Monday, 10 January 2011
Monday, morning session, 9:00 - 10:30
Chair: Matthew Evangelista
Carlo Schaerf: Introduction to ISODARCO
Opening lecture
Rebecca Johnson: Nuclear weapons and international humanitarian law. Pursuing disarmament as humanitarian action

Monday, first afternoon session, 16:30 - 18:00
Chair: Takao Takahara
Secretary: Andrew Branch
Harald Müller: Enforcing the rules in a nuclear weapon free world

Monday, second afternoon session, 18:15 - 19:45
Chair: Nadia Arbatova
Secretary: Elise Connor
Mirco Elena: Civilian and military dimension of nuclear technologies

Monday, evening session, 21:00 - 22:30
Chair: Mirco Elena
Secretary: Matthew Cottee
Diego Latella, Carol Flake Chapman, Gloria C. Duffy: Memorial lecture for Gary Chapman

Tuesday 11 January 2011
Tuesday, morning session, 9:00 - 10:30
Chair: Carlo Trezza
Secretary: Stefan Diepenbroek
Alexei Arbatov: The New START Treaty

Tuesday, first afternoon session, 16:30 - 18:00
Chair: Giorgio Franceschini
Secretary: Clara Evangelista Filler
Harald Müller, Tom Sauer: NATO's Nuclear Future

Tuesday, second afternoon session, 18:15 - 19:45
Chair: Paolo Foradori
Secretary: Nadezhda Gavrilova
Nadia Arbatova: A European Nuclear Force?

Tuesday evening
Party

Wednesday 12 January 2011
Wednesday, morning session, 9:00 - 10:30
Chair: Bruce Larkin
Secretary: Matthew Harries
Tom Sauer: From nuclear primacy to post-existential deterrence

Wednesday, first afternoon session, 16:30 - 18:00
Chair: Alessandro Argentini
Secretary: Evgeny Kalashnikov
Pavel Podvig: HEU and Plutonium elimination programs: a critical appraisal

Wednesday, second afternoon session, 18:15 - 19:45
Chair: Laura Reed
Secretary: Phyllis Ko
Panel: Harald Müller, Rebecca Johnson, Amb. Carlo Trezza
Assessing the nuclear spring 2010 (Nuclear Posture Review, NPT RevCon, NSTART): turning point or same business as usual?

Thursday 13 January 2011
Thursday, morning session, 9:00 - 10:30
Chair: Nikolai Kalashnikov
Secretary: Moritz Kütt
R. Rajaraman: Fissile material production in South Asia

Thursday, first afternoon session, 16:30 - 18:00
Chair: Mieke Massink
Secretary: Helen Tulloch
Paolo Cotta-Ramusino: The Iranian nuclear crisis: Pugwash initiatives and track-two diplomacy

Thursday, second afternoon session, 18:15 - 19:45
Chair: Steve Wright
Secretary: Anastasia Medvedeva
Jae-Jung Suh: The North Korean nuclear conundrum

Thursday, evening session, 21:00 - 22:30
Chair: Diego Latella
Secretary: Roberta Mulas
Petr Topychkanov: Nuclear juxtaposition in South Asia

Friday 14 January 2011
Friday, morning session, 9:00 - 10:30
Chair: Matthew Evangelista
Secretary: Bradley Craig Petersen
Panel: Tom Sauer, Chong-Ae Yu, Paolo Cotta Ramusino
Western Policies vis a vis Iran and North Korea: chances of success, risks of failure, humanitarian aspects

Friday, first afternoon session, 16:30 - 18:00
Chair: Valentin Smyntyna
Secretary: Sarah Poe
Marco de Andreis: The economic prospects of a nuclear renaissance

Friday, second afternoon session, 18:15 - 19:45
Chair: Francesco Calogero
Secretary: Marina Shkapina
Panel: Marco de Andreis, R. Rajaraman
Nuclear energy in the 21st century: expanding or in decline? A view from Europe, from India, from Russia and the US

Saturday 15 January 2011 (9:00-12 noon)
Roundtable discussion. Rebecca Johnson, Alexei Arbatov, Matthew Evangelista, Giorgio Franceschini: Next steps on the Road to Zero
Wrap-up: Matthew Evangelista, Giorgio Franceschini, Carlo Schaerf

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