Upcoming meeting
Centennial Fellows 10 Year Reunion Conference
June 2-4, 2009
Ritz-Carlton, St. Louis, MO
Agenda
| Tuesday, June 2, 2009 | |
| Arrival of all guests at Hotel | |
| 2:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Brain Cancer Advisory Board, Boardroom Complex Systems Advisory Board Meetings, Ambassador Room (closed sessions) |
| 5:30 p.m. | Dinner and Reception, The Restaurant, located in the Ritz-Carlton lobby |
Wednesday, June 3, 2009 |
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| NOTE: Posters will be available for discussions during all meals and breaks. | |
| 7:30 – 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast, Outside Amphitheater |
| All presentations will be held in the Amphitheater | |
| 8:30 – 9:30 a.m. | Welcome Remarks |
| 9:30 – 10:30 a.m. | First Presentation, John Carlstrom, University of Chicago Cosmology with the Cosmic Microwave Background |
| 10:30 – 11:00 a.m. | Break, Outside Amphitheater |
| 11:00 – 12:00 noon | Introduction and Discussion Led by Peter Raven Second Presentation, Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam University Taped Session: Climate Science: Some thoughts on progress in the past 10 years and some ideas for the next |
| 12:00 – 1:30 p.m. | Lunch,The Restaurant, located in the Ritz-Carlton lobby |
| 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. | Third Presentation, Leonid Kruglyak, Princeton University Genetic basis of variation between individuals |
| 2:30 – 3:30 p.m. | Fourth Presentation, Wendy Bickmore, MRC Human Genetics Unit Putting the genome on the map |
| 3:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Break, Outside Amphitheater Poster Presenters Will Be Available During this Break |
| 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. | Fifth Presentation, Keith Wailoo, Rutgers University Viruses, Genes, Cancer, and Pain: The Paradoxes of Progress in the Biomedical Sciences |
| 5:45 p.m. | Assemble in lobby for transportation to Missouri Botanical Garden |
| 6:00 p.m. | Depart hotel for Missouri Botanical Garden |
| 6:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. | Reception and Buffet, Missouri Botanical Garden |
| Thursday, June 4, 2009 | |
| 8:00 – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast, Outside Amphitheater |
| All presentations will be held in the Amphitheater | |
| 9:00 – 10:00 a.m. | Sixth Presentation, Mercedes Pascual, University of Michigan Simple models for complex ecological systems: insights from disease dynamics |
| 10:00 – 11:00 a.m. | Seventh Presentation, Stanislas Dehaene, INSERM-CEA Mathematical intuitions and their cerebral bases |
| 11:00 – 11:30 a.m. | Break, Outside Amphitheater |
| 11:30 – 12:30 p.m. | Eighth Presentation, Kathleen Akins, Simon Fraser University Neurophilosophy Today, NOTE: Presentation for Kathleen Akins to be given by Lyle Crawford, Simon Fraser University |
| 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. | Ninth Presentation, Daniel J. Povinelli, University of Louisiana Decade in Waiting: Stagnation in the Field of Comparative Psychology, 1999-2009 |
| 1:30 p.m. | Closing Lunch and Departure,The Restaurant, located in the Ritz-Carlton lobby |
| 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. | Understanding Human Cognition Advisory Board Meeting (closed session -- lunch provided) |