Annual Reports of the Lindau Meetings

ANNUAL REPORT 2009 - CHEMISTRY. (16MB PDF)

Twenty-two Nobel Laureates and 580 up-and-coming young scientists from 67 countries met for a week at Lake Constance to engage in discussions, establish contacts and exchange information. More than 120 Academic Partners had nominated the young researchers. This year, lectures and panel discussion covered the topics of climate change and sustainability, the biochemistry of the living cell, the analysis of surface reactions and new strategies in synthesis. The meeting took place from June 28th to July 3rd, 2009.

ANNUAL REPORT 2008 - ECONOMICS. (18MB PDF)

From August 20 – 23, 2008, 14 Laureates in Economic Sciences, Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus, and 299 carefully selected young scientists from 58 countries came to Lake Constance to discuss current phenomena in the economic and financial world. The meeting’s programme included major topics in economics, politics, and society – labour markets, the financial crisis, and social business. Lectures, panel discussions, seminars, and events within the surrounding programme offered countless opportunities for exchanges between the best economists of our times and those of tomorrow.

ANNUAL REPORT 2008 - PHYSICS. (21MB PDF)

What is that holds the world together in its deepest recesses but also keeps it apart from the outermost reaches of the cosmos? These profound questions were more frequently heard as subjects of discussion in Lindau in the first week of July 2008 than anywhere else in the world. From 29 June until 4 July, 24 Nobel Laureates shared their knowledge and discussed the latest developments in physics with 557 outstanding young scientists from 66 countries at the 58th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting.

ANNUAL REPORT 2007 - PHYSIOLOGY OR MEDICINE. (8,7 MB PDF)

The 57th Meeting of Nobel Laureates took place from July 1st to 6th, 2007 in Lindau. It was dedicated to the Laureates in Physiology or Medicine. More than 500 young researchers from 64 countries met 17 Nobel Laureates. Scientific talks, intimate discussions on a wide range of themes and personal meetings formed the focal point of the conference. Special attention was given to the dialogue between natural sciences and the humanities to mark the German "Year of Humanities 2007".

2006 ANNUAL REPORT - ECONOMICS. (3,1 MB PDF)

The 2nd Meeting of Winners of the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel took place from August 16th to August 19th, 2006. Eight Prizewinners and 279 up- and- coming economists from 40 different countries came together in Lindau, at the University of St. Gallen and on the Isle of Mainau to exchange experience and understanding.

2006 ANNUAL REPORT - CHEMISTRY. (4,6 MB PDF)

The 56th Meeting of Nobel Laureates took place from June 25th–30th, 2006.. It was the 18th Meeting of Winners of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. At the invitation of the president of the Council for the Nobel Laureate Meetings in Lindau, Countess Sonja Bernadotte, 23 Nobel Laureates travelled to Lake Constance to discuss current scientific topics with 511 young scientists from 53 countries. Scientific talks, intimate discussions on specialist themes and personal meetings formed the focal point of the conference.

ANNUAL REPORT 2005 - INTERDISCIPLINARY.

The 2005 Meeting of Nobel Laureates was an interdisciplinary event for Nobel Laureates in chemistry, physics and physiology/medicine – only the second interdisciplinary meeting of this kind. Besides the 44 Laureates, 696 outstanding young scientists from 54 nations took part in the 16 plenary lectures given by Laureates and in the three panel discussions that all took place in Lindau, Germany, from June 27th to July 1st, 2005. The young scientists were also able to carry on a direct dialogue with the Laureates in 24 discussion events.