14th Annual U.S. Symposium
November 14-16, 2002
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Rapid Climate Change
- Mathematical Models of Language, Learning, and Evolution
- DNA Dynamics
- Dark Matter Detection
- Network Biophysics
- Of Microbes and Men
- Common Disease Genomics: Linkage and Association
- Spatial Hearing
Rapid Climate Change
Organizer: Michael Mann
Chair: Gavin Schmidt, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies
Modeling Rapid Climate Change
Speakers:
Julian Sachs, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Record of Abrupt Climate Change in Ocean Sediments
Edward Brook, Washington State University
What Happened and When? The Ice Core Record of Rapid Climate Change
Mathematical Models of Language, Learning, and Evolution
Organizer: Michael Weinstein
Chair: Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago
Speakers:
Martin Nowak, Institute for Advanced Study
Edward J. Briscoe, Cambridge University
The Interaction of Language Learning and Evolution
DNA Dynamics
Organizer: Claudia Turro
Chair: Bern Kohler, Ohio State University
Speakers:
Mark Berg, University of South Carolina
Dynamics in DNA on the Molecular Length Scale and the Picosecond and Nanosecond Time Scales
Sarah Woodson, Johns Hopkins University
Folding and Dynamics of Large Ribozymes
Dark Matter Detection
Organizer: Lyman Page
Chair: Marc Kamionkowski, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Julianne Dalcanton, University of Washington
Hunting for Dark Matter: Tracking the Invisible
Daniel Akerib, Case Western Reserve University
Dark Matter Relics from the Big Bang: Looking for WIMPs in the Galactic Halo
Network Biophysics
Organizer: Stephen Quake
Chair: Stephen Quake, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Michael Elowitz, Rockefeller University
A Synthetic Approach to Gene Regulation Networks
Francis J. Doyle III, University of California, Santa Barbara
A Systems Approach to Modeling and Analyzing Biological Systems
Of Microbes and Men
Organizers: David Relman and Gail Pairitz Jarvik
Chair: Robert Hershberg, University of Washington
Living Large in a Microbial World
Speakers:
Jo Handelsman, University of Wisconsin
The Gypsy Moth and the Bacteria: A Gut-Wrenching Story
Lora Hooper, Washington University School of Medicine
How Normal Bacteria Shape Our Biology: In Vivo Veritas
Common Disease Genomics: Linkage and Association
Organizer: Gail Pairitz Jarvik
Chair: Marcy Speer, Duke University
Linkage Studies to Identify Genes in Complex Disease:
The Genetic Basis of Spina Bifida and Other Neural Tube Defects
Speakers:
Gail Pairitz Jarvik, University of Washington Medical Center
Nicholas Schork, University of California, San Diego
Statistical Methods for Haplotype Analysis Involving Human Diseases: Theory and Applications
Spatial Hearing
Organizer: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Chair: Beverly Wright, Northwestern University
Listening in the Dark: Improving Discrimination of Sound Source Location with Practice…and Sleep
Speakers:
Andrew King, University of Oxford
Learning to Localize with Old and New Ears: Neural Mechanisms of Plasticity
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, Boston University
Learning to Localize in a Chaotic World: Improving with Practice in Echoic Rooms
