0800–1000 REGISTRATION (Vandrehallen next to Symposium lecture room, Auditorium G2)
1000–1100 OPENING CEREMONY (everyone to be seated by 1000)
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn – Opening Addrress
Welcome by Vice chancellor AU, Brian Bech Nielsen; Head Dept. Biology, Hans Brix; Director of Science Museum, AU, Bent Lorenzen; Head section of Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Wolf Eiserhardt
1100–1130 WELCOME LECTURE
North-South research collaboration – what we learned from the Flora of Thailand
Presenter: Henrik Balslev and Kongkanda Chayamarit (abstract p. xx)
1130–1300 Box lunch
1300–1340 KEYNOTE LECTURE 1
Alpha- and molecular taxonomy and closing the Linnean shortfall
Presenter: Professor Susanne Renner
1340–1500 Contributed oral presentation no.1-4
1500–1530 Coffee & Tea outside lecture room
1530–1600 Presentation of MINI-EXCURSIONS in lecture room, Auditorium G2. These mini-excursions will demonstrate some examples of North-South collaborations, and the guides will explain the historical context.
1600-1730 Visit to the herbarium guided by associate professor Wolf Eiserhardt and herbarium curator Birgitte Bergmann and Director of the BKF herbarium Nanapat Pattharahirantrician; visit to the Greenhouses guided by associate professor Anders Barfod and director of horticulture, Queen Sirikit Botanical Garden, Piyakaset Suksathan; visit to research vessel AURORA guided by associate professor emeritus Tomas Cedhagen.
1730–1900 Break
1800–2000 Reception at In the Greenhouses of Aarhus University
0900–0940 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2
Thailand's Wild Banana Treasures: An In-Depth Exploration Based on Fieldwork and Laboratory Studies. Presenter: Assistant professor Sasivimon Swangpol
0940–1040 Contributed oral presentation no.5-8
1040-1100 Coffee & Tea outside lecture room
1100–1200 Contributed oral presentation no.9-11
1200–1300 Box lunch
1300-1440 Contributed presentations 12-16
1440-1500 Coffee & Tea outside lecture room
1500-1640 Contributed presentations 17-21
1900–2100 CONFERENCE DINNER
0900–1020 Contributed oral presentation no.22
1020–1050 Coffee Break outside lecture room, Auditorium G2
1050–1200 POSTER SESSION
1200–1300 Box Lunch
1300–1340 KEYNOTE LECTURE 3
Training of new botanists – do we do enough?
Presenter: Professor Pranom Chantaranothai
1340–1500 Contributed oral presentation no.23-26
1500–1530 Coffee & Tea outside lecture room
1530–1710 Contributed oral presentation no.27-31
1000–1600 WHOLE DAY EXCURSIONS to Moesgård Museum
Travel to the Moesgård Museum on Bus no. 19 departing from Aarhus bus terminal.
Please be at the main entrance of the museum at 1000.
1000–1015 Presentation of Moesgård Museum by its director, professor Mads Kähler Holst.
1015–1045 Ethnographic research among the Thai Karens, associate professor Michael Gravers.
1045–1200 Guided tour of the museum in smaller groups.
1200–1300 Lunch at the Moesgård Museum cafeteria.
1300–1600 Walk to the old manor house, the museum garden with the Thai house followed by visit
to the bronze age cultural landscape guided by professor Mads Kähler Holst and associate
professor Michael Gravers. Return to bus stop (no. 19) for return to Aarhus bus terminal.
0900–1020 Contributed oral presentation no.32-35
1020–1100 Coffee Break outside lecture room, Auditorium G2
1100–1200 Contributed oral presentation no.36-38
1200–1300 Box lunch
1300–1340 KEYNOTE LECTURE 4
Does the Flora of Thailand contribute to solving the Wallacean shortfall?
Presenter: Professor Peter van Welzen
1340–1520 Contributed oral presentation no.39-43
1520–1550 Report from the Flora of Thailand Editorial Board
Presenter: Kongkanda Chayamarit & Henrik Balslev
1550–1600 CLOSING REMARKS
1600–1630 Coffee and tea outside lecture room, Auditorium G2
