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2019 Nobel Conference

The Nobel Conference is an academic conference held annually at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota. Founded in 1963, the conference links a general audience with the world's foremost scholars and researchers in conversations centered on contemporary issues related to the natural and social sciences. It is the first ongoing academic conference in the United States to have the official authorization of the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, Sweden.

History

Svante Pääbo at the 2014 Conference

Gustavus Adolphus College was founded by Swedish immigrants in 1862 and throughout its history, has continued to honor its Swedish heritage. As the College prepared to build a new science hall in the early 1960s, College officials asked the Nobel Foundation for permission to name the building the Alfred Nobel Hall of Science as a memorial to the great Swedish inventor and philanthropist. Permission was granted, and the facility's dedication ceremony in 1963[1] included 26 Nobel laureates and officials from the Nobel Foundation.[2]

Following the 1963 Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, College representatives met with Nobel Foundation officials, asking them to endorse an annual science conference at the College and to allow use of the Nobel name to establish credibility and high standards. At the urging of several prominent Nobel laureates, the foundation granted the request and the first conference was held at the College in January 1965.[3]

Beginning with the help of an advisory committee composed of Nobel laureates such as Glenn Seaborg, Philip Showalter Hench, and Sir John Eccles, the conferences have been consistently successful in attracting the world's foremost authorities as speakers.

Past speakers have included David H. Hubel, Fritz Lipmann, Sir Harold Walter Kroto, and Mitchell Jay Feigenbaum.

Fifty-nine Nobel laureates have served as speakers, five of whom were awarded the Nobel prize after speaking at the Nobel conference at Gustavus.

The Nobel conference has a focus on scientific topics such as "Medicine: Prescription for Tomorrow" (2006), "The Legacy of Einstein" (2005), "The Science of Aging" (2004), "The Nature of Nurture" (2002), "Virus: The Human Connection" (1998), and "The New Shape of Matter: Materials Challenge Science" (1995). The social sciences are also well represented and many topics are interdisciplinary; focusing on economics, politics, the social sciences, and philosophy.

The Nobel conference is open to the general public.

Current

2022 - Mental Health (In)Equity and Young People

Nobel Conference 58 is happening September 28 & 29, 2022 and will address mental health disparities and their effects on youth, with a particular emphasis on the significance of identity, trauma and technology.

Confirmed 2022 Speakers

  • Meryl Alper, Associate Professor of Communication Studies, Northeastern University
  • Manuela Barreto, Professor of Social and Organizational Psychology, University of Exeter
  • Daniel Eisenberg, Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA
  • Joseph P. Gone, Professor of Anthropology and of Global Health and Social Medicine, Harvard
  • Priscilla Lui, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Southern Methodist University
  • G. Nic Rider, Assistant Professor and Coordinator of the Transgender Health Program, Institute for Sexual and Gender Health, and Associate Director for Research, National Center for Gender Spectrum Health, University of Minnesota Medical School
  • Brendesha Tynes, Associate Professor of Education and Psychology, USC

2021 Big Data REvolution

The 2021 Nobel Conference was "Big Data REvolution" and took place October 5–6, 2021 in Saint Peter, Minnesota at Gustavus Adolphus College.[4]

How is big data changing our lives, and what challenges and opportunities does this transformation present? In less than a generation, we’ve witnessed nearly every piece of personal, scientific, and societal data come to be stored digitally. Stored information is both an intellectual and an economic commodity; it is used by businesses, governments, academics, and entrepreneurs. The velocity with which it accumulates and the techniques for leveraging it grow at a pace that is remarkable and often intimidating. But this revolution also promises hope, in areas as diverse as public health, drug development, child welfare, and climate change.

Lecturers included:

  • Talithia Williams, PhD: Professor of Mathematics, Harvey Mudd College
  • Francesca Dominici, PhD Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population and Data Science; Co-Director, the Data Science Initiative, Harvard University
  • Michael Osterholm, PhD A Regents Professor and McKnight Presidential Endowed Chair in Public Health; Director, Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota
  • Cynthia Rudin, PhD Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Statistical Science; Director, Prediction Analysis Lab, Duke University
  • Pilar Ossorio, JD, PhD Professor of Law and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin
  • Rhema Vaithianathan, PhD Professor of Health Economics; Director, Centre for Social Data Analytics, Auckland University of Technology
  • Wendy Chun, PhD Canada 150 Research Chair; Leader, the Digital Democracies Institute, Simon Fraser University

2020- Cancer in the Age of Biotechnology[5] Lecturers included:

2019- Climate Changed: Facing Our Future[6]

Lectures Included:

2018- Living Soil: "A Universe Underfoot"

Lectures Included

The 2017 Nobel Conference is titled "Reproductive Technology: How Far Do We Go?" and took place October 3–4, 2017 in Saint Peter, Minnesota at Gustavus Adolphus College.

