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ScheduleNobel Conference 49

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Time	Presenter
9:15 a.m.	Prelude The Gustavus Wind Orchestra Douglas Nimmo, DMA, Conductor
9:30 a.m.	Academic Procession and Opening Ceremony Processional The Gustavus Wind Orchestra Invocation The Rev. Siri Erickson, chaplain to the College Welcome Jack R. Ohle, president of the College Greetings Mark Braun, PhD, Provost of the College Conference Overview Chuck Niederriter, PhD, co-director of the Nobel Conference and professor of physics Conferral of Honorary Degree upon Samuel C.C. Ting, 1976 Nobel laureate in physics Citator: Thomas Huber, PhD, professor of physics Lictors: Scott Bur, PhD, co-director of the Nobel Conference Mark Braun, PhD, Provost of the College Conferral of Honorary Degree upon Frank Wilczek, 2004 Nobel laureate in physics Citator: Mike Hvidsten, PhD, professor of mathematics and computer science Lictors: Scott Bur, PhD, co-director of the Nobel Conference Mark Braun, PhD, Provost of the College Conferral of Honorary Degree upon George Smoot III, 2006 Nobel laureate in physics Citator: Jessie Petricka, PhD, assistant professor of physics Lictors: Scott Bur, PhD, co-director of the Nobel Conference Mark Braun, PhD, Provost of the College
10 a.m.	Frank Wilczek First Lecture "Geometric Fantasy"
11 a.m.	Q&A Session
11:30 a.m.	Lunch Break
12:45 p.m.	Prelude The Vasa Wind Orchestra Karrin Meffert-Nelson, DMA, Conductor
1 p.m.	Tara Shears Second Lecture "The Innermost Universe; Exploring the Subatomic Frontier"
2 p.m.	Q&A Session
2:30 p.m.	Break
3 p.m.	Alex Filippenko Third Lecture "Dark Energy and the Runaway Universe"
4 p.m.	Q&A Session
5 p.m.	Dinner Break
6 p.m.	Art at the Nobel Conference Hillstrom Museum of Art
6:30 p.m.	Samuel Ting Fourth Lecture "The Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer Experiment on the International Space Station"
7:30 p.m.	Q&A Session
8:15 p.m.	The Nobel Conference Concert: "Dark Energy" Christ Chapel The 49th Nobel Concert will bring you to the “inner universe” with music by Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) and Dmitri Shostakovich (1906–1975). The program will feature two contrasting piano trios that share a powerful dark energy. The Piano Trio in C Minor (1886) by Brahms will awaken the audience from the meditative state with a powerful opening movement. The entire piece is full of the passion and energy of the late Romantic period. Shostakovich wrote the Piano Trio in E Minor in 1944 during World War II, mourning the death of his close friend. A sense of suffering pervades the piece, from the eerie sound of the opening cello to the final sounds of a Jewish prayer. Performing the concert will be three members of the music faculty at Gustavus Adolphus College: Jill Olson Moser, violin; Sharon Mautner-Rodgers, cello; and Yumiko Oshima-ryan, piano. Open to the public without charge; no ticket required

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Time	Presenter
9:30 a.m.	Prelude and Welcome The Gustavus Symphony Orchestra Ruth Lu Lin, DMA, Conductor
10 a.m.	George Smoot Fifth Lecture "Mapping the Universe and Its History"
11 a.m.	Q&A Session
11:30 a.m.	Lunch Break
12:45 p.m.	Prelude The Gustavus Jazz Lab Band Steve Wright, DMA, director
1 p.m.	Lawrence Krauss Sixth Lecture "A Universe from Nothing"
2 p.m.	Q&A Session
2:30 p.m.	Break
3 p.m.	George Coyne Seventh Lecture "Quantum Cosmology and Creation"
4 p.m.	Q&A Session
6:30 p.m.	The Nobel Conference Banquet Evelyn Young Dining Room, Jackson Campus Center Banquet ticket required
7:30 p.m.	S. James Gates Jr. Closing Lecture "The Audience of Nature" For those not attending the banquet, the lecture will be simulcast in Alumni Hall, Johnson Student Union