SHP – Humboldt Kolleg

How Science Spies on and Technology Imitates Nature

Gdańsk, 25-28. September 2011

PROGRAMME

Sunday, September 25, 2011

Arrival.

15:00  Registration in hotels and Main Library UG

16:00  Bus transfer from the hotels to University of Gdańsk (UG), Main Library.

Session I University of Gdańsk, Main Library, Auditorium (first floor)

  Chair persons: A. M. Kłonkowski, A. Zmitrowicz

17:00  Opening ceremony of the SHP – Humboldt Kolleg

17:30  Coffee break

18:00  Prof. Dr. Günther Heinz Frischat (Clausthal University of Technology,

Clausthal-Zellerfeld):Libyan DesertGlass – Mystery and Challenge

18:30  Prof. Dr. Bogusław Buszewski (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń):How to

Copy Nature? Is It Possible to Build Cell Membrane Inside Chromatographic

Column?

19:15  Welcome party. Restaurant, University campus.

21:00  Bus transfer to the hotels

Monday, September 26, 2011

9:00  Bus transfer from the hotels to Main Library UG

Session II

  Chair persons: G. H. Frischat, M. Jaskula

9:30  Prof. Dr. Antonius Kettrup (Environmental Engineering Industrial Management,

Arnsberg):Sustainability and Clean Technology - a Challenge for Chemists and  

Enginneers

10:00  Prof. Dr. Columban Hutter (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule, Zürich):

Granular Mechanics in the Geophysical and Geotechnical Context.

An Interplay between Order and Chaos.

10:30  Dr. Enno Aufderheide – General Secretary (Alexander von Humboldt

Foundation, Bonn): Present Day Development in the Alexander von Humboldt

  Foundation: Good Prospects for Germany, Europe and the World.

11:00  Coffee break

11:30  Prof. Dr. Michał Hanasz (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń): Fascination

     with the Sky: from Hevelius to Modern Astrophysical Computer Simulations.

12:00  Prof. Dr. Anton Amann (University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck):Research Fields

Involving Volatile Compounds: from Sniffing Dogs to Modern Mass Spectrometric

Analytical Techniques.

12:45  Lunch, Restaurant, University campus

Session III

  Chair persons:A. Kettrup, M. Hanasz

14:30  Prof. Dr. Lorenz Kienle (University of Kiel, Kiel): Discoveries by Transmission

   Electron Microscopy.

15:00  Prof. Dr. H.-Jürgen Meyer (University of Tübingen, Tübingen):Fiat Lux: The

Development of Lighting Technology.

15: 30  Poster session. Chair person: W.A. Fogel

17:30  Dinner, Restaurant, University campus

18:45  Bus transfer to the Oliwa Cathedral

19:00  Concert on the worldwide known organ in the Oliwa Cathedral

(Gdańsk Oliwa).

About 

20:30  Bus transfer to the hotels Dwór Prawdzica and Rzemieślnik

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

9:00   Bus transfer from the hotels to Main Library UG

Session IV

  Chair persons: W. A. Fogel, H.-J. Meyer,

9:30  Prof. Dr. Michael Giersig (Free University, Berlin): Nanomaterials and Their

Applications in Biomedicine

10:00  Prof. Dr. Małgorzata Sznitowska (Gdańsk University of Medicine, Gdańsk): Drug

Development - How Can We Imitate Gastrointestinal Tract for Testing Tablets and

Capsules?

10:30  Prof. Dr. Holger Stark (Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt /Main):Similarities

and Differences in Small Molecule Drug Design

11:00  Coffee break

11:30  Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Węgrzyn (University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk):Can We Determine a 

Biological Role for Anything?

12:00  Dr. Henning Steinicke (Leopoldina, Halle): Spying on Biological Systems –

Perspectives of Synthetic Biology

12:45  Lunch, Restaurant, University campus

Session V

  Chair persons:M. Giersig, C. Hutter

13:30  Prof. Dr. Adam Sokołowski (University of Gdańsk, Gdańsk): Transfer of
 Organic Matter and Associated Trace Metals in Benthic Food Web of the Gulf
 of Gdańsk

14:00  Prof. Dr. Grzegorz Karczewski (Inst. of Physics, Pol. Acad. Sci., Warsaw):How

  Nano-Hairs (Nano-Whiskers) Grow and What They are Useful for?

14:30  Prof. Dr. Piotr J. Durka (Institute of Physics, University of Warsaw):How and

Why Brain-Computer Interfaces Spy on Our Intentions?

15:10  Bus transfer to the hotels

17:00  Bus transfer to Gdańsk

17:30  Ship voyage

20:00  Gala dinner (Hotel Gdańsk, Old City Gdańsk)

About

22:00  Bus transfer to the hotels

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

9:00  Bus transfer from the hotels to Main Library UG

Session VI

  Chair persons:M. Sznitowska, G. Karczewski

9:30  Prof. Dr. Aleksander Strasburger (University of Life Sciences, Warsaw):On the

Notation of Symmetry or How Mathematics Attempts to Describe Reality.

10:00  Prof. Dr. Józef Spałek (Jagiellonian University, Cracow): Emergent Character of the

  Laws of Nature and Hierarchical Structure of Science

10:30  Discussion panel “Relationship between Science, Technology and Nature”

Moderators: Prof. Dr. Józef Spałek and Prof. Dr. Michael Giersig.

11:30  Presentation of official representatives of the Deutsche Akademische Austausch

   Dienstand Alumniportal Deutschland.

12:30  Closing

13:00   Lunch

14:30   Sightseeing, departure to Old City Gdańsk at the invitation of the

 President of the City Gdańsk

About

17:30  Departure to the hotels