Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

28. March 2012 Stadthalle Braunschweig (Civic Centre)
Begins: 10:00 a.m.
(Attendance by invitation only)

• Opening speech and welcome address by the President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
  Professor Dr. Joachim Ullrich
  

• Greeting Prime Minister of Lower Saxony
  David McAllister
  
  
• Greeting Federal Deputy Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
  Frau Anne Ruth Herkes
  
  
• Federal Deputy Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development
  Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz
  
  
• Deputy Minister in the Senate for Education, Science and Research
  Nicolas Zimmer
  
  
• Greeting Lord Mayor of the City of Braunschweig
  Dr. Gert Hoffmann

10:45 a.m.

• Musical intermezzo
  Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Lower Saxony

• Lecture Former president of PTB
  Prof. Dr. Ernst O. Göbel
  
  
• Commemorative lecture
  Prof. Dr. h. c. Dr. rer. nat. Klaus von Klitzing, Nobel Prize laureate 1985, Member of the Kuratorium of PTB
  
  
• Director of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures
  Prof. Dr. Michael Kühne
  
  
• Closing words President of the PTB
  Prof. Dr. Joachim Ullrich

12:00 a.m.

• Musical finale:
  Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Lower Saxony
  

The musical accompaniment for the ceremonial event will be provided by the Niedersächsisches Jugendsinfonieorchester (Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Lower Saxony).