16th Annual U.S. Symposium
November 4-6, 2004
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Aging and Cellular Senescence
- Are the Ice Sheets Contributing to Sea Level Rise?
- Beyond Squish: The New Science of Colloids
- Computational Analysis of Social Networks
- From Quarks to Cosmos
- Life off Earth
- Origin of Language
- Tree of Life
Aging and Cellular Senescence
Organizer: Sarah Woodson
Chair: Blanka Rogina, University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center
Aging and Cellular Senescence
Speakers:
Gordon Lithgow, The Buck Institute
A Simple Animal for a Complex Question; The Limits of a Microscopic Nematode’s Lifespan
Marc Tatar, Brown University
Endocrine Control of Aging
Are the Ice Sheets Contributing to Sea Level Rise?
Organizer: Mary-Elena Carr
Chair: Ian Joughin, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Are the Ice Sheets Contributing to Sea Level Rise?
Speakers:
Christina Hulbe, Portland State University
Giant Ice Sheet Threatens Globe (Or Maybe Not):
Numerical Models As Tools For Understanding Ice Sheet Behavior
Sarah B. Das, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Are the Ice Sheets Contributing to Sea Level Rise?
Temporal Context, Time-Scales, and Clues Within the Ice
Beyond Squish: The New Science of Colloids
Organizer: Bern Kohler
Chair: Sharon C. