Date: | Friday, 20 to Saturday, 21 September 2019 |
Location: | Leopoldina, Jägerberg 1, 06108 Halle (Saale) |
In 2019, the Leopoldina is dedicating its Annual Assembly to the topic of “Time in Nature and Culture”. From 20–21 September, scientists will come together in Halle (Saale) to discuss technological developments and societal changes. The spotlight will be on our sense of time and how time is understood in mathematics, chemistry, music, and cosmology as well as in chronobiology and medicine.
9:00 – 11:00 am | Opening Ceremony
Musical Prelude
Welcoming Speech
Ulla Bonas ML, Vice-President of the Academy
Presentation of the Awards
Opening Speech
Jörg Hacker ML, President of the Academy
Welcoming Addresses
Thomas Rachel, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Reiner Haseloff, Minister President of Saxony-Anhalt
Keynote Lecture
Scientific Freedom and Scientific Responsibility
Reinhard Merkel ML, Hamburg
11:00 – 11:30 am | Break
11:30 am – 12:30 pm | Inaugural Lecture
Introduction
Jörg Hacker ML, President of the Academy
Inaugural Lecture | Life in the Digital Time Machine
Helga Nowotny, Vienna, Austria
12:15 – 2:00 pm | Lunch
2:00 – 4:15 pm | Scientific Session I – Time in Physics
Moderation: Gunnar Berg ML
2:00 – 2:45 pm | Attoclock and Tunneling Time: Time Measurement in Quantum Mechanics
Ursula Keller ML, Zurich, Switzerland
2:45 – 3:30 pm | Embarking on a Journey through Time to the Big Bang
Felicitas Pauss ML, Geneva, Switzerland
3:30 – 4:15 pm | The Arrow of Time
Wolfgang Schleich ML, Ulm
4:15 – 4:45 pm | Break
4:45 – 6:15 pm | Scientific Session II – Time in Chemistry and Biology
Moderation: Martin Quack ML
4:45 – 5:30 pm | Time and the Origins of Biological Complexity
Paul Rainey, Plön
5:30 – 6:15 pm | Multi-Resolution and Timescale Simulation of Biomolecular Systems: A Review of Methodological Issues
Wilfred van Gunsteren, Zurich, Switzerland
8:15 pm | Evening Lecture
Introduction: Ulla Bonas ML
Rhythm, Timing, and Movement: How the Brain Responds to Musical Rhythm
Jessica Grahn, London, UK / Ontario, Canada
9:00 – 10:30 am | Scientific Session III – Philosophy and Psychology
Moderation: Frank Rösler ML
9:00 – 9:45 am | Time in the Head: Rhythms of Speech and Rhythms of the Brain
David Poeppel, Frankfurt am Main
9:45 – 10:30 am | Philosophy of Time
Norman Sieroka, Bremen
10:30 – 11:00 am | Break
11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Scientific Session IV – Time in Mathematics and Mathematics of Time
Moderation: Thomas Lengauer ML
11:00 – 11:45 am | Mathematics, Computer Science, and Time
Martin Grötschel ML, Berlin
11:45 am – 12:30 pm | Chimaras in Physics and Biology: Synchronization and Desynchronization of Rhythms
Eckehard Schöll, Berlin
12:30 – 2:00 pm | Lunch
2:00 – 4:15 pm | Scientific Session V – Chronobiology and Chronomedicine
Moderation: Horst-Werner Korf ML
2:00 – 2:45 pm | Clocks in Translation: Circadian Rhythms in Health and Disease
Steve Kay, Los Angeles, USA
2:45 – 3:30 pm | Light, Sleep and Circadian Interactions: From Biology to New Therapeutic Targets
Russell G. Foster, London, UK
3:30 – 4:15 Uhr | Chronomedicine
Charles A. Czeisler, Boston, USA
4:15 – 4:45 Uhr | Break
4:45 – 7:00 pm | Scientific Session VI – Time in Life
Moderation: Regina Riphahn ML
4:45 – 5:30 pm | Chronoi – the Multiplication of Time
Jan Assmann, Heidelberg
5:30 – 6:15 pm | How We Use Time, and Why
Daniel Hamermesh, Austin, USA
6:15 – 7:00 pm | Time to Live, Time to Die. On the Association between Seasons, Birth, Health, and Death
Gabriele Doblhammer, Rostock
7:00 pm | Closing Remarks
Thomas Lengauer ML
ML – Member of the Leopoldina
Picture: Adobe Stock – Bill45
The Annual Assembly addresses members of the Leopoldina and everyone interested. Registration is mandatory. Please register until 31 August 2019.
Registration for Non-Members
The opening ceremony and the lectures of the scientific sessions will be translated to German and English simultaneously.
National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
Jägerberg 1
06108 Halle (Saale)
Tel: 0345 - 47 239 - 600
E-mail: jahresversammlung2019@leopoldina.org