| 12:15 pm | Registration |
12:30 pm | Opening Remarks |
| 12:50 pm | Overview of Global Warming Events and Causes in Earth's Past David Bottjer, Ph.D. Professor and Chair, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California (USC) |
| 1:15 pm | The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum James C. Zachos, Ph.D. Professor, Earth and Planetary Sciences Department, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 2:05 pm | The Triassic-Jurassic Boundary Hothouse Event Frank A. Corsetti, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Southern California (USC) |
| 2:50 pm | Break |
| 3:00 pm | The End-Permian Hothouse Event E. Clapham, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| 3:50 pm | Use of Past Large Igneous Province Events to Suggest Trends in the Current Global Warming Event David L. Kidder, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Department of Geological Sciences, Ohio University |