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About
Stockholm
Stockholm is the capital of
Sweden. The city
offers a diverse range of social and cultural activities including
museums, galleries, historical sites and boat tours. Furthermore, it
offers a wide selection of shops, department stores, museums and
restaurants. And most of it is within walking distance!
The
chemistry of environmental pollutants has a long tradition in Sweden
characterised by strong interdisciplinary research. It was at
Stockholm University that PCB was first identified as an
environmental contaminant as reported in 1966. Acid rain,
eutrophication, and nowadays organic pollutants induce major changes
in environmental systems. The most recent Nobel laureate from
Stockholm University, Professor Paul Crutzen, (Chemistry 1995) got
the prize for his pioneering work in atmospheric ozone chemistry.
The
activities at Stockholms Högskola, which became
Stockholm University
in 1960, started on a small scale in 1878 with a series of lectures
in mathematics, physics, chemistry and geology. In 1904, the
university college got the right to award degrees and the first
doctoral degree was awarded in 1906. At present, there are about 75
departments/centres at the university. There are 39 000 students
and 4 600 employees at Stockholm University and that makes it one of
the largest universities in Sweden and one of the largest employers
in the capital.
Stockholm
University is located in Sweden’s first and only urban national
park,
Ekoparken. Here, in the major green lung of Stockholm city, you have the
Royal Academy of Sciences, The Museum of Natural History (one of the
world’s largest), the Botanical Garden, and great walking paths.
The Aula
Magna, where the conference is held, is the major auditorium at
Stockholm University and can welcome 1200 persons, is a perfect
setting for a scientific conference and exhibition.
The
conference dinner will take place at the
Vasa museum. The Vasa is the
world’s only surviving 17th-century ship and one of the foremost
tourist sights in the world. The ship is displayed in a
purpose-built museum in Stockholm.
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