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May 29
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20:30 |
Opening Ceremony: Bošković's Dubrovnik of the 18th century
Venue: Bridge in front of the closed Ploče Gate (Assembling of the guests)
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May 30
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Venue: Collegium Ragusinum
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| 8:30 - 8:40 |
Opening session
Chair: Danica Ramljak, Director General, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, CroatiaVenue: Collegium Ragusinum (Old City of Dubrovnik) |
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| 8:40 - 9:20 |
Can Ruđer Bošković be our Role Model for the 21st Century?
Ivo Šlaus, Professor Emeritus, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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| 9:20 - 9:30 |
Q&A
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| Particles and the Universe | ||
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Chair: Nevenko Bilić, President of Scientific Council, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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| 9:30 - 10:00 |
Special Lecture - Sterile Neutrinos
Carlo Rubbia, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. Scientific Director, Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam, Germany. Nobel Laureate Physics 1984.
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| 10:00 - 10:10 |
Q&A
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| 10:10 - 10:40 |
The Large Hadron Collider LHC: Entering a New Era of Fundamental Science
Rolf Heuer, Director General, CERN - European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Geneva, Switzerland
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| 10:40 - 10:50 |
Q&A
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| 10:50 - 11:30 |
CMS, a World-wide Collaboration on a Detector at the LHC, and First Physics Results
Daniel Denegri, Physics Coordinator of CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) LHC accelerator, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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| 11:30 - 11:40 |
Q&A
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| 11:40 - 12:20 |
Coffee Break
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| 12:20 - 13:00 |
Matter vs. Antimatter, in the Laboratory and the Universe
A. J. Stewart Smith, Dean for Research, Princeton University, Princeton, USA
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| 13:00 - 13:10 |
Q&A
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| 13:10 - 13:50 |
Left-Right Symmetry in Nature and Laboratory
Goran Senjanović, Research Scientist, International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy
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| 13:50 - 14:00 |
Q&A
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| 14:00 - 15:00 |
Lunch
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| Neuroscience and Modern Challenges | ||
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Chair: Slobodan Vukičević, Head, Department of Anatomy Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia
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| 15:00 - 15:40 |
The Development of Neuronal Circuits and Connectivity: a Biological Substrate Required for the Emergence of Human Consciousness
Ivica Kostović, Director General, Croatian Institute for Brain Research, Zagreb, Croatia
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| 15:40 - 15:50 |
Q&A
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| 15:50 - 16:30 |
Making Map of the Mind
Paško Rakić, Chairman, Department of Neurobiology; Director, Kavli Institute of Neuroscience, Yale University, New Haven, USA
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| 16:30 - 16:40 |
Q&A
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| 16:40 - 17:20 |
Common Pathways in Neurodegeneration: Focus on Lysosomes and Mitochondria
Professor Dmitrij Krainc, Associate Professor of Neurology, Harvard Medical School; Associate Neurologist, Massachusetts General Hospital, Massachusetts General Physicians Organization, Boston, USA
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| 17:20 - 17:30 |
Q&A
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| 17:30 - 18:10 |
Gene Therapy: Progress and Prospects
Boro Dropulić, President, Lentigen Corporation, Gaithersburg, USA
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| 18:10 - 19:10 |
Dubrovnik Sightseeing: Following Ruđer Bošković’s Footsteps in Dubrovnik
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| 20:30 |
Gala Dinner
Venue: Fortress Revelin
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May 31
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Venue: Island of Lokurm
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| 9:15 |
Old City Port - Boat to Lokrum
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| Materials and Nanoscience | ||
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Chair: Mile Ivanda, Research Scientist, Molecular Physics Laboratory, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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| 9:45 - 10:25 |
Inorganic Nanotubes and Indorganic Fullerene-likes: a Progress Report
Reshef Tenne, Head, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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| 10:25 - 10:35 |
Q&A
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| 10:35 - 11:15 |
Metallic clusters as building blocks for optical and catalytic materials
Vlasta Bonačić Koutecky, Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, Huboltd University, Berlin, Germany
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| 11:15 - 11:25 |
Q&A
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| 11:25 - 11:40 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:40 - 12:20 |
New Developments in the Physics of Condensed Matter
Tonica Valla, Research Scientist, Condensed Matter Physics & Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, New York, USA
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| 12:20 - 12:30 |
Q&A
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| 12:30 - 13:10 |
Superconductivity Anniversary: Past, Present and Future History
Davor Pavuna, Adjnuct Professor, Institute of Condensed Matter Physics ICMP, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Laussane, Switzerland
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| 13:10 - 13:20 |
Q&A
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| 13:20 - 14:00 |
Nano-biosilica, a New Bio-material from Marine Sponges. Did Ruđer J. Bošković anticipate it?
