9 a.m. April 20, 1998 Riga, Latvia
| Professor Ivars Kalviņš (President of Latvian Chemical Society): Welcoming remarks |
| Presentation of the Paul Walden medal to Professor Edvīns Vedējs (Madison, USA) by Professor Valdis Kampars Dean of the Faculty of Materials Science and Applied Chemistry (Riga Technical University) |
| President of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Professor Jānis Stradiņš (Riga, Latvia): “Paul Walden – an outstanding Latvian chemist in Riga” |
| Professor Edvīns Vedējs (Madison, USA): “Recent studies in stereochemistry” |
| Professor David Tanner (Copenhagen, Denmark): “Asymmetric synthesis and catalysis via chiral aziridines” |
| Professor Ivar Ugi (Muenchen, Germany): “The progress in multi component reaction – chemistry and their stereoselective aspects” |
| Professor Remir G. Kostyanovsky (Moscow, Russia): “Six impossible things in stereochemistry” |
| Professor Peter Somfai (Lund, Sweden): “Synthesis and rearrangements of strained heterocycles as a novel entry to biologically interesting structures” |