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| Monday, November 9 |
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| Introduction | |
| Chair: C. Charbonnel |
| 09h15 | Welcome adress by the director of the Museum | D. Decrouez |
| Welcome adress by the director of the Geneva Observatory | G. Burki |
| 09h30 (R) | Historical perspective | D. Lambert |
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| Session I: Production of the light elements in the first minutes of the Universe |
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| 10h00 (R) | Constraints from cosmic microwave background experiments (.ppt) | J. Dunkley |
| 10h30-11h00 Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 11h00 (R) | Primordial nucleosynthesis: a cosmological probe | G. Steigman |
| 11h30 (R) | The cosmic Lithium abundances and physics beyond the standard model | K. Jedamzik |
| 12h00 (C) | Big-Bang nucleaosynthesis with long-lived strongly-interacting relic particles | M. Kusakabe |
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| 12h20-14h Lunch at the Museum and poster viewing |
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| Session II: Abundances of D, 3He and 4He (observations) |
| Chair: R. Rood |
| 14h00 (R) | Measurements of Deuterium in the Milky Way | K. Sembach |
| 14h30 (C) | The total Deuterium abundance in the local Galactic disk and its implications | J. Linsky |
| 14h55 (C) | What the D/O ratio tells us about the interstellar abundance of deuterium? | G. Hébrard |
| 15h20 (C) | (Un)true Deuterium abundance in the Galactic disk | T. Prodanovic |
| 15h45-16h15 Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 16h15 (R) | D and 3He in the protosolar cloud | J. Geiss |
| 16h45-17h30 | Discussion A: What is the local ISM value of D? How can we explain the dispersion of extragalactic D values? | Leader: M. Tosi |
| 17h30-19h00 Wine and cheese poster viewing |
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| Tuesday, November 10 |
| Chair: M. Tosi |
| 09h00 (R) | Measurements of 3He in Galactic HII regions and planetary nebulae | T. Bania |
| 09h30 (R) | Measurements of 4He in metal-poor extragalactic regions: the primordial Helium abundance and the ΔY/ΔO ratio | M. Peimbert |
| 10h00 (C) | 4He abundances: discrepancies between optical and radio recombination line measurements | D. Balser |
| 10h20 (C) | The primordial He abundance from a large sample of low-metallicity HII regions | Y. Izotov |
| 10h40 (C) | The dominant terms contributing to the uncertainties in nebular abundances | E. Skillman |
| 11h00-11h30 Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 11h30 (R) | The quite complex Simple Stellar Populations of Globular Clusters | A. Bragaglia |
| 12h00 (C) | Revisiting the Helium abundance from multiple main sequences in globular clusters | L. Casagrande |
| 12h20 (C) | Helium self-enrichment in globular clusters | T. Decressin |
| 12h40 (C) | Are the most iron-poor stars Helium rich? | G. Meynet |
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| 13h00-14h30 Lunch outside the Museum |
| Chair: B. Barbuy |
| 14h30 (C) | The Helium contribution from massive AGBs | P. Ventura |
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| Session III: Abundances of LiBeB (observations) |
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| 14h50 (R) | LiBeB in the light of 3D hydrodynamical models and non-LTE line formation | M. Asplund |
| 15h20 (R) | Li isotopes in metal-poor halo dwarfs | M. Spite |
| 15h50-16h15 Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 16h15 (C) | Depletion in the Spite plateau: solving the cosmological Li discrepancy | J. Melendez |
| 16h35 (C) | Convection and 6Li in the atmospheres of metal-poor halo satrs | M. Steffen |
| 16h55-17h40 | Discussion B: What is the 4He from HII regions? What needs to be done to better understand the systematic effects? (.pptx) | Leader: G. Ferland |
| 17h45 Welcome adress by Jean-Dominique Vassali and Stéphane Berthet, Rector and General secretary of the Geneva University -- Cocktail |
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| Wednesday, November 11 |
| Chair: Y. Izotov |
| 09h00 (R) | Beryllium and Boron in metal-poor halo stars | F. Primas |
| 09h30 (C) | New Beryllium results in halo stars from Keck/Hires spectra | A. Merchant Boesgaard |
