Seven Wise Men Symposium on Cosmology to be held in Athens on Oct. 2
The Symposium, held under the auspices of President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos, brings seven acclaimed scientists in the field of Cosmology, including three Nobel Laureates, to Athens to address life's fundamental questions, such as: how did the universe begin, where did we come from and what is our destiny.
The speakers will include:
James Cronin, Nobel Laureate 1980 – Professor Emeritus, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago;
George Efstathiou – FRS, Professor of Astrophysics, University of Cambridge, Director, Kavli Institute for Cosmology;
David Gross, Nobel Laureate 2004 - Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara;
Eugene Parker – Professor of Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, University of Chicago and Enrico Femi Institute;
George Smoot, Nobel Laureate 2006 - University of California, Berkeley;
Alexei Starobinsky – Kavli Prize 2014 - Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow;
Gabriele Veneziano - Chair of Elementary Particles, Gravitation and Cosmology, Collège de France, Paris.
The Symposium is designed to allow the participation of both experts, students and teachers and the general public and will be shown on webcast, including at at all cosmology centres worldwide.
Following the seminars on the morning of October 2, the official award ceremony for the Seven Wise Men will be held in the evening, with President Pavlopoulos presented the prizes, and then an open discussion with the audience that will also be able to submit questions via the Internet.
On October 3, the scientists attending the symposium will visit the NEO Environmental Observatory at the Costa Navarino Resort in Messinia and visit ancient Messene on October 4, as well as an event organised by the Greek Union of Physicists in Kalamata.
