Ceremony of Awards 2014

 

November 28th, Casa do Infante

Rua Alfândega 10

4050-029 Porto

 

 

Welcome addresses by

the President of the European Academy of Sciences,

Ceremony of Awards,
Lecture of the Blaise Pascal Medallists 2014

 

 

Programme of the

Ceremony of Awards

 

 

 

9:15 to 09:30 am: Welcome addresses by Prof. Doutor Sebastião Feyo, Rector of the University of Porto and

                                Prof. Claude Debru, President of EURASC

 

Chairman of the session : Prof. Alain Tressaud, member of the Presidium of EURASC

 

09:30 to 10:10 am: Prof. Sir John Thomas (Materials Sciences)

                                  Lecture: “Science and Ethics”

 

10:10 to 10:50 am: Prof. Eberhard Knobloch (Social Sciences and Humanities)

                                 Lecture: “On the relation between point, indivisible and infinitely small”

 

10:50 to 11:30 am: Prof. Jean Pierre Gattuso (Earth and Sciences)

                                        Lecture : “Ocean acidification : knows, unknows and perspectives”

 

 

11:30 to 11:50 am: Coffee break

 

11:50 to 12:30 pm: Prof. Hubert Schmidbaur (Chemistry)

                                 Lecture : “The new role of Gold - in Chemistry”

 

12:30 to 12:50 pm: Prof. Daniel Loss (Physics Sciences)

                                      Lecture : “The Quantum Physics of Quantum Computing”

 

12:50 to 01:05 pm: Medals Ceremony and pictures

 

01:05 to 02:15 pm: Lunch Break

 

02:30 to 04:30 pm: Visit of UPTEC

                                    Science and Technology Park of University of Porto

 

05:30 to 06:30 pm: Reception by the Mayor of Porto, Dr. Rui Moreira