Nanyang Technological University (NTU) has, in the past year, been working the levers to bring the world's brightest minds - including not one, but five Nobel laureates - to Singapore as part of the inaugural Nobel Prize Series.

World-leading scientists, policymakers and thought leaders will congregate here over two days from Thursday next week to discuss the future of learning at the series.

The event, produced by Nobel Media and the Nobel Museum in partnership with NTU, will include a conference, four public lectures by the five Nobel laureates - Professor Wole Soyinka, Sir James Mirrlees, Sir Harold Walter Kroto, Professor Ada Yonath and Professor Stefan Hell - as well as an exhibition detailing the history of the Nobel Prize.

The series, the first of its kind, was set up tobring together experts to deliberate on critical issues that may arise in future.

Compared with previous Nobel- related events in Singapore, which tend to focus on physics, chemistry and medicine, the series will offer a broader scope of topics including literature and economics.

The idea of having such a major Nobel Prize event here was first mooted about a year ago.

5 Nobel laureates giving public lectures

PROFESSOR STEFAN HELL (CHEMISTRY, 2014) Scientist Stefan Hell, 52, a director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Gottingen, Germany, together with two American researchers, won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry last year for using fluorescence - a phenomenon in which certain substances become luminous after having been exposed to light - to make microscopes more powerful than before, enabling deeper insight into