Nobel Conference® XXXVII
Schedule of Events


TUESDAY, OCTOBER 2

9:30 a.m.
Opening Ceremony – Lund Arena
Academic Procession
Welcome – Axel D. Steuer, President of the College
Introduction of Panelists – Tim Robinson, Director, Nobel Conference

10 a.m.
Lecture – Lund Arena
"Science, a Round Peg in a Square World"
Sir Harold W. Kroto
University of Sussex, Brighton, England
1996 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

11 a.m.
Q & A Session – Lund Arena
Moderated by Cornelia Dean
Chief Science Editor, The New York Times

11:30 a.m.
Lunch Break

1 p.m.
Lecture – Lund Arena
"Science and Ethics: A Marriage of Necessity and Choice for This Millennium"
Roald Hoffmann
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York
1981 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry

2 p.m.
Q & A Session – Lund Arena
Moderated by Cornelia Dean

2:30 p.m.
Refreshment Break

3 p.m.
Lecture – Lund Arena
"A Century of Nobel Prizes"
Erling C.J. Norrby
Secretary General, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm

4 p.m.
Q & A Session – Lund Arena
Moderated by Cornelia Dean

5:30 p.m.
Centennial Banquet – Alumni Hall (by invitation)
Champagne reception followed by formal dinner recreating the first Nobel Prize banquet

8 p.m.
Honorary Degree Ceremony and Nobel Symphony – Christ Chapel


WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3

9:30 a.m.
Opening Ceremony – Lund Arena
Nobel Symphony Postlude

10 a.m.
Lecture – Lund Arena
"How Proteins Speak with One Another in Cell Signaling"
Edmond H. Fischer
University of Washington, Seattle
1992 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine

11 a.m.
Q & A Session – Lund Arena
Moderated by Cornelia Dean

11:30 a.m.
Lunch Break

1 p.m.
Lecture – Lund Arena (Live Telecast)
"Mad Cows, Demented People, and the Biology of Prions"
Stanley B. Prusiner
University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco
1997 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine

2 p.m.
Q & A Session – Lund Arena
Moderated by Cornelia Dean

2:30 p.m.
Refreshment Break

3 p.m.
Lecture – Lund Arena
"Protein Targeting"
Günter Blobel
The Rockefeller University, New York
1999 Nobel Laureate in Physiology/Medicine

4 p.m.
Q & A Session – Lund Arena
Moderated by Cornelia Dean

6:30 p.m.
Nobel Banquet – Evelyn Young Dining Room, Jackson Campus Center
Lecture: "What Remains to Be Discovered"
Sir John R. Maddox
Former Editor, Nature Magazine, London, England










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