Summer conference

During three to five days in August Forum Scientium organizes a summer conference somewhere in Sweden. The conference features poster sessions, talks and workshops and presents a unique opportunity for the members to get a deeper understanding of the work of the different research groups represented within Forum Scientium. The conference activities aims at stimulating an atmosphere where new contacts can be made, ideas formulated, and skills developed.

Summer conference 2011

This year’s FS summer conference was held August 22-24 at Söderköpings Brunn in Söderköping. During these days the PhD students gave poster sessions to present and discuss their projects. Lectures were given by invited speakers, and a workshop was held on how to write abstracts. 

The invited lecturers were:
• Johanna Bergstrand, Mo Gård: How to recruit the right person
• Anthony Turner, Professor IFM and Editor-in-Chief for the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics: How to write a World Class Paper
• Dan Loyd, Professor LiU and former Head of the Docenture Comittee at LiU: Reviewing applications
• Eva Lund, Professor IMH and former Director of PhD studies at IMH: Rights and obligations of PhD students
• Anna Strömberg, Professor IMH: The road to professorship
• Maria Lerm, Associate Professor IKE: Becoming an independent researcher
• Ingegerd Baurén, University Library LiU: Bibliometrics
• David Lawrence, University Library LiU: Where should one publish?
• Roger Nilsson, Anders Lindeborg, Lisa Floxner, LiU Tryck: Preparing and printing a manuscript

The conference also arranged a poster award competition, "The Forum Scientium Poster Price". Six senior researchers scrutinized the posters and evaluated oral presentations of the posters, and five posters were awarded. The price money should primarily be used for training abroad.
  

Previous summer conferences

In 2010 it was held at Stjärnholms slott, east of Nyköping
In 2009 it was held at Sansvik Gård, north of Norrköping
In 2008 it was held at Rimforsa strand, south of Linköping
In 2007 it was held in Arkösund, east of Norrköping, the theme was ""How to plan your future career and how to implement it in the academia or in the industry"
In 2006 it was held in Göteborg.
In 2005 it was held in Tranås.
In 2004 it was held in Vårdnäs, south of Linköping.
In 2003 it was held in Fredensborgs herrgård south of Vimmerby with the theme "Cognition and memory"
In 2002 it was held in Gullmarstrand at the west coast, the theme was "Food quality, what do we eat and how do we eat".
In 2001 it was held in Vårdnäs outside Linköping, the theme was "The University of the future".
In 2000 it was held in Örserum.
In 1999 it was held in Visby.
In 1998 it was held in Krusenberg, first time for poster sessions.
In 1997 the Project Preparatory Paper (PPP) was presented in Vårdnäs.