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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
75th Anniversary Symposium and Gala Dinner

Agenda

November 14, 2006

Building 50 Auditorium

Topic titles are linked to Real video clips.

Time Slot

Topic

Speaker

8:30 – 8:45

Welcoming Remarks

Steve Chu, Graham Fleming

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)

 

7:00

Dinner by Invitation (Claremont)

 

 

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