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Simone Bavera von der Uni Genf erhält den Prix Schläfli in Astronomie 2023

5.10.2023
Award Ceremony
Conference
Versoix

Award Ceremony for the Prix Schläfli in Astronomy 2023

The Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) is awarding the Prix Schläfli 2023 to the four most important insights of young researchers at Swiss universities. Simone Bavera has been awarded by

Image: SCNAT

22.9.2023
Celebration / Festival
Lecture
Basel

In honor of Daniel Bernoulli: Stachelschützenhaus becomes historic EPS site

Daniel Bernoulli (1700 - 1782) is honored for his contributions to physics. The original site of his research in Basel, the Physical Cabinet in the Stachelschützenhaus, becomes a "historical site"

Image: ETH Bibliothek

4.9.2023
Symposium
Basel

400th birthday of Blaise Pascal

2023 marks the 400th birthday of the physicist, mathematician, engineer and philosopher Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662). The Swiss and the Austrian Physical Society, in partnership with the French Physical

Image: Gérard Edelinck, Clermont Auvergne Métropole, Bibliothèque du patrimoine

Participants exchange ideas with each other on the topic of time management.

1.9.2023
Education / Training
Workshop
Bern

MAP Young Faculty Meeting 2023

The 2nd Young Faculty Meeting of the Platform Mathematics, Astronomy and Physics (MAP) will take place on Friday, 1 September 2023 at the "Generationenhaus" next to the main station of

Image: SCNAT

15.-16.6.2023
Symposium
London SW1Y 5AG

UK-Switzerland Bilateral International Meeting

The objective of this meeting is to build on and strengthen scientific ties between Switzerland and the UK. The overarching theme for the meeting is Facilities Science, and the meeting

Image: The Royal Society

28.-29.10.2022
Symposium
Basel

EULER–BERNOULLI: yesterday – today – tomorrow

For more than a hundred years, the Euler Committee has published the works and correspondence of the mathematician Leonhard Euler (1707–1783). The last printed volume was celebrated with a ceremony

Image: SCNAT

8.10.2022
Lecture
Lausanne

Clausius Symposium and Young Talent Day 2022

This public symposium will be dedicated to the physicist and mathematician Rudolf Clausius (1822 -1888)

Participants practise dealing with conflicts in role plays

6.9.2022
Conference
Education / Training
Bern

MAP Young Faculty Meeting 2022

The Young Faculty Meeting 2022 will take place on 6 September 2022 at the Berner Generationenhaus next to the main station of Berne.

Image: SCNAT

9.4.2022
Symposium
Bern

Symposium - 100 Years of the Nobel Prize for Albert Einstein

In November 1922, it was announced that Einstein would receive the Nobel Prize for the year 1921. Namely "for his services in theoretical physics, and in particular for his discovery

Image: SPS

24.9.2021
Award Ceremony
Conference
Versoix

Award ceremony for the Prix Schläfli Astronomy 2020

The Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) has awarded the Prix Schläfli 2020 to the four most important insights gained by young researchers at Swiss universities.

Image: Eva Schnider

18.9.2021
Symposium
Zürich

Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen Symposium

This public symposium is dedicated to the physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845 - 1923) and his vibrant legacy today. Röntgen studied mechanical engineering at the ETH Zürich and obtained his

Image: www.indico.cern.ch

15.9.2021
Award Ceremony
Conference
Basel

Award ceremony for the Prix Schläfli Mathematics 2021

The Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) is awarding the Prix Schläfli 2021 to the four most important insights of young researchers at Swiss universities. Gabriel Dill has been awarded by

Image: Michael Bosshard

21.11.2019
Celebration / Festival
Symposium
Bern

125th Anniversary of Georges Lemaître

Georges Edouard Lemaître (1894 - 1966) was a Belgian physicist, astronomer, and Roman Catholic priest. He proposed an expanding universe and is the central founding father of the Big Bang

Image: SPS

5.11.2019
Award Ceremony
Conference
Basel

Award ceremony for the Prix Schläfli Physics 2019

The Swiss Academy of Sciences (SCNAT) has awarded the Prix Schläfli 2019 to the four most important insights gained by young researchers at Swiss universities. Matteo Fadel has been awarded

Image: Universität Basel

30.8.2019
Symposium
Zürich

On the Origin of the Elements

The Swiss Physical Society (SPS) and SCNAT celebrate the International Year of the Periodic Table of the Elements (IYPT 2019) with a special symposium on Friday, 30 August 2019 in

Image: UNESCO

2019: 50 years of Moon-landing: from the Moon to Mars?

30.6.2019
Celebration / Festival
Bern

50 Jahre Mondlandung: Bern im All

Wie sieht unser Leben in 50 Jahren aus? Wollen wir Ferien auf dem Mond machen? Wie müsste der Mars eingerichtet sein, damit wir darauf leben könnten? Zusammen zeichnen wir ein

Image: Science et Cité

29.10.2018
Conference
Workshop
Bern

Open Data and Data Management - Issues and Challenges

The SCNAT is organizing this one day event in Bern, with the aim to give the research community the chance to raise their concern and also the SNF and the

Thomas Zurbuchen, Head of NASA Sciences Mission

2.8.2017
Lecture
Symposium
Bern

NASA and Swiss Space Science – with Thomas Zurbuchen

Thomas Zurbuchen from Heiligenschwendi is the new Head of NASA Science Missions since 2016. He thus bridges the dynamic space nation Switzerland and the largest global player in space, NASA.

Image: NASA

12.-14.11.2015
Conference
Symposium
Zürich

100 years of the general theory of relativity

Vor hundert Jahren, im November 1915, publizierte Albert Einstein seine bahnbrechenden Arbeiten zur Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Aus diesem Anlass findet vom 12.-14. November 2015 an der ETH Zürich ein Symposium statt,

18.-20.1.2015
Workshop
Küssnacht

Rigi-Workshop 2015

The Rigi Workshop 2015 brought together mathematics, computer science and biology. The aim of this workshop was to present interesting, cutting-edge topics from the life sciences which require mathematical modeling

23.-25.1.2011
Workshop
6410

Rigi-Workshop 2011

Biological machines are touted to offer novel technological strategies provided that their mechanisms can be understood and replicated outside the cellular context (see for instance G.M. Whitesides, Sci. Am., 2001).