A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier (1994)
Chapter: Appendix B: Symposia Programs
APPENDIX B
Symposia Programs
THIRD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE NOVEMBER 7-9, 1991
Astrophysics: Looking Inside The Sun
Organizer:
William Press, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Helioseismic Observations of the Solar Interior
Ken Libbrecht, California Institute of Technology
Physical Inferences from Solar Oscillations
Doug Gough, Cambridge University, UK
Solar Neutrinos-Probing the Sun or Neutrinos?
John Wilkerson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Biology: Basic Science Related to AIDS
Organizers:
Eric Lander, Whitehead Institute Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School
Cell/Virus Interactions Involved in Retrovirus Replication
Eric Hunter, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Games that HIV and Molecular Geneticists Play
Richard Young, Whitehead Institute
Computer Science: Aspects of Theoretical Computer Science
Organizer:
Robert Tarjan, Princeton University
Transparent Proofs
Laszlo Babai, University of Chicago
Geometry and Graphics: Challenges in Complexity
Maria Klawe, University of British Columbia
The Role of Randomness in Computer Architecture
F. Thomson Leighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Geosciences: Earthquake Prediction
Organizer:
Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Physics of Earthquake Recurrence
Thomas Heaton, US Geological Survey, Pasadena
Clocks in the Earth
William Ellsworth, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Discussion panel:
Thorne Lay, University of California-Santa Cruz Joann Stock, Geological Museum, Harvard University Kerry Sieh, California Institute of Technology Duncan Agnew, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Geosciences: Mass Extinctions
Organizers:
Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Richard Muller, University of California-Berkeley
The Link Between Large-body Impact on Earth and Biological Mass Extinction
Walter Alvarez, University of California-Berkeley
The Geological Record of Mass Extinctions
Jan Smit, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Astronomical Mechanisms for Multiple Impacts
Piet Hut, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Discussion leader:
Alessandro Montanari, University of California-Berkeley
Material Science: Quantum Confined Semiconductors
Organizers:
Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology
Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots
Kerry J. Vahala, California Institute of Technology
Molecular Particles of Semiconductor Solids
Michael L. Steigerwald, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Atomic Layer Growth of Thin Films
David Rudman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Mathematics: Topology
Organizer:
William Thurston, Princeton University
A Lecture on the Energy of a Knot (or an Unknot)
Michael H. Freedman, University of California-San Diego
Recent Progress in Algebraic Theory
Michael J. Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics: Manipulating Atoms by Laser Atom Trapping and Scanning Tunneling Tips
Organizers:
Sylvia Ceyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Nautral Particle Manipulation with Light
Steven Chu, Stanford University
Atomic and Molecular Manipulation with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
Donald M. Eigler, IBM Almaden Research Center
FOURTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE NOVEMBER 5-7, 1992
Atmospheric Science: Ozone Holes—Causes and Effects of Polar Ozone Depletion
Organizer:
Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology
The Science of Ozone Depletion: Results from Aircraft Measurements in the Polar Stratospheres
David Fahey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder
An Overview of Polar Ozone Depletion
Mario Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussion leader:
Ralph Cicerone, University of California-Irvine
Biology: The Cell Cycle
Organizers:
Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School; Robert Tjian, University of California-Berkeley
The Replication of DNA and the Cell Cycle
Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
How Cell Division is Controlled During Growth of an Embryo
Patrick O'Farrell, University of California-San Francisco
Biology: Structure and Function of Proteins
Organizers:
Robert Tjian, University of California-Berkeley; Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School
The Leucine Zipper: New Twists in Gene Regulation and Protein Structure
Tom Alber, University of California-Berkeley
Protein Structure and Dynamics in Solution
Rick Dahlquist, University of Oregon
Chemistry and Physics: Buckminsterfullerenes—A New Form of Carbon
Organizers:
Shirley Chiang, IBM Almaden Research Center; Sylvia Ceyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Experimental Studies of Fullerenes and Metallofullerenes
Donald Bethune, IBM Almaden Research Center
The Fullerenes and the Idea of Perfect Nanocrystals
Robert Whetten, University of California-Los Angeles
Geosciences: Venus—Results from Magellan
Organizer:
Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Venus—Dead or Alive? The View from Magellan
Robert Grimm, Arizona State University Suzanne Smrekar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Materials Science: New Materials—Conducting Polymers,Organic Magnets, Composites
Organizers:
Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories; Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology
A Chemist's View of Nonlinear Optical Materials
Seth Marder, California Institute of Technology
Magnetic Organic Materials
Dennis Dougherty, California Institute of Technology
Mathematics: The Wavelet Transform
Organizers:
David Donoho, Stanford University/University of California-Berkeley; Vaughan Jones, University of California-Berkeley
Wavelets and Signal Analysis
Ingrid Daubechies, Rutgers University
Wavelets and their Applications
Yves Meyer, Université de Paris
Discussion Panel:
Gregory Beylkin, University of Colorado-Boulder Michael Frazier, Michigan State University Stéphane Mallat, Courant Institute-New York University Victor Wickerhauser, Washington University
Physics: Current Topics in Hadron Collider Physics—Prelude to the Superconducting Supercollider Era
Organizer:
Jim Siegrist, SSC Laboratory
The Search for the Top Quark
John Huth, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Testing Electroweak Theory: Present and Future
Kevin Einsweiler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
