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Three Nobel laureates to come to Minsk for session of Skolkovo Scientific Advisory Council

MINSK, 18 September (BelTA) – Three Nobel laureates will take part in the session of the Skolkovo Foundation Scientific Advisory Council that will be held in Minsk on 20-21 September, BelTA learnt from the press service of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

They are Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, academician Zhores Alferov, Professor at Stanford University Roger David Kornberg and Professor at the University of Strasbourg, founder of supramolecular chemistry Jean-Marie Lehn.

The forum “Russia-Belarus-Skolkovo: Common Innovation Space” will be held on the eve of the session of the Skolkovo Foundation Scientific Advisory Council. The forum is organized by the Russian Skolkovo Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.

The forum will be held on 19 September and will bring together over 500 scientists. The conference will take place at premises of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus. Practical aspects of the participation of Belarusian residents in Skolkovo’s innovative projects will be presented and discussed at the conference. The scientific program of the conference includes fundamental and applied matters relating to the creation of science-intensive technologies, materials and products in five areas (clusters) of activities of the Skolkovo Foundation. Those are biomedicine, information technologies, energy effectiveness, outer space, and nuclear technologies.

Nobel laureate Zhores Alferov, Co-Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation Scientific Advisory Council, is expected to deliver a report before participants of the forum. Plenary reports and speech presentations will be made during roundtable sessions.

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