59th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 28 June 2009

09:00 - 18:00 Opening Ceremony Arrival of participants
15:00 - 16:30 Opening Ceremony Official Opening of the Meeting by the President of the Council, Countess Bettina Bernadotte
17:00 - 18:00 Break Rathaus

Monday, 29 June 2009

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Gerhard Ertl
From Atoms to Complexity: Reactions at Surfaces
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Richard Ernst
Passions and Activities beyond Science
10:10 - 10:45 Lecture Ryoji Noyori
Chemistry: the Key to Our Future
10:45 - 11:15 Break Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Lecture F. Sherwood Rowland
Green House Gases and Climate Change
11:50 - 12:25 Lecture Paul Crutzen
Atmosphere Climate and Chemistry in the Anthropocene
12:25 - 13:00 Lecture Hartmut Michel
Cytochrome c Oxidase: Structure and Mechanism of a Biological Proton Pump
13:00 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers
19:00 - 00:00 Opening Ceremony Get-Together-Evening participated by Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers

Tuesday, 30 June 2009

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Aaron Ciechanover
Why Our Proteins Have to Die so We Shall Live
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Robert Huber
Molecular Machines for Protein Degradation Inside Cells
10:10 - 10:45 Lecture Erwin Neher
Chemistry helps Neuroscience: The Use of caged Compounds and Indicator Dyes for the Study of Neurotransmitter Release
10:45 - 11:15 Break Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:25 Panel Discussion The Role and Future of Chemistry for Renewable Energy
Gerhard Ertl, Robert H. Grubbs, Walter Kohn, Sir Harold W. Kroto, Rudolph A. Marcus, Mario Molina, F. Sherwood Rowland
12:25 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers
19:00 - 22:00 Opening Ceremony Dinners for Laureates and Young Researchers (given by Academic Partners of the Lindau Meetings in various restaurants, on invitation only)

Wednesday, 1 July 2009

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Rudolph Marcus
From 'On Water' and Enzyme Catalysis to Single Molecules and Quantum Dots, Theory and Experiment
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Kurt Wüthrich
Structural Genomics - Exploring the Protein Universe
10:10 - 10:45 Lecture Sir Harold Kroto
Science, Society & Sustainability
10:15 - 10:45 Break Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Lecture Mario Molina
Energy and Climate Change - Is There a Solution?
11:50 - 12:25 Lecture Walter Kohn
An Earth Powered Predominantly by Solar and Wind Energy
12:25 - 13:00 Lecture Peter Agre
Canoeing in the Arctic, a Scientist´s Perspective
13:00 - 15:00 Break Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers
20:00 - 21:00 Opening Ceremony Concert at Stadttheater

Thursday, 2 July 2009

09:00 - 09:35 Lecture Osamu Shimomura
Chemistry of Bioluminescence
09:35 - 10:10 Lecture Martin Chalfie
GFP and After
10:10 - 10:45 Lecture Roger Tsien
Building and Breeding Molecules to Spy on Cells, Tumors, and Organisms
10:45 - 11:15 Break Coffee Break
11:15 - 11:50 Lecture Richard Schrock
Recent Advances in Olefin Metathesis Catalyzed by Molybdenum and Tungsten Alkylidene Complexes
11:50 - 12:25 Lecture Werner Arber
Molecular Darwinism
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion Panel Discussion
Scientific Discussions between Nobel Laureates and Young Researchers
17:30 - 20:30 Opening Ceremony Traditional Bavarian Get-Together on invitation of the Elite Network of Bavaria

Friday, 3 July 2009

08:00 - 10:20 Boat Trip Boat Trip to the Isle of Mainau
11:00 - 13:00 Lecture
Panel Discussion “Global Warming and Sustainability”
13:00 - 13:30 Opening Ceremony Opening of the Exhibition "Entdeckungen/Discoveries"
13:30 - 15:15 Break Lunch Break
15:15 - 16:00 Farewell Farewell Ceremony/ Conclusion of the Meeting at Mainau Castle
17:00 - 19:30 Boat Trip Boat Trip back to Lindau