2017 Exner Lectures
The program
09:00 am Check in
09:30 am Opening Session
10:00 am Lecture honoring Fabiola Gianotti
„The Laureates Lecture“
Fabiola Gianotti
CERN – Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
„Discoveries at CERN“
Claudia Wulz
Institute of High Energy Physics, Vienna University of Technology
„Quark-Gluon-Plasma – The hottest matter ever studied“
Anton Rebhan
Institute for Theoretical Physics, Vienna University of Technology
„Quanta, Relativity and Energy – Shaping the Processes when Protons collide“
Andre Hoang
Faculty of Physics, University of Vienna
12:00 pm Lunch Break
01:30 pm Lecture honoring Chad Mirkin
„The Laureates Lecture“
Chad Mirkin
International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University
„Probing plasmonic nanoparticles with photons and electrons“
Joachim Krenn
Institute of Physics, University of Graz
„Atoms in motion: observing nanostructures with the transmission electron microscope“
Werner Grogger
Institute of Electron Microscopy & Nanoanalysis (FELMI), Graz University of Technology
„Characterisation of Nanocrystals for Optics and Energy Storage“
Rainer Lechner
Institute of Physics, Montanuniversität Leoben
03:30 pm Closing remarks
06:00 pm Formal presentation of the Wilhelm Exner Medal laureates and dinner. (Access with personal invitation only)
All events take place at the Palais Eschenbach, Eschenbachgasse 11, 1010 Vienna
Willkommen!
Die Wilhelm Exner Medaille 2017 wird an zwei herausragende Forscher verliehen. Die WEM-Stiftung hat aus den Einreichungen der früheren Medaillenträger zwei Kandidaten bestimmt, die das entscheidende Gremium, der Verwaltungsrat des Österreichischen Gewerbevereins bestätigt hat:
Fabiola Gianotti, Generaldirektorin des CERN (Europäische Organisation für Kernforschung), Genf, Schweiz
Chad A Mirkin, Direktor des Internationalen Instituts für Nanotechnologie, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Beide Forscher erfüllen die Vorgaben Wilhelm Exners auf das Außerordentlichste. Die Exner Lectures und die festliche Verleihung der Medaille ist für den 18. Oktober 2017 vorgesehen.
Welcome!
The Wilhelm Exner Medal 2017 will be awarded to two outstanding researchers. The WEM Foundation has determined two candidates from the submissions of the former medalists, which the decisive body, the board of the Austrian Association of SME, has confirmed :
Fabiola Gianotti, Director General of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), Geneva, Switzerland
Chad A Mirkin, Director of the International Institute for Nanotechnology, Northwestern University, Illinois, USA
Both researchers meet the requirements of Wilhelm Exner to the most extraordinary.
The Exner Lectures and the festive award of the medal are scheduled for October 18th, 2017.
