Origins, 3-6 April 2009

source: http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/origins-symposium

FRIDAY, APRIL 3

8:30 - 10:00am

Workshop for Journalists

• Forefront questions in evolutionary biology - Richard Dawkins
• Forefront questions on the beginning of time - Lawrence Krauss

11:00am - 1:00pm

Science Friday

• Panel: Physicists and the Origin of the Universe
• Panel: Origins and Evolution of Life

Session 1: The Universe, Multiverse, Physical Laws

2:00pm

Welcome

• Sid Bacon
• Lawrence Krauss

The Big Questions

• Frank Wilczek
  

2:10 - 3:10pm

Panel 1: How Far Back Can We Go?
Moderated by Michael Turner

• Steven Weinberg
• James Peebles
• Brian Greene
• Lawrence Krauss
• Stephen Hawking

3:25 - 4:20pm

Panel 2: Is Our Universe Unique, and How Can We Find Out?
Moderated by Paul Davies

• Andrei Linde
• Alan Guth
• David Gross
• Sheldon Glashow
• Alex Vilenkin

4:20 - 5:25pm

Panel 3: New Windows on the Universe: What is Knowable?
Moderated by Wendy Freedman

• Barry Barish
• Adam Riess
• John Ruhl
• John Mather
• Maria Spiropulu
• Roger Blandford

SATURDAY, APRIL 4

Session 2: The Galaxy, Planets, and Life

8:30 - 9:20am

Panel 1: Do We Have a Successful Theory of Galaxy and Star Formation and How Will We Know?
Moderated by Lawrence Krauss

• Ben Moore
• Carlos Frenk
• Joe Silk
• Rogier Windhorst

9:20 - 10:20am

Panel 2: How Common Are Earth-like Planets?
Moderated by Ariel Anbar

• Alex Halliday
• David Stevenson
• Edward Young
• Steve Desch
• Phil Christensen
• Jade Bond

10:35 - 11:30am

Panel 3: How Does Life Originate and How Do We Recognize It?
Moderated by Kip Hodges

• Baruch Blumberg
• Paul Davies
• Antonio Lazcano
• Steve Mojzsis
• Everett Shock

Session 3: Origin of Species, Evolution, Human Origins

2:15 - 3:10pm

Panel 1: Origin and Evolution of Life and Phenotypic Innovations
Moderated by Manfred Laubichler

• George Poste
• Doug Erwin
• Kevin Peterson
• Randy Nesse
• Peter Ward

3:20 - 4:05pm

Panel 2: Origin and Evolution of Sociality
Moderated by Jürgen Gadau

• Richard Dawkins
• Bert Hölldobler
• Joan Strassman
• David Queller

4:05 - 5:00pm

Panel 3: What is the Origin of Human Uniqueness?
Moderated by William Kimbel

• Alan Rodgers
• John Fleagle
• Ian Tattersall
• Donald Johansen
• Curtis Marean

SUNDAY, APRIL 5

Session 4: Consciousness, Complex Cognition, and Language to Culture: Cooperation, Morality & Institutions

9:30 - 10:40am

Panel 1: Consciousness, Complex Cognition, and Language
Moderated by Roger Bingham

• Steven Pinker
• Patricia Churchland
• Robert Seyfarth
• Jerrold Seigel
• Terrence Sejnowski
  

10:50am - 12:05pm

Panel 2: Human Uniqueness, Culture and Morality
Moderated by Roger Bingham

• Sue Rosser
• Kim Hill
  
• Rob Boyd
• Robert Kurzban
• Polly Wiessner
• Jonathan Haidt
  

12:00 - 12:40pm

Panel 3: The State, Social Norms, and Institutions
Moderated by Roger Bingham

• A.C. Grayling
  
• Michael Macy
  
• Margaret Levi

MONDAY, APRIL 6

Public Symposium, Gammage Auditorium, ASU Tempe Campus

9:00am

Welcome

9:30am - 12:30pm

• Steven Pinker
• Don Johanson
• Brian Greene

1:45pm - 5:45pm

• Richard Dawkins
• J. Craig Venter
• Lawrence Krauss

Nobel Panel
Moderated by Ira Flatlow

• Baruch Blumberg
• David Gross
• Walter Gilbert
• Sheldon Glashow
• John Mather
• Frank Wilczek

7:15pm - 8:30pm

World Champion of Magic

• Jason Latimer

Panel on Science and Society
Moderated by Roger Bingham

• Hugh Downs
• Claudia Dreifus
  
• Ann Druyan
• Lucy Hawking
  
• Neil deGrasse Tyson

8:30pm

Stephen Hawking: Why go into space?
Presented by Lucy Hawking

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