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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