Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
75th Anniversary Symposium

Agenda

November 14, 2006 Building 50 Auditorium
Time Slot	Topic	Speaker
7:30 – 8:30	Coffee, Tea and Registration
8:30 – 8:45	Welcome	Steve Chu
8:45 – 9:15	Toward the 300th Anniversary of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory	John Heilbron
9:15 – 10:15	The Lab, from a Director’s Perspective	Andy Sessler, Chuck Shank, Steve Chu
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 10:45	Video presentation
10:45 – 11:15	Transuranium Elements	Darleane Hoffman
11:15 – 11:45	Nanotechnology/Helios	Paul Alivisatos
11:45 – 12:15	COBE CMB Precision Cosmology	George Smoot
12:15 – 1:15	Lunch
1:15 – 1:45	Early History of Biotechnology at LBNL and Nearby Biology and Biotechnology	Don Glaser Mina Bissell
1:45 – 2:15	Genomics: from the Human Genome to Bioenergy	Eddy Rubin
2:15 – 2:45	Synthetic Biology: Cheap Drugs and Fuels	Jay Keasling
2:45 – 3:15	Carbon-Climate Interactions	Inez Fung
3:15 – 3:30	Break
3:30 – 4:00	Energy Efficiency – From the Lab to the Marketplace	Art Rosenfeld
4:00– 4:30	Scientific Computing at LBNL - Past and Future	Horst Simon
4:30 – 5:00	Supernovas, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe	Saul Perlmutter
5:00 – 5:30	Future Science at the National Labs	Pier Oddone
5:30 – 6:30	Reception (Cafeteria)