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The schedule for the symposium is shown below.
9:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks Yervant Terzian
(Chairman, Dept. of Astronomy )
Don Randel
(Dean, Arts & Sciences)
9:30 a.m. Daniel Goldin (NASA Headquarters)
Significance of the Human Venture into Space
10:00 Edward C. Stone (Caltech/JPL)
Highlights of the American Planetary Program
10:30 COFFEE BREAK
11:00 Roald Sagdeev (Univ. of Maryland)
Highlights of the Russian Planetary Program
11:30 Bruce Murray (Caltech)
Exploring Mars: From the Eyepiece to the Footpad
2:00 O. B. Toon (NASA Ames)
Environments of the Earth and Other Worlds
2:25 Christopher Chyba (National Security Council)
The Origin of Life in a Cosmic Context
2:50 David Morrison (NASA Ames)
The Search for Life in the Solar System
3:15 COFFEE BREAK
3:40 Frank Drake (UC Santa Cruz)
Extraterrestrial Intelligence:
The Significance of the Search
4:05 Paul Horowitz (Harvard)
Extraterrestrial Intelligence:
The Search Programs
4:30 Kip Thorne (Caltech)
Time Travel by Advanced Civilizations:
Do the Laws of Physics Permit it?
8:15 p.m. Carl Sagan The Age of Exploration
9:00 a.m. Ann Druyan (Federation of American Scientists) Does Science Need to be Popularized? 9:25 Stephen J. Gould (Harvard) Can Science be Popularized? 9:50 James Randi Science and Pseudoscience 10:10 Philip Morrison (MIT) Science Education in a Democracy 10:35 COFFEE BREAK 11:05 Jon Lomberg (Senior Advisor, The Planetary Society) The Visual Presentation of Science 11:30 William Aldridge (Natl. Sc. Teachers Assn.) Science and Teaching 11:55 Walter Anderson (Parade) Science and the Press
2:00 Richard Garwin (IBM) The Relationship of Science and Power 2:25 Georgi Arbatov (Russian Academy of Sciences) The End of the Nuclear Arms Race? 2:50 Richard P. Turco (UCLA) Nuclear War and Nuclear Winter 3:15 James Hansen (NASA, GISS) Global Climate Change 3:40 COFFEE BREAK 4:05 Joan Campbell (National Council of Churches) Science and Religion 4:30 Frank Press (Carnegie Inst. Washington) Science and the Social Conscience
This Symposium is being sponsored by Cornell University, The College of Arts and Sciences, The Department of Astronomy; the New Millenium Committee of the Planetary Society; and Parade Magazine.