56th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting - Meeting Programme

SUNDAY, 25 JUNE

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

MONDAY, 26 JUNE

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
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	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

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
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	Break
15:00 - 17:00	Discussion	Panel Discussion Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures

WEDNESDAY, 28 JUNE

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
11:00 - 13:00	Panel Discussion	Panel Discussion Round Table Discussion: Energy and Global Warming,
13:00 - 15:00	Break
15:00 - 17:00	Discussion	Panel Discussion Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures
20:00 - 21:30	Special Concert in the City Theater, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra

THURSDAY, 29 JUNE

08:00 - 18:00	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	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	Break
15:00 - 17:00	Discussion	Panel Discussion Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures