New Frontiers in Scientific Advancement

New Frontiers in Scientific Advancement

2 June, 10:15–11:30

Recent directions in scientific development have raised questions about its future. It is both actively engaging and developing established disciplines, and eroding the boundaries between disciplines through implementing common methods of research and design. This approach to research holds the promise of greater and more revolutionary discoveries, impacting potentially every aspect of our work and private lives, and increasingly attracting public interest. What does the near future hold for science? What form will the science take and what will the world’s scientific map look like? Which opportunities for invention and discovery will progress the furthest and what is behind the rapid pace of development in scientific knowledge in recent times?
















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Key moments

The incredible thing in the last 30 years is an electronic revolution that led to communication revolution and data revolution.
Rodney John Allam
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Chief Technology Officer, Net Power LLC
Previously, a degree in physics and mathematics was enough, but use of software and electronic components is becoming a lot more prominent nowadays.
Zhores Alferov
Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate; Vice President, Russian Academy of Sciences
Biobased industry is the way by which we can reuse biological materials to produce materials that we use for our life. This can help to find solution to the problem of waste recycling.
Riccardo Valentini
Nobel Peace Prize Laureate; Presidential Advisor, Head of Far Eastern Climate Smart Project, Far Eastern Federal University; Head, CMCC (The Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change)
There is no way we can stop discoveries and development, people have new ideas. However, we should remember we will never do better than nature.
Ada E. Yonath
Nobel Prize in Chemistry Laureate; Professor, Structural Biology Department, Weizmann Institute of Science
The successful enterpreneurs of today are not the industrialists of the past. And because their inventions spread so easily and create monopolies, they generate enormous inequalities which we don’t know how to deal with. Unless we find a way to deal with this, the system will eventually break down, cause resistance, and impede further progress in those directions.
Christopher Pissarides
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate; Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
The creation of robots will lead to the fact that there will be fewer jobs, but the influence of artificial intelligence has not yet been studied.
Christopher Pissarides
Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Laureate; Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
The future lies mainly in development in the areas of medicine, biology, programming, physics, mathematics, and engineering. Education in these areas will not come easy.
Zhores Alferov
Nobel Prize in Physics Laureate; Vice President, Russian Academy of Sciences