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62nd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here.

Sunday, 1 July 2012

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

Monday, 2 July 2012

07:00 - 08:45 Opening Ceremony Opening CeremonyScience 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 LectureBrian Schmidt
Observations, and the Standard Model of Cosmology 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureJohn Mather
Seeing Farther with New Telescopes 10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureGeorge Smoot
Mapping the Universe in Space and Time
10:30 - 11:00 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 Lecture LecturePaul Crutzen
Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate in the Anthropocene 11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureMario Molina
The Science and Policy of Climate Change 12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureIvar Giaever
The Strange Case of Global Warming 12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureHartmut Michel
Photosynthesis, Biomass, Biofuels: Conversion Efficiencies and Consequences
13:00 - 15:00 Break BreakLunch Break upon invitation of Singapore
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionPanel 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 Lecture
Science Master Classes (held by Nobel Laureates Fert and Phillips)
16:30 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 23:00 Break BreakInternational Get-Together upon invitation of Singapore

Tuesday, 3 July 2012

07:00 - 08:45 Break BreakScience 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 LectureMartinus Veltman
The LHC at CERN and the Higgs 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureCarlo Rubbia
Neutrinos: a Golden Field for Astroparticle Physics 10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureDavid Gross
A Century of Quantum Mechanics
10:30 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureAlbert Fert
The Present and Future Impact of Spin Electronics on the Information and Communication Technologies 12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureWilliam Phillips
Creating Artificial Magnetic Fields to Act on Neutral Atoms 12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureBrian Josephson
The Real M-Theory
13:00 - 15:00 Break BreakLunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionPanel 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 LecturePeter Grünberg
An Introduction to the Harmonies of Alpine Folklore Music with Live Examples
18:00 - 19:00 Break Break
19:00 - 23:00 Break BreakAll 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, 4 July 2012

07:00 - 08:45 Break BreakScience 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 LectureKurt Wüthrich
Structural Genomics - Exploring the Protein Universe 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureJohn Hall
Five Decades of Lasers, Six Decades of Progress, and a Proposed Space Experiment to Test Einstein’s Assumptions 10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureTheodor Hänsch
Laser Spectroscopy of Hydrogen
10:30 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureDouglas Osheroff
How Advances in Science are Made 12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureRoy Glauber
The Quantum Mechanics of Light: Interference, Entanglement - and Ghosts 12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureJames Cronin
Spontaneous Ionization to Subatomic Physics: Some Vignettes from Cosmic Ray History
13:00 - 15:00 Break BreakLunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionPanel 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 DiscussionPanel 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 Break BreakCoffee Break
17:00 - 18:00 Break BreakPresentation: "European Funding for Excellence in Research" offered by the European Commission
18:00 - 18:30 Break Break
18:30 - 20:00 Break BreakDinner at various locations

Thursday, 5 July 2012

07:00 - 08:45 Break BreakScience 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 LectureDan Shechtman
The Discovery of Quasi-Periodic Materials 09:30 - 10:00 Lecture LectureDudley Herschbach
Glimpses of Chemical Wizardry 10:00 - 10:30 Lecture LectureErwin Neher
Biophysics of Neutrotransmitter Release
10:30 - 11:30 Break BreakCoffee Break
11:30 - 12:00 Lecture LectureRobert Laughlin
Powering the Future 12:00 - 12:30 Lecture LectureWalter Kohn
Blindness and Physics. A Progress Report. 12:30 - 13:00 Lecture LectureSir Harold Kroto
Science - Lost in Translation?
13:00 - 15:00 Break BreakLunch Break
15:00 - 16:30 Discussion DiscussionPanel 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 Lecture
Science Master Classes (held by Nobel Laureates Gross and Smoot)
16:30 - 18:00 Break Break
18:00 - 22:00 Break BreakBavarian Evening upon invitation of the Elite Network of Bavaria & Freestate of Bavaria

Friday, 6 July 2012

07:00 - 10:30 Boat Trip Boat TripBoat Trip to Mainau Island upon invitation of the state of Baden-Württemberg
11:00 - 13:00 Discussion DiscussionPanel 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 - 15:30 Break BreakLunch Break
13:00 - 15:00 Break BreakGuided Tours to discover beautiful Mainau Island
15:30 - 16:00 Farewell FarewellFarewell Ceremony
16:30 - 18:45 Boat Trip Boat TripReturn Boat Trip to Lindau

Monday, 1 July 2013

17:00 - 18:30 Lecture Lecture
Science Master Class: Olefin Metathesis