November 20, 2019 – The jubilee 10th Sinj Festival of Science kicked off at the Presentation Hall of the Sinjska Alka Museum in the Alkar Courtyard on Tuesday night. Mayor Kristina Križanac opened the festival.
Slobodna Dalmacija writes that on behalf of the Split-Dalmatia, Prefect Blaženko Boban, Damir Caric said that this festival was the first capstone for the establishment of the County Center of Excellence.
There were a modest number of visitors at the opening, never smaller, and a three-member delegation from the US Embassy currently visiting the Alkar city was among the guests.
On behalf of the organizing committee of the festival, president Mislav Cvitković addressed the attendees. He recalled that over the past ten years, the Sinj Science Festival had hosted 155 top Croatian scientists, more than any festival of its kind in Croatia. In addition to themed lectures for interested citizens, they gave more than 300 hours of instruction in Sinj schools.
Cvitković thanked everyone who helped in organizing the Sinj Science Festival over the past ten years.
In a lengthy speech, he also sent a political message to the state authorities, urging them not to poke at the construction of the Croatian house, but to finally use the people they know.
The Sinj choir performed for the occasion.
Immediately after the opening, the lectures began. The first lecturer was particle physicist Vuko Brigljević, one of the few Croatian scientists to participate in key experiments at CERN.
Dr. Brigljević spoke on the subject of “What we know and do not know about the fundamental structure of matter after the discovery of the Higgs boson,” in fact, about the secrets of matter that, after that discovery, are trying to shed light on today’s physics.
The second lecturer was Ph.D. Saša Ceci, who also presented his book Blesimetar drugi.
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