66th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting > Programme

Find the programme in timetable format here. 16:00 - 18:00 Lecture LectureOpening Ceremony
with Ensemble of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra 07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Quantum Information: from Fundamentals to a New Technology
Hosted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy 09:00 - 09:30 LectureHiroshi Amano
Lighting the Earth by LEDs 09:30 - 10:00 LectureTakaaki Kajita
Atmospheric Neutrinos 10:30 - 11:00 LectureDavid Gross
One Hundred Years of General Relativity - The Enduring Legacy of Albert Einstein 11:00 - 11:30 LectureCarlo Rubbia
The Future of Energy 12:00 - 12:30 LectureMartinus Veltman
After Finding the Higgs Particle 12:30 - 13:00 LectureArthur McDonald
The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory: Observation of Flavor Change for Solar Neutrinos 15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion 07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Excellence in Science and Sports
Hosted by Rolex SA 09:00 - 09:30 LectureSerge Haroche
Cavity Quantum Electrodynamics and Circuit QED: from Fundamental Tests to Quantum Information 09:30 - 10:00 LectureDavid Wineland
Atomic Ion Clocks 10:30 - 11:00 LectureTheodor W. Hänsch
Changing Concepts of Light and Matter 11:00 - 11:30 LectureWilliam Phillips
Superfluid Atomic Gas in a Ring: A New Kind of Closed Circuit 12:00 - 12:30 LectureKlaus von Klitzing
A New International System of Units in 2018!? How my Nobel Prize Contributed to this Development 12:30 - 13:00 LectureGerardus 't Hooft
How One Single Elementary Particle Can Make the Difference 07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Why Does Soft Matter Matter?
Hosted by Mars, Incorporated 09:00 - 09:30 LectureGeorge Smoot
Gravitational Waves, Merging Black Holes 09:30 - 10:00 LectureSamuel Ting
The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) on the International Space Station 10:30 - 11:00 LectureKurt Wüthrich
NMR in Physics, Structural Biology and Medical Diagnosis 11:00 - 11:30 LectureSteven Chu
Optical Microscopy 2.0 11:30 - 12:00 LectureHartmut Michel
Oxygen Removal and Energy Conservation by Membrane Integrated Terminal Oxidases 12:30 - 13:00 LectureJohann Deisenhofer
Photosynthetic Light Reactions, Revisited 13:00 - 13:30 LectureRobert Huber
Protein Structures in Translational Medicine and Business Development, My Experience 17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionWilliam D. Phillips
Master Class: Ultra-Cold Gases of Neutral Atoms and Molecules 17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionBrian Schmidt
Master Class: Big Questions, Big Instruments, Big Ideas 17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionDavid Wineland
Master Class: Quantum Information and Quantum Measurement 17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionKurt Wüthrich
Master Class: Physics in Structural Biology, Medical Diagnosis, and Physical Exercise and Rehabilitation 17:00 - 18:30 Discussion DiscussionSteven Chu
Master Class: Physics - Based Measurements of our Changing Climate Change, and the Clean Energy Challenges for Carbon-Free Energy 17:00 - 18:30 LectureBrian Josephson
Lecture and Discussion: Emergent Self-Organising Activity as the true foundation of Reality 19:00 - 20:00 LectureHeidelberg Lecture: Vinton G. Cerf (ACM A.M. Turing Award 2004)
The Origins and Evolution of the Internet 07:00 - 08:45 Discussion DiscussionScience Breakfast: Decoding Science Leadership: Developing Capacity for Leading Science Innovation in a Rapidly Evolving “24/7 World” with Disruptive Opportunities and Challenges
Hosted by McKinsey & Company, Inc. 09:00 - 09:30 LectureStefan W. Hell
Optical Microscopy: the Resolution Revolution 09:30 - 10:00 LectureDan Shechtman
The Science and Beauty of Soap Bubbles 10:30 - 11:00 LectureAda Yonath
What was First, the Genetic Code or Its Products? 11:00 - 11:30 LectureMartin Karplus
Motion: Hallmark of Life. From Marsupials to Molecules 11:30 - 12:00 LectureCarl Wieman
A Scientific Approach to Learning Physics 12:30 - 13:00 LectureBrian Schmidt
State of the Universe 13:00 - 13:30 LectureRoy Glauber
Some Recollections of the Manhattan Project 1943-1945 15:00 - 16:30 Panel Discussion 11:00 - 13:00 Panel DiscussionClosing Panel Discussion
The Future of Education in Sciences; Panelists Brian Schmidt, Dan Shechtman, Tamás Vámi, Carl Wieman; Moderator Karan Khemka