Science at the Frontier (1992)
Chapter: Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program
Appendix
Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program
Topic: ASTROPHYSICS
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Margaret Geller and Larry Smarr, Organizers |
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SPEAKER: |
Tony Tyson, AT&T Bell Laboratories |
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TITLE: |
Imaging the Distant Universe: Galaxies and Dark Matter |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
S.G. Djorgovski, California Institute of Technology David Koo, University of California, Santa Cruz Edmund Bertschinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jill Bechtold, University of Arizona, Tucson |
Topic: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE
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Larry Smarr, Organizer |
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SPEAKER: |
Gregory McRae, Carnegie Mellon University |
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TITLE: |
Using Supercomputing and Visualization in Los Angeles Smog Simulation |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
Alan Lloyd, South Coast Air Quality Management District, El Monte, California Arthur Winer, University of California, Los Angeles |
NOTE: Topics are listed in alphabetic order.
Topic: COMPUTATION
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Larry Smarr, Organizer |
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SPEAKER: |
William Press, Harvard University |
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TITLE: |
Unexpected Scientific Computing |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
Jean Taylor, Rutgers University Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research Alan Huang, AT&T Bell Laboratories |
Topic: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
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William Thurston, Organizer |
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SPEAKER: |
John Hubbard, Cornell University |
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TITLE: |
Chaos, Determinism, and Information |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
Robert Devaney, Boston University Steven Krantz, Washington University Curt McMullen, University of California, Berkeley |
Topic: GENE REGULATION
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Eric Lander, Organizer |
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SPEAKER: |
Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley |
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TITLE: |
Gene Regulation in Animal Cells: Transcription Factors and Mechanisms |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
Arnold Berk, University of California, Los Angeles Douglas Hanahan, University of California, San Francisco Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School Ruth Lehmann, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research |
Topic: GEOLOGY
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Raymond Jeanloz and Susan Kieffer, Organizers |
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SPEAKER: |
David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology |
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TITLE: |
How the Earth Works: Techniques for Understanding the Dynamics and Structure of Planets |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
Jeremy Bloxham, Harvard University Michael Gurnis, University of Michigan Russell Hemley, Carnegie Institution of Washington Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Topic: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
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Peter Dervan, Organizer |
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SPEAKER: |
William Bradley, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center |
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TITLE: |
Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
David Stark, Massachusetts General Hospital Robert Balaban, National Institutes of Health Graeme Bydder, Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital John Crues III, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital |
Topic: NEURAL NETWORKS
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Peter Dervan, ;Organizer |
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SPEAKER: |
Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology |
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TITLE: |
Visual Motion: From Computational Analysis to Neural Networks and Perception |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
Paul Adams, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, SUNY at Stony Brook James Bower, California Institute of Technology Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute Shimon Ullman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Topic: PHOTOSYNTHESIS
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Peter Dervan, Organizer |
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SPEAKER: |
Mark Wrighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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TITLE: |
Photosynthesis—Real and Artificial |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology Thomas Mallouk, University of Texas, Austin George McLendon, University of Rochester Douglas Rees, California Institute of Technology |
Topic: PHYSICS
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Orlando Alvarez, David Nelson, Raphael Kasper, Organizers |
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SPEAKER: |
Peter Bancel, IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights |
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TITLE: |
Icosahedral Quasicrystals |
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SPEAKER: |
Alex Zettl, University of California, Berkeley |
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TITLE: |
High-Temperature Superconductivity |
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DISCUSSANTS: |
Daniel Fisher, Harvard University Peter Gammel, AT&T Bell Laboratories Duncan Haldane, University of California, La Jolla Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania |
