170th Dies Natalis, 10 January 2012

The Dies Natalis ceremony will be held on 10 January 2012 in the university’s Aula Congress Centre (Mekelweg 5) and will begin at 15.00. You are kindly requested to be seated by 14.45 at the latest. The speeches will be held in Dutch. Headsets for simultaneous translation are available at the entrance to the auditorium.. 

WATER is everywhere. It brings us life and prosperity. We build on water. We export our expertise on water. We love water. Yet it is a love-hate relationship, because water also takes back. We are confronted by coastal erosion, rising sea levels and falling water tables; by flooding in our cities and drought in agricultural areas. Can we predict what water will do, can we manage it, share it out? Is it the new gold, or an age-old foe? One thing is for sure: we cannot get by without WATER

Programme

• Opening by  Prof. Karel Luyben, Rector Magnificus TU Delft
  "Science in hot water"
• Dies Natalis Lecture by Prof. Herman Russchenberg, professor Remote Sensing of the Environment at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science
  "Above us shifting clouds drift by"
• Musical interlude
• Conferral of honorary doctorates on:
  
  Prof. Murugesu Sivapalan, professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
  Honorary supervisors:
  Professor Huub Savenije and Professor Stefan Uhlenbrook, professors in the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences
  
  Dhr. Jos Pâques, Paques BV - Water technology in company Balk
  Honorary supervisor:
  Professor Mark van Loosdrecht, professor in the Faculty of Applied Sciences
• Drs. Dirk Jan van den Berg, President of the Executive Board
  "Future perspective"
• Closing of the official proceedings by the Rector Magnificus
• Reception (Foyer, 1st floor) 

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