Meeting Program

Nobel Laureate Professor Blobel during his lecture

Subsections of "MEETINGS"

Program (2008 - 58th Meeting of Nobel Laureates)

SUNDAY, JUNE 29TH

TIME	SPEAKER	DISCIPLINE	THEME

10:45 - 11:15	-	-	-
15:30 - 17:30	Opening Ceremony Opening of the Meeting by the President of the Council Countess Sonja Bernadotte at Inselhalle

MONDAY, JUNE 30TH

TIME	SPEAKER	DISCIPLINE	THEME

09:00 - 09:30	Prof. Dr. Theodor W. Hänsch	Physics	Towards a Quantum Laboratory on a Chip
09:30 - 10:00	Prof. Dr. Peter Grünberg	Physics	From Spinwaves to Giant Magnetoresistance (GMR) and Beyond
10:00 - 10:30	Prof. Dr. Ivar Giaever	Physics	Discovery of Superconducting Tunneling
10:45 - 11:15	Prof. Dr. Klaus von Klitzing	Physics	Carbon Electronics
11:15 - 11:45	Prof. Dr. William Daniel Phillips	Physics	Cold Atomic Gases: the Intersection of Condensed Matter and Atomic Physics
11:45 - 12:15	Prof. Dr. John L. Hall	Physics	The Optical Frequency Comb - a Really Versatile Tool
12:45 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00	Scientific Discussions with Laureates and Young Researchers
19:00 - 23:59	Social-Get-Together at Inselhalle

TUESDAY, JULY 1ST

TIME	SPEAKER	DISCIPLINE	THEME

09:00 - 09:30	Prof. Dr. Johann Deisenhofer	Chemistry	Structural Biology - quo vadis?
09:30 - 10:00	Prof. Dr. Robert Huber	Chemistry	Beauty and Usefulness of the Building Blocks of Life: The Architecture of Proteins
10:00 - 10:30	Prof. Dr. Hartmut Michel	Chemistry	Cytochrome and Oxidase Structure and Mechanism of a Proton Pump
11:15 - 12:45	-	-	-
12:45 - 15:00	Lunch Break

WEDNESDAY, JULY 2ND

TIME	SPEAKER	DISCIPLINE	THEME

09:00 - 09:30	Prof. Dr. James Watson Cronin	Physics	The Highest Energy Cosmic Rays
09:30 - 10:00	Prof. Dr. Riccardo Giacconi	Physics	The Impact of Big Science on Astrophysics
10:00 - 10:30	Prof. Dr. George Fitzgerald Smoot	Physics	The Beginning and Development of the Universe
10:45 - 11:15	Prof. Dr. Martinus Justinus Godefriedus Veltman	Physics	The Development of Particle Physics
11:15 - 11:45	Prof. Dr. David J. Gross	Physics	The Large Hadron Collider and the Super World
11:45 - 12:15	Prof. Dr. Jack Steinberger	Physics	What Future for Energy and Climate?
12:15 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00	Scientific Discussions with Laureates and Young Researchers
20:00 - 22:00	Concert at Stadttheater

THURSDAY, JULY 3RD

TIME	SPEAKER	DISCIPLINE	THEME

09:00 - 09:30	Prof. Dr. Donald Arthur Glaser	Physics	Role of Cortical Noise in Vision
09:30 - 10:00	Prof. Nicolaas Bloembergen	Physics	From Millisecond to Attosecond Laser Pulses
10:00 - 10:30	Prof. Dr. Roy J. Glauber	Physics	The Individuality of Light Quanta
10:45 - 11:15	Prof. Dr. Douglas Dean Osheroff	Physics	How Advances in Science are Made
11:15 - 11:45	Prof. Dr. Brian David Josephson	Physics	Which Way for Physics?
11:45 - 12:15	Prof. Dr. Gerardus 't Hooft	Physics	Humanity in the Cosmos
12:45 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 17:00	Scientific Discussions with Laureates and Young Researchers
17:30 - 20:30	Traditional Bavarian Get-together on Invitation of the Elite Network of Bavaria

FRIDAY, JULY 4TH

TIME	SPEAKER	DISCIPLINE	THEME

09:00 - 11:30	Departure by Boat from Lindau Harbour to the Isle of Mainau
11:30 - 13:00	Arrival at the Isle of Mainau and Visit to the Park
13:00 - 15:00	Lunch Break
15:00 - 16:00	Farewell Ceremony and Conclusion of the Meeting at Mainau Castle by Countess Sonja Bernadotte
16:00 - 18:30	Departure by Boat back to Lindau Harbour

NAVIGATION:

BENEFACTORS:

ACADEMIC PARTNER OF THE MEETINGS IN NATURAL SCIENCES:

(MX) Mexican Academy of Sciences

ACADEMIC PARTNER OF THE MEETINGS IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES:

(DE) University of Mannheim

AS OTHERS SEE US

For the Free State of Bavaria, this meeting is a beacon of science shining brightly over the entire Lake Constance region and far beyond. Thomas Goppel, Former Bavarian State Minister

Upcoming Lindau Meetings:

2010 - 60th Meeting of Nobel Laureates