Lecturers include:

2016 - In Search of Economic Balance

Lecturers included:

2015 - Addiction: Exploring the Science and Experience of an Equal Opportunity Condition

Lecturers included:

  • Owen Flanagan, Ph.D, James B. Duke Professor and Faculty Fellow in Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University
  • Eric R. Kandel, MD, Neuropsychiatrist and 2000 Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine
  • Carl Hart, Ph.D, Neuroscientist
  • Denise Kandel, Ph.D, Medical sociologist
  • Marc David Lewis, Ph.D, Developmental neuroscientist
  • John A. List, Ph.D, Economist
  • Sheigla B. Murphy, Ph.D, Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Studies at the Institute for Scientific Analysis

2014 - Where does Science Go from Here?

Steven Chu at the 2014 Conference

Lecturers included:

2013 - The Universe at its Limits

Lecturers included:

Other past Nobel Conferences include:

  • 2012 - Our Global Ocean
  • 2011 - The Brain and Being Human
  • 2010 - Making Food Good

2000s

  • 2009 - H2O Uncertain Resource
  • 2008 - Who Were the First Humans?
  • 2007 - Heating Up: The Energy Debate
  • 2006 - Medicine: Prescription for Tomorrow
  • 2005 - The Legacy of Einstein
  • 2004 - The Science of Aging
  • 2003 - The Story of Life
  • 2002 - The Nature of Nurture
  • 2001 - What is still to be discovered?

2000 - Globalization 2000: Economic Prospects and Challenges

Lecturers included:

1990s

  • 1999 - Genetics in the New Millennium
  • 1998 - Virus: The Human Connection
  • 1997 - Unveiling the Solar System: 30 Years of Exploration
  • 1996 - Apes at the End of an Age: Primate Language and Behavior in the '90s
  • 1995 - The New Shape of Matter: Materials Challenge Science
  • 1994 - Unlocking the Brain: Progress in Neuroscience
  • 1993 - Nature Out of Balance: The New Ecology
  • 1992 - Immunity: The Battle Within
  • 1991 - The Evolving Cosmos
  • 1990 - Chaos: The New Science

1980s

  • 1989 - The End of Science?
  • 1988 - The Restless Earth
  • 1987 - Evolution of Sex
  • 1986 - The Legacy of Keynes
  • 1985 - The Impact of Science on Society
  • 1984 - How We Know: The Inner Frontiers of Cognitive Science
  • 1983 - Manipulating Life
  • 1982 - Darwin's Legacy
  • 1981 - The Place of Mind in Nature
  • 1980 - The Aesthetic Dimension of Science

1970s

  • 1979 - The Future of the Market Economy
  • 1978 - Global Resources: Perspectives and Alternatives
  • 1977 - The Nature of Life
  • 1976 - The Nature of the Physical Universe
  • 1975 - The Future of Science
  • 1974 - The Quest for Peace
  • 1973 - The Destiny of Women
  • 1972 - The End of Life
  • 1971 - Shaping the Future
  • 1970 - Creativity

1960s

  • 1969 - Communication
  • 1968 - The Uniqueness of Man
  • 1967 - The Human Mind
  • 1966 - The Control of the Environment[7]
  • 1965 - Genetics and the Future of Man

External links

  • Nobel Conference official website
  • Archival finding aid for the collection Nobel Conference. Nobel Conference Collection, 1965-Ongoing. GACA Collection 92. Gustavus Adolphus College Archives, St. Peter, Minnesota.[1]
  1. ^ Archives. "LibGuides: GACA Collection 184. Nobel Hall of Science Dedication Collection, 1962-1963: Overview". libguides.gustavus.edu. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  2. ^ "26 Nobel Laureates take part in the dedication of Alfred Nobel Hall of Science at Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter". Minnesota Historical Society.
  3. ^ "GENETICS AND THE FUTURE OF MAN: A Discussion at the Nobel Conference Organized by Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, Minnesota, 1965". Quill & Brush.
  4. ^ "Nobel Conference to focus on effects of stored data". Mankato Free Press. September 8, 2021.
  5. ^ "Nobel Conference Hosted Virtually-Focus on Cancer and Biotechnology". KEYC Television. June 24, 2020.
  6. ^ "Gustavus' Nobel Conference to focus on response to climate change". Mankato Free Press. September 16, 2019.
  7. ^ "Taking Arms Against a Sea of Trouble". Science. 156 (3776): 810–811. May 12, 1967.
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