Opening Ceremony

Welcome to the 10th Heidelberg Laureate Forum!

Tanya Shreedhar & Günter M. Ziegler Masters of Ceremonies

WELCOME ADDRESSES
Jens Brandenburg
Parliamentary State Secretary to the German Federal Minister of Education and Research

Petra Olschowski
Minister of Science, Research and Arts, Baden-Württemberg

Bernhard Eitel
Rector of Heidelberg University

Jürgen Odszuck
First Deputy Mayor of Heidelberg

Patrick Cramer
President of the Max Planck Society

Rafael Lang
Chairperson of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation
Co-President of the Klaus Tschira Stiftung

Anna Wienhard Scientific
Chairperson of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation

MEET THE YOUNG RESEARCHERS THE AWARD-GRANTING INSTITUTIONS
Yannis Ioannidis
President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Hiraku Nakajima President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU)

Lise Øvreås President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA)

INTRODUCING THE ALUMNI

THE SIGNATORIES OF THE HLF CHARTER
Vinton Gray Cerf
Former President of the ACM / ACM A.M. Turing Award 2004

Ingrid Daubechies
Former President of the IMU

Nils Christian Stenseth
Former President of the DNVA