Session 1 Panels


Frontiers of the Future: Training and Fixing Your Brain


Long Life in the 21st Century
  • Carstensen, LL, A long bright future (Random House: Broadway Books, August, 2009)
  • Carstensen, LL, "Growing old or living long: Take your pick" (Issues in Technology, 41-50. Reprinted in Public Policy and Aging Report, Winter 2007, Vol. 17, 27-30.)
  • Carstensen, LL, "The influence of a sense of time on human development" Science, 312:1913-1915, 2006)
  • Carstensen LLL and Hartel, CR (Eds), When I'm 64: Aging Frontiers in Social Psychology, Personality, and Adult Developmental Psychology, (Board on Behavioral, Cognitive, and Sensory Sciences, Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education. Washington, DC: National Research Council/The National Academies Press, 2006)
  • Ersner-Hershfield et al "Poignancy: Mixed emotional experience in the face of meaningful endings" (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 94(1):158-167, 2008)


Falling Further Behind? What Global Economic and Political Volatility Means for the World's Poor


The Jazz Improviser's Mind
  • Oscar Peterson, Night Train (Verve Records, 1997)
  • Thelonious Monk, Monk's Music (Ojc, 1957)
  • Bill Evans, Sunday at the Village Vanguard (Riverside, 1961)
  • Miles Davis, Kind of Blue (Columbia, 1959)


Some Questions You've Always Had about Education and Why Economists Have the Answers


Pictures and Words: Exploring the Creative Process


Solutions to the Long-Run Problems of the Economy


The Innocence Revolution and the Death Penalty


Social Innovation: Advancing Solutions to Some of the World's Toughest Problems


The Future of Energy
  • Kruff, Fred and Miriam Horn, "Earth: The Sequel" (Norton & Co, 2008)
  • Wadia, Cyrus, A. Paul Alivisatos and Daniel M. Kammen, "Materials Availability Expands the Opportunity for Large-Scale Photovoltaics Deployment," (Environmental Science Technology, 2009, 43 (6), pp 2072-2077)
  • Boyle, Godfrey, "Renewable Energy: Power for a Sustainable Future," (Oxford University Press, 2004)
  • S.M. Benson and T. Surles, 2006. "Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage: An Overview with Emphasis on Capture and Storage in Deep Geological Formations" (Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 94, No. 10, p 1795-1805)





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