Trinity College Dublin has organised a strong line-up of speakers for its Trinity Week academic symposium, which takes place on campus on Wednesday.
Since its 400th anniversary in 1992 it has held a major academic symposium each year. This year's topic is "Research in the next century: new directions?"
Four international figures will discuss a number of important issues in research in the humanities and the sciences as we move into the new millennium. Prof Paul Langford oversees funding in the UK for arts and humanities. Prof Claude Weisbuch of the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris has played a strong role in Europe in defining where research in science and engineering should be headed.
Prof Susan Greenfield is the first woman director of the Royal Institution in the UK and is a professor of synaptic pharmacology at Oxford. Prof David Damrosch is professor of English and Comparative Literature and chair of the English department at Columbia University, New York. The academic symposium is free and open to the public. It takes place at the Ernest Walton Theatre in the Arts Building this Wednesday, starting at 2 p.m.