Fifth Japanese-American Symposium
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
December 6-8, 2002
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Earthquakes
- Genetic Networks
- Learning/Memory
- Evolution of Social Order
- Regenerative Medicine
- Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems
- Molecular Catalysis
- Atmospheric Moist Convection
Earthquakes
Organizers: Lorenzo Polvani and Shinji Tsuneyuki
Chair: Jean Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Dynamics of Earthquake Faults
Speakers:
Satoshi Ide, University of Tokyo
Earthquake Dynamic Processes Analyzed by Seismic Waveforms
Bruce Shaw, Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory
Genetic Networks
Organizers: Tandy Warnow and Haruo Kasai
Chair: Roger Brent, The Molecular Sciences Institute
Speakers:
Hitoshi Okamoto, The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN)
Genetic Dissection of Differentiation and Axonal Outgrowth of the Cranial Motor Neurons in Zebrafish
Trey Ideker, Whitehead Institute
Large-Scale Integration of Physical and Genetic Interaction Networks
Learning/Memory
Organizers: Michael Paradiso and Tandy Warnow
Chair: Alfredo Kirkwood, Johns Hopkins University
Speakers:
Atsushi Iriki, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
Biological Bases of the “Sense of Self”Learned and Stored in the Parietal Cortex
Erich Jarvis, Duke University
Evolution o f Brain Pathways for Vocal Learning
Evolution of Social Order
Organizers: Yoshimichi Sato and Michael Dennin
Chair: Yoshimichi Sato, Tohoku University
Problem of Social Order:From Hobbes to Evolutionary Game Theory
Speakers:
Game Theory and the Evolution of the Social Contract
Jeffrey P. Carpenter, Middlebury College
Shozo Ota, The University of Tokyo
Regenerative Medicine
Organizers: Haruo Kasai and Li Jin
Chair: Ole Isacson, Harvard Medical School
Designing Stem Cell Therapies for Neurodegenerative Diseases
Speakers:
Juan Carlos Belmonte, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
Hideyuki Okano, Keio University School of Medicine
Stem Cell Biology and Regeneration of the Central Nervous System
Slow Dynamics in Complex Systems
Organizers: Shinji Tsuneyuki and Michael Dennin
Chair: Andrea Liu, University of California, Los Angeles
Jamming
Speakers:
Eric Weeks, Emory University
The Physics of Colloidal Glasses
Ryoichi Yamamoto, Kyoto University
Slow Dynamics and Unusual Flow Behavior of Glassy Materials
Molecular Catalysis
Organizers: Yukio Ouchi and J. Ilja Seipmann
Chair: Takeshi Ohkuma, Nagoya University
Molecular Catalysis
Speakers:
William Tolman, University of Minnesota
Using Synthetic Chemistry to Understand Molecular Oxygen Production and Utilization in Biology
Shu Kobayashi, The University of Tokyo
Organic Reactions in Water
Atmospheric Moist Convection
Organizers: Lorenzo Polvani and Hitoshi Mukougawa
Chair: Bjorn Stevens, University of California, Los Angeles
Speakers:
Adam Sobel, Columbia University
Understanding Deep Convection in the Tropics
Masahide Kimoto, University of Tokyo
Moist Convection and the General Circulation
