60th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

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Sunday, 27 June 2010

15:00 - 16:30 Opening Ceremony Opening of the 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates

Monday, 28 June 2010

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 Break 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 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 Break 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, 29 June 2010

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 Break 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 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 Break 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, 30 June 2010

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 Break 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 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 Break 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, 1 July 2010

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 Break 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 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, 2 July 2010

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, 3 July 2010

08:00 - 20:00 Break Departure of Participants