World Science Festival Kick-Off
The World Science Festival has now officially started. Click on our list of events to see where tickets are still available — many events are already sold out. Here are some visual impressions from the opening and from the World Science Summit that marked the beginning of the Festival.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s opening address stressed the importance of science for politics. You can read more about it on Andrew Revkin’s blog at nytimes.com here. (Image © Getty Images)
From left to right: Festival co-founder Brian Greene, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Festival co-founder Tracy Day, and actor and writer Alan Alda, one of the Festival’s directors. (Image © Getty Images)
The summit itself took place in Columbia University’s Low Memorial Library, where an audience of 125 leaders in science, business, government, media, and academia listened to, and interacted with, expert panels on The Big, the Small, and the Complex; Radical Science for a Warming Planet; Science as the New Foreign Policy, and Building a Better Brain. Those joining in the discussion included Nobel Laureates David Baltimore, Steven Chu, David Gross, Dudley Herschbach, Leon Lederman, F. Sherwood Rowland, Horst Stormer, Harold Varmus, and Carl Wieman, as well as Assistant Secretary in the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Alexander Karsner, neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, vertical farm pioneer Dickson Despommier, and Director and Head of Global Planning at Arup, Peter Head. (Image © Getty Images)
Discussing the Big, the Small and the Complex: Alan Alda, David Gross, Michael Turner, Horst Stormer, and Joseph LeDoux. (Image © Getty Images)
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