Highlights of the meeting include new insights into r and s-processes and an explosion of interesting abundance data on stars in the Galactic halo and in dwarf spheroidal galaxies. I include in this summary a few suggestions on the chemical evolution of the Thick and Thin disks, and on the present and past distribution of baryons and metals in the universe.

* Of Washington University Law School, St. Louis. 1 Rebecca Johnson, Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2002). 2 [1993] 4 SCR 695. 3 Johnson, supra note 1, at 3-53. Rebecca Johnson’s impressive new book, Taxing Choices: The Intersection of Class, Gender, Parenthood, and the Law,1 is ambitious. In the book, Johnson explores the debat...

Nufact08 is the tenth in a series of workshops started in 1999, whose main goal is to understand options for future neutrino-oscillation experiments to attack the problems of the neutrino mass hierarchy and CP violation in the leptonic sector. I present a very brief review of what we know and what we would like to know about neutrino mass, mixing, and flavor change. I consider the interplay bet...

Extinctions are a part of life on earth. Indeed, over 99.9% of all species that once existed have gone extinct. However, humans are doing a good job in helping species into early extinction. In this talk, I fist review some classic mass extinction, and then review ecology and genetic risk factors for extinction. I finish by discussing how to assess (and defend) a species risk assessment and wit...

We investigate strategic information transmission with communication error, or noise. Our main finding is that adding noise can improve welfare. With quadratic preferences and a uniform type distribution, welfare can be raised for almost every bias level by introducing a sufficiently small amount of noise. Furthermore, there exists a level of noise that makes it possible to achieve the best pay...

In face-to-face conversation, participants often give the floor, or the voice, to nonpresent participants – virtual participants. These are made present in the conversation by actual speakers quoting them, voicing them or referring to their opinions. In this paper, we examine instances of such virtual talk. Data are drawn from focus group discussions and public meetings about genetically modifi...

It is a special pleasure to return once more to this beautiful city of Bonn and to join together for this brief week with colleagues from the world over, temporarily insulating ourselves from the funding problems, the political strains and the nuclear dangers of the transitory world of man, and refreshing ourselves in the mutual search for an understanding of that one and only enduring Nature t...