11th Annual U.S. Symposium
November 11-13, 1999
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Genomics
- Snowball Earth
- Random Matrices/Sphere Packing
- Life in Extreme Environments: Hydrothermal Vents
- Einstein's Biggest Blunder
- Combinatorial Chemistry in Materials and Catalysis
- Cell Death/Polyglutamine Disease
- Does the Granular Matter?
Genomics
Organizer: Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital
Chair: Gary Ruvkun, Massachusetts General Hospital
The Taxonomy of Animal Developmental Control Genes Revealed
by the First Complete Animal Genome Sequence
Speakers:
Eugene Koonin, National Institutes of Health
Steven Friend, Rosetta Inpharmatics
Use of Gene Expression Profiling to Explore Chemical Space
Snowball Earth
Organizer: Jean Lynch Stieglitz, Columbia University
Chair: Dan Schrag, Harvard University
Speakers:
David Evans, The University of Western Australia
A Proterozoic Paleoclimatic Paradox Persists
Doug Erwin, Smithsonian Institution
Evolutionary Implications of a Snowball Earth
Random Matrices/Sphere Packing
Organizer: Mary Pugh, University of Pennsylvania
Chair: Mary Pugh, University of Pennsylvania
Speakers:
Peter Sarnak, Princeton University
Random Matrices
Tom Hales, University of Michigan
Sphere Packing
Life in Extreme Environments: Hydrothermal Vents
Organizer: Nipam Patel, University of Chicago
Chair: Robert A. Zierenberg, University of California - Davis
Speakers:
Alissa J. Arp, San Francisco State University
Life in Hydrothermal Vents: Detoxification Strategies of Invertebrates Living with Sulfide
Mike Adams, The University of Georgia
Microbial Diversity Near 100°C in Marine Environments
Einstein's Biggest Blunder
Organizers: Tereasa Brainerd, Boston University and Philip Phillips, University of Illinois
Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
Life, the Universe, and Nothing: The Case for a Cosmological C stant
Speakers:
Saul Perlmutter, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory/University of California
Supernovae, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Universe
Martin White, Harvard University
The Cosmic Rosetta Stone
Combinatorial Chemistry in Materials and Catalysis
Organizer: John Hartwig, Yale University
Chair: John Hartwig, Yale University
Speakers:
Marc L. Snapper, Boston College
The Discovery of New Transformations Using Combinatorial Strategies
Peter Schultz, The Scripps Research Institute
Cell Death/Polyglutamine Disease
Organizer: Edward Koo, University of California, San Diego
Chair: Henry Paulson, University of Iowa College of Medicine
Speakers:
Kevin Roth, Washington University School of Medicine
Molecular Regulation of Neuronal Cell Death
Nancy Bonini, University of Pennsylvania
Finding New Ways to Prevent Neurodegenerative Disease
Does the Granular Matter?
Organizer: Philip Phillips, University of Illinois
Chair: Heinrich Jaeger, University of Chicago
Speakers:
Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern University
Oscillons
Troy Shinbrot, Rutgers University
Reverse Buoyancy in Sand
