13th Annual U.S. Symposium
November 8-10, 2001
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Climate Change Detection/Attribution
- Cosmic Microwave Background
- Dynamics and Control and Their Applications to Robotics, Biology, and Physics
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Neurogenomics
- Species Formation and the Role of Development
- Single Molecule Dynamics/Molecular Motors
- Nanoscience
Climate Change Detection/Attribution
Organizer: Martin Visbeck
Chair: Michael E. Mann, University of Virginia
Speakers:
Gabi Hegerl, Texas A & M University
Use of Models in Climate Change Detection and Attribution
Drew Shindel, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Natural Variability Patterns and Historical Climate Change
Cosmic Microwave Background
Organizer: Steven T. Myers
Chair: John Carlstrom, University of Chicago
Speakers:
Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University
CMB Polarization: How We'll Measure It and Why We Want To
Wayne Hu, University of Chicago
Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies: Theory and Interpretation
Lyman Page, Princeton University
Dynamics and Control and Their Applications to Robotics, Biology, and Physics
Organizer: Michael I. Weinstein
Chair: Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan
Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
Speakers:
Daniel E. Koditschek, University of Michigan
Toward a Synthesis of Form and Function: Notes from the Pre-Genomic Era of Robotics
Hideo Mabuchi, California Institute of Technology
Multiscale Science, from Quantum to Bio
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Organizer: Elizabeth Winzeler
Chair: David Relman, Stanford University
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Re-Thinking Our Approaches for Microbial Detection and Discovery
Speakers:
Eva Harris, University of California Berkeley
Bringing Scientific Tools to Where Disease Occurs
Chris Plowe, University of Maryland School of Medicine
Emerging Infectious Diseases: Malaria
Neurogenomics
Organizer: Carrolee Barlow
Chair: Cornelia Bargmann, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco
Genes, Behavior, and the Sense of Smell
Speakers:
Carrolee Barlow, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Chipping Away at Complex Behavior: Transcriptome/Phenotype Correlations in the Brain
David J. Lockhart, Aventa Biosciences and The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
Genes, Genomics and the Luxury of Too Much Data
Species Formation and the Role of Development
Organizer: Gail Jarvik
Chair: Eric Dyreson, Green Mountain College
Expression Underlying Interspecific Differences In Morphology:
Tools for the Analysis of Evolutionary Change in Patterns of Gene
Speakers:
Kevin P. White, Yale University School of Medicine
Evolutionary Genomics and the Divergence of Species
Elio Sucena, Princeton University
Dissecting the Mechanistic Basis for Morphological Evolution
Single Molecule Dynamics/Molecular Motors
Organizer: Claudia Turro
Chair: John T. Fourkas, Boston College
Single-Molecule Detection and Spectroscopy
Speakers:
Robert Dickson, Georgia Institute of Technology
Interpreting And Harnessing Single Molecule Dynamics In Nanomaterials
Xiaowei Zhuang, Stanford University
Watching Enzymes Fold and Function, One Molecule at a Time
Nanoscience
Organizer: Stephen Quake
Chair: Stephen Quake, California Institute of Technology
What's Interesting in Nanoscience?
Speakers:
Hari Manoharan, Stanford University
Manipulating the Atom: Bottom-Up Assembly of Materials
