HLF Review 2016
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About The Forum<br />
Organizers<br />
Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation<br />
The Heidelberg Laureate Forum (<strong>HLF</strong>) is organized<br />
by the Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation<br />
(<strong>HLF</strong>F), a non-profit foundation that was<br />
established and is funded by the German foundation<br />
Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS) in 2013. The<br />
<strong>HLF</strong>F’s objective is to provide mathematicians<br />
and computer scientists with a similar networking<br />
meeting as the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings<br />
(LNLM) have successfully been doing for<br />
the disciplines of physics, chemistry, physiology<br />
or medicine and economics for many decades.<br />
Klaus Tschira Stiftung<br />
In 1995, Klaus Tschira (1940–2015), physicist and<br />
co-founder of the software company SAP, established<br />
the Klaus Tschira Stiftung (KTS) in Germany<br />
as a non-profit foundation. The Foundation<br />
promotes the advancement of natural sciences,<br />
mathematics and computer science and strives<br />
to raise appreciation for these fields. The KTS<br />
is one of Europe´s largest privately funded<br />
non-profit foundations. The Foundation is jointly<br />
managed by Beate Spiegel, Harald Tschira and<br />
Udo Tschira.<br />
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