Third Japanese-American Symposium
Japan Science and Technology Corporation, Science and Technology Agency
U.S. National Academy of Sciences
September 22-24, 2000
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Body Patterning
- Chaos/Stability of the Solar System
- Global Biogeochemical Cycles
- Grand Unified Theory
- Motility of Organisms
- Multiscale Computing
- Self Organization of Chemical Systems
- Visual Processing
Body Patterning
Organizers: Yoshiko Takahashi and Julie Theriot
Chair: Yoshiko Takahashi, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
Speakers:
Noriko Osumi, Tohoku University
Patterning the Brain
Nipam Patel, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Body Patterning during Development
Chaos/Stability of the Solar System
Organizers: Jack Lissauer and Shigeru Ida
Chair: Renu Malhotra, University of Arizona
Speakers:
Matthew Holman, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
The Long-Term Stability of the Solar System
Takashi Ito, National Astronomical Observatory
Dynamical Stability of Planetary Systems
Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Organizers: Samantha Joye and Yukio Isozaki
Chair: Susan Trumbore, University of California, Irvine
Speakers:
Hodaka Kawahata, Geological Survey of Japan
Biological Activity and its Variation Affected by Cyclic Climatic Change in the Western Pacific Warm Pool
Carolyn Ruppel, Georgia Institute of Technology
Methane Hydrates and the Global Carbon Cycle
Grand Unified Theory
Organizers: Doug Michaels and Yoshiteru Maeno
Chair: Mihoko Nojiri, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics
Speakers:
Masahiro Yamaguchi, Tohoku University
Nima Arkani-Hamed, University of California, Berkeley
Motility of Organisms
Organizers: Julie Theriot and Yoshiko Takahashi
Chair: Jonathon Howard, University of Washington
Speakers:
Enrique De La Cruz, University of Pennsylvania Medical School
Relating Chemistry to the Motility of a Molecular Motor
Yasushi Okada, University of Tokyo Medical School
KIF1A, an Essential Molecular Motor in Our Brain, is a Single-headed Maxwell's Demon
Multiscale Computing
Organizers: Tom Mrowka and Mitsuhiro Shishikura
Chair: Mei Kobayashi, IBM Research
Speakers:
Wim Sweldens, Bell Labs
Digital Geometry Processing
Toshio Irino, NTT Communication Science Laboratories
"Stabilized Wavelet-Mellin transform" for Auditory Processing
Self Organization of Chemical Systems
Organizers: Pat Vaccarro and Masahide Terazima
Chair: Jeffrey S. Moore, University of Illinois
Speakers:
Makoto Fujita, Nagoya University
Molecular Self-Assembly through Coordination
Angela M. Belcher, University of Texas at Austin
Visual Processing
Organizers: Yoshiko Takahashi and Julie Theriot
Chair: Shinsuke Shimojo, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Ichiro Fujita, Osaka University
What the Two Eyes Tell You More Than One Eye Does
Michael Paradiso, Brown University
How the Brain Builds the World We Perceive
