Water Conference

Schedule & Speakers

Sixth Annual Conference on the
Physics, Chemistry and Biology of Water
2011 AGENDA

Thursday October 20, 2011

Session TH-I

Topic: General Considerations
Chairs: Roumiana Tsenkova, Emilio del Guidice


9:45

G. Pollack/
T. Lowell

Welcome

10:00

Brian D. Josephson

University of Cambridge

Has water got a mind?

10:35

Michal Cifra

Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic

Role of organized water in coherence of cellular electrodynamics

11:10

Juliana H.J. Mortenson

General Resonance

The Fall and Rise of Resonance Science

12:00

LUNCH

 

13:15

Gerald Pollack

University of Washington

Exclusion Zones: The Fourth Phase of Water

14:15

Nikolai Bunkin

Russian Academy of Sciences

The behavior of refractive index for water and aqueous solutions close to the Nafion interface

14:50

Francesco Musmeci

University of Catania

The interaction between pure water and noble metals studied by means of the impedance spectroscopy and the photoelectric effect

15:25

Refreshments

Session TH-2
Topic: Beyond the Usual
Chairs: James DeMeo, Hasok Chang

16:00

Brian Fagan

Emeritus, University of Calif., Santa Barbara

Elixir: Humans and the history of water

16:35

Sheilla Jones

Science Writer

The trouble with water science

17:10

Nilton Renno

University of Michigan

Evidence for deliquescence and liquid water on Mars

18:30 - 20:00

RECEPTION

(Hearty hors d'oeuvres and beverages served)

Friday October 21, 2011

Session F-I
Topic: Electromagnetic Signals
Chairs: Yolene Thomas, David Anick

09:00 Luc Montagnier

World Foundation AIDS
Research & Prevention
Further studies of the transduction of DNA through water
10:00 Vladimir Korenbaum

Pacific Oceanological Inst. RAS
Features of long term supramolecular order in near-infrared absorption spectra of electronic homeopathic preparations based on saline solution
10:35 Emilio DelGiudice

University of Milan
Emergence of Coherence in water and aqueous systems
11:10 REFRESHMENTS
11:30 Vladimir Voeikov

Lomonosov Moscow State University
Bicarbonate aqueous systems exhibit sustained non-equilibrium state and display sensitivity to cosmic events
12:05 Sudhir Shah Long-term survival without water intake?
12:40 Lunch TOGETHER

Session F-II
Topic: Theoretical Considerations
Chairs: Mike Mross, Steve Jacques

14:00 Mikhail A. Anisimov

University of Maryland
Liquid water: A state between two critical points
14.35 Nigel Dyer

University of Warwick, UK
The emerging role of nuclear spin in the physics and chemistry of water
15.10 Giancarlo Franzese

University of Barcelona
Water in hydrophobic nanoconfinement
15:45 REFRESHMENTS
16:30 Hoi-Ying N. Holman

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hydrogen bond dynamics of cellular water and stress adaptive response
17:40 DINNER (on your own)  
20:00-22:00 POSTER SESSION Beverages and Wine Served

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Session Sat-I
Topic: Exotic Phenomena
Chairs: Brian Josephson, Vladimir Voeikov

09:00 Fernando Galembeck

University of Campinas, Brazil
Water with excess electric charge
09:35

Eugene P. Khizhnyak

Russian Academy of Sciences

Some peculiarities of convective and diffusion processes at interfacial layers of water
10:10 Neal Graneau

AWE Aldermaston
Efficient liberation of stored hydrogen bond energy from liquid water – A novel renewable energy resource
10:45 REFRESHMENTS
11:15 Marian Sedlak

Slovak Academy of Sciences
Aqueous solutions: unusual features
11:50 John V. Forrester

University of Aberdeen
Physiological electric fields: A central determinant of cell behavior
12:45 LUNCH TOGETHER
13:30 Free Time until 16:30
Session Sat-IITopic: Anomalies
Chairs: Fernando Galembeck, Franco Musumeci
16:30 Hasok Chang

University of Cambridge
When water does not boil at the boiling point
17:05 James D. Brownridge

State University of New York at Binghamton
Transitioning water to an enhanced heat-conducting phase
17:40

James DeMeo

Orgone Biophysical
Research Lab

Influences of the Reich orgone accumulator upon water, and by water
18:15 End Session  
19:15 Dinner / Announcement of Gilbert Ling Poster Award

Sunday October 23, 2011

Session Sun-I
Topic: Water & Biology
Chairs: Beverly Rubik, Bernhard Pollner

09:00 Glen Edwards

Duke University
Consequences of “Life at low Reynolds number” for the biophysical investigation of polymer dynamics and tissue patterning in developmental biology
09:35 Wonho Jhe

Seoul National Univ.
Time-resolved study of phase transition in the nanoscale water bridge
10:45 Steven Sedlmayr Structural changes and health effects of water modified by a microwave resonant polarized field
11:25 REFRESHMENTS  
12:00 Round Table Discussion  

Bus departs at 13:00 for Boston Logan Airport

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