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Jürgen Zöllner & Sebastian Turner
Welcome

Michel Brunet
Collège de France
Breaking the Wall Around the Secrets of Our Origins
How Early Hominids and Their Paleoenvironments Can Explain Our Species

Detlef Günther
ETH Zürich
Breaking the Wall of Timing Our History
How Trace Elements Analysis Will Help to Understand the Past of Our Planet

Glenn Warren Most
Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa
Breaking the Wall around Ancient Greece
How to Imagine the Classics in the 21st Century

Tricia Striano
City University of New York
Breaking the Wall of Infant Development
What Modern Art and Modern Books Can Do for Children and for Autism Research.

Amélie Mummendey
Friedrich Schiller University Jena

Jean-Michel Borys
EPODE
Breaking the Wall of Childhood Obesity
What Parents, Politics, and Vegetables Can Do.

Stefan Kaufmann
Max Planck
Breaking the Wall of Unequally Distributed Diseases
What Immunology Can Contribute to One Healthy World.

Angela Merkel
German Chancellor
Keynote
Breaking the Walls of the 21st Century.

Peter Seeberger
Max Planck
Breaking the Wall of Expensive Vaccines
How Automated Carbohydrate Chemistry Can Save A Life for One Euro.

Thomas Wiegand
Fraunhofer
Breaking The Wall of the Flat World of TV
What Three Dimensional Television Pictures Will Look Like.

Ina Schieferdecker
Fraunhofer

Matthias Driess
Technische Universität Berlin
Breaking the Wall of Limited Resources
What Catalysis Can Do to Save Energy and Create Materials.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer
CERN
Breaking the Wall of the Hidden Universe
How Particle Physics Can Explain the Nature of Matter.

Norbert Holtkamp
Iter
Breaking the Wall of Fusion
How the ITER Project Aims for Limitless Energy.

Gerhard Knies
Desertec Foundation
Breaking the Wall of the Fossil Age
How Desertec Can Overcome Energy Resource Limitations and Global Warming.

Franz-Josef Ulm
MIT
Breaking the Wall of Concrete Pollution
How Green Concrete Can Reduce the Giant Carbon Footprint of Construction.

Jürgen Mlynek
Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft

Alain Aspect
Institut d´Optique de Palaiseau
Breaking the Wall of Quantum Weirdness
How Experiments Reveal Photon Schizophrenia.

Klaus Robert Müller
Technische Universität Berlin
Breaking the Wall between Mind and Machine
How Neurotechnology Can Expand Human Capacity for Action.

Martin E. Schwab
Universität Zürich
Breaking the Wall of Paraplegia
How Neuroscience Can Help Spinal- and Brain-Injured Patients.

Wendelin Werner
Université Paris Sud
Breaking the Wall of Randomness
How Random Phenomena Disseminate.

Muhammad Yunus
Nobel Peace Laureate
Breaking the Wall of Poverty
How Social Business Allows a Future for Human Kind, That Is Sustainable And Joyful.

Jutta Allmendinger
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung / Humboldt

Dipesh Chakrabarty
University of Chicago
Breaking the Wall of "Two Cultures"
Science and Humanities After Climate Change.

Richard Morris
University of Edingburgh
Breaking the Wall of Research Funding
What Funding Can Do to Enable - and to Disrupt - Research Excellence.

Stephanie Reich
Freie Universität Berlin
Give Me a Break
A Vision for Research.

Wilhelm Krull
Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen

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