56th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 25 June 2006

08:00 - 16:00 Opening Ceremony Arrival and Registration at the Congress Hall (Inselhalle)
16:00 - 17:30 Opening Ceremony Opening Ceremony

Monday, 26 June 2006

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Richard Schrock
How to Reduce Dinitrogen to Ammonia
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Ryoji Noyori
Asymmetric Catalysis
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Kurt Wüthrich
Methods Development by Physical Chemists for Biological and Biomedical Research
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Hartmut Michel
Cytochrome c Oxidase and the Major Sodium Ion / Proton Exchanger from Escherichia coli: A Comparison of Two Proton Translocating Membrane Proteins
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Johann Deisenhofer
Structural Insights into Cholesterol Homeostasis
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Sir John Walker
Energy Transduction in Mitochondria
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures
19:00 - 23:30 Discussion Panel Discussion
Social get-together for all participants in the Inselhalle, discussions, dancing. The young researchers are invited for a buffet.

Tuesday, 27 June 2006

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Theodor Hänsch
A Passion for Precision
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture John Hall
Increasing the Sensitivity of Laser Spectroscopy
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Roy Glauber
100 Years of Light Quanta
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Aaron Ciechanover
Why our Proteins have to Die so we shall Live
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Peter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels - a Cellular Plumbing System
12:00 - 13:00 Lecture Walter Kohn
Movie: "The Power of the Sun"
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures

Wednesday, 28 June 2006

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Roald Hoffmann
Honesty to the Singular Object: Some Reflections on the Potential of Ethics Arising out of Science
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Paul Crutzen
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture F. Sherwood Rowland
Greenhouse Gases and Global Climate Change
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break
11:00 - 13:00 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
Round Table Discussion: Energy and Global Warming,
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures
20:00 - 21:30 Boat Trip Special Concert in the City Theater, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra

Thursday, 29 June 2006

08:00 - 18:00 Boat Trip Boat-Trip to the Isle of Mainau for Laureates and students. Welcome by Countess Sonja Bernadotte and visit to the park.
09:00 - 09:30 Lecture Richard Ernst
Fourier Methods in Spectroscopy. From Monsieur Fourier to Medical Imaging
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture Erwin Neher
Control of Neurotransmitter and Hormone Release by Calcium and Camp
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture Robert Huber
Structures of Proteins and Innovations in Science and Medicine
10:30 - 11:00 Lunch Break Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture Jerome Karle
Kernel Energy Method Illustrated with Peptides
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture Rudolph Marcus
Enzymatic Catalysis: Experiments, Theory and Computations, a Unified View
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture Robert Curl Jr.
Elemental Carbon Chemistry: New Materials
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture William Lipscomb
Benefits of Curiosity Driven Research
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures