14 February 2008, British Council, Belgrade
As a closing stage of the project British Council initiated conversations and discussions about the connections between science, technology and society. It is a concept that has been adapted by the British Council to engage a wider audience with science and the impact it has on our lives.
Will science ever be able to address the ultimate questions of existence?
Moderator: Katarina Petrovic, PR Manager, Ministry of Science
Participants:
Brian Cox, Particle Physicist, CERN
ABOUT THE PANELLISTS
Brian Cox is Professor of Particle Physics at Manchester University and the CERN Laboratory in Geneva, working on the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), CERN’s new 27 kilometre long machine that will search for the Higgs boson – ‘God Particle’.
Dr Milan Cirkovic is a Senior Associate at the Belgrade Astronomical Observatory and Docent in the Department of Physics at the Mathematical Faculty of the University of Novi Sad. He holds a PhD in Physics from the University of New York. He has published a large number of papers and articles in Serbian and international scientific magazines. He has translated several popular-science books into Serbian.
Nenad Ilic completed studies in Theatre Direction and is specialises in Literature. At the beginning of the nineties he too up Theological Studies and soon became a deacon in Orthodox church. Last year he published his first novel – Carigradski drum. He has four children.
Ivica Zivkovic holds an MSc in Theology, is a theology professor, secretary of the Centre for Church Studies in Nis and a research worker in the field of Orthodox pedagogy, post-modernism and new relationships with children. Mr Zivkovic is a board member of the Pan-European Movement Serbia. He also writes poetry and prose.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Ms Katarina Petrovic graduated from the Princeton University and specialises in Physics. She has taken part in the International Olympiad in Physics twice and has won ‘The First Step towards the Nobel Prize in Physics’ award. She won the international science debating competition on the topic of ‘Unveiling the Human Genome is a Potential Ethical Catastrophe’. She is a PR manager at the Ministry of Science where she works with the media and on projects for the popularisation of science.
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