PROGRAM
(Invited speakers are listed in capitals)

Wednesday, June 7, 2000

Reception and Registration: Station Park Hotel, 7–11 pm

Thursday, June 8, 2000

8:00 Registration

9:00 Welcome by CLAUDIA CLAUSIUS, Academic Dean, King’s College

The Evolution of Science: Philosophy, Technology, Purpose

9:05 ROBERT G. JAHN, Reflections and Projections of Past and Future Science
9:50 Mike Epstein, Students Examining the Anomalous
10:15 Coffee Break
10:45 H.D. Froning, Jr. and T.W. Barrett, Theoretical and Experimental Investigations of Specially Conditioned EM Radiation
11:10 Thomas M. Dykstra, Anomalous Field Detection in Insects
11:35 York Dobyns, Harmonic Analysis of REG Cumulative Deviations
12:00 Lunch
2:00 MARK McMENAMIN, The Garden of Ediacara: Caulerpa and Climactichnites
2:45 James Beichler, To Be or Not to Be? A New Science for a New Millennium
3:10 Coffee Break
3:30 SETH SHOSTAK, Search for Extraterrestrials
4:15 Richard Day, A Roche-Limit Encounter Explains Martian Features
4:40 Roberta Colasanti, Comparative Narratives of Reports of Multiply Witnessed "Abduction" Experiences Commonly Called "Alien Abduction": A Pilot Study
5:05 SSE Business Meeting

Friday, June 9, 2000

Biosciences and Medicine: Anomalies in a Pragmatic Framework

9:00 WAYNE JONAS, Homeopathy, Research Strategies for Hard Problems
9:45 John Mack, Commentary on Subjective Issues
10:00 James DeMeo, Seed Sprouting inside the Orgone Energy Accumulator
10:25 Coffee Break
10:45 ALEXANDER BEREZIN, Countable Infinities, Self-Organization, and Isotopic Diversity
11:30 Martin Berzins, Astrology with Dynamics: Live Matching of Subjects to Horoscopes
11:55 Mark Urban-Lurain, A Multivariate Approach to Evaluating Astrology
12:20 Lunch

2:15 KILMER McCULLY, SSE Dinsdale Award Lecture: The Biomedical Significance of Homocysteine

Saturday, June 10, 2000

Language and Consciousness: The Future of Communication

9:00 EVAN PRITCHARD, Comprehensivism: The Wave of the Future (and Past)
9:45 Stanley Krippner and Laura Faith, Anomalous Dreams: A Cross-Cultural Study
10:10 Mahadeva Srinivasan, The Relevance in the Third Millennium of the ESP of Subatomic Particles Carried out a Century Ago
10:25 Coffee Break
10:55 IMANTS BARUSS, The Art of Science: Science of the Future in Light of Alterations of Consciousness
11:40 David Davies, A Physical Explanation of Consciousness Based on the New Logical Construct of Spatially Non-Local Branching in Time
12:05 Lunch
2:00 JOHN PETERSON, To Quote Thomas Kuhn, It’s a Paradigm Shift … of Everything
2:45 Vinzenz von Tscharner, The Repeatability of Dowsing Reactions
3:10 Andrei Apostol, Anomalous Information Obtained across a Geologic Fault
3:35 Coffee Break

Closing the Public-Scientist Interest Gap: Should It Be Done? Can It Be Done?
3:55 FORUM, Wayne Jonas, Moderator Participants: Peter Sturrock, John Bockris, Brenda Dunne, Charles Tolbert
6:30 Banquet, Sunningdale Golf Club, Dinner, Awards, Entertainment (short bus trip provided)

AIRPORT

International airport with flights from Toronto, Detroit, Pittsburgh. Ground transportation from Detroit and Toronto.

HOTELS

Station Park All Suite Hotel
Group reservation number 30214
242 Pall Mall Street
London, Ontario
Telephone: 1-800-561-4574
Fax: 519-642-2551
Canadian $110 (about U.S. $78) parking included
Station Park is located downtown at Richmond Row, London's premier business, shopping, dining and entertainment district. It is 10 minutes away by car from the University campus. Shuttle to campus.
Make reservations by April 28

King's College Campus rooms, spacious, shared bathrooms
Pre-paid breakfast and lunch available.
to register for the student residences, e-mail: baruss @ julian.uwo.ca

FIELD TRIP

Friday afternoon: Pinery Provincial Park on Lake Huron, one hour away, near Grand Bend, box lunch. Kilometres of hiking and beach. Bring swimwear AND rainwear, sweater or windbreaker if you stay on to see the sunset, considered among the most beautiful in the world.

Alternate trip: One hour to Stratford Shakespeare Festival.

SOCIETY BANQUET

Saturday evening at Sunningdale Gold Club (established in 1901 and ranked as one of the top 20 golf courses in the world), outdoor patio, lounge, formal dining room is all ours, grand piano entertainment and singing after dinner, beautiful grounds, woods, view of creek. Dress code: no jeans or halters.

Message from the Local Host Imants Baruss:

The year 2000 meeting will be held at King's College, a Catholic, liberal arts college affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in beautiful London, Ontario, which lies about halfway between Toronto and Detroit. Our small but attractive campus is situated in Old North with its tall trees and is bordered by established residential neighborhoods, the Thames River, and St. Peter's Seminary with its expansive grounds.