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Plenary session: “Integrated risk policies for global systems at risk”

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Erwin-Schrödinger-Saal
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Scientific Officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Brussels
Director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg; Vice Chairman, European Climate Forum, Potsdam
Chairman, Global Climate Forum, Berlin
Visiting Fellow, Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre, University of Cambridge; Member, House of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London
Ehemaliger Vizepräsident, Europäisches Forum Alpbach, Wien Chair

Ph.D. Ralph DUM

Scientific Officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission, Brussels

 M.Sc., Ph.D. in Physics, University of Innsbruck
1990-1994 Ph.D. Thesis and Research Assistant at Joint Institute of Laboratory Astrophysics, Colorado
1994-2000 Researcher, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris
since 2001 Scientific Officer, European Commission, Brussels

Dr. Klaus HASSELMANN

Director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg; Vice Chairman, European Climate Forum, Potsdam

1957 Dr. rer. nat., University of Goettingen
1957-1962 Post Doc, University of Hamburg
1962-1965 Assistant Professor, University of California, San Diego
1963 Habilitation, University of Hamburg
1972-1973 Doherty Professor, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute
1974-1975 Professor of Geophysics, University of Hamburg
1975-1999 Director, Max Planck Institute of Geophysics
since 1999 Director emeritus; Vice Chairman, European Climate Forum

Dr. Carlo C. JAEGER

Chairman, Global Climate Forum, Berlin

1971-1974 Teaching sociology at the Institute of Sociology at Zurich University and the Department of Architecture, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH)
1974-1979 Research on social theory and mathematical economics at J.W.Goethe-University, Frankfurt
1980 Research on energy consumption for the Association of German Scientists
1981-1992 Teaching human ecology at ETH; research on spatial and cultural impacts of new information technologies at ETH
1992-1993 Lecturer in human ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences, ETH
1993-2000 Research director of the Human Ecology Division at EAWAG (Swiss Federal Institute for Environmental Science and Technology), Dübendorf, Switzerland
1994-2000 Professor of Sociology at Darmstadt University
since 2000 Professor of Modeling Social Systems at Potsdam University
2000-2007 Department Head, Global Change and Social Systems, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
since 2007 Department Head, Transdisciplinary Concepts and Methods, PIK

CB MA Ph.D. Julian Charles Roland LORD HUNT OF CHESTERTON

Visiting Fellow, Malaysian Commonwealth Studies Centre, University of Cambridge; Member, House of Lords, Parliament of the United Kingdom, London

1967 Visiting Lecturer, University of Cape Town, South Africa, on Magntohydrodynamics (3 months)
Fulbright travel scholarship to USA to work as Research Associate at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, with Professor G.S.S. Ludford
1968-1970 Research Officer at the Central Electricity Research Laboratories in the Fluid Dynamics Section, under Mr. D.J.W. Richards (Main work on wind forces on structures)
1970-1978 University Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Engineering at University of Cambridge
1978 University Reader in Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge
1990 Professor in Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cambridge
1992-1997 Chief Executive of the Meteorological Office, Bracknell (a Next Steps and, since 1996, a Trading Fund Agency of the UK Ministry of Defence)
1997-1998 Visiting Scientist CERFACS, Toulouse and Visiting Professor Institute de Mechanique des Fluides de Toulouse
Professor Mechanical Engineering, Arizona State University
since 1998 Visiting Scientist, Stanford University, Center for Turbulence Research
Senior Research Fellow, Trinity College Cambridge
since 1999 Professor in Climate Modelling, Department of Space and Climate Physics and Department of Earth Sciences, (Honorary Professor in Department of Mathematics) University College London
since 2000 Appointed as a 'working peer' in the House of Lords, with the title Baron Hunt of Chesterton
since 2003 Director, Lighthill Institute of Mathematical Sciences (LIMS), London

Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Erich GORNIK

Ehemaliger Vizepräsident, Europäisches Forum Alpbach, Wien

1963-1968 Studium, Technische Physik, Technische Universität Wien
1968 Diplom, Technische Universität Wien
1972 Doktor, Technische Wissenschaften, Technische Universität Wien
1975-1977 Forschungsaufenthalt, Bell Laboratorien Holmdel, USA
1976 Lehrbefugnis für das Fach "Physikalische Elektronik", Technische Universität Wien
1979-1988 o. Universitätsprofessor für Experimentalphysik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck
1988-1993 C4-Professor für Halbleiterphysik, Technische Universität München
Direktor, Walter-Schottky-Institut, Technische Universität München
seit 1993 o. Universitätsprofessor für Festkörperelektronik, Technische Universität Wien
2003-2008 Geschäftsführer, Austrian Research Centers GmbH - ARC
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Seminar Week

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20.08.2009

15:00 - 15:30Opening of the European Forum Alpbach 2009Plenary
15:30 - 17:00Opening speechesPlenary
17:00 - 18:30Presentation of the seminarsPlenary

20.08.-26.08.2009

Seminar 01: Vertrauensbildung in der Kommunikation – Kontrolle ist gut, Vertrauen ist besser!Seminar
Seminar 02: The biological foundations of trust and social decision-makingSeminar
Seminar 03: Global contracts, economic crisis and rebuilding trustSeminar
Seminar 04: Confidence-building in the context of security and ethnic conflictsSeminar
Seminar 05: Vertrauen im RechtSeminar
Seminar 06: Political trust and the role of religionSeminar
Seminar 07: Trust in America: Understanding the cultures and society of the United StatesSeminar
Seminar 08: The United Nations: International trust and global governanceSeminar
Seminar 09: The future of the internetSeminar
Seminar 10: Historical aspects of trust and confidence in societiesSeminar
Seminar 11: Trust in scienceSeminar
Seminar 12: Building trust: Development cooperationSeminar
Seminar 13: Trust and confidence in medicineSeminar
Seminar 14: Kunstmarkt und VertrauenSeminar

21.08.2009

15:30 - 17:30Plenary session “1989-2009: From revolution to normality. Challenges of city politics in Central Europe”Plenary

22.08.2009

15:30 - 17:30Plenary session: “Integrated risk policies for global systems at risk”Plenary

24.08.2009

17:00 - 19:00Plenary session “Public media in the digital age – Whom do you trust?”Plenary

25.08.2009

15:30 - 17:00Plenary session “Ethics and science”Plenary