“Back to when it all started”. Seven of the world’s most influential scientists in Cosmology, three Nobel Prize Laureates among them, will be in Athens from October 2 to October 4, 2015, for the “2nd Symposium of Seven Wise Men of the World in Cosmology” to be held at the Megaron Mousikis, Athens, and the Costa Navarino Resort, in Ancient Messinia. The “Seven Wise Men” will present in round-table debates the latest developments in their research areas and discuss with both scientists and the public more general concerns, philosophical or otherwise, faced by the contemporary science of Cosmology; How did the universe begin? Where did we come from? What is our destiny? The participating scientists are: American nuclear physicist James Cronin, British astrophysicist George Petros Efstathiou, American particle physicist and string theorist David Jonathan Gross, English mathematical physicist, mathematician and philosopher of science Sir Roger Penrose, American astrophysicist and cosmologist George Fitzgerald Smoot, Russian astrophysicist and cosmologist Alexei Alexandrovich Starobinsky, as well as Italian theoretical physicist and string theory pioneer Gabriele Veneziano. In a special ceremony the Seven will also be honored for their contribution in the evolution of the scientific sector.
Christos Kalloniatis (Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean), Iris Kritikou (Archaeologist-Historian of Art), Konstantinos Maniatopoulos (Director of the Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade Museum – Library, Visual Artist-Historian of Art), Irine Vasilopoulou