November 8th, 2009:
Prior to the conference, all participants are invited to be part of a reception and get together, hosted by Berlin Adlershof/Wista-Management.
Dinner Speeches
Wolfgang Eberhardt (Helmholtz) -
Breaking the Wall of Energy and Pollution.
John-Dylan Haynes (Charité Universitä
;tsmedizin, Humboldt) -
Breaking the Wall of the Human Mind.
November 9th, 2009:
8.00 a.m. – Registration on location. Snacks will be served.
8.45 a.m. – Official Opening
THE WALLS AROUND OUR ROOTS ///
9.00 a.m. - 10.30 a.m.
Host: Amélie Mummendey (Einstein Foundation Berlin / Friedrich Schiller Universität)
Michel Brunet (Collège de France) -
Breaking the Wall of the Secrets of Our Origin
Detlef Günther (ETH Zürich) -
Breaking the Wall of Timing Our History
Glenn Warren Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) -
Breaking the Wall around Ancient Greece
Tricia Striano (City University of New York) -
Breaking the Wall of Infant Development
THE WALLS AROUND OUR LIVES ///
11.00 a.m. - 1.00 p.m.
Host: Ina Schieferdecker (Fraunhofer Institut/ Technische Universität Berlin)
Peter Seeberger (Freie Universität Berlin / Max Planck) -
Breaking the Wall of Expensive Vaccines
Miguel Nicolelis (Duke University) -
Breaking the Wall of Neurological Disorder
Stefan Kaufmann (Max Planck Institut/ Humdboldt Universität Berlin) -
Breaking The Wall of Unequally Distributed Diseases
Thomas Wiegand (Fraunhofer Institut / Technische Universität Berlin) -
Breaking the Wall of the Flat World of TV
Jean-Michel Borys (EPODE) -
Breaking the Wall of Childhood Obesity
KEYNOTE: Angela Merkel (Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany)
Breaking the Walls of the 21st Century
THE WALLS AROUND OUR UNIVERSE ///
2.00 p.m. - 3.30 p.m.
Host: Jürgen Mlynek (Helmholtz)
Matthias Driess (Technische Universität Berlin) -
Breaking the Wall of Limited Resources
Rolf-Dieter Heuer (CERN) -
Breaking the Wall of the Hidden Universe
Norbert Holtkamp (ITER) -
Breaking the Wall of Fusion
Gerhard Knies (Desertec) -
Breaking the Wall of the Fossil Age
Franz-Josef Ulm (MIT) -
Breaking the Wall of Concrete Pollution
THE WALLS AROUND OUR MINDS ///
4.00 p.m. - 5.30 p.m.
Host: Jutta Allmendinger (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, Humboldt Universität)
Muhammad Yunus (Nobel Laureate) -
Breaking the Wall of Poverty
Martin E. Schwab (Universität Zürich) -
Breaking the Wall of Paraplegia
Wendelin Werner (Université Paris Sud) -
Breaking the Wall of Randomness
Alain Aspect (Institut d´Optique, Palaiseau) -
Breaking the Wall of Quantum Weirdness
Klaus Robert Müller (Technische Universität Berlin) -
Breaking the Wall between Mind and Machine
THE WALLS AROUND OUR FUTURE ///
6.00 p.m. - 7.30 p.m.
Host: Wilhelm Krull (Volkswagen Foundation)
Dipesh Chakrabarty (University of Chicago) - Stephanie Reich (Freie Universität Berlin) - During breaks you will have the chance to visit the East Side Gallery, the longest piece of the Berlin Wall still standing. It is just a few steps away from the conference hall. 7.30 p.m. End of Programme 8.30 p.m. Participants are guests at a festive dinner and get together, hosted by Caio Koch Weser, Vice Chairman, Deutsche Bank Group.
Breaking the Wall of "Two Cultures"
Richard Morris (The Wellcome Trust) -
Breaking the Wall of Research Funding.
Give Me A Break
All lectures will run for 15 minutes. The conference language is English.
You can find all our confirmed speakers and their topics here.
Our Speaker’s Topics list is regularly updated.
Dinner Speech:
Harold James (Princeton University)
Breaking the Wall of Finance
You can download the programme here as PDF file (100KB).
