The Lindau meeting is mostly about Nobel laureates and young researchers communicating. But even as blogger, if you're lucky, there's the chance of an informal chat with a laureate. In this particular case, the conversation turned to the topic of the Lindau meeting itself. So here, faithfully transcribed from my recording, with minimal editing and rearrangement, is a Nobel laureate's view of the meeting, from the moment of first contact with the organizing team to the burning question of what laureates talk about when they're on their own. In the grand tradition of informants everywhere, my source shall remain anonymous.

"The first time the Lindau people contacted me was at the Nobel event week, and there was a reception, the second night, and I met the old countess and the young count. I didn't know who they were, but they told me that they were associated with the royal family, and that they had a special event. Some of the laureates were contacted in a different way, though. (More)

In 2008, 2009 and again this year, the Nature podcast and video team have attended the Lindau Nobel Laureates Meetings and produced several short films around them. I talked to Charlotte Stoddart who is the Director and Producer of the films, and Martin Freeth who works with the film crew every year as an Executive Producer and Director, about how they put together the films, as well as getting a sneak preview of the themes for the ones that we be recorded this year for the 60th anniversary celebrations.  (More)

This year's Lindau Nobel Laureates Meeting will give almost 700 young scientists from around the world the opportunity to meet and talk science with 61 Nobel Laureates. What's it like to be an ambitious researcher today and does your experience of "doing science" or your hopes for the future depend on where you work? I'm planning to listen to the thoughts of three young scientists over the next couple of weeks - before, during and after this year's meeting - to compare their stories. In this post we get to meet Emmanuel, Paul and Jisun.

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