Science Board Symposium- Agenda
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| TIME | ACTIVITY |
| Thursday, April 10 - St. Francis Hotel | |
| 6:00 p.m. | Welcome Reception, St. Francis Hotel (210 Don Gaspar Avenue) |
| Friday, April 11 - La Fonda Hotel | |
| 7:30 a.m. | Buffet Breakfast - New Mexico Room (ground floor, La Fonda) and Continental Breakfast and Registration - La Terraza Room |
| 9:00 | Welcome, Simon Levin (Co-Chair, SFI Science Board & Princeton University) |
| 9:15 | Introduction to SFI and Overview, Geoffrey West (SFI President and Distinguished Professor) |
| 9:30 | An Ancient Perspective on the Urban Experience, Jeremy Sabloff (Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania) |
| 10:30 | Break |
| 11:00 | Global Cities, Saskia Sassen (Columbia University and author of "The Global City") |
| 12:00 p.m. | Discussion, Led by Henry Wright (SFI External Faculty, Science Board and University of Michigan) |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch, New Mexico Room (located on ground floor) |
| 1:30 | Green Cities: Sustainable Urban Development, Matthew Kahn (UCLA and author of "Green Cities") |
| 2:30 | Discussion, Led by J. Doyne Farmer (Professor, Santa Fe Institute) |
| 2:45 | Break |
| 3:00 | Growth, Innovation and the Pace of Urban Life: Is it Sustainable?, Geoffrey West (SFI President and Distinguished Professor) |
| 3:45 | The Urbanizing World: A New Quantitative Understanding of Cities Holds the Key to the Global Sustainability Transition, Luis Bettencourt (SFI and Los Alamos Laboratory) |
| 4:30 | Discussion, Led by Geoffrey West (SFI President and Distinguished Professor) |
| 5:00 | Adjourn |
| 6:15 | Sandia Express Shuttles depart La Fonda from the corner of Old Santa Fe Trail & E. San Francisco Street |
| 6:30 | Cocktails and Dinner at SFI |
| 7:30 | Dinner, Noyce Conference Room |
| 8:30 | SFI: Impact and Influence, Musings of Dr. Murray Gell-Mann (Distinguished Fellow, Santa Fe Institute) |
| 9:00 | Shuttles return to La Fonda |