Programme

The Programme Topics of the XVII International Amaldi Conference are

   1. Nuclear Policies of the Nuclear Weapon States

    2. Safe Fuel Supply for Civilian Nuclear Power Stations and the Risk
       of Nuclear Proliferation. The Future of Non-Proliferation

    3. The Risk of Nuclear Terrorism

    4. New Military Technologies such as Directed Energy Weapons

The programme sessions start on Friday 14 March 2008 at 09:00 in the DESY Auditorium.
All Attendees are kindly invited to a tour of DESY and an informal get-together on Thursday, 13 March 2008 starting at 16:00.

Preliminary Conference Schedule
(The underlined papers are stored and may be downloaded.)


Thursday, 13 March 2008 - Foyer Auditorium
16:00	Introduction and Tour of DESY	A. Wagner (DESY)
18:00	Get-Together


Friday, 14 March 2008 - Auditorium
09:00	OPENING OF XVII INTERNATIONAL AMALDI CONFERENCE	A. Wagner (DESY) C. Jakobeit (Hamburg Academy of Sciences) E. Vesentini (Chair of Amaldi Conferences)
	First Session - Chair: A. Wagner (DESY)
09:30	Panofsky Lecture: Pief's Contribution to Arms Control and Nuclear Disarmament	R. Garwin (USA)
10:30	Coffee Break
	Second Session - Chair: E. Vesentini
11:00	The Relationships between Scientists and Policy-Makers in the field of arms control	S. Keeny (USA)
11:30	Academy Influence on the G8 Agenda	J. Boright (USA)
	Third Session - Chair: C. Eisenbart
12:00	On the Conflict about Iran´s Nuclear Program: A Game -Theoretical Analysis paper and slides	R. Avenhaus (Germany)
12:30	Lunch
	Cont'd Third Session - Chair: C. Eisenbart
13:30	Regional Nuclear Deterrence Relationships: Stable or Unstable?	Y. Evron (Israel)
14:00	Regional Security from the Perspective of Iran (with emphasis on the nuclear issue)	S. Lotfian (Iran)
14:30	Iran; the Oil and the Bomb paper and slides	A. Zohar (Israel)
15:00	Prospect of the Six-Party-Talks and peaceful resolution of the North Korean nuclear issue	M. Suh (South Korea)
15:30	Coffee Break and Bus Departure from DESY
16:30	Boat Trip through Hamburg Harbour
18:00	Reception at Hamburg town hall
19:00	Conference Dinner


Saturday, 15 March 2008 - Auditorium
	Fourth Session - Chair: S. Keeny
09:00	Strategy Options for the UK's separated plutonium paper and slides	J. Simpson (UK)
09:30	Nuclear Renaissance: Its Expectation, Realities and Security Implications paper and slides	T. Suzuki (Japan)
10:00	A Quantitative View on Verification of Arms Control and Disarmament Treaties paper and slides	R. Avenhaus (Germany)
10:30	Coffe Break
	Fifth Session - Chair: H. Korn
11:00	Proliferation Concerns Connected with Nuclear Fuel Cycle Developments paper and slides	B. Myasoedov (Russia)
11:30	Eliminating HEU as Reactor Fuel (abstract)	O. Reistad (Norway)
12:00	Nuclear Renaissance - Verification of Performance paper and slides	A. Buckley (Canada)
12:30	Lunch
	Cont'd Fifth Session - Chair: H. Korn
13:30	Internationalization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle	J. F. Ahearne (USA)
	Sixth Session - Chair: A. Keynan
14:00	Monitoring of Plutonium in the air paper and slides	J. Mietelski (Poland)
14:30	Detection of clandestine nuclear weapons production and testing by analyzing air samples slides and paper	M. Kalinowski (Germany)
15:00	Coffee Break
15:30	Detecting nuclear and radiological materials paper and slides	C. Watson (UK)
	Seventh Session - Chair: J. Simpson
16:00	The Analysis of Nuclear Terrorism Risk (Paper)	J. Wu (China)
16:30	Nuclear Proliferation and the Risk of Nuclear Terrorism	N. Laverov (Russia)
17:00	The threat of Nuclear Terrorism	F. Calogero (Italy)
	Eighth Session - Chair: R. Garwin
17:30	Directed Energy Weapons paper and slides	G. Neuneck (Germany)
19:00	Dinner


Sunday, 16 March 2008 - Auditorium
	Ninth Session - Chair: V. Nekvasil
09:00	The Nonproliferation Treaty: Regime kaputt? (presentation) Regime crisis (paper)	H. Müller (Germany)
09:30	Nuclear 'Breakout': What are the real risks?	A. Mack (Canada)
	Tenth Session - Chair: G. Neuneck
10:00	1. Reports by young scientist-rapporteurs on the salient results of the individual sessions. Discussion.	Rapporteurs
10:30	Coffe Break
11:00	Cont'd Tenth Session - Chair: G. Neuneck
	2. Reports by young scientist-rapporteurs on the salient results of the individual sessions. Discussion.	Rapporteurs
12:30	Lunch
14:00	Eleventh Session - Chair: M. Kalinowski
	Panel and general discussion on the topics and on the future of the Amaldi Conferences	All
15:30	Closing the Conference
15:30	Coffee Break
16:00	Open Meeting of the International Organizing Commitee of the Amaldi Conference
18:00	End of Open Meeting