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The captivating city of Bratislava is set to be the venue for the Seventh Edition of Starmus. This year, the festival dives deep into understanding and protecting Earth, offering an unforgettable experience for all. If you are interested in science, you should mark the date in your calendar.
Do you remember the Starmus festival in Norway? Trondheim, the technological capital of Norway, was hosting the fourth Starmus festival on 18–23 June 2017. It was an unforgettable week with true stars and among stars, when we all started to believe that humanity can travel to Mars almost right away. It was simply a breathtaking experience. The theme of the fourth festival was Life and the Universe, and the festival featured eleven Nobel Prize laureates and many astronomers, biologists, chemists, economists, astronauts and artists. Over 2300 delegates attended Starmus IV in Trondheim. If you were not able to attend then (tickets were quite expensive), now it is your next chance. Best scientific festival on Earth is coming back! Starmus VII will take place in Bratislava (Slovakia) from 12 to 17 May. You can still purchase Early Bird Tickets.
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The world’s most ambitious science and music festival
The Starmus International Festival is an international gathering focused on celebrating astronomy, space exploration, music, art, and the natural sciences. It was founded by astronomer Garik Israelian and astrophysicist Brian May (also known as the lead guitarist and backing vocalist of the rock band Queen). The festival has featured multiple well-known astronauts and astronomers. Aim was to make the most universal science and art accessible to the public. The first three festivals were held in the Canary Islands, then it visited Trondheim, Zurich and Yerevan.
One of the biggest fans of the Starmus International Festival was Stephen Hawking. "Starmus is an important and very unique interdisciplinary festival of people working in different fields — astronomers, astronauts, cosmologists, physicists, philosophers, musicians, artists, and biologists who share an interest in the universe, how it began and is now, and how we may explore and use its many facets” he said in 2017.
Some of Starmus VII speakers
Edvard Moser – Norwegian Professor of neuroscience, Founding Director of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience and Co-Director of the Centre for Neural Computation at NTNU. Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 together with May-Britt Moser and John O’Keefe for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.
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Emmanuelle Charpentier - French researcher in microbiology, genetics and biochemistry. She received her education in Paris (France) and pursued a scientific career in academic research institutions in Paris, New York and Memphis (United States), Vienna (Austria), Umeå (Sweden) and Braunschweig (Germany). Emmanuelle is now based in Berlin (Germany). For her groundbreaking discovery and innovative research, she has received numerous prestigious international awards and honors, including the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2020.
Brian May - English musician, singer, songwriter, astrophysicist. Best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Queen. His compositions for the band include "We Will Rock You", "Tie Your Mother Down", "I Want It All", "Fat Bottomed Girls", "Flash", "Hammer to Fall", "Save Me", "Who Wants to Live Forever", and "The Show Must Go On". May was awarded a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College London in 2007 and was Chancellor of Liverpool John Moores University from 2008 to 2013. He was a "science team collaborator" with NASA's New Horizons Pluto mission. He is also a co-founder of the awareness campaign, Asteroid Day. Asteroid 52665 Brianmay was named after him.
Jane Goodall - world's foremost authority on chimpanzees, having closely observed their behavior for the past quarter century in the jungles of the Gombe Game Reserve in Africa, living in the chimps' environment and gaining their confidence. Dr. Goodall received her Ph.D. from Cambridge University in 1965. She has been the Scientific Director of the Gombe Stream Research Center since 1967. In 1984, Jane Goodall received the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize for "helping millions of people understand the importance of wildlife conservation to life on this planet." Her other awards and international recognitions fill pages.
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Garret Reisman – American engineer, a NASA veteran who flew on all three Space Shuttles. Reisman was selected by NASA as a mission specialist astronaut in 1998. During his missions, Garrett performed 3 spacewalks, operated the Space Station Robot Arm and was a flight engineer aboard the Space Shuttle. Not only was he an astronaut, but Garrett was also an aquanaut serving as a crew member on NEEMO V, living on the bottom of the sea in the Aquarius deep underwater habitat for 2 weeks.
For more information visit the official Starmus website.
