Thursday, Jan. 26

12-5 PM           Registration

1-5 PM             Workshop: Chip Denman  and Jamy Ian Swiss: Information and Misinformation

5-7 PM             Reception: Cash bar and selection of hot & cold appetizers

7-8:30             Mac King show

9:00 PM           Optional:  Jamy Ian Swiss - Magic: In-Concert

Friday, Jan. 27

7:30-8:30        Continental Breakfast

8:20                Welcome: Randi/Introduction of Hal Bidlack, MC

8:30                Christopher Hitchens

9:30                Michael Shermer

10:30              break

10:45              Murray Gell-Mann

11:45              Buffet Lunch Break      

1:00                Auctions/etc.

1:15                Stanley Krippner

1:45                James Randi with Ed Lu

2:30                Penn & Teller

3:15                Break

3:30                Nadine Strossen

4:30                Panel “Science in Politics and the Politics of Science”
Panelists Nadine Strossen, Randi, Carolyn Porco, Murray Gell-Mann, Lawrence O’Donnell, Penn Jillette, Michael Shermer, Leon Jarroff
Panel will end not later than 6:00

6:30-8:30 Optional: Dinner w/Randi, Julia Sweeney, Murray Gell-Mann, Nadine Strossen, Adam Savage, Jamie Hyneman,Kari Byron, Lawrence O’Donnell, Jamy Ian Swiss and Daniel Dennett. Dinner limited to 60.

9:00 PM           Todd Robbins: Carnival Knowledge

11:00 PM           Optional:  Jamy Ian Swiss - Magic: In-Concert

Saturday, Jan. 28

7:30-8:30        Continental breakfast

8:30                Welcome: Michael Shermer, MC

8:35                Richard Wiseman

9:30                Daniel Dennett

10:30              Break

10:45              Carolyn Porco

11:30              Auctions

12:00              Buffet lunch

1:15                Mythbusters: Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman

2:15                Lawrence O’Donnell

2:45                Break

3:00                Paul Provenza

3:30                Ellen Johnson

4:15                Hal Bidlack

4:45                Panel: “Can a skeptic believe in God?”
Julia Sweeney, Daniel Dennett, Randi, Hal Bidlack, Paul Provenza, Michael Shermer, Ellen Johnson, Teller, Karen Russell

7:00 PM           Optional:  Jamy Ian Swiss - Magic: In-Concert

9:00 PM           Optional:  Jamy Ian Swiss - Magic: In-Concert

Sunday, Jan. 29
12 papers will be presented two at a time in separate rooms.
Details to follow.

8-8:30 AM       Continental Breakfast

8:30                Phil Plait

9:15                Paper Presentations 1 & 2

9:45                Paper Presentation 3 & 4

10:15              Paper Presentation 5 & 6

10:45              Break

11:00               Paper Presentation 7 & 8

11:30               Paper Presentation 9 & 10

12:00               Paper Presentation 11 & 12

12:30               Closing Remarks