The programme will include lectures by invited speakers who share their experiences and expertise in their respective fields within quantum science and biotechnology. Each theme will conclude with a panel discussion with the respective researchers, where high school students have the opportunity to ask questions.
In addition, the high school students will be offered workshops, guided tours of the campus and laboratory environments, as well as dinner and other student activities.
The program is preliminary and may be subject to change.
Thursday 3 December
08:45 - 09:15 Registration for everyone, coffee
09:15 - 09:45 Molecular Frontiers Inquiry Prize
09.45 - 10.15 Welcome by moderator Emma Frans and Martin Nilsson Jacobi, president of Chalmers University of Technology and the organizers.
Session title: The joy and responsibility of discovery
10:15 - 10.45 Ben Feringa, University of Groningen, "The joy of discovery"
10:45 - 11:15 Sibylle Bauer, SIPRI, "Responsible science: anticipating peace ans security implications"
11:15 - 11:45 Panel discussion with questions from students
11:45 - 13:45 Lunch, poster session for everyone
12:45 - 13:45 Campus tour for high school students
Session title: Imaging the impossible: Designing the materials of tomorrow
13:45 - 14:15 Armi Tiihonen, Chalmers University of Technology, Title TBA
14:15 - 14:45 Sinéad Griffin, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, "Designing impossible materials"
14:45 - 15:15 Panel discussion with questions from students
15:15 - 15:45 Coffee
Session title: Can AI change the way we discover?
15:45 - 16:15 Leslie Schoop, Princeton University, "Can AI discover new materials?"
16:15 - 16:45 Emma Frans, Karolinska Institutet, Title TBA
16:45 - 17:15 Panel discussion with questions from students
17.30 - 19.30 Dinner for high school students, teachers and student ambassadors in Kårrestaurangen
Friday 4 December
07.50 - 09.45 Tour of different labs at Chalmers for high school students
08.30-10.00 Coffee and registration for everyone
Session title: Beyond electronics: the power of spin
10:00 - 10.30 Caroline A. Ross,, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Magnets for memories, sensors and communications"
10:30 - 11:00 Tomáš Jungwirth, Czech Academy of Sciences and University of Nottingham, "Spintronics: a new paradigm in digital bits"
11:00 - 11:30 Panel discussion with questions from students
11:30 - 12:30 Lunch / lunch activity
Session title: Designing a better future: from molecules to materials
12:30 - 13:00 Steven Chu, Stanford University, "Materials as an enabling technology in getting to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions
13:00 - 13:30 William DeGrado, University of California San Francisco, Title TBA
13:30 - 14:00 Panel discussion with questions from students
14:00 - 14:30 Coffee
Session title: Inspired by life: materials that sense and power
14:30 - 15:00 Nako Nakatsuka, EPFL, Nanotechnologies to decode the chemical language of the brain
15:00 - 15:30 Michael Mayer, University of Fribourg, Latest advances towards implantable power sources inspired by electric fish
15:30 - 16:00 Panel discussion with questions from students
16:00 - 16:15 Conclusion by Emma Frans