Tokyo

Thomas Bauer, Department of Communication, University of Vienna

Tassos Bountis, Department of Mathematics, University of Patras

Sophie Body-Gendrot, Centre of Urban Studies in Anglophone World, University of Sorbonne Paris IV

Dimitris Charalambis, political theorist, University of Athens

Mirjam Cvetič, Department of Physics, University of Pennsylvania

Péter Érdi, Center for Complex Systems Studies, Kalamazoo College

Piero Ferrucci, psychotherapist and philosopher

Christos Giannoulis, management consultant, Cyprus

Dirk Helbing, Chair of Sociology, ETH Zürich

Joan Hemmels, Emeritus at Amsterdam School of Communication Research

Roman Jerala, National Institute of Chemistry Slovenia

Magdalena A. Kalaidjieva, Bulgarian Society for Systems Research

Barbara Köpplova, Department for Media Studies, Charles University in Prague

Zdravko Kravanja, Faculty for Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, University of Maribor

Harald Lesch, Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Munich

Matjaž Mulej, systems theorist, University of Maribor

Juhani Pallasmaa, architect, Finland

Iztok Podbregar, Faculty of Criminal Justice and Security, University of Maribor

Tomaž Prosen, Department of Physics, University of Ljubljana

Marko Robnik, Center for Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Maribor

Laszlo Ropolyi, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Eotvos University, Budapest

Maja Rupnik, Institute of Public Health Maribor

Amarjit Singh, University of Hawaii

Timothy Sluckin, Department of Mathematics, University of Southampton

Ian Smith, Civil Engineering Institute, EPF Lausanne

Karin Stana Kleinschek, University of Maribor

Andrej Šorgo, Faculty for Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor

Ichiro Tsuda, Research Institute for Electronic Science, Hokkaido University

Tatjana Welzer-Družovec, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Maribor

Organising Committee:

Marko Robnik, coordinator

Danijel Rebolj, concept

Marko Ivanišin, communication

Marko Samec, visual design

Dean Korošak, link with RAZ:UM

Mladen Kraljić, organization and communication

Boštjan Kohne, website administration

Dejan Dinevski, special session coordinator

Teodor Lorenčič, communication

Alenka Jarc, conference secretary