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Welcome to the 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum!

Jordan Aiko Deja & James Spann
Masters of Ceremonies

WELCOME ADDRESSES
Jens Brandenburg
Parliamentary State Secretary to the German Federal Minister of Education and Research
Hans J. Reiter
Ministerial Director and Deputy Minister at the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science, Research and Arts
Frauke Melchior
Rector of Heidelberg University
Rafael Lang
Chairperson of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation | Co-President of the Klaus Tschira Stiftung
Anna Wienhard
Scientific Chairperson of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation

MEET THE YOUNG RESEARCHERS

THE AWARD-GRANTING INSTITUTIONS
Yannis Ioannidis
President of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hiraku Nakajima
President of the International Mathematical Union (IMU)
Lise Øvreås
President of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (DNVA)

INTRODUCING THE ALUMNI

The 11th Heidelberg Laureate Forum took place from September 22–27, 2024. #HLF24

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (HLF) is an annual networking conference where 200 carefully selected young researchers in mathematics and computer science spend a week interacting with the laureates of the most prestigious awards in their disciplines: the Abel Prize, ACM A.M. Turing Award, ACM Prize in Computing, Fields Medal, IMU Abacus Medal and Nevanlinna Prize.

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