Université de Liègeplace du 20-Août, 7 4000 Liège Belgium

October 24th, 25th, 26th 2012

The Presidium

has the pleasure to invite you to

the General Assembly, the Symposium and the Ceremony

of Awards 2012

of the

European Academy of Sciences

with the support of

ATELIERS

FRANCOIS S.A.

Morning Session Provisional Program    

“Technologies that will power civilization”

Prof. Avner FriedmanDistinguished University Professor at The Ohio State University 

National Academy of Sciences (USA)

Abstract : By “sustainability” we mean the need to meet the needs of the present and future generations, while preserving the planet’s life support system. To meet this challenge we must develop efficient ways to produce renewable energy, ensure protection against diseases, and maintain healthy environmental standards.In this talk I will give some examples where the mathematical sciences can contribute to the development of technologies that address the above challenges. Examples will include an approach to exploit solar energy using voltaic cells, models which would increase understanding how to protect against diseases, and ways and means to address pollution in ground water and air.

Symposium:“The future of science in the 21th century: Sustainability”

October 25th, University of LiègeSalle des Professeurs

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Morning Session Provisional Program

“Nano: Chance or Curse of Current Century?”

Prof. Jerzy Leszczynsky President’s Distinguished Fellow at Jackson State University, Jackson,

MS, USA. US Presidential Mentor award, 2007. Marie Curie-Sklodowska medal, 2007.

Presidential Distinguished Scholar Award, Jackson State University, 2001. White House Millennium HBCU Award for Science and Technology, 2001.

Abstract :Nanotechnology has emerged at the forefront of science and technology developments. This is due to the fact that nanoparticles (NPs) have a wide range of applications in different aspects of human life.  The list of consumer goods developed in the nano-field is constantly increasing. Approximately 1015 different products containing nanomaterials  were marketed in 2009. However, there is also the other, disturbing side, of fast advances in nanotechnology. Therefore, it is a crucial role of scientists to uncover potential side effects of nanoparticles, inform the public, and provide solutions to the possible problems. The truth is that due to unique properties of NPs they could be harmful to the environment and humans.  The pharmaco-kinetic studies show that different types of nanoparticles can be found in various cells such as mitochondria, lipid vesicles, fibroblasts, nucleus, or macrophages.  There is a necessity to develop alternative methods, easy to use, fast, and efficient, to

the present techniques that are used to study different properties of nanomaterials, including their toxicity. Computational chemistry provides diverse tools that could evaluate molecular interactions among various species including nanoparticles and models of different biological species, and predict their properties and biological activities. The talk will be devoted to discussion of new challenges that nanomaterials create for the society. A part of the lecture will cover development of novel computational approaches, appropriate for evaluation of properties and activities of nanostructures. The obtained results could be used as a first step in developing mechanisms that explain complex interactions of nanomaterials with biomolecules.

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Afternoon SessionProvisional Program

  “Nano: Solutions for Securing Supplies of Raw Materials”

Dr. Eric GaffetSenior Scientist CNRS

Deputy Director, Institut Jean LamourUMR 7198 CNRS – Université de Lorraine, France

Abstract :The creation of new materials designed for sustainable development, for new technologies and for new sources of energy, is largely dependant on rare chemical elements, which were until now produced in small amounts. The question of the availability and/or substitution of those materials is then critical for the future.Several ways of designing new materials are currently in development. The first is to make new products that use the same metal but in smaller amounts, such as new catalysts that contain less platinum. A second option is to replace a rare or risky metal by another more common or less risky metal. For example, considerable efforts are being made to develop new magnets to replace neodymium based ones (neodymium is one of the Rare Earth Elements). A third way to make new products is to replace metal-based materials with carbon-based or bio sourced materials. Amongst new materials being considered, the talk will be devoted to discussion on one of the most promising family, i.e. the so-called nano-structured materials, which display outstanding properties, which are still not entirely understood. The full lifecycle assessment taking into account the nanorisks and the new approach so –called “safer by design/process” will be also addressed

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Ceremony of Awards 2012October 26th, University of Liège

Salle AcadémiquePlace du XX-août

Liège   

Welcome addresses by the Rector of the University of Liege and the President of the European Academy of

SciencesLectures of the Blaise Pascal Medallists 2012Presentation of the Kepler Prize 2012 winners

Ceremony of Awards

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   Blaise Pascal Medals 2012 in Mathematics

Professor Franco Brezzi

• Professor of Numerical Analysis at the IUSS (Istituto Universitario di Sutdi Superiori) of Pavia

• Coordinator of the IUSS Ph.D. Program• President of the UMI (Italian Mathematical Union)

• Director of the Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche (IMATI) of CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)

•Vice-President of the European Mathematical Society.

•Abstract:« Mathematics and Scientific Computing »

The talk is dedicated to people that are not specialists in Scientific Computing, and are not much expert of applications of Mathematics either. The basic steps in Scientific Computing (Modelling, Discretization, Computation, Comparison with experiments, and possibly cycling on the above) will be reviewed, in a very non-specialized way. Some hints on possible pitfalls will be given, on simple toy-problems, together with some general idea on physical stability, numerical  stability, and excess of numerical stability.

EURASC BLAISE PASCAL MEDALS 2012Presentation

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Blaise Pascal Medals 2012 in Biomedical Engineering

Professor Mauro Ferrari

• President and CEO and Ernest Cokrell Jr. Distinguished Endowed Chair of the Methodist Hospital Research Institute

• Professor of Experimental Therapeutics, University of Texas M.D Anderson Cancer Center

• Professor of Bioengineering, Rice University• President of the Alliance for NanoHealth in Houston

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Blaise Pascal Medals 2012 in Materials Science

Professor Hans-Joachim Freund

• Director and Scientific Member of the Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin

Abstract :Our understanding of catalysis, and in particular heterogeneous catalysis, is to a large extend based on the investigation of

model systems. The enormous success of metal single crystal model surface chemistry, pioneered by physical chemists, is an

outstanding example. Increasing the complexity of the models towards supported nanoparticles, resembling a real disperse

metal catalyst, allows one to catch in the model some of the important aspects that cannot be covered by single crystals

alone. One of the more important aspects is the support particle interface. We have developed strategies to prepare such

model systems based on single crystalline oxide films which are used as supports for metal and oxide nanoparticles, which

may be studied at the atomic level using the tools developed in surface science.

However, those oxide films may also serve as reaction partners themselves, as they are models for SMSI states of metal

catalyst. Using such model systems we are able to study a number of fundamental questions of potential interest, such as

reactivity as a function of particle size and structure, influence of support modification, as well as of the environment, i.e.

ultravacuum or ambient conditions, onto reactivity. We have investigated a particular class of thin films that are based on

silicon oxides. Very well ordered films of different stoichiometries have been prepared at imaged with atomic resolution,

including ordered and disordered (glassy) systems which, for the first time, allow us to get atomic insight into the crystal-

glass transition. Those silica films can also be chemically modified by substituting Si by Al thus creating alumo-slicates

which have properties closely resembling zeolites. This opens an avenue for surface science to contribute to our

understanding of this important class of materials.

The presentation will cover a number of case studies and addresses the question: What has been learned for catalysis?!

“Thin Films as model materials in catalysis: A perspective at the atomic level”

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Blaise Pascal Medals 2012 in Physics

Professor Charles Joachain

• Chairman of the European Science Foundation research programme "Super-intense laser-matter interactions« 

•Professeur ordinaire émérite, Université Libre de Bruxelles• Professeur honoraire, Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-

Neuve• Membre de l'Académie royale de Belgique

Abstract :The development of lasers capable of producing high-intensity pulses has opened a new area in the study of light-matter interactions. The corresponding laser fields are strong enough to compete with the Coulomb forces in controlling the dynamics of atomic systems, and give rise to new phenomena. In the first part of this lecture, a survey will be given of the basic properties found in the study of multiphoton processes. These include the multiphoton ionization of atoms, the emission by atomic systems of high-order harmonics of the driving laser field, the generation of ultra-short laser pulses in the attosecond range and their use in attophysics, and laser-assisted electron-atom collisions. In the second part of this talk, the main non-perturbative methods which have been used to perform theoretical calculations of multiphoton processes will be reviewed.

