Main Activities and Speech Topics for the Honored Guests to the 2008 Nobel Winners Beijing Forum

Serial No.

Name

Speech Topic

1

ZhoresI. Alferov (Russia)

1. New Types of Materials for the Development of Modern Information Technologies

2. The Short History of the Semiconductor Heterostructures Research and Some Important Conclusions from It

2

John E. Hopcroft (the United States)

Research Directions Supporting the Information Age

3

Ivar Giaever (the United States)

1. The Nobel Prize and the Future of Science

2. Why I Received the Nobel Prize

4

Martinus Veltman (Netherlands)

1. Particle Accelerators: Past, Present, Future

2. A Century of Particle Physics

5

Andrew Chi-Chih Yao (the United States)

1. The Science Behind Information Technology

2. Nurturing Talents in China: Some Experiences

6

George Smoot (the United States)

SingularityUniversity: Preparing Humanity for Accelerating Technological Change

7

Roger D. Kornberg (the United States)

The Expression of Genetic Information

8

ButlerW. Lampson (the United States)

1. The Uses of Computers: The Best is Yet to Come

2. Global challenges on scientific innovations -- Computing, Queen and Servant of Science and Society

9

Li Guojie (China)

Key Research Directions to Orient the Information Science and Technology

10

Robert Kahn (the United States)

To be decided

11

David Gross (the United States)

To be decided

[source:Beijing Foreign Affairs Office]