Science at the Frontier (1992)
Chapter: Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program
Appendix
Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program
Topic: ASTROPHYSICS
Margaret Geller and Larry Smarr, Organizers | |
SPEAKER: | Tony Tyson, AT&T Bell Laboratories |
TITLE: | Imaging the Distant Universe: Galaxies and Dark Matter |
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
Larry Smarr, Organizer | |
SPEAKER: | Gregory McRae, Carnegie Mellon University |
TITLE: | Using Supercomputing and Visualization in Los Angeles Smog Simulation |
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
Larry Smarr, Organizer | |
SPEAKER: | William Press, Harvard University |
TITLE: | Unexpected Scientific Computing |
DISCUSSANTS: | Jean Taylor, Rutgers University Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research Alan Huang, AT&T Bell Laboratories |
Topic: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
William Thurston, Organizer | |
SPEAKER: | John Hubbard, Cornell University |
TITLE: | Chaos, Determinism, and Information |
DISCUSSANTS: | Robert Devaney, Boston University Steven Krantz, Washington University Curt McMullen, University of California, Berkeley |
Topic: GENE REGULATION
Eric Lander, Organizer | |
SPEAKER: | Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley |
TITLE: | Gene Regulation in Animal Cells: Transcription Factors and Mechanisms |
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
Raymond Jeanloz and Susan Kieffer, Organizers | |
SPEAKER: | David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology |
TITLE: | How the Earth Works: Techniques for Understanding the Dynamics and Structure of Planets |
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
Peter Dervan, Organizer | |
SPEAKER: | William Bradley, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center |
TITLE: | Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy |
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
Peter Dervan, ;Organizer | |
SPEAKER: | Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology |
TITLE: | Visual Motion: From Computational Analysis to Neural Networks and Perception |
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
Peter Dervan, Organizer | |
SPEAKER: | Mark Wrighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
TITLE: | Photosynthesis—Real and Artificial |
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
Orlando Alvarez, David Nelson, Raphael Kasper, Organizers | |
SPEAKER: | Peter Bancel, IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights |
TITLE: | Icosahedral Quasicrystals |
SPEAKER: | Alex Zettl, University of California, Berkeley |
TITLE: | High-Temperature Superconductivity |
DISCUSSANTS: | Daniel Fisher, Harvard University Peter Gammel, AT&T Bell Laboratories Duncan Haldane, University of California, La Jolla Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania |
