On Monday, May 30, the 1984 Nobel Laureate in Physics, Professor Carlo Rubbia, will deliver a lecture in Dubrovnik on his latest research concerning the existence of sterile neutrinos, which could change the concept of the balance of matter that exists in the universe.

A workshop will be held on Free Radicals in Chemical and Biology at the Ruđer Bošković Institute from June 14 to 17, 2011, within the framework of the program of European Cooperation in Science and Technology – COST. The workshop, at which scientists from 47 research groups and 22 countries will present the latest results, is being organized by a group of researchers from the Laboratory for Radiation Chemistry and Dosimetry

We cordially invite you to attend a lecture by Profesor Nenad Šestan of Yale University (USA) entitled "What Makes Us Human? Molecular Evolution and Development of Neural Circuits of the Cerebral Cortex".

At the EMRS Spring Meeting held in Nice from 9th to 13th May and organized by the European Materials Research Society, phD student Marko Karlušić from the Division of Experimental Physics received a Young scientist award for his presentation: Angle dependent threshold for swift heavy ion track formation in SrTiO3.

A Nobel Laureates in Chemistry, Prof. Jean-Marie Lehn, will deliver a lecture at an international scientific symposium, Ruđer Josip Bošković – Physicist and Astronomer, which the Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) is organizing in cooperation with the University of Zagreb under the auspices of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in honor of the 300th anniversary of Ruđer Bošković's birth. Prof. Lehn's presentation during the symposium will also be the first in the Ruđer Josip Bošković Lecture Series, which the Institute has introduced to commemorate this great jubilee. 

A group of a hundred senior level executives at leading Finnish companies were in Dubrovnik from May 12 to 15, 2011. In addition to participating in professional seminars, they also attended a presentation about Croatia's investment potentials.

The Ruđer Bošković Institute (RBI) has begun establishing the first regional center for nuclear molecular diagnostics in preclinical trials, where scientific research in tumors and chronic degenerative diseases will be conducted. This project will afford the Institute opportunities for innovative research, thereby contributing to its positioning on the European scientific arena, where there are only a few such centers. Today, capital equipment valued at 400,000 EUR is arriving at the RBI – a mini PET camera for small laboratory animals purchased with a loan from the World Bank, under the Science & Technology (S&T) Project funded by the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia.

Yesterday in the Conference Hall of the Croatian Chamber of Economy, as part of The Embassy Series Sponsored by the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Ambassador of Finland to the Republic of Croatia, His Excellency Juha Ottman, delivered a lecture entitled Finnish Innovation Policy – Successes and Challenges.

Whether the time has finally come for Croatia to become accepted as a member of the European Organization for Nuclear Research – CERN, and thus fulfill aspirations of nearly the past three decades, may be known this week. In a two-day visit to Zagreb, Prof. Felicitas Pauss, Ph.D., Head of International Relations at CERN, will have a series of working meetings with key persons for international cooperation from the Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia; the Deputy Prime Minister for Investment, Domagoj Ivan Milošević; the Minister of Science, Education and Sports of the Republic of Croatia, Radovan Fuchs, Ph.D.; and the Director of the Directorate for Science, Hrvoje Meštrić, Ph.D. During Prof. Pauss' visit, for the first time the importance and necessity of Croatia's accession to CERN will be presented to the members of the Parliamentary Committee for Science and Higher Education at a special session devoted to this topic. 

Yesterday in the Conference Hall of the Croatian Chamber of Economy, as part of The Embassy Series Sponsored by the Ruđer Bošković Institute, the Ambassador of Finland to the Republic of Croatia, His Excellency Juha Ottman, delivered a lecture entitled Finnish Innovation Policy – Successes and Challenges.