The 2021 Nobel Week Dialogue was a hybrid event with a global digital audience online, as well as a limited audience present in Gothenburg. There was a mix of speakers participating digitally and physically on stage. The goal of the event is to bring together a select group of the world's leading scientists, policy-makers and thinkers for a series of thought-provoking sessions and working groups on a topical science-related theme. With this event the Nobel Institutions aim to deepen the dialogue between the scientific community and the rest of society on issues connected with the Nobel Prize and of importance for the world.
Serge Haroche was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2012 "for ground-breaking experimental methods that enable measuring and manipulation of individual quantum systems."
Monica L. Smith is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Professor in the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at the University of California, Los Angeles. She holds the Navin and Pratima Doshi Chair in Indian Studies and is the director of the South Asian Archaeology Laboratory at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.
Karen Seto is the Frederick C. Hixon professor of geography and urbanization science at the Yale School of the Environment. Her central research focus is how urbanisation will affect the planet. A geographer by training, she integrates remote sensing, field interviews, and modeling methods to study urbanisation and land change, future urban land expansion, and the environmental consequences of urbanisation at scale.
Nicolas J.A. Buchoud is a fellow of the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI, Berlin) and O.P. Jindal Global University Centre for Sustainability (Sonipat, India) and an honorary member of the Indonesian Creative Cities Network (ICCN). Juleen Zirath is a member of the Nobel Committee at Karolinska Institute.
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