In 1997, the Miller Institute broadened its charge with the addition of an Interdisciplinary Symposium. Our intention was to promote discussion of cutting-edge science among leading researchers through a weekend of scientific interaction and discussion. The Research Fellows were the catalyst behind this program and they helped to design it as a freewheeling discussion across all the sciences, including astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics and physics.

The Miller Institute's Annual Interdisciplinary Symposium takes place the first weekend of June annually and is held at the Marconi Conference Center on Beautiful Tomales Bay in Marin County, California. Participation is by invitation only.

List of speakers
Photographs of past symposia

Eastern View of Tomales Bay

The 2012 Symposium was held the weekend of June 1-3, 2012. Speakers included Tom Baker (University of Ottawa), Carl Bergstrom (University of Washington), Steve Cowley (Culham Centre for Fusion Energy), Peter Olson (Johns Hopkins University), Kristin Scott (University of California, Berkeley), Tom Seeley (Cornell University), Jack Szostak (Harvard University).