Past Events

May 30-31, 2008

Another Molecular Frontiers symposium and Youth Forum was held in Stockholm, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. This year's title is "Energy and Nano: Emerging Molecular Science & Technology". Speakers included Richard Zare, Sir Aaron Klug and George Whitesides. Click here to see the full programme. More information and pictures will be published in the near future.

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January 10-11, 2008

The Molecular Frontiers symposium Generating Synergies with Molecular Science took place in Singapore, organized in collaboration with the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.  As part of the event, a Molecular Frontiers Forum for students and teacher was arranged. Please visit www.molecularfrontiers2008.com or click here for more information.

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October 24, 2007

The 2007 Molecular Frontiers Lecture at MIT is given by Professor Susan Lindquist 7:30-8:30 PM on October 24 in room 10-250. Click here to see the poster announcement.

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February 2-3, 2007

The first formal Catalytic Forum meeting was held in Stockholm, Sweden. Location: Beijersalen, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Program

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January 19-21, 2007

Molecular Frontiers Foundation was represented at the Science+Society: Closing the Gap conference in Boston, MA by Magdalena Eriksson and Per Thorén.

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December 5, 2006

Presentation by Shuguang Zhang to the Knight Science Journalism Fellowship at MIT (Cambridge, MA, USA)

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November 6 and 8, 2006

Two lectures were given by SAB member Benoit Mandelbrot at MIT, (Cambridge, MA, USA). The titles of the talks were "The Smooth and the Rough in Nature and Culture" and "The Mandelbrot Set Fractal Models in Finance", respectively.

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September 2-8, 2006

Presentation by Shuguang Zhang at the 29th European Peptide Symposium (Gdansk, Poland)

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August 31, 2006

Presentation by Bengt Nordén to the EuChemMS 1st European Chemistry Congress (Budapest, Hungary)

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August 12-15, 2006

Strategic planning meetings with Magdalena Eriksson, Felice Frankel, Michael Frankel, Dudley Herschbach, Brenda Jarrell, Susan Lindquist, Benoit Mandelbrot, Andreas Mershin, Bengt Nordén, Per Thorén, George Whitesides, and Shuguang Zhang (Cambridge, MA, USA)

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June 8-10, 2006

On The Origin of Life, Nobel Workshop in Chemistry (Stockholm, Sweden)

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February-April 2006

Strategic planning meetings with Magdalena Eriksson, Andreas Mershin, Bengt Nordén, George Whitesides and Shuguang Zhang (Cambridge, MA, USA).

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November 2005

Strategic planning meetings with Ilan Chabay, Magdalena Eriksson, Lorie Karnath, Harry Kroto, Bengt Nordén, George Whitesides, and Shuguang Zhang (Cambridge, MA and Tallahassee, FL, USA)

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September 6, 2005

Strategic planning meeting with Winnie Birberg, Wim Meester, and Arthur Ellis, Lorie Karnath, Jon McCleverty, Bengt Nordén, and Louis Vertegaal (Copenhagen, Denmark)

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May 12, 2005

Elected chairman for the Council of the European Research Councils' Chemistry Committees for 2006, Bengt Nordén expressed a need to address the problems chemistry has regarding image, identity and exchange with other fields of science.

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