Events take place in the Charles B. Wang Center, Stony Brook University Campus
| 8:00 am | REGISTRATION |
| 9:00 am | WELCOME President Shirley Strum Kenny, Stony Brook University |
| 9:10 am | INTRODUCTION Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University |
| 9:25 am | INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS John Fleagle, Stony Brook University |
| 9:30 am | WHO IS AUSTRALOPITHECUS? Richard Leakey, Stony Brook University |
| 10:00 am | COFFEE BREAK |
| 10:30 am | LINEAGES IN AUSTRALOPITHECUS William Kimbel, Arizona State University |
| 11:00 am | AUSTRALOPITHECUS IN SOUTH AFRICA Ronald Clarke, University of the Witwatersrand |
| 11:30 pm | PANEL DISCUSSION Panelists: Frederick Grine, Andrew Herries, Charles Lockwood, Zeresenay Alemseged, Francis Kirera, David Strait, Carol Ward, Susan Larson |
| 12:15 pm | LUNCH |
| 1:40 pm | INTRODUCTION OF SPEAKERS Kaye Reed, Arizona State University |
| 1:45 pm | KENYANTHROPUS AND EARLY HOMINID DIVERSITY Meave Leakey, Stony Brook University |
| 2:15 pm | THE DIET OF AUSTRALOPITHECUS Matt Sponheimer, University of Colorado at Boulder |
| 2:45 pm | COFFEE BREAK |
| 3:15 pm | DIVERSITY IN AUSTRALOPITHECUS: THE ROLE OF ECOLOGY Kaye Reed, Arizona State University |
| 3:45 pm | WALKING WITH AUSTRALOPITHECUS: A PERSPECTIVE FROM THE PAST Jack Stern, Stony Brook University |
| 4:15 pm | PANEL DISCUSSION Panelists: Francis Brown, Anna Kay Behrensmeyer, Elizabeth Harmon, Gary Schwartz, Fredrick Manthi, Adam Gordon, William Jungers, Terry Harrison |
| 5:00 pm | SPEAKERS’ RECEPTION |
| 6:00 pm | END OF SYMPOSIUM |