08:00 - 09:30  ICAM Executive Committee (Breakfast)

09:30 - 12:00  ESF Intelbiomat Steering committee

            12:00 - 14:00  ICAM Fellowship Committee (working lunch)

            14:30 - 16:30  ICAM Board of Governors

17:00 - 18:00 James Bradburne - Plenary

            19:30 -             Dinner - all delegates

 Dinner discussion: Science in a New Political Era (David Pines and Martin Rees to  lead)

Monday 12th of January 2009

   Session I:  Biological Physics:

09:00 - 09:30    Stephen White

                                       Cell membrane domains

            09:30 - 10:00     Michael Zochowski 

                           From network dynamics to brain function

10:00 - 10:30     Vladislav Volman 

                                       Unraveling the mysteries of neural computation: insights from calcium-driven spontaneous activity

            10:30 - 11:00    Tea Break

 11:00 - 11:30   Joao Pedro Conde

  Micro and nanofabrication in nanobiosciences

            11:30 - 12:00    Paul Chaikin

  Toward Self-Replication with Colloids

12:00 – 14:00  Lunch

    Session II : Quantum Matter

14:00 - 14:30    Laura Greene  

                                      New Superconductors

            14:30 - 15:00   Gunnar Moller

                                    Composite particle description of quantum Hall bilayers

            15:00 - 15:30    Mete Atature

 Mesoscopic Physics in Quantum Dots

            15:30 - 16:00   Tea Break

            16:00 - 16:30    Ross McKenzie

                                      Resonating valence bonds: from organic superconductors to Fluorescent proteins

            16:30 - 17:00    Achim Rosch  

Quantum simulations with cold atoms

17:30 - 18:30  David Mackay - Plenary

Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air

            19:30 -             Dinner - all delegates

Tuesday 13th of January 2008

     Session III  Some Grand Challenges

09:00 - 09:30  Alexandra Navrotsky

Our Planet is not a Spherical Chicken- Grand Challenges in Mineral Physics

            09:30 - 10:00  Cristiane Morais-Smith

                                    Cold Atoms and Condensed Matter Simulators

            10:00 - 10:30  Stephen Rowley

            Quantum Criticality in Ferroelectrics

10:30 - 10:50  Break

Session IV Quantum Matter II: Heavy Electron Materials: from Emergent Behavior to DCHEM.

10:50 - 11:00  David Pines

           ICAM’s Catalytic Role

11:00 - 11:20  Jacques Flouquet

T,P,H  phase diagram of URu2Si2 ; electronic instability, hidden order and antiferromagnetism   

11:20 - 11:40  Silke Buhler-Paschen

                       Quantum criticality and energy scales

11:40 - 12:00  Josef Spalek

Renormalized Wannier function at the border of Mott    localization

            12:00 - 12:30  Round table discussion

12:30 - 14:00   Lunch EUA Steering Committee meets

Session V  An Introduction to the Emergent Universe Alliance*

                 Chair: Peter Littlewood

14:05  David Pines:  A Vision for the  Emergent Universe Alliance
 
14:15  Martin Rees:  A Vision for Science Outreach at the Royal Society

14:45  Suzi Tucker: Plans for Exhibits at emergentuniverse.org

15:15 Julien Bobroff: Reaching High School Students in France
 
15:45 Clifford Johnson:  The African Theory Institute/The Power of Science Blogs

16:15  Tea Break

16:30pm  Round table discussion on "Plans for the Emergent Universe Alliance":  

             Chair: Janet Balfour

Participants: Henri Alloul, Ali Alpar, Robert Balfour, Paul Chaikin, Vlad Dobroseljevic, Laura Greene, Peter Littlewood, Ross MacKenzie, Michael Plautz

 

19:30 -    Dinner

Dinner discussions:   Energy/Environment and Science policy - Peter Littlewood