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Vote of Thanks
John Grue, Professor University of Oslo, Norwegian Academy of Sciences and
Letters and Norwegian Academy of Technological Sciences.
johng@math.uio.noYour Majesty
Deputy Minister
Mayor of Oslo
Honoured guests
In these few minutes, on behalf of the two scientific Academies and the Research
Council of Norway, I wish to extend our thanks to many. First, a special expression
of gratitude to His Majesty King Harald for his interest and his participation to the
symposium.
The spirit of our annual joint symposium is research communication along the
axis between politics and science, where Norway's leading researchers meet face to
face with community leaders and decision-makers. The theme for this 2015
symposium is absolutely timely, in light of recent events in Norway and in many
other parts of the world.
Our gratitude also goes to Deputy Minister Hans J. Røsjorde for setting the
scene at the start of the symposium, and to Mayor Fabian Stang for his presence at
the symposium. We see as a privilege to be able to inform the Norwegian
Government and City Hall of the activities of our two scientific academies.
The Organizing Committee also wish to thank each and all of the lecturers.
The oral lectures have now been formalised in text form in this publication. Both
hard copy and digital versions on the web are available.
Such scientific counsel from national scientific academies has a long tradition
abroad. For example, the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy
of Engineering in the USA have acted as counsel to the president over 100 years,
starting as early as 1916. The two US academies publish annually over 200
publications such as this one!
In closing, I wish to ask for one more applause, this one for King Harald
.