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art and science international meeting
low power society and thought strategies
trancoso | portugal | june 21 to 23. 2007
free admitance

Joseph Brenner
 
http://metanexus.net/conference2007/speakers_detail.aspx?id=47Joseph
      E. Brenner, born April 29, 1934 in Paris, son of the sculptor
      Michael Brenner (Lithuania, 1885 - New York, 1969) and Frances
      Brenner (New York, 1899 - New York 1996). After primary and secondary
      education in New York, received B.A. (Bachelor of Arts, 1953)
      then M.S. (Master of Science - Chemistry, 1954) degrees from
      the University of Chicago, and a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from
      the University of Wisconsin in 1958. In 1959 and 1960, post-doctoral
      work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and
      Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. From 1960
      to retirement in 1993, worked first as a chemist at the central
      laboratory of E. I du Pont de Nemours, Inc. in the U.S., then
      in corporate development for the Middle East, Africa and Eastern
      Europe from the headquarters of Du Pont International in Geneva,
      Switzerland. Responsibilities for subsidiaries, technology transfer
      and joint ventures. In 1996-8, worked on the establishment of
      a network to support high-technology investment in the Suisse
      Romande. In 1998, began collaboration with Professor René
      Berger and the OEUF (Observatoire pour l'Etude de l'Université
      du Futur) on a Colloquium on Challenges of the Internet. Start
      of collaboration with Professor Basarab Nicolescu and the International
      Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Study (CIRET), Paris
      and Michel Camus in the Group 21, Paris. Publications: two scientific
      articles; collaboration in the catalogue raisonné/biography
      of my father, Michael Brenner. Article in the Cahier II of the
      "Memoires du XXIe Siècle" of Group 21; papers
      for CIRET. Associations: American Association for the Advancement
      of Science; Association F. Gonseth; New York Academy of Sciences;
      Swiss Society for Logic and Philosophy of Science. 

      
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