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Countess Bettina Bernadotte: A Welcome to Lindau
Advancing Our Mission to
Educate – Inspire – Connect
Welcoming TRH Prince Ludwig von Bayern and
Princess Sophie-Alexandra von Bayern
"Can't see you with the fascinator"
It gives me enormous joy to welcome you
all here to Lindau for today's opening of the
73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting dedicated to Physics. Dear Laureates, you give us the possibility
to take a glimpse into your extraordinary lives and learn
from your success, often enough the result of overcoming
seemingly unsurmountable obstacles. Thank you so much
for taking the time and effort to come to Lindau: your
dedication, support, enthusiasm, and commitment make
these Meetings truly special!
We welcome you, 626 Young Scientists, representing
91 nationalities and 65 countries of university affiliation.
57% of you define as male, 42% as female and 1% as nonbinary. I look forward to the day when diversity has become a lived normality in our societies, so that we talk less
about its quotas and rejoice more in its value for us all.
Every year, we want to develop our formats in such
a way that they serve you, the participants, and reflect
wider societal developments and more closely embody
our Mission to ‘Educate – Inspire – Connect’. This is why
we keep adding new elements to the Meetings – and we
are very interested in your feedback.
One such ingredient is the new format ‘Scientific Exchange Among Young Scientists’. We have invited contributions from all of you for all areas of physics not covered
by the thematically focussed Next Gen Science sessions.
Above all, we have asked you, the Young Scientists of this
year’s Meeting, to vote for your favourite abstracts among
those submitted by your peers. Out of 249 applications, 14
abstracts have been selected for in-depth presentations.
We hope that you will enjoy these programme elements. They are so much more than poster sessions! This
is also true of our 4th Lindau Online Sciathon, the 48-hour,
hackathon-type competition to find great early-stage
ideas on ‘Physics as a Driver of a Sustainable World’.
Finally, our alumni community has chosen the following
two topics for this year’s workshops: ‘How to Remove
Career Obstacles for the International Movement of
Early-Career Scientists’ and ‘How to Create Bias-Free
Review Procedures for Fellowships and Research Grants.’
I hope you will enjoy this week to the full! To all of
you: a warm welcome to the 73rd Lindau Nobel Laureate
Meeting.
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