11th PCST-2010 New DelhiThe next PCST-conference will take place in New Delhi, India, in December 06-10, 2010. The focal theme will be Towards a Scientifically Aware & Attitudinally Rational World. Read more: www.pcst-2010.org
Take Part in an Untraditional ConferenceThe PCST Network and the Swedish Research Council with partners welcome you to the PCST-conference in Malmö, Lund and Copenhagen in the Øresund region and to the pre-conference in Stockholm, in June 23-27 2008. The 10th PCST-conference will be a slightly different one. Above giving you the chance to expand your network across cultures and professions and to share your knowledge in research communication with colleagues from all over the world, you will meet challenges of a different kind. Throughout the conference you will have the opportunity to be involved in communication assignments and dilemmas which by their nature are controversial and with an ethical edge. Together we can create a most serious and in the same time playful conference.
 Stockholm, Malmo, the Oresund Bridge and Copenhagen
Nearly 400 proposals were submitted by the deadline on November 30, 2007. Now, step by step a programme is built based on 27 seminars and about 350 presentations, sessions, that will be grouped into 70 parallel and poster sessions, according to the conference sub-themes. Read more
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Plenary speaker Lene Vestergaard Hau: physicist who is communicating the unbelievableLene Vestergaard Hau is a Danish physicist who won world acclaim for slowing light to the speed of a racing bicycle. Lene Vestergaard Hau is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and awarded with the Richtmyer Memorial Lecture Award from the American Association of Physics Teachers, an award she won for her, according to the teachers association “dedication to teaching and research" and her “ability to give an exciting and informative lecture". “Communicating the unbelievable" is the topic that she will be addressing in her speech at the PCST conference. Read more |
The dilemma of media meeting science is the topic that Danish astronomer Anja C Andersen will be addressing in her speech at the PCST conference. As one the most prominent popularisers of research in Denmark, she has a lot of experience of how communicating research works in practice. Read more |
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What is the role of lobbying in the scientific community, the science-based industries or other organizations where science plays a pivotal role? Indeed, what is science? Carl Johan Sundberg, Swedish physician, medical researcher and founder of the Euroscience Open Forum, intends to deliberate these thought-provoking questions during the session he has co-organizeed with Anna Larsson from Public Swedish Radio at this year´s PCST conference. Read more |
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Building bridges between researchers and research communicators is one of the overarching objectives of this conference. An effective multifaceted, exciting and essential dialogue between researchers and society calls for constant development and new ways of interacting with one another. We are proud to welcome you, researchers and research communicators, to a few midsummer days in Scandinavia where participants from many countries will have the opportunity to learn from one another. We believe that you will leave Scandinavia with new ideas and greater knowledge of research communication. Welcome! Pär Omling
Director General, Swedish Research Council
Ilan Chabay, Sweden´s first professor of public learning and understanding of science, serves as Program Chairman for the PCST-10 conference. Professor Chabay is leading the process to develop this year´s conference program. He describes his focus on understanding how scientific communication functions, how people create their perceptions about science, and how these perceptions can be influenced. “I want to understand who understands what!" he says, with emphasis. Read more
The Kavli Prize — for outstanding scientific research This year three outstanding international scientific prizes in the fields of Nanoscience, Neuroscience and Astrophysics — the Kavli Prize www.kavliprize.no — will be awarded for the first time. The winners of the 2008 Kavli prizes were announced in Oslo on May 28 and the prize ceremony will take place in Oslo Concert Hall on September 9. The prizes will be presented to the winners by HRH Crown Prince Haakon. Each prize consists of a scroll, a medal and a cash award of US $ 1 Million. The Kavli Prize will be awarded bi-annually. Read more Fred Kavli will make a presentation at the plenary session on Wednesday June 25 11:40 — 12:00
What´s the story in the Øresund Region?!- Øresund Science Region; winner of EU RegioStars award 2008Invitation to a pre-welcome-dinner reception 24th of June, 4 pm — 7 pm at MINC, (Malmö Incubator across the street from registration). Read more...
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