The Oxford International Biomedical Centre's 4th Spring Symposium
The Future of Man
at Magdalen College School, Cowley Place, Oxford on Monday 31 March 2003

9.30 Opening of symposium

Morning session chairman: Terence Ryan (Brookes U and Oxford U)

9.40 Brenda Boardman (Environmental Change Inst, Oxford U): Lower carbon futures

10.25 Sir Crispin Tickell: Water: the Big Issue for the 21st century

11.30 Nick Brown (Dept Plant Sciences, Oxford U): Chainsaw conservation

12.15 Farrol Kahn (Aviation Health Institute): Man in flight: Aviation medicine

Afternoon session chairman: Jamshed Tata (Medical Research Council)

2.00 Thomas Kirkwood (Inst for Ageing & Health, Newcastle U): Ageing

2.45 Brian Aldiss: Extraterrestial life: Solitude so far?

Conference Programme