Thursday, April 8

7:30 - 8:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Welcoming remarks:
John T. Bruer - President, James S. McDonnell Foundation
Peter Raven - Home Secretary, NAS and Master of Ceremonies
Bruce Alberts - President, National Academy of Sciences
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. John F. McDonnell - Tribute to Mr. James S. McDonnell

Session 1
9:00 - 9:10 a.m. Introduction to the Session on Human Cognition - Endel Tulving, Rotman Research Institute, Toronto, Canada
9:10 - 9:50 a.m. Daniel Povinelli, University of Southwestern Louisiana*
9:50 -10:30 a.m. Stan Dehaene, CNRS, Paris, France*

10:30 -11:00 a.m. BREAK

11:00 -11:40 a.m. Kathleen Akins (Philosophy of Science fellow), Simon Fraser University, Canada*
11:40 -12:20 p.m. Commentary - Patricia Churchland, UC-San Diego
General Discussion

12:20 - 1:20 p.m. LUNCH

Session 2
1:30 - 1:40 p.m. Introduction to the Session on Astrophysics & Cosmology - Roger
Blandford, California Institute of Technology
1:40 - 2:20 p.m. John Carlstrom, University of Chicago*
2:20 - 3:00 p.m. Chris Stubbs, University of Washington*
3:00 - 3:40 p.m. Commentary - David T. Wilkinson, Princeton University
General Discussion

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Friday, April 9

Session 3
8:00 - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 a.m. Introduction of Session on Human Genetics and Biomedicine -
Daniel Kevles, California Institute of Technology
8:40 - 9:20 a.m. Wendy Bickmore, MRC Edinburgh, UK*
9:20 -10:00 a.m. Leonid Kruglyak, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center*

10:00 -10:30 a.m. BREAK

10:30 -11:10 a.m. Keith Wailoo (History of Science fellow), University North Carolina at Chapel Hill*
11:10 - 11:50 a.m. Commentary - David Schlessinger, National Institute on Aging
General Discussion

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. LUNCH

Session 4
1:00 - 1:10 p.m. Introduction to Session on Global and Complex Systems - Jane
Lubchenco, Oregon State University
1:10 - 1:50 p.m. Mercedes Pascual, University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute*
1:50 - 2:30 p.m. Stefan Rahmstorf, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,
Germany*
2:30 - 3:10 p.m. Commentary/General Discussion - Murray Gell-Mann, Santa Fe Institute
Adjourn