Co-Chairs:

• Ruth M. Lynden-Bell, University of Cambridge, UK and The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK
• Simon Conway Morris, FRS, University of Cambridge, UK
• John D. Barrow, FRS, University of Cambridge, UK

Executive Program Director:

• Charles L. Harper, Jr., Executive Director, John Templeton Foundation, US

Core Participants:

• Wesley D. Allen, University of Georgia, Athens, US
• Philip Ball, Nature, London, UK
• Steven A. Benner, University of Florida, Gainesville, US
• Humberto Campins, University of Central Florida, US
• Martin F. Chaplin, FRSC, London South Bank University, UK
• Jonathan S. Dordick, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US
• John L. Finney, University College London, UK
• Felix Franks, FRSC, BioUpdate Foundation, London, UK
• Giancarlo Franzese, University of Barcelona, SP
• Branka M. Ladanyi, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, US
• Louis Lerman, Insitu Group, Bingen (Washington State), US
• Ruth M. Lynden-Bell, University of Cambridge, UK and The Queen’s University of Belfast, UK
• Alister E. McGrath, University of Oxford, UK
• Carlos Warnick (C. Nick) Pace, Texas A&M University H.S.C., College Station, US
• Wilson C.K. Poon, FRSE, University of Edinburgh, UK
• Lawrence R. Pratt, Los Alamos National Laboratory, US
• Colin A. Russell, FRSC, The Open University, Milton Keynes; University of Cambridge, UK
• Veronica Vaida, University of Colorado at Boulder, US
• Bruce H. Weber, California State University, Fullerton and Bennington College, US
• Peter G. Wolynes, University of California at San Diego, US

Local Hosts:

• Tommaso G. Bellini, University of Milan and Euresis, IT
• Marco Bersanelli, University of Milan and Euresis, IT
• Elio Sindoni, University of Milan and International School of Plasma Physics and “Piero Caldirola” Center for the Promotion of Science, Milan, IT

Special Observers:

• Hyung S. Choi, Metanexus Institute, Philadelphia, US
• Ard A. Louis, University of Cambridge, UK
• Barnaby Marsh, John Templeton Foundation, Philadelphia, US
• Argyris Nicolaidis, University of Thessaloniki, GR
• Jeffrey P. Schloss, Westmont College, Santa Barbara, US
• Walter Thirring, University of Vienna, AU
• Paul K. Wason, John Templeton Foundation, Philadelphia, US

Electronic Discussants:

• George F.R. Ellis, University of Cape Town, ZA
• Kenneth G. Libbrecht, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, US
• T.C.B. (Tom) McLeish, Leeds University, UK
• Henry F. (“Fritz”) Schaefer, III, University of Georgia, Athens, US
• H. Eugene Stanley, Boston University, US
• Peter D. Ward, University of Washington, US