| 09h50 (C) | Boron abundances in diffuse interstellar clouds | A. Ritchey |
| 10h10 (C) | Boron abundances in the Galactic disk | K. Cunha |
| 10h30 (R) | Lithium in globular clusters: dip, diffusion and dredge-up | A. Korn |
| 11h00-11h30 Coffee break and poster viewing |
| Chair: P. Molaro |
| 11h30 (C) | Main-sequence and sub-giant stars in the globular cluster NGC 6397: the complex evolution of the Lithium abundance | J. Gonzalez Hernandez |
| 11h50 (C) | The primordial Lithium problem: clues from old globular cluster stars | K. Lind |
| 12h10 (C) | Lithium in a metal-poor external galaxy: Omega Centauri | P. Bonifacio |
| 12h30 (R) | Li, Be, and B in Population I dwarf stars | S. Randich |
| 13h00 (C) | Enhanced Lithium depletion in solar-type stars with exoplanets | G. Israelian |
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| 13h20 Lunch outside the Museum |
| 13h30 Women lunch (registration requested) |
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| Free afternoon |
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| 18h30 -- Public colloquium at Uni Dufour -- "Deuterium, hélium, lithium: du Big Bang à la civilisation contemporaine" |
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| Thursday, November 12 |
| Chair: F. Primas |
| 09h00 (R) | Light elements in stars with exoplanets | N. Santos |
| 09h30 (R) | Observations of LiBeB in RGB and AGB stars | V. Smith |
| 10h00 (C) | Mass loss and luminosities of S- and C-AGB stars with and without Lithium | R. Guandalini |
| 10h20 (R) | Observations of light elements in massive stars | A. Kaufer |
| 10h50-11h15 Coffee break and poster viewing |
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| Session IV: Sources and sinks of light elements |
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| 11h15 (R) | Light elements as diagnostics on the structure and evolution of low- and intermediate-mass stars | S. Talon |
| 11h45 (C) | Rotational mixing and Lithium depletion | M. Pinsonneault |
| 12h05 (C) | Effects of rotation and magnetic fields on the structure and surface abundances of solar-type stars | P. Eggenberger |
| 12h25 (R) | The light elements in a helio- (astero-) seismic perspective | S. Vauclair |
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| 12h55-14h00 Lunch at the Museum and poster viewing |
| Chair: D. Lambert |
| 14h00 (R) | Lithium production in evolved stars (AGB, novae) | F. D'Antona |
| 14h30 (C) | Lithium production by thermohaline mixing in low-mass, low-metallicity AGB stars | R. Stancliffe |
| 14h50 (R) | Light elements in massive single and binary stars | N. Langer |
| 15h20-15h45 Coffee break and poster viewing |
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| Session V: Evolution of the light elements in the Universe |
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| 15h45 (R) | Galactic evolution of D, 3He et 4He | D. Romano |
| 16h15 (C) | Thermohaline mixing in stars: solving the longstanding 3He problem | N. Lagarde |
| 16h35 (C) | Theoretical ΔY/ΔZ in the early Universe | S. Ekström |
| 16h55-17h45 | Discussion C: The stellar yields in 3He, 4He, and 7Li: main sources, observational constraints, and problems | Leader: A. Maeder |
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| 19h30 Conference dinner (registration requested) |
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| Friday, November 13 |
| Chair: S. Talon |
| 09h30 (R) | Galactic evolution of 7Li | F. Matteucci |
| 10h00 (C) | Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron production in core-collapse supernovae | K. Nakamura |
| 10h20 (R) | Light elements: spallation production mechanisms (.pptx) | H. Reeves |
| 10h50-11h15 Coffee break and poster viewing |
| 11h15 (R) | Galactic evolution of spallogenic elements (6Li, 9Be, 10Be, 11B) | N. Prantzos |
| 11h45 (C) | Beryllium abundances and the formation of the halo and the thick disk | R. Smiljanic |
| 12h05-12h50 | Discussion D: Observational problems with Li, Be, and B: did we really detect 6Li in stellar atmospheres? How do the LiBeB abundances vary with metallicity? Which mechanisms are responsible for the Li dip and the Li plateau? | Leader: P. E. Nissen |
| 12h50 (R) | Conclusions and open questions | R. Rood |
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| 13h30 End of the Symposium |
