56th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 25 June 2006

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

Monday, 26 June 2006

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureRichard Schrock
How to Reduce Dinitrogen to Ammonia
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureRyoji Noyori
Asymmetric Catalysis
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureKurt Wüthrich
Methods Development by Physical Chemists for Biological and Biomedical Research
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture LectureHartmut 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 LectureJohann Deisenhofer
Structural Insights into Cholesterol Homeostasis
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureSir John Walker
Energy Transduction in Mitochondria
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch BreakBreak
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion DiscussionPanel Discussion
Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures
19:00 - 23:30 Discussion DiscussionPanel Discussion
Social get-together for all participants in the Inselhalle, discussions, dancing. The young researchers are invited for a buffet.

Tuesday, 27 June 2006

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureTheodor Hänsch
A Passion for Precision
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureJohn Hall
Increasing the Sensitivity of Laser Spectroscopy
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureRoy Glauber
100 Years of Light Quanta
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture LectureAaron Ciechanover
Why our Proteins have to Die so we shall Live
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LecturePeter Agre
Aquaporin Water Channels - a Cellular Plumbing System
12:00 - 13:00 Lecture LectureWalter Kohn
Movie: "The Power of the Sun"
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch BreakBreak
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion DiscussionPanel Discussion
Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures

Wednesday, 28 June 2006

09:00 - 09:30 Lecture LectureRoald Hoffmann
Honesty to the Singular Object: Some Reflections on the Potential of Ethics Arising out of Science
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LecturePaul Crutzen
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureF. Sherwood Rowland
Greenhouse Gases and Global Climate Change
10:30 - 11:00 Break Break
11:00 - 13:00 Panel Discussion Panel Discussion
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch BreakBreak
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion DiscussionPanel Discussion
Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures
20:00 - 21:30 Boat Trip Boat TripSpecial Concert in the City Theater, UBS Verbier Festival Orchestra

Thursday, 29 June 2006

08:00 - 18:00 Boat Trip Boat TripBoat-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 LectureRichard Ernst
Fourier Methods in Spectroscopy. From Monsieur Fourier to Medical Imaging
09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureErwin Neher
Control of Neurotransmitter and Hormone Release by Calcium and Camp
10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureRobert Huber
Structures of Proteins and Innovations in Science and Medicine
10:30 - 11:00 Lunch Break Lunch BreakBreak
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture LectureJerome Karle
Kernel Energy Method Illustrated with Peptides
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureRudolph Marcus
Enzymatic Catalysis: Experiments, Theory and Computations, a Unified View
12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureRobert Curl Jr.
Elemental Carbon Chemistry: New Materials
12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureWilliam Lipscomb
Benefits of Curiosity Driven Research
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch Break Lunch BreakBreak
15:00 - 17:00 Discussion DiscussionPanel Discussion
Discussion with students in groups corresponding to the morning lectures