The Fields Medal, the most prestigious global award for mathematical achievement, and three other prizes will be awarded, including one that will be given for the first time at 2010 ICM, the Chern Prize for outstanding life-long contributions to mathematics. All of them will be given away by Shrimati Pratibha Patil, the Honourable President of India.

These are the Nevanlinna Prize  for work on mathematical aspects of computer science (named after Rolf Herman Nevanlinna, a famous Finnish mathematician), the Gauss prize for mathematical work that has had practical applications of great import (named after the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest names in mathematics of all time) and, the Chern prize (named after the Chinese mathematician Shiing Shen Chern, one of the greatest geometers of the 20th Century).

More info is available here.

The Critical Link International Conference is held every three years, and the first was held in Canada in 1995.

For more details please visit the conference's website here.

Over 3800 participants from EU institutions, business and industry, non-governmental organisations, public authorities, the scientific community and academia are expected to take part at the conference.

Much more info is available on the Green Week 2010 website, here.

The national symposium with international participation begins at 0900. Among participants are personalities of the scientific landscape: Dr. Peter Philip, Prof. Dr. Wais Mir Hosseini, Acad. Marius Andruh and Acad. Bogdan Simionescu. They will present lectures and we are mentioning the one of Professor Hosseini entitled "Molecular tectonics: structural units of crystalline architectures".

The event consist also of the awarding ceremony for the best articles published in two of the most appreciated Romanian scientific journals: Revista de Chimie and Materiale Plastice.

Discover how companies are taking up the opportunities brought by climate change through innovative green solutions, which lead to the growth of their business.

World Wildlife Fund (WWF), the global nature conservation organisation, will present case studies of leading international companies which have managed to cut significantly their CO2 emissions without sacrificing their profitability or competitive edge.

The video link discussion will feature:

• Welcome notes by H.E. Robin Barnett, British Ambassador to Romania, H.E. Steve Williams, British Ambassador to Bulgaria, and Tony Buckby, Director, British Council Bulgaria;

• Introduction by Luminita Tanasie, Programme Manager, WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme Romania;

• Discussion between the prticipants in the two countries moderated by Magor Csibi, Executive Director, Generatia Verde in Bucharest and Konstantin Ivanov, Head of Communications and Marketing, WWF in Sofia.

The working language is English.

The event starts at 1000 and ends at 1200.

In Romania, the debate "Theory of Evolution and Religion: Coexistence or Conflict?" is part of the Darwin Now international project organised by the British Council.

The venue is the Romanian Cultural Institute in Bucharest. Panellists of the debate are Romanian and British experts in science, philosophy, and theology. They will debate whether the theory of evolution and religion may coexist or not.

John Hedley Brooke, Mircea Flonta, Octavian Popescu, Radu Preda and Constantin Necula are the debate panel members.

The event is moderated by the TV editor, Cristian Tabără.

During the debate, the audience will be able to question panel members with the help of the event moderator.

More info is available at www.darwindebate.ro.

For more details click on the conference's website here.

The British Psychological Society has over 34,000 members and it is the representative body for psychologist and psychology in the UK.

We are about to end a very scientific year. 2009 was the Darwin Year and the International Year of Astronomy, and also the year of the British Council's Beautiful Science project. All of them have in common the hard job of communicating science to the public. Who are the science communicators, who are science journalists, how can we speak about communication without having the media involved. A quick look on how science is represented in the media rise the question: science and journalism are friends or foes? We are trying to find an answer and that is the aim of the science cafe.

The event is dedicated to the interested public of all ages, scientists, students, teachers, educators, communicators and journalists. There will be short presentations, discussions, live dialogues with partners from UK and Greece. Science cafe starts at 1300 hours.

A broad spectrum of topics are to be discussed such as science communication made by actors and celebrities, science journalism, communicating astronomy to the public, love, science and religion, and science around Christmas. A British Council global project will be presented.

Friends of the Science Newspaper interested in attending the science cafe have to send an email to the editor and explain in a few words their interest in participating at the event. Please, send the email no later than Thursday, December 17, 2009, 1300 hours. 

The languages of the science cafe are Romanian, English, and Greek.

The event is moderated by Catalin Mosoia, science journalist.

This project is funded by the British Council's Beautiful Science programme in Southeast Europe.

Philippe Busquin (Member of the European Parliament), Vincenzo Lipardi (President of Ecsite), Claudie Haigneré (Adviser to the Director General in the European Space Agency, ESA), Alain Perroy (Director General of CEFIC, the European Chemical Industry Council), José Manuel Silva Rodriguez (Director General for Research at the European Commission), Luc Van den Brande (President of the Committee of the Regions), Janez Potocnik (the European Commissioner for Science and Research), Catherine Franche (the Executive Director of Ecsite) are just few of the speakers announced by the programme of the conference.

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The conference includes all research fields related to the scientific topics, including grand scientific challenges that will become possible to investigate by ELI.

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The FLC 2010 meeting is for professionals, agency representatives, laboratory representatives, licensing executives, venture capitalists, business development managers, industry executives, scientists, and students.

Details about FLC 2010 here.

The Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) is the nationwide network of federal laboratories that provides the forum to develop strategies and opportunities for linking laboratory mission technologies and expertise with the marketplace.

FLC was organised in 1974.

The mission of the FLC is to add value to the federal agencies, laboratories, and their partners to accomplish the rapid integration of research and development resources within the mainstream of the U.S. economy. More info here.

The goal of the conference is to call attention to the close relations between astronomy, natural sciences and civilization. Plenary sessions on big questions are combined with minisymposia on cutting-edge research in physics, astrobiology, complexity sciences, and on the relations between art, religion and astronomy. 

The main idea of the conference is to aid and promote the future of science by enlightening how the pursuit of astronomy has elevated our civilization and how it can improve the prospects of Homo Sapiens. 

Deadline for the minisymposia proposals is April 10, 2009. Grant application must be done by May 10, 2009. For more info about the conference (registration fee, accommodation, abstract deadline) click here. 

Organisers welcome science communication professionals from across Europe and the world.

Programme includes three days of sessions, workshops and discussions. There is also a social programme, two days of pre-Conference activities and a lively Business Bistro.

The registration for the conference is opening on February 16th.

For more information about the event click here.

More details about Ecsite, the European network of science centres and museums, is available here.

Note:

The European Parliament hosts the Ecsite conference “Science Communicators Advancing European Knowledge Society” on February 18, 2009. If interested, online registration is now open. For details click here.

Space can function as an excellent educational thrust, not only to understand the world around us but also as a tool to lay the foundations of knowledge in training the younger generation. In this sense education serves in developing the full human potential of the broader population, not just attracting young people into studying mathematics and science for the nation's technical and economic benefit.

Education touches the solutions to so many world problems that the Call for Papers should be read as a call for innovative ideas far beyond what most people see today as the role of education and the roles of space in supporting it and benefiting from it. To this end we wish to attract a strong participation of people from the world of education and outreach alongside our regular support from the space sector.

Deadline for abstracts is October 2, 2009.

Authors will be notified by October 28, 2009.

The preliminary program will be ready by the end of the year.

Deadline for Early Registration is January 22, 2010.

More details are available here.