10th Annual U.S. Symposium
November 19-21, 1998
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Black Holes at the Center of the Galaxy
- Femtochemistry
- Global Climate Change
- Learning and Memory
- Mathematical Modeling of the Stock Market
- Morphological Innovation and Developmental Genetics
- Neurodegenerative Disease
- Quantum Conductors in a Plane
Black Holes at the Center of the Galaxy
Organizer: Jennifer Chayes. Microsoft Research
Chair: Alexei Filippenko, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:
Andrea Ghez, University of California, Los Angeles
Observing the Fastest Moving Stars in Our Galaxy:
Evidence of a Supermassive Black Hole at the Center of the Milky Way
Charles Bailyn, Yale University
Observing Black Holes in Binary Star Systems
Femtochemistry
Organizer: John Hartwig, Yale University
Chair: Norbert Scherer, University of Chicago
Speakers:
John Simon, Duke University
Using Ultrafast Lasers to Study Problems in Photobiology
Andrei Tokmakoff, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Watching the Time-Evolution of Structure in Complex Liquids
Global Climate Change
Organizer: Sue Brantley, Pennsylvania State University
Chair: Richard Alley, Pennsylvania State University
Speakers:
Jean Lynch-Steiglitz, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
Oceanic Records of Rapid Climate Change
Jeff Severinghaus, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Abrupt Climate Change Inferred from Thermally-Fractionated Gases in Polar Ice
Learning and Memory
Organizer: Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital
Chair: Jerry Yin, Cold Spring Harbor
Speakers:
Erin Schuman, California Institute of Technology
Plasticity of Synapses in the Brain
James Thomas, University of Washington
Toward a Molecular Basis for Learning and Memory
Mathematical Modeling of the Stock Market
Organizer: Jennifer Chayes. Microsoft Research
Chair: Doyne Farmer, Prediction Company
Speakers:
David Shaw, DE Shaw Associates
Computational Finance
Andrew Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Three P’s of Total Risk Management
Morphological Innovation and Developmental Genetics
Organizer: Charles Marshall, University of California, Los Angeles
Chair: Charles Marshall, University of California, Los Angeles
Speakers:
Nipam H. Patel, University of Chicago
The Evolution of Animal Body Plans
John Doebley, University of Minnesota
Genetics and the Evolution of Plant Form
Neurodegenerative Disease
Organizer: Charles L. Brooks, Scripps Research Institute
Chair: Edward Koo, University of California at San Diego
Speakers:
Jeffery Kelly, Scripps Research Institute
Biophysical Studies Suggest a New Small Molecule Therapeutic Strategy
for Intervention in Human Amyloid Disease
Peter T. Lansbury, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Center for Neurologic Diseases
Structural Neurology: the Molecular Mechanism of Fibril Formation by the Amyloid Protein
Quantum Conductors in a Plane
Organizer: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois
Chair: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois
Speakers:
Subir Sachdev, Yale University
Quantum Phase Transitions
Sergey Kravchenko, Northeastern University
Unexpected Insulator-Conductor Transition in Two-Dimensional Metals
Ali Yazdani, University of Illinois
Quantum Motion of Electron Pairs in Flatland