Werner E. G. Müller, Head, Department of Applied Molecular Biology, University Medical Center, Mainz, Germany
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| 14:00 - 14:10 |
Q&A
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| 14:10 - 15:10 |
Lunch
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| Molecular Biology and Cellular Processes | ||
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Chair: Igor Štagljar, Head, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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| 15:10 - 15:50 |
The Molecular Scenario of Cell Death
Miroslav Radman, Head, Laboratory for Evolutionary and Molecular Genetics, Necker Institute, Paris, France; Director, Mediterranean Institute for Life Sciences, Split, Croatia
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| 15:50 - 16:00 |
Q&A
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| 16:00 - 16:40 |
What Your Genome Says About Who You Are
Brenda Andrews, Director, Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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| 16:40 - 16:50 |
Q&A
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| 16:50 - 17:30 |
Molecular Imaging in Oncology: a Guiding Hand of Personalized Cancer Care and Theranostics
Heidi Hricak, Chair, Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA
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| 17:30 - 17:40 |
Q&A
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| 17:40 - 18:20 |
Epigenetics of Mammalian Development
Davor Solter, Senior Principal Investigator, Institute of Medical Biology, Singapore
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| 18:20 - 18:30 |
Q&A
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| 18:30 |
Botanical Garden Tour
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Lokrum Port – Boat to Dubrovnik
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Free night
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June 1
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Venue: Collegium Ragusinum
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| Molecular Medicine and Cancer | ||
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Chair: Đurđica Ugarković, Head, Department of Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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| 9:00 - 9:40 |
Mechanisms of Resistance to Anticancer Drugs as Predictive Biomarkers for Therapies
Branimir Šikić, Associate Director, Stanford Cancer Center; Co-Director, Stanford Center for Clinical and Translational Education and Research; Director, Clinical and Translational Research Unit, Stanford University, California, USA
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| 9:40 - 9:50 |
Q&A
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| 9:50 - 10:30 |
Protein Interaction Networks in Human Health and Disease
Igor Štagljar, Head, Department of Biochemistry, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
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| 10:30 - 10:40 |
Q&A
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| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 11:00 - 11:40 |
Regulation of the p53 Tumor Suppressor by Ribosomal Proteins
Siniša Volarević, Head, Department of Molecular Medicine and Biotechnology, School of Medicine, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia
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| 11:40 - 11:50 |
Q&A
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| 11:50 - 12:30 |
Bone Regenerative Medicine When Natural Mechanisms of Fracture Repair Fail
Slobodan Vukičević, Head, Laboratory of Mineralized Tissues and Proteomic, Center fot Translational and Clinical Research, Medial School, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
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| 12:30 - 12:40 |
Q&A
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| 12:40 - 13:40 |
Lunch
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| Chemistry as a Basis for Modern Science | ||
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Squeezing Molecular Hydrogen in Nanoscale Cavities: Theoretical Treatment of Quantum Dynamics, Energetics, and Spectroscopy
Zlatko Bačić, Full Professor, Department of Chemistry, New York University, New York, USA
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| 14:20 - 14:30 |
Q&A
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| 14:30 - 15:10 |
Many Faces of Order in Soft Matter
Goran Ungar, Principal Investigator, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; WCU Professor, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
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| 15:10 - 15:20 |
Q&A
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| 15:20 - 16:00 |
Engineering interfaces for biomedical applications
Vladimir Hlady, Associate Chair, Department of Bioengineering, The University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA
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| 16:00 - 16:10 |
Q&A
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| 16:10 - 16:50 |
Active Thermochemical Tables: Thermochemistry for the 21st Century
Branko Ruščić, Senior Scientist, Chemical Sciences and Engineering Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, USA
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| 16:50 - 17:00 |
Q&A
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| Excursion | ||
| 19:00 |
Cruise on the Karaka (replica of a 16th-century ship)
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June 2
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| 9:00 - 9:40 |
Ruđer Bošković the Polymath
Ivica Martinović, Director General, Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
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| 9:40 - 9:50 |
Q&A
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| 9:50 - 10:30 |
Closing Session
Chair: Danica Ramljak, Director General, Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia
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| 11:00 - 12:00 |
Dubrovnik Museums - Ruđer Bošković Exhibition
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| 12:00 - 13:00 |
Lunch
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International Scientific Symposium
From Ruđer Bošković to Today:
Contribution of Croatian Scientists to the World Scientific Heritage
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