Second German-American Symposium
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
June 2-4, 1996
Sessions:
- Astrophysics: Cosmology, Particle Physics, and Symmetry Breaking
- Biomedical Science: Prions—Infectious Proteins
- Chemistry: The Importance of Being Distinguishable—Stereoisomers
- Geosciences: Dynamics of Tibet
- Life Sciences: Life at High Temperatures
- Materials Science: Quantum Dots to Colloidal Carriers
- Mathematics: Cryptography and Quantum Cryptography
- Medical Imaging and NMR Spectroscopy: Versatile Radiowaves
Astrophysics: Cosmology, Particle Physics, and Symmetry Breaking
Organizer: John Huth
Chair: Thomas Müller, Universität Karlsruhe, FRG
Speakers:
Edward "Rocky" Kolb, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Primordial Soup: The Inner Space/Outer Space Connection
Stephan Lammel, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Search for Supersymmetry
Biomedical Science: Prions—Infectious Proteins
Organizer: Harald Schmidt
Chair: Harald Schmidt, Universität Würzburg
Speakers:
Karin Post, Heinrich-Heine-Universität
Prions: A Contradiction to a Central Dogma of Biology
Robert Petersen, Case Western Reserve University
Prion Diseases: From Protein to Pathogen
Hermann Schaetzl, Max von Pettenkofer Institut
Prions as Voyagers Across Species
Glenn Telling, University of California at San Francisco
Prion Transmission from Humans to Transgenic Mice: Insights into the Mechanisms of Prion Propagation
Chemistry: The Importance of Being Distinguishable—Stereoisomers
Organizer: Sylvia Ceyer
Chair: Rick Danheiser, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Eric Jacobsen, Harvard University
Enantioselective Catalysis
Robert Waymouth, Stanford University
Dynamic Stereocontrol in Polymer Synthesis: How to Make Plastics Elastic
Carsten Bolm, Universität Marburg
Asymmetric Autocatalysis
Geosciences: Dynamics of Tibet
Organizer: Marcia McNutt
Chair: Leigh (Wiki) Royden, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Lothar Ratschbacher, Stanford University
Kinematics of Tibet
Sean Willett, Pennsylvania State University
Mountain-Building Processes and the Tibetan Plateau
Life Sciences: Life at High Temperatures
Organizers: Deborah Penry and Gerhard Graf
Chair: Everett Shock, Washington University
Speakers:
Michael Adams, University of Georgia
Life at the High Temperatures: An Overview
Arnulf Kletzin, Institut für Mikrobiologie Technische Hochschule Darmstadt
Tungsten in Hyperthermophilic Microorganisms: Physiology, Biochemistry, and Ecological Background
Discussant:
Douglas Clark, University of California, Berkeley
The Role of Pressure in Life at High Temperatures
Materials Science: Quantum Dots to Colloidal Carriers
Organizers: Peter Werner and Claus-Michael Lehr
Chair: Martin Stutzmann, TU Munchen
Speakers:
Moungi Bawendi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Semiconductor Nanocrystallites: Probing the Physics of Nano-Size Materials
Kirsten Westesen, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Structure Investigations and Applications of Colloidal Carriers
Mathematics: Cryptography and Quantum Cryptography
Organizers: Trevor Wooley and Douglas Stone
Chair: David DiVincenzo, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Speakers:
Jeffrey Lagarias, AT&T Bell Labs
Public Key Cryptography and Factoring Integers
Richard Hughes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Secure Communications Using Quantum Cryptography
Medical Imaging and NMR Spectroscopy: Versatile Radiowaves
Organizer: Anne Ulrich
Chair: Anne Ulrich, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Speakers:
Christian Griesinger, University of Frankfurt
Pushing Back the Frontiers of Structure Determination of Biomolecules in Solution by Multinuclear and Multidimensional NMR Spectroscopy
Ann McDermott, Columbia University
Fine Structure in Solid State NMR:A Probe for Nonbonded Interactions and Conformational Dynamics in Enzyme Active Sites
Peter Erhard, University of Minnesota
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Human Brain
After-dinner Speaker
Organizer: Günter Ziegler
Speaker: Frank Morgan, Bronfman Science Center
Mathematics, Minimal Surfaces, and Soap Bubbles
