60th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting

SUNDAY, JUNE 27TH

15:00 - 16:30

Opening of the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates

MONDAY, JUNE 28TH

09:00 - 09:35	Lecture	Ada E. Yonath The Amazing Ribosome
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	Jack W. Szostak Learning about the Origin of Life from Efforts to Design an Artificial Cell
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	John Mather The History of the Universe, from the Beginning to the Ultimate End
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Lecture	Harald zur Hausen Human Cancers Linked to Infections
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Luc Montagnier DNA between Physics and Biology
12:00 - 12:30	Lecture	Françoise Barré-Sinoussi HIV, a Discovery Highlighting the Global Benefit of Translational Research
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Paul Crutzen Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard On the Genetic Basis of Morphological Evolution (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Robert Laughlin When Coal is Gone (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Roy Glauber What is Quantum Optics? (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	F. Sherwood Rowland Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates: Harald zur Hausen, John C. Mather, Luc Montagnier, Jack W. Szostak, Ada E. Yonath and Young Researchers
15:45 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Hamilton Smith Building a Synthetic Bacterial Cell (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Johann Deisenhofer Structural Studies on Cholesterol Transport (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	George Smoot Mapping the Universe and Its History (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Nicolaas Bloembergen 50 Years of Lasers (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Robert Wilson The Discovery of Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and its Role in Cosmology (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Carlo Rubbia The Underground Physics: Neutrino and Dark Matter (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Arno Penzias Energy Advances — What’s New; What’s Next: What’s Missing
16:15 - 17:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Arno Penzias, Torsten Niels Wiesel and Young Researchers

TUESDAY, JUNE 29TH

09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Roger Tsien Designing Molecules and Nanoparticles to Help See and Treat Disease
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	The Heartbeat of Light
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	Robert Horvitz Programmed Cell Death in Development and Disease
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Lecture	Martin Chalfie Adventures in Nontranslational Research
11:30 - 12:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Panel Discussion: "Impact of Chemistry and Physics to Biomedicine. Where is the Future?" with Aaron Ciechanover, Ivar Giaever, Harald zur Hausen, Erwin Neher, Roger Y. Tsien
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Brian Josephson Life, Extended Mind, and Fundamental Physics (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Leland Hartwell Your Grand Challenge: Developing a Sustainable World (Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Robert Huber Basic Science and Co-entrepreneurship, my Experience (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Werner Arber Genetic and Cultural Impacts on the Course of Biological Evolution (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Sir Harold Kroto The Revolutionary Impact of the GOOYouWiki World (GYWW) on Education and Student Success (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Walter Kohn Can Math and Optical Physics help people with Macular Degeneration of the Eye? (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates: Martin Chalfie, Leland H. Hartwell, H. Robert Horvitz and Young Researchers
14:30 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Special Afternoon Debate: "What will CERN teach us about the Dark Energy and Dark Matter of the Universe?" with David Gross, John C. Mather, Carlo Rubbia, George F. Smoot, Gerardus ’t Hooft, Martinus J.G.Veltman
15:45 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Avram Hershko Roles of Protein Degradation in Health and Disease (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Edmond Fischer The Origin of Reversible Protein Phosphorylation (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Ryoji Noyori Molecular Catalysis for Green Chemistry (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	R. Timothy (Tim) Hunt Getting In and Out of Mitosis (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Erwin Neher Biophysics of Short-term Synaptic Plasticity (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates: Theodor W. Hänsch, Roger Y. Tsien and Young Researchers

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30TH

09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Aaron Ciechanover Why our Proteins Have to Die so We Shall Live
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	Gerardus 't Hooft The Big Challenges
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	Sir Martin J. Evans Mice, Men and Medicine
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Lecture	Oliver Smithies Chance, Opportunity and Planning in Science
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	David Gross Frontiers of Physics
12:00 - 12:30	Lecture	Kurt Wüthrich Structural Genomics and the Expanding Universe of Protein Sequences
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Ivar Giaever From Biology to Physics (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Ferid Murad Discovery of Nitric Oxide and Cyclic GMP and Application to Drug Development (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Richard Ernst Let Us Develop Concepts for a Beneficial Global Future! (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Robert Richardson The Looming World Shortage of Helium (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Mario Molina Climate Change and Sustainable Development (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates: Zhores I. Alferov, Aaron Ciechanover, Martin J. Evans, Gerardus ’t Hooft and Young Researchers
15:45 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Gerhard Ertl From Disorder to Order (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Hartmut Michel Oxygen Reduction and Water Formation in Biology - Enzymes, Structures, Mechanisms (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Peter Grünberg The Physical Foundations of Harmony in Music, including live demonstrations by Peter A.Grünberg together with soprano Keiko Hibi (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Yuan Lee Dynamics of Chemical Reactions and Photochemical Processes (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Martinus Veltman The Development of Particle Physics (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Lecture	Rudolph Marcus Experimental surprises and their solution in theory (Lecture + Discussion)
16:15 - 17:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates: David Gross, Oliver Smithies and Young Researchers

THURSDAY, JULY 1ST

09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Jean-Marie Lehn Perspectives in Chemistry: Towards Adaptive Chemistry
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	James Cronin Cosmic Rays: the Most Energetic Particles in the Universe
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	Sir John Walker How Energy is Converted in Biology
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Lecture	Albert Fert The World of Spintronics: Electrons, Spins, Computers and Telephones
11:30 - 12:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Brainstorming/Panel Discussion: On Being a Scientist between Nobel Laureates: Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Harold W. Kroto, John C. Mather, Mario Molina, Oliver Smithies and Young Researchers
12:30 - 14:30	Lunch Break
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Peter Agre Aquaporin Water Channels (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Lecture	Christian de Duve Natural Selection and the Future of Life (Lecture + Discussion)
14:30 - 15:45	Discussion	Panel Discussion Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates: James W. Cronin, Albert Fert, Klaus von Klitzing, Jean-Marie Lehn, Osamu Shimomura, John E. Walker and Young Researchers

FRIDAY, JULY 2ND

11:00 - 12:00

Discussion

Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion on the Isle of Mainau: "Energy and Sustainability" with Yuan Tseh Lee, Carlo Rubbia, Hans J. Schellnhuber, Georg Schütte (Máire Geoghegan-Quinn: tbd)

SATURDAY, JULY 3RD

08:00 - 20:00

Departure of Participants