Seventh German-American Symposium
Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung – U.S. National Academy of Sciences
June 8-10, 2001
Bad-Homburg, Germany
Sessions:
- Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
- Femtochemistry - Watching Molecules in Reaction
- Learning and Memory
- Life in Extreme Environments
- Motor Proteins in Pathogen Adhesion and Infection
- Quantum Information Processing
- Traffic Flow
- Vegetation Dynamics
Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy
Organizers: David Weinberg and Lutz Wisotzki
Chair: Matthias Bartelmann, Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik
Speakers:
Max Tegmark, University of Pennsylvania
Adrian Lee, University of California, Berkeley
Femtochemistry - Watching Molecules in Reaction
Organizers: Martina Havenith-Newen and Cassandra L. Fraser
Chair: Charles A. Schmuttenmaer, Yale University
Speakers:
Martin Gruebele, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Regina de Vivie-Riedle, Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik
Learning and Memory
Organizers: Anna W. Roe and Stefan Rotter
Chair: Matthew A. Wilson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Martin Korte, Max-Planck-Institut für Neurobiologie
Craig C. Garner, University of Alabama
Life in Extreme Environments
Organizers: Julio Fernandez and Martin Stute
Chair: Christopher P. McKay, NASA Ames Research Center
Speakers:
Warwick Vincent, Laval University
Andreas P. Teske, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Motor Proteins in Pathogen Adhesion and Infection
Organizers: Viola Vogel and Antonia Kesel
Chair: Jürgen Wehland, Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung, Braunschweig
Speakers:
Jorge E. Galan, Yale University School of Medicine
Greg Smith, Princeton University
Quantum Information Processing
Organizers: Thomas Wienold and David Weinberg
Chair: Harald Weinfurter, University LMU München
Speakers:
Christopher Monroe, University of Michigan
Paul Kwiat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Traffic Flow
Organizers: Alexander Soshnikov and Joachim Buhmann
Chair: Michael Schreckenberg, University Duisburg
Speakers:
Gunter Schuetz, Forschungszentrum Jülich
Walter Willinger, AT&T Labs Research
Vegetation Dynamics
Organizers: Gerrit Lohmann and Martin Stute
Chair: Florian Jeltsch, University of Potsdam
Speakers:
Kevin L. Griffin, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University
Jonathan A. Foley, University of Wisconsin, Madison