Thursday, January 13, 2005 

9h00 – 10h30     Inauguration Session
Walter Erdelen, Opening Remarks by Session Chair
Koïchiro Matsuura,Director General, UNESCO Message by video
Hans-Heinrich Wrede, Chairman, UNESCO Executive Board
Martial Ducloy, Chair, IYP2005 International Steering Committe
Werner Burkart, Deputy Director General of IAEA
Robert Aymar, Director General, CERN
François d’Aubert,  Minister of Research of the Republic of France
Yves Petroff, President, International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP)
Zoran Stancic, Deputy Director-General, General Directorate of Research, European Commission
Lebohang Moleko, Permanent Representative of the Kingdom of Lesotho to the United Nations
Sergio Macho Rezende, President of FINEP, Ministry of Science and Technology of the Federative Republic of Brazil
Pedro Sampaio Nunes, State Secretary for Science and Innovation of the Republic of Portugal

10h30 – 11h00   Coffee Break

11h00 – 12h00   Professor K. R. Sreenivasan (India/United States/ICTP, Italy)“Physics and development”

12h00 – 13h00 Professor Claus Weyrich (Germany) “Innovation- A Challenge for Science and Industry”

13h00 – 14h30   Lunch

14h30 – 15h30   Professor Zhores Alferov (Russia, Nobel Prize in Physics 2000) “Physics and information technology”

15h30 – 16h30   Professor Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (France, Nobel Prize in Physics 1997) “Quantum physics and its impact on daily life”

16h30 – 17h00   Coffee Break

17h00 – 18h00   Professor Myriam Sarachik (U.S.A) “Nanophysics and nanotechnologies: their impact in the real world”

Friday, January 14, 2005

9h00 – 11h00     Round Table “Physics and the socio-economical challenges of the 21st century” [Carlo Rubbia, Sylvie Joussaume, Burton Richter, Sergio Rezende, Philippe Camus]

11h00 – 11h30   Coffee Break 

11h30 – 12h30   Professor Denis Le Bihan (France) “Physics and Life Sciences”

12h30 – 14h00   Lunch

14h00 – 15h00   Professor Harold Kroto (United Kingdom, Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1996) “2010, A NanoSpace Odyssey”

15h00 – 16h00   Professor C.N.R. RAO (India) “Chemistry-Physics Interface over the Decades”

16h00 – 16h30   Coffee Break

16h30 – 17h30   Professor Gerard t’Hooft (Netherlands, Nobel Prize in Physics 1999) “Unified theories for elementary particles and forces”

17h30 – 18h30   Professor Masatoshi Koshiba (Japan, Nobel Prize in Physics 2002) “Cosmology and Astrophysics in the 21st century”

Saturday, January 15, 2005

9h00 – 10h00     Professor Georges Charpak (France, Nobel Prize in Physics 1992) “Teaching and education in physics”

10h00 – 10h30   Coffee Break

10h30 – 12h30   Round Table “Public perception of Physics” [Pierre Léna, Ana Maria Cetto, Ayse Erzan, Chen Jia-Er, Marvin  Cohen, José Luis  Morán-López]

12h30 – 13h00    Closing session

Marvin Cohen, President, American Physical Society

Edouard Brézin, President, French Academy of Sciences

Koïchiro Matsuura, Director General, UNESCO