Three Irish researchers are in Lindau, Germany to come face to face with their scientific heroes for the first time. The researchers will attend the 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates, which commences this Sunday, 29th June 2008 and runs until Friday, 4th July 2008 in Lindau, Germany.
The researchers are being supported by the Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology (IRCSET) and the Institute of Physics of Ireland.
Each year, approximately 25 Nobel Prize winners attend a unique meeting on Lake Constance to share their knowledge and expertise with up to 500 young students from all over the world. The attendees listen to the Laureates speak about their areas of expertise and engage in frank discussions with them.
The participants are selected by intermediaries from universities and research institutions based on strict criteria and this year three young Irish researchers will be among those attending.
This year the focus will be on physics and the Irish representatives will be Shane Bergin, from the School of Physics in Trinity College Dublin; Iris Choi from the Tyndall National Institute in University College Cork and Jim O’Doherty from the University of Limerick.
Speaking before his departure, Shane Bergin, Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the School of Physics and CRANN in Trinity College Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, commented: “I am honoured to be chosen to represent Ireland at this prestigious event. I am particularly looking forward to having the chance to learn from the high profile Nobel Laureates how they made their break throughs and ensured that the findings of their research was made known to the wider public.”
It will be interesting to meet the faces behind the familiar names and to discuss how to sell a scientific idea and how to communicate the importance of physics to those outside the research community.”
Each of the students will be blogging about their experiences at the conference.
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