by Caroline Adenberger

Since her earliest days as a drama student in Vienna in the 1960s, Gitta Honegger has always been on the move: being a stage member of the famous Viennese Burgtheater during her student years while, at the same time, pursuing her stage career at theaters in Germany and Switzerland. When she got the opportunity to go west, conducting research for her doctoral thesis on Eugene O’Neill in the hot spot of New York City, she didn’t have to think twice. Leaving post-World War II Austria and its old fashioned classic traditions behind her, Ms. Honegger couldn’t wait to discover the “New World” – especially New York City, at that time the place to be for theatrical innovation and home of many experimental theater companies.

by Eva Schernhammer  

The following report was written by Eva Schernhammer, M.D., an Austrian working at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachussetts. She was invited to  the Alpbach Technology Forum 2005 to give a speech at the  workshop "Excellence in  Science -  a  Matter of  Gender?" The following is a summary of her impressions of the working group:

by Caroline Adenberger

Remember your mathematics lessons in school? Well, most grown-ups probably can’t – or even won’t – remember, glad that this experience is now part of their past. The rest still get an uneasy feeling in their stomachs remembering all those numbers and placeholders, not knowing what they’re good for or how they should be used in “real” life. Very few look back on school mathematics with smiles on their faces. Those who do are the few who were lucky enough to not just to follow their math teachers’ comments, but also to understand the “beauty and magic of mathematics,” in the words of Rudolf Taschner, one of the initiators of the “math.space” project.