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Program Committee: Henry Bauer, Wayne Jonas, Beverly Rubik,
Peter Sturrock (Chair)
Wednesday,
June 6, 2001, from 7-10 pm
Welcome Reception. There will be an outdoor buffet on the lawn
near the pool. This is included with your registration fee
PROGRAM:
Names of Invited Speakers are in UPPERCASE
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THURSDAY, JUNE 7
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MORNING SESSION CHAIR: Robert Wood
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9:00am
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HENRY BAUER, Professor Emeritus of
Chemistry and Science Studies, Dean Emeritus of Arts & Sciences,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
When is a Surprise An Anomaly? Is An Anomaly Always a Surprise?
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9:30am
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HAL PUTHOFF, Director, Institute for
Advanced Studies, Austin, Texas
Einstein's Legacy: Will it Endure?
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10:00am
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ROBERT JAHN, Emeritus Dean, School
of Engineering, Princeton University
The Challenge of Consciousness
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10:30am
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BREAK — ½ hour
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11:00am
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PETER STURROCK, Center for Space Science
& Astrophysics, Stanford University
Bayesian Thinking
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11:30am
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Thomas Etter, Boundary Institute,
Los Altos, California
The Quantum Core and Markov Processes—Tools for 21st Century Science
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11:45am
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Richard Shoup, President, Boundary
Institute, Los Altos, California
Anomalies and Constraints—Clairvoyance, Precognition, and PK Without
Rewriting Physics?
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12:00pm
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BRENDA DUNNE, PEAR Lab, Princeton
University; SSE Education Officer
Introduction to the Young Investigators Program
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12:05pm
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Ron Gill (Young Investigator), Department
of Material Engineering, Technion—Israel Institute of Technology,
Haifa, Israel
Conceptual Foundation For An Alternative Technology
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12:20pm
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Pharis Williams (sponsored by Hal
Puthoff), Energetic Materials Research & Testing Center, New
Mexico Tech, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
The Implications of Mechanical Entropy
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12:35pm
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LUNCH — 1 ½ hours
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AFTERNOON SESSION CHAIR: Charles Tolbert
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2:00pm
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RICHARD HAINES, NARCAP, Los Altos,
California
UFO Aircraft Cases
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2:00pm
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JACQUES VALLEE, San Francisco, California
UFOs: Recent Activity in France
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2:00pm
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ROBERT WOOD, McDonnell-Douglas Corporation
(retired), Newport Beach, California
UFO Document Authentication
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3:30pm
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BREAK– ½ hour
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4:00pm
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WILLIAM LEVENGOOD, Pinelandia Biophysical
Laboratory, Grasslake, Michigan
Recent Laboratory Findings Regarding Crop Formations
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4:30pm
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Bernard Haisch, Director, California
Institute for Physics & Astrophysics, Palo Alto, California
Alfonso Rueda, California State University, Long Beach, California
A Quantum Vacuum Basis for Gravitation
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4:30pm
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Bryan J. Williams (Young Investigators
Program), Department of Psychology, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Toward A General Systems Theory of PSI Phenomena
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5:00pm
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ADJOURN
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6:00pm
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Young Investigators Program Meeting
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FRIDAY, JUNE 8
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MORNING SESSION CHAIR: Richard Blasband
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8:30am
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Jim DeMeo, Director, Orgone Biophysical
Laboratory, Greensprings, Oregon
Wilhelm Reich’s Atmospheric Research: Empirical Confirmations
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8:45am
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York Dobyns, PEAR Laboratory, Princeton
University, New Jersey
Experimental Results From the Trapholt Installation
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9:00am
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Dean Radin, Boundary Institute, Los
Altos, California
Design and Preliminary Results of Three On-Line PSI Experiments
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9:15am
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Roger Nelson, PEAR Laboratory, Princeton
University, New Jersey
Dean Radin, Institute of Noetic Sciences, Petaluma, California
Strong Evidence for Weak Mind-Matter Interactions: 40 Years of Experiments
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9:30am
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ELIZABETH TARG, Director of Research,
Complementary Medicine Research Institute, California Pacific
Medical Center, San Francisco, California
Prayer and Distant Healing
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10:00am
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JOIE P. JONES, Professor of Radiology,
University of California, Irvine
D.P. O'Hara and K. Elrod, University of California, Irvine
Quantitative Evaluation of Pranic Healing Using Radiation and Cells in Culture
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10:30am
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BREAK — ½ hour
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PANEL SESSION CHAIR: Gregory Benford
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11:00am
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CREATIVITY PANEL—Moderator: Gregory Benford
GREGORY BENFORD, Professor of Physics, University of California Irvine
GEOFFREY BURBIDGE, Department of Physics, University of California,
San Diego, California
NOLAN BUSHNELL, CEO, uWink, Santa Monica, California
JOHN ALEXANDER, National Institute for Discovery Science,
Las Vegas, NV
FEDERICO FAGGIN, Chairman, Synaptics, Santa Clara, California
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12:30pm
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ADJOURN FOR THE DAY; LUNCH — 1 hour (for those going on field trip)
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FRIDAY AFTERNOON FIELD TRIP
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1:30pm
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Coach ride to San Diego waterfront from front of hotel lobby (10 minutes)
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2:00pm
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Two-hour Hornblower Cruise on San Diego Bay, Captain’s Salon (private room for SSE
participants)
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4:00pm
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Coach ride back to La Jolla Radisson (10 minutes), or stay downtown
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SATURDAY, JUNE 9
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MORNING SESSION CHAIR: Roger Nelson
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8:30am
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Mikio Yamamoto, Head, Bio-Emission
Laboratory, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba-shi,
Japan
Are There Any Anomalous Effect Other Than Suggestion in Qigong?
