62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting - Meeting Programme

SUNDAY, JULY 1ST

10:00 - 20:00	Registration
15:00 - 16:30	Opening Ceremony
17:00 - 18:30	Reception & Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra upon invitation of the Republic of Austria
19:00 - 22:00	Dinner at various locations (limited attendance)

MONDAY, JULY 2ND

07:00 - 08:45	Science Breakfast upon invitation only - Supported by Singapore - Every young researcher will receive an invitation for one of the breakfasts throughout this week.
09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Brian Schmidt Observations, and the Standard Model of Cosmology
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	John Mather Seeing Farther with New Telescopes
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	George Smoot Mapping the Universe in Space and Time
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30	Lecture	Paul Crutzen Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Mario Molina The Science and Policy of Climate Change
12:00 - 12:30	Lecture	Ivar Giaever The Strange Case of Global Warming
12:30 - 13:00	Lecture	Hartmut Michel Photosynthesis, Biomass, Biofuels: Conversion Efficiencies and Consequences
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch Break upon invitation of Singapore
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Young Researcher Discussions (with Nobel Laureates Smoot, Schmidt, Molina, Michel, Mather, Giaever and Crutzen) - Locations will be announced during the meeting.
15:00 - 16:30	Lecture	Science Master Classes (held by Nobel Laureates Fert and Phillips)
16:30 - 19:00	Break
19:00 - 23:00	International Get-Together upon invitation of Singapore

TUESDAY, JULY 3RD

07:00 - 08:45	Break	Science Breakfast upon invitation only - Supported by Mars, Inc. - Every young researcher will receive an invitation for one of the breakfasts throughout this week.
09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Martinus Veltman The LHC at CERN and the Higgs
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	Carlo Rubbia Neutrinos: a Golden Field for Astroparticle Physics
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	David Gross A Century of Quantum Mechanics
10:30 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Albert Fert The Present and Future Impact of Spin Electronics on the Information and Communication Technologies
12:00 - 12:30	Lecture	William Phillips Creating Artificial Magnetic Fields to Act on Neutral Atoms
12:30 - 13:00	Lecture	Brian Josephson The Real M-Theory
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Young Researcher Discussions (with Nobel Laureates Veltman, Rubbia, Phillips, Josephson, Gross and Fert) - Locations will be announced during the meeting.
16:30 - 18:00	Lecture	Peter Grünberg An Introduction to the Harmonies of Alpine Folklore Music with Live Examples
18:00 - 19:00	Break
19:00 - 23:00	All participants will either attend a dinner given by their Academic Partner OR the "Grill & Chill: Connecting Cultures"-event upon invitation of the Council & Foundation and City of Lindau with the Lindau citizens.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 4TH

07:00 - 08:45	Science Breakfast upon invitation only - Supported by dfkz - Every young researcher will receive an invitation for one of the breakfasts throughout this week.
09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Kurt Wüthrich Structural Genomics - Exploring the Protein Universe
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	John Hall Five Decades of Lasers, Six Decades of Progress, and a Proposed Space Experiment to Test Einstein’s Assumptions
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	Theodor Hänsch Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen
10:30 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Douglas Osheroff How Advances in Science are Made
12:00 - 12:30	Lecture	Roy Glauber The Quantum Mechanics of Light: Interference, Entanglement - and Ghosts
12:30 - 13:00	Lecture	James Cronin Spontaneous Ionization to Subatomic Physics: Some Vignettes from Cosmic Ray History
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Young Researcher Discussions (with Nobel Laureates Wüthrich, Osheroff, Hänsch, Hall, Glauber and Cronin) - Locations will be announced during the meeting.
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Panel Discussion "Newest Developments at CERN" (with Nobel Laureates Gross, Rubbia, Smoot and Veltman and a live link to Geneva)
16:30 - 17:00	Coffee Break
17:00 - 18:00	Presentation: "European Funding for Excellence in Research" offered by the European Commission
18:00 - 18:30	Break
18:30 - 20:00	Dinner at various locations

THURSDAY, JULY 5TH

07:00 - 08:45	Science Breakfast upon invitation only - Supported by SAP AG - Every young researcher will receive an invitation for one of the breakfasts throughout this week.
09:00 - 09:30	Lecture	Dan Shechtman The Discovery of Quasi-Periodic Materials
09:30 - 10:00	Lecture	Dudley Herschbach Glimpses of Chemical Wizardry
10:00 - 10:30	Lecture	Erwin Neher Biophysics of Neutrotransmitter Release
10:30 - 11:30	Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:00	Lecture	Robert Laughlin Powering the Future
12:00 - 12:30	Lecture	Walter Kohn Blindness and Physics. A Progress Report.
12:30 - 13:00	Lecture	Sir Harold Kroto Science - Lost in Translation?
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:30	Discussion	Panel Discussion Young Researcher Discussions (with Nobel Laureates Shechtman, Neher, Laughlin, Kroto, Kohn and Herschbach) - Locations will be announced during the meeting.
15:00 - 16:30	Lecture	Science Master Classes (held by Nobel Laureates Gross and Smoot)
16:30 - 18:00	Break
18:00 - 22:00	Bavarian Evening upon invitation of the Elite Network of Bavaria & Freestate of Bavaria

FRIDAY, JULY 6TH

07:00 - 10:30	Boat Trip to Mainau Island upon invitation of the state of Baden-Württemberg
11:00 - 13:00	Discussion	Panel Discussion Closing Panel Discussion: "The Future of Energy Supply & Storage" (with Nobel Laureates Laughlin and Rubbia, German State Secretary Georg Schütte and Martin Keilhacker from the German Physical Society)
13:00 - 15:00	Guided Tours to discover beautiful Mainau Island
13:00 - 15:30	Lunch Break
15:30 - 16:00	Farewell Ceremony
16:30 - 18:45	Return Boat Trip to Lindau