The 5th World Top Scientists Forum will be held in Shanghai from November 6 to 7, of which the opening ceremony and award ceremony will be held simultaneously at the Dongjiao Hotel and Lingang venue on the 6th. From October 29 to November 5, pilot events will be held at the International Media Port venue, the Lingang venue and the Shanghai Science Hall venue.
At that time, online and offline international top scientists and more than 30 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences will form the "Top Science Heavenly Group", and more than 50 young scientists, guests from all walks of life and more than 100 "little scientists" will attend this forum to collide ideas and stimulate wisdom.
The lineup of "Top Science Heavenly Group" was announced, and the world's "strongest brain" came to the scene
According to the Association of the World's Top Scientists, one of the initiators and organizers of the forum, 60 top scientists from more than 20 countries and regions and across 12 time zones were invited to attend the forum online or offline, including 27 Nobel laureates.
Roger Kornberg, President of the Association of Top Scientists and 2006 Nobel Laureate, Randy Schekman, Vice President of the Association of Top World Scientists and 2013 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, Michael Levitt, Vice President of the Association of Top Scientists and 2013 Nobel Laureate, James Rothman, 2013 Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2010 Nobel Laureate in Physics Andre Gaim, and Fields Medal winner Efe M. Jemanov, Raymond Stevens, winner of the 2019 International Science and Technology Cooperation Award of the People's Republic of China, and others will come to Shanghai to participate in offline exchanges.
The winners of the first Association of the World's Leading Scientists Award, American computer science and statistician Michael I. Jordan and German biochemist Dirk Görlich, will come to Shanghai to accept the award and participate in a series of winners π' activities such as the winners' lecture hall and the scientific roundtable.
At that time, online and offline international top scientists and more than 30 academicians of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences will form the "Top Science Heavenly Group", and more than 50 young scientists, guests from all walks of life and more than 100 "little scientists" will attend this forum to collide ideas and stimulate wisdom.
All sessions of this forum will be open to the public for live broadcast, and science enthusiasts can go to the top science appointment and share the scientific feast.
Science creates the future with new innovation, carefully condensing 21 important activities
With the purpose of "science and technology, for the common destiny of mankind" and striving to practice the mission of "promoting basic science, advocating international cooperation, and supporting the growth of young people", the 5th World Top Scientists Forum set the annual theme as "science to the new, create the future together", take "science" as the eye, "new" as the wish, "innovation" as the action, and "future" as the orientation, closely follow the latest trends of basic science, and challenge the fate of mankind, and carefully condense 21 important activities.
The "Carbon Conference" explores the use of scientific and technological innovation to address climate change and achieve the "dual carbon" goal; The series of forums of the world's top scientists international joint laboratories focuses on the basic frontier fields and scientific research transformation oriented to the people's life and health, and will exchange from four directions: decoding life, exploring synthetic cells, new models of drug discovery, and the era of multi-omics and precision medicine. The Forum on Food and Sustainable Agriculture is currently focusing on world food security and biodiversity conservation.
This forum continues to discuss the optimization of scientific research ecology and talent training, and the "Excellent Engineer Forum" will focus on the cultivation of engineering talents and professional skills, etc., to provide useful references and ideas for the inheritance and development of engineer culture and the cross-integration of scientific thinking and engineering thinking.
The iconic forum "Youth Science and Technology Forum" continues to create a platform for in-depth dialogue between top scientists and top young scientists. The "She Forum" focuses on the research environment and resilience of female researchers to shape a more inclusive and diverse future.
This year's "Science T Conference" aims to continue to support scientific talents and promote science popularization. On October 30, the event will invite Nobel laureates, academicians of the two academies, young scientists, and young people who love science to have a dialogue on the same stage, with the three meanings of "youth, talent, eternity" represented by "T" as the theme, through the innovative integration of "thought + art + technology", create a circle-breaking program, narrow the distance between science and the public, and transmit the temperature and power of science.
The "spillover effect" has landed, and the results of five years of cultivation have been remarkable
This year's forum will grandly hold the first award ceremony of the Association of World's Top Scientists Award, as well as the unveiling ceremony of the permanent venue of the World Top Scientists Forum (Lingang Center) and the R&D community of Hi-Wisdom International.
The Association of the World's Top Scientists Award, established in 2021, is the first international science award in Shanghai, initiated by the Association of the World's Top Scientists (hereinafter referred to as the "Top Science Association") and organized by the Shanghai World Top Scientists Development Foundation, which is a science award for global scientists to select and benchmark the world's highest academic level. Sequoia China, as the exclusive donor of the Dingxing Association for Science and Technology Award, supports the sustainable development of the award.
Since its inception, the Prize has set the ambition of becoming a unique, world-class science prize, aiming to discover and celebrate "outstanding scientists who have made extremely important scientific achievements or made key discoveries that are not widely recognized by the international scientific community but deserve recognition". The inaugural winners were announced on 29 September.
On November 3, the permanent venue of the World Top Scientists Forum and the unveiling ceremony of the Haizhi International R&D Community will be officially held. According to the China Association for Science and Technology, the co-organizer of the forum, in the future, the Haizhi International R&D community located in Lingang will accelerate the integration of the resources of top universities and research institutes at home and abroad, with the strength of the world's top scientists + large-scale scientific innovation platform advantages, with a new concept and mechanism, to build the world's leading science and technology highland and science free port, at the same time, focus on promoting the transformation of scientific and technological achievements, build a global collaborative science and technology innovation zone and a vibrant entrepreneurial zone, and realize a new ecological chain of scientific resource element allocation.
During this forum, the organizers will also release a number of important achievements, including the full launch of the International Joint Laboratory of the World's Top Scientists, the WLA Entrepreneur Consulting and Collaboration Committee, the WLA University President's Advisory and Collaboration Committee, the establishment of the WLA Top High School Alliance, the release of the Top Scientists Documentary Project, and the signing of cooperation projects with many universities. At the opening ceremony of the 5th World Top Scientists Forum on November 6, representatives of China's scientific and technological community will also release the "Initiative on Scientific Research Behavior for International Cooperation".