« Atoms in intense laser fields »

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EURASC BLAISE PASCAL MEDALS 2012Presentation

Blaise Pascal Medals 2012 in Medicine

Professor Steven Laureys

• Senior Research Associate (tenure) at the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS)

• Head of the Coma Science Group, Cyclotron Research Center, and Head of Clinics, Neurology Dept., University Hospital, University of Liège

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EURASC BLAISE PASCAL MEDALS 2012Presentation

Blaise Pascal Medals 2012 in Chemistry

Professor Jean-Pierre Sauvage

• Professor and CNRS Research Director, Université de Strasbourg• Directeur du laboratoire de chimie organo-minérale, institut de Science

et d’Ingénierie Supramolécualires (ISIS° de l’université de Strasbourg

Abstract :Molecules consisting of interlocking rings systems or rings threaded byorganic fragments (Catenanes and Rotaxanes) have attracted much interest in molecularchemistry, first as pure synthetic challenges and, more recently, as components of functionalmaterials. The synthesis of such compounds relies on templates (transition metals or organicassemblies). In recent years, highly sophisticated compounds have been designed and elaboratedsuch as two-dimensional interlocking arrays. The transition metal template plays an essentialrole : several metal centres are combined with several organic fragments so as to affordmulticomponent assemblies, the various organic components being threaded or interlockingwith one another. Separately, the field of artificial molecular machines has experienced aspectacular development. These compounds are important in relation to molecular devices atthe nanometric level or as mimics of biological motors. A few remarkable examples are basedon multi-rotaxanes acting as "molecular muscles" or "switchable receptors". The incorporationof such dynamic systems in crystalline assemblies has recently achieved, paving the way to theelaboration of molecular machines in the solid state.

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Social DinnerOctober 26th 2012, 8:00 PM

The Social Dinner will take place at the “Société Littéraire de Liège”,Place de la République Française 5, 4000 Liège   

“La Société Littéraire de Liège” was founded in April 5, 1779, under the auspices of the Count VELBRUCK, Prince Bishop of

Liege. She is celebrating its 227th anniversary.

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Visit of the Grand Curtius MuseumOctober 25th 2012, 7:00 PM

The Grand Curtius Museum is located in the heart of the Ardent City,

Féronstrée, 135, 4000 Liège

The Grand Curtius in few words:

More than 7000 years of regional and international artefacts.More than 5200 items displayed in chronological or thematic order.Multilingual virtual guides (images and text).Prestigious collections from the archaeology, decorative arts, religious art and Mosan art museums, as well as the weaponry and glass museums.

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Accompanying person program October 25th 2012, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Liège, The new destination 

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41€/pers – Minimum 25 pers. – All the participants have to take the same menu – English guide

• 10:00 AM Welcome by the guide at the Tourist Office of Liège.

• 10:15 AM General view of the city of Liège on the tourist train (duration: 45 min) together with a walk with the guide.

• 12:30 AM Lunch: First menu: home-made pasta, Café Liégeois (cold dessert) and drink.

Second menu: boulets « à la liégeoise » with French-fried potatoes and Café Liégeois (cold dessert) or salade Liégeoise (beans, French-fried potatoes, roasted bacon).

• 2:30 PM Cruise on the Meuse river: commented on the boat « Sarcelle IV ».

• 5:00 PM End of the program.

Accompanying person program October 26th 2012, 09:30 AM to 04:30 PM

The Castles of the Meuse river

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46€/pers – Minimum 25 pers. – English audio-tour – Visit with coach

• 09:30 AM From the Liège-Guillemins Station, transfer to the Modave Castle.

• 10:30 AM Audio-tour visit of the Modave Castle.

• 12:30 AM Lunch at the restaurant of the Modave Castle.

• 02:30 PM Audio-tour visit of the Jehay Castle.

• 04:30 PM Transfer to Liège-Guillemins Station.

Modave Castle Jehay Castle

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October 24th, 2012, 4:00 PM EURASC General Assembly, Headquarters of EURASC

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October 25th, 2012 Symposium, University of Liège

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October 25th, 2012, from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Accompanying person program, “Liège, the new destination”

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October 26th, 2012 Ceremony of Awards, University of Liège

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October 26th, 2012, from 09:30 AM to 4:30 PM Accompanying person program, “The Castles of the Meuse River”

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Price for the day: 46€

I attach proof of my bank transfer at no charges for the payee at the account IBAN: BE91 3400 6586 6876 BIC: BBRUBEBB Bank: ING: RUE SAINTE MARIE 5 4000 LIEGE, BELGIUM Ref: EURASC 2012 Accompanying person program, 26th October

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