15th Annual U.S. Symposium
November 6-8, 2003
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Machine Learning
- Birdsong
- Climate Variability and Change and Marine Fish Populations
- RNA Epigenetics
- Frontiers in Cosmological Physics
- Neutrino Physics
- Molecular Electronics
- Chemical Ecology
Machine Learning
Organizer: Partha Niyogi
Chair: Robert Schapire, Princeton University
A Brief Introduction to Modern Machine Learning
Speakers:
Avrim Blum, Carnegie Mellon University
Some Basic Issues in Concept Learning and Generalization
Tommi Jaakkola, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Learning, Inference, and Structure
Birdsong
Organizer: Barbara Shinn-Cunningham
Chair: Kamal Sen, Boston University
Birdsong: from Behavior to Neuron
Speakers:
Stephanie A. White, University of California, Los Angeles
Michale Fee, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Climate Variability and Change and Marine Fish Populations
Organizer: Michael Mann
Chair: Nathan Mantua, University of Washington
Speakers:
Mary Elena Carr, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
Environmental Determinants of Small Pelagic Fisheries in Eastern Boundary Currents
Daniel Schindler, University of Washington
Local Adaptation and Climate Change: Can Organisms Keep Up?
RNA Epigenetics
Organizer: Sarah Woodson
Chair: Greg Hannon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Speakers:
Jeannie T. Lee, HHMI, Massachusetts General Hospital
Regulation of X-chromosome Inactivation by Non-coding RNA Elements
Rob Martienssen, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Transposable Elements, RNA Interference and the Origin of Heterochromatin
Frontiers in Cosmological Physics
Organizer: Lyman Page
Chair: Sean Carroll, University of Chicago
Gravitational Waves and the Cosmological Constant
Speakers:
John Ruhl, Case Western Reserve University
Using the Cosmic Microwave Background to detect Gravity Waves in the Early Universe
Licia Verde, Pennsylvania State University
Dark Energy and How to Constrain it with the Cosmic Microwave Background
Neutrino Physics
Organizer: Marc Kamionkowski
Chair: Janet Conrad, Columbia University
Neutrinos Matter
Speakers:
Josh Klein, University of Texas, Austin
Neutrinos from the Sun
Kate Scholberg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neutrinos from the Sky and Through the Earth
Molecular Electronics
Organizer: Bern Kohler
Chair: James R. Heath, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Hongkun Park, Harvard University
Transport and Scanned Probe Investigations of Chemical Nanostructures
Mark Hersam, Northwestern University
Silicon-based Molecular Electronics
Chemical Ecology
Organizer: Jo Handelsman
Chair: Michael Huffmann, Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University
The Evolution of Self-Medication in the Animal Kingdom
Speakers:
Cameron Currie, Kansas University
Ants, Agriculture, and Antibiotics
Beth Lazazzera, University of California, Los Angeles
Mechanism of Cell-Cell Signaling by the bacterium Bacillus subtilis
