Sypnosis: 

Imagining what can be done with tomorrow's advanced technology, today's futuristic dreams may well approach reality. Considering what is possible today already, the company called 'Mars One' is now planning manned trips to the surface of Mars. Although, inevitably, obstacles are to be expected, their plans and investigations of what can be done in principle, are noteworthy, as they are investigating all conceivable aspects of having a manned colony on Mars. 

 

Other high-tech projects could change the face of the Earth rather quickly: a Dutch entrepreneur knows how to plant vegetation in the most arid areas, and this could be used to bring desertification to a halt, returning to mankind grounds that once used to be fertile, but have changed into deserts over the ages. 

 

This lecture is to encourage the use of cutting-edge scientific knowledge and technological inventions to solve complex challenges.

 

Speaker: Prof. Dr. Gerard 't Hooft (Nobel Prize in Physics (1999))

Date: 27 Jan 2016 (CLOSED)

Time: 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Venue: National University of Singapore, Faculty of Science, LT27

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Program:

7.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.   Registrations with refreshments

7.30 p.m. - 7.35 p.m.   Opening speech by NUS, Professor and Head Department of Physics:                                                 Prof. Chorng Haur Sow

7.35 p.m. - 7.40 p.m.   Opening speech by ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands:                                                 Jacques Werner

7.40 p.m. - 8.15 p.m.   Lecture by Prof Dr Gerard 't Hooft

8.15 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.   Discussion, moderated by Dr Jeroen A. van Kan

9.00 p.m.                    End of session