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News
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2012-01-19
In 2012 the Crafoord prizes in Mathematics and Astronomy are for the first time awarded simultaneously as two separate prizes with a prize amount of SEK 4 million each.
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2011-11-02
The Academy's Energy Committee has produced a report on effects of Germany's decision to phase-out their nuclear power stations before 2022. If the whole of the EU were to follow the German example, the EU’s carbon dioxide emissions would rise by 20% compared with the current
level, directly contrary to the EU objective of reducing emissions by 20% by 2020.
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2011-12-02
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has delivered a statement to the Ministry of Education and Research ahead of the forthcoming 2012 Research and Innovation Policy Bill. It emphasises that Sweden needs bold, creative and pioneering basic research in order to safeguard the country's future prosperity and tackle the huge global challenges humanity is facing. It is the Academy's view that the government should:
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Science in society
Two State of the Science conferences and a hearing were held in 2010, which are available as video on demand. The aim was to deepen and systematise our knowledge of trends and socio-demographic differences and our understanding of the connections between school, learning and mental health.
Science in society
Events
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2012-02-15 Open lecture:
Leggett is widely recognized as a world leader in the theory of low-temperature physics and revisits the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to give the lecture “The structure of a world described by quantum mechanics”.
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2012-02-15 General Meeting:
Möte för akademiens ledamöter. Efter den ordinarie sammankomsten håller prof. Roger-Maurice Bonnet, ISSI, Bern, Switzerland and
Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France, den öppna föreläsningen "The Sun: from nuclear fusion to climate change".
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2012-02-15 Open lecture:
Open lecture with Prof Roger-Maurice Bonnet, ISSI, Bern, Switzerland, & Centre national de la recherche scientifique, France.
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Education
The Academy has long considered it important to foster the teaching of science and mathematics in Swedish schools. Since the beginning of the 1980s, the Academy has initiated and become involved in many activities seeking to improve school teaching and attract people to learn natural science.
Education
Grants/Funding
Scholarships available for application at present:
Grants/Funding
Prizes
On 19 January the Crafoord Prizes for 2012 were announced. This year, the prizes in Mathematics and Astronomy are for the first time be awarded simultaneously as two separate prizes with a prize amount of SEK 4 million each.
The Crafoord Prizes
The Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry and the Prize in Economic Sciences 2011 are about the accelerating expansion of the Universe, quasicrystals, that has given us a new understanding of matter, and the art of distinguishing between cause and effect in the macroeconomy.
The Nobel Prizes 2011
Members
At the General Meeting on 5 October Pekka Pykkö, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry, University of Helsinki, Finland, was elected foreign member of the Academy's Class for chemistry. Photo: Veikko Somerpuro.
Members
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