Best talk was Prof. Johannes Bergerhausen on the UNICODE and the Vegetable Orchestra was a blast.
The Programme |
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Limits of Life |
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| 10:00 - 10:20 | Opening Speech + Video |
| 10:20 - 10:40 | Mark Kramer A Transatlantic Experience |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Martha Merrow Why circadian clocks? |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Ian Usher A Life Unlimited |
| 11:20 - 11:30 | TEDTalk |
| 11:30 - 11:50 | Aubrey de Grey Rejuvenation biotechnology: the sweet spot between prevention and treatment of age-related ill-health |
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Limits of science |
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| 13:30 - 13:50 | Jocelyn Bell Burnell We are made of star stuff |
| 13:50 - 14:10 | Daniel Dewey The Long-Term Future of AI (and what we can do about it) |
| 14:10 - 14:30 | Mark Post Bounty or boundary of beef |
| 14:30 - 14:40 | TEDTalk |
| 14:40 - 15:00 | Neil Ibata Upon a dark canvas: the ordered motions of Andomeda's satellite galaxies |
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Limits of Society |
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| 15:50 - 16:10 | Auma Obama Opportunities unlimited - Poverty is no excuse! |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Samar Jodha Sustainability And Capacity Building Through Art |
| 16:30 - 16:40 | Marc Miletich & Ip Wischin The Ginger Paradigm |
| 16:40 - 17:00 | Annemieke Hendriks Tomato? TOMATO? Food Chain Madness |
| 17:00 - 17:20 | Carl Djerassi Sex as always but reproduction under the microscope |
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Limits of invention |
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| 18:20 - 18:40 | Manel Torres From Fashion to Technology - creating a new material |
| 18:40 - 19:00 | Michael Stevens Why Do We Ask Questions? |
| 19:00 - 19:20 | Johannes Bergerhausen decodeunicode — The world's writing systems |
| 19:20 - 19:40 | Elif Belgin Going Bananas: redefining plastics |
| 19:40 - 20:00 | Vegetable Orchestra |