First Japanese-American Symposium
Science and Technology Agency, Japan Science and Technology Corporation - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
August 21-23, 1998
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Applications of Physics to Topology and Geometry
- Biological Clock
- Composite Fermions and Bosons
- Femtochemistry
- Functional Genomics
- Genetics: Nature vs. Nurture
- Large Ground-based Telescopes
- The Tempo of Mass Extinction and Recovery: No Dates No Rates
Applications of Physics to Topology and Geometry
Organizers: Tomasz Mrowka and Akira Shimizu
Chair: Tomasz Mrowka, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Hiraku Nakajima, Kyoto University
Generating Functions in Geometry
Clifford H. Taubes, Harvard University
Low Dimensional Topology and Physics
Biological Clock
Organizers: Norio Ishida and Paul Ahlquist
Chair: Norio Ishida, National Institute of Bioscience and Human Technology
Speakers:
Maki Kaneko, Brandeis University
Pacemaker Cells in the Fruit Fly
Ravi Allada, Brandeis University
Identification of New Circadian Rhythm Genes Indicates that the Molecular Components of the Pacemaker are Conserved Between Flies and Mammals
Composite Fermions and Bosons
Organizers: Hideo Ohno, Sylvia Ceyer and Charles Steidel
Chair: Yasuhiro Iye, University of Tokyo
Electron Masquerade in "Quantum Hall"
Speakers:
Hideo Aoki, University of Tokyo
Composite Particles in Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
Mansour Shayegan, Princeton University
Electrons on a Flatland: Surprises Never Stop
Functional Genomics
Organizers: Paul Ahlquist and Norio Ishida
Chair: Stanley Fields, University of Washington
Speakers:
David Lockhart, Affymetrix, Inc.
Genes, Genomics and DNA Chips
Yuji Kohara, National Institute of Genetics
The Genome as the Blueprint of Life
Femtochemistry
Organizers: Kaoru Yamanouchi and Sylvia Ceyer
Chair: Yoshitaka Tanimura, Ikazaki National Research Institute
Speakers:
Koichi Yamashita, University of Tokyo
The World of Femtoseconds
Philip Anfinrud, Harvard University
From Femtosecond Spectroscopy to Picosecond Crystallography: Probing Structural Dynamics in Protein
Genetics: Nature vs. Nurture
Organizers: Daisuke Yamamoto and Paul Ahlquist
Chair: Eric Hoffman, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Muscle as Defined by Your Genes, and Your Environment, and Everything in Between
Speakers:
Takeshi Yagi, National Institute for Physiological Sciences
Nature and Nurture in Gene Knock-Out Mice
Ulrike Heberlein, University of California, San Francisco
Drosophila as a Model Organism for Alcoholism?
Large Ground-based Telescopes
Organizers: Charles Steidel and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki
Chair: Toshikazu Ebisuzaki, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
Speakers:
Andrea Ghez, University of California-Los Angeles
Bringing the Galaxy into Focus
Arjun Dey, Johns Hopkins University
Unveiling the Universe: Science with Large-Aperture Telescopes
Mamoru Doi, University of Tokyo
Supernovae Search with Large Ground-Based Telescopes
The Tempo of Mass Extinction and Recovery: No Dates No Rates
Organizers: Deborah Penry and Toshikazu Ebisuzaki
Chair: Samuel Bowring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Douglas Erwin, National Museum of Natural History
Dates and Rates: Using Radiometirc Dates to Test Models of the End-Permian Mass Extinction and Recovery
Yukio Isozaki, University of Tokyo
Superocean, Superanoxia, and the Permo/Triassic Extinction
