Khari Douglas, Senior Program Associate
Last year Computing Community Consortium (CCC) Senior Program Associate, Helen Wright, attended the 6th Annual Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) in Heidelberg, Germany as part of their international blog team (read those blog posts here). This year I, Khari Douglas, will be representing the CCC at the 7th Annual HLF as a blogger and podcaster.
Organized by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation and Klaus Tschira Stiftung, HLF is “a one-week event combining scientific, social and outreach activities. The recipients of the most prestigious awards in mathematics and computer science, the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal and the Nevanlinna Prize are invited to participate in the Forum. They will give lectures on subjects of their choosing which are primarily directed at the participating young scientists…the Heidelberg Laureate Forum is not a classical scientific conference but a networking event meant to motivate and inspire the next generation of scientists.”
Every year a hot topic, or theme, related to mathematics and computer science is chosen to be addressed by a panel of experts. This year’s hot topic is the science of climate change and what we can do to tackle the problem, including questions like:
- “How can we predict the next century’s climate if we can hardly predict this weekend’s weather?
- Is the latest flooding or heatwave due to climate change, or not?
- Why is it so hard to take action on this problem?”
Over the course of the next week (September 23-27), I will write about the computer science presentations on the blog, as well as record some future podcast episodes featuring the laureates and young researchers in attendance. In addition to myself, CCC Council Member Shwetak Patel will be attending as a laureate in recognition for his 2018 ACM Prize in Computing.
Learn more about HLF on their website and stay tuned to the blog next week for updates from Heidelberg!
