·The 5th World Top Scientists Forum with the annual theme of "Science Forward: Create a Bright Future" will be held in Shanghai from November 6th to 7th. This will be the largest number of overseas top award winners attending the forum offline since the global spread of the new crown epidemic in 2020.
On October 27, the press conference of The 5th WLA Forum (hereinafter referred to as "Top Science") was held in Shanghai Science Hall.
According to Yu Licheng, Secretary General of Dingke Shanghai Center, at the press conference, the 5th World Top Scientists Forum with the annual theme of "Science Forward: Create a Bright Future" will be held on November 6 Held in Shanghai from 1st to 7th. This will be the largest number of overseas top award winners attending the forum offline since the global spread of the new crown epidemic in 2020.
According to reports, the opening ceremony of the 5th World Top Scientists Forum and the first award ceremony of the World Top Scientists Association will be held on November 6. A series of pilot activities will be held at the permanent venue of the Top Scientists Forum and the venue of the Shanghai Science Hall.
59 top scientists from more than 20 countries and regions and spanning 12 time zones were invited to attend the forum online or offline, including 27 Nobel Prize winners. Roger Kornberg, President of the Association of World's Leading Scientists and 2006 Nobel Laureate, Randy Schekman, Vice-President of the Association of World's Leading Scientists and 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Vice Chairman of the World Association of Top Scientists, 2013 Nobel Laureate Michael Levitt, 2013 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine James Rothman, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physics Ender Nobel laureates such as Andre Geim and Fields Medal winner Efim Zelmanov, 2019 People's Republic of China International Science and Technology Cooperation Award winner Raymond Stevens (Raymond Stevens) and others will make a special trip to Shanghai to participate in offline exchanges.
The winners of the first World Association of Top Scientists Award - American computer science and statistician Michael I. Jordan and German biochemist Dirk Görlich will make a special trip to Shanghai to receive the awards and Participate in a series of winners' activities such as the winners' lecture hall and the science round table π.
At that time, online and offline top international scientists and more than 30 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences will form the "Top Science Team", and will attend this forum with more than 50 young scientists, guests from all walks of life and more than 100 "little scientists".
Yu Licheng said that, different from the huge scale of previous years, this year's forum agenda is more focused, and 21 important events have been carefully condensed.
The "Carbon Conference" discusses the use of technological innovation to address climate change and achieve the "dual carbon" goal; the world's top scientists' international joint laboratory series forums focus on the basic frontier fields and scientific research transformation for the people's life and health, from decoding life, exploring and synthesizing Cells, new modes of drug discovery and multi-omics era and four directions of precision medicine are exchanged. The "Food and Sustainable Agricultural Development Forum" currently focuses on world food security and biodiversity conservation.
This forum will continue to discuss the optimization of scientific research ecology and talent training. The "Excellent Engineer Forum" will focus on engineering talent training, professional skills training, etc., and provide useful reference for the inheritance and development of engineers' cultural heritage and the cross-integration of scientific thinking and engineering thinking. ideas. The iconic forum "Young Science Forum" continues to create a platform for in-depth dialogue between top scientists and top young scientists; "She Forum" focuses on the scientific research environment and tenacity of female researchers to shape a more inclusive and diverse future.
This year's Dingke Logo Forum "Science T Conference" is jointly created by the Shanghai Station of China Central Radio and Television Station, aiming to continue to support scientific reserve talents and promote the popularization of science. On October 30th, the event will be recorded at Shanghai International Media Port, inviting Nobel Prize winners, academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, young scientists, and science-loving youth, old, middle and young to have a dialogue on the same stage. The three meanings of "talent, eternity" are the theme, and through the innovative integration of "idea + art + technology", we will create circle-breaking programs, shorten the distance between science and the public, and convey the warmth and power of science.
Affected by the epidemic, all offline activities of this forum will be carried out through a combination of online and offline methods, and the forum will be broadcast live to the public throughout the process.
In addition, this forum will also release a number of important achievements, including the full launch of the international joint laboratory of the world's top scientists, "WLA Entrepreneur Advisory and Collaboration Committee", "WLA University President's Advisory and Collaboration Committee", "WLA Top Middle School Alliance" "Construction, Top Scientist Documentary Project, and the release of contracted projects with many universities, etc.
Gu Yanfeng, deputy director of the China International Science and Technology Exchange Center, revealed that the opening ceremony of the permanent venue of the World Top Scientists Forum and the opening ceremony of the Haizhi International R&D Community will be held on November 3. She said that in the future, the Haizhi International R&D community in Lingang will accelerate the integration of the resources of top universities and research institutes at home and abroad, and use the combined strength of the world's top scientists + large-scale scientific innovation platform to create a global leader with new concepts and mechanisms. At the same time, it will focus on promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, building a global collaborative scientific and technological innovation zone and a vibrant entrepreneurial zone, and realizing a new ecological chain of allocation of scientific resource elements. In addition, at the opening ceremony on November 6, representatives of the Chinese science and technology community will also release the "Initiative on International Cooperation in Scientific Research".
Public information shows that the World Top Scientists Forum was initiated by the World Top Scientists Association and founded in 2018. It is a phenomenal scientific event that gathers the most top scientists in the world. It is also an important link between the world's top scientists and an important platform to promote high-end dialogue in the international scientific community. . With the vision of "science and technology, for the common destiny of mankind", Dingke is committed to promoting basic science, advocating international cooperation, and supporting the growth of young people. Scientific and technological achievements and ideas, and strive to create a scientific and technological innovation cooperation and exchange platform with international influence.
