8:00 AM | Doors Open |
8:30 AM – 5:00 PM | Public Lectures in the Auditorium |
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Extended Q&A with speakers on the Promenade after each talk Media Interviews with speakers & scientists, on the Promenade |
Public Lectures
8:30 AM | Glenn Starkman – Welcome |
8:35 AM | Bud Baeslack “Introduction: Thinking Beyond the Possible” |
8:50 AM | Patricia Princehouse “Evolution: The Origin of New Species” |
9:10 AM | Cynthia Beall “Oxygen: Adaptation and Human Performance in Thin Air” |
9:30 AM | Michael Decker “Brain: What Happens to Humans Who Live and Work at Ultra-High Altitude” |
9:50 AM | Joe LaManna “Brain: The Link Between Stroke, Aging, and Diet” |
10:10 AM | Jeremy Rich “Stem Cells: New Strategies Against Brain Cancer” |
10:30 AM | Lynn Singer “The New Childhood Illnesses: Addiction, Autism, and Lead Poisoning” |
10:50 AM | Jerold Goldberg “Oral Health: Not Brushing Can Damage Your Heart” |
11:10 AM | Scott Simpson “Human Evolution: Recent advances in unraveling the complexity of our ancestry.” |
11:30 AM | Sarah Boysen “Chimpanzee Cognition: Why Chimps Do Math” |
11:50 AM | Glenn Starkman “Cosmos: What’s New In the Universe?” |
12:10 PM | David Spergel “Exoplanets: What 3000 New Planets Are Telling Us About Our Own” |
12:30 PM | Tom Giblin “The Universe: Black Holes, Gravitational Waves, and Why We Care” |
12:50 PM | Glenn Starkman “The Higgs: Final Great Discovery of Particle Physics?” |
1:10 PM | Robert Savinell “Sustainability: Breakthroughs in Green Energy Storage” |
1:30 PM | Break |
1:50 PM | Stan Gerson “Cancer Moonshot: Sea Change in Cancer Research” |
2:10 PM | Mark Griswold “MRF Imaging: Revolution in Detecting Cancer, MS & Heart Disease” |
2:30 PM | Charis Eng “Genomic Medicine: What Game-Based Personalized Healthcare Will Look Like” |
2:50 PM | Jonathan Karn “HIV: Where We Go From Here” |
3:10 PM | Laura Kahn “Microbial Resistance: Can we have pork chops and antibiotics too?” |
3:30 PM | Steve Rissing “Evolutionary Epidemics: Zika, Ebola, Flu, What’s Next?” |
3:50 PM | Chris Cullis “GMO: Friend Not Foe” |
4:10 PM | Andy Jones “Environmental Crises: Water, Biodiversity, Climate Change” |
4:30 PM | Alethea Barbaro “Math Modeling: From Fish Schools to Gang Behavior to Medicine” |
4:50 PM | Glenn Starkman “Conclusions and Beginnings” |
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