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8:45am
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Hideyuki Kokubo, Editor, Journal of
International Society of Life Information Science; Director,
Japanese Society for Parapsychology; Chiba-shi, Japan
Electrodermal Activity (EDA) Changes in Remote Actions On Humans
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9:00am
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Kimiko Kawano, Center for Informatics
Sciences, Nippon Medical School, Japan
Characteristics of EEG Under Anomalous Conditions
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9:15am
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Mami Kido, Professor, Tohoku Gakuin
University, Japan
Measurements of Remote Qi-Gong Effects
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9:30am
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WAYNE JONAS, U.S. Uniformed Services
Health Services, Bethesda, Maryland
Overview of Spiritual Healing Research
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10:00am
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BREAK – ½ hour
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10:30am
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BEVERLY RUBIK, President, Institute
for Frontier Science, Oakland, California; Professor, Union
Institute, San Francisco
Measurable Changes in Digital Kirlian Photographs Produced by Alternative
Medical Interventions
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11:00am
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WILLIAM BENGSTON, St. Joseph’s College,
Long Island, New York
Curing Cancer in Mice
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11:30am
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Richard Blasband, Research Director,
Center for Functional Research, Tiburon, California
Some Effects of the Orgone Energy Accumulator on Cancer in Mice
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11:45am
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Caroline Mun (Young Investigators Program), School of Engineering, Rutgers University, New Jersey
In Search of the Science in Radionics
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12:00pm
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Vladimir Gontar, Director, International
Group for Scientific & Technological Chaos Studies, Institute
for Applied Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Computers As Living Systems
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12:15pm
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Stanley Krippner, Professor, Saybrook
Institute, San Francisco, California
A Contemporary Stigmatic in Brazil
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12:30pm
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LUNCH – 1 ½ hours
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AFTERNOON SESSION CHAIR: Wayne Jonas
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2:00pm
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Ion Lisii, National Association of
Complementary Therapy, Republic of Moldavia
Stress and Adaptation Processes: Aspects of Reflexotherapy with Psychic Catalysts
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2:15pm
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Manish Vekaria (Young Investigator),
California Institute for Human Science, Encinitas, California
Spectral Characterization of Biophoton Emissions With Intentionality
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2:30pm
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HANG SOK SO, University of California,
Irvine, California JOIE JONES, D. D. Kidney, and T. Kato, University
of California, Irvine, California
Evaluation of Acupuncture Using fMRI Studies and Ultrasonic Imaging
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3:00pm
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MICHAEL KOHANE, Ditron LLC, and Durrance
Corporation, Minnesota
William Tiller, Stanford University, Stanford, California
Subtle Energy Detection Via Enzymes and Fruit Flies
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3:30pm
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BREAK — ½ hour
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4:00pm
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Peter von Buengner, m-tec AG, Munich,
Germany
Health-Related Applications of Random Event Generators
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4:15pm
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David Swift, Professor of Sociology,
University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
Social Origins and Paradigm Change—Who Wrote Shakespeare’s Plays?
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4:30pm
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SSE Business Meeting
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5:00pm
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ADJOURN
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SOCIETY BANQUET WITH ROVING MARIACHI BAND
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7:00pm
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CASH BAR
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7:30pm
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DINNER
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9:00pm
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TOASTS
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La Jolla Radisson
Reservations: 800-333-3333
Address: 3299 Holiday Court, La Jolla, California 92037 |
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The La Jolla Radisson is a small hotel, where our meeting will
probably be the main event. Hotel rooms are in 3 separate buildings
separate from lobby, meeting rooms, restaurants. Most rooms have
king-sized beds, a few have two queens. Rooms can be shared for
no additional cost. All rooms have big screen TVs, VCRs, refrigerators,
computer hookups, newspaper, hair dryers, voice mail telephones,
coffee makers, iron, etc. The hotel has an outdoor heated pool,
outdoor jacuzzi, a garden/lawn/koi pond, exercise room, putting
green. An executive services room will have fax, copier, computer,
and internet services.
MEETING ROOM: La Jolla Radisson Hotel and Conference Center, 3299
Holiday Court, La Jolla, California 92037. SSE has the First Floor.
San Diego Harbor cruise on Friday afternoon June 8 from 1:30
– 4:30 p.m. There are more than 50 points of interest in the harbor,
including military installations, the national landmark Hotel del
Coronado, the fishing fleet, etc. The trip is $25 per person including
roundtrip coach bus to the harbor (a 15-20 minute ride each way)
and a two-hour cruise. We will have our own room on the cruise boat,
as well as access to the amenities of the boat as well (bar, snack
bar, etc.).
Saturday, June 9, 7-9 p.m. at the LaJolla Radisson. Dinner is $35 per person
and includes wine and entertainment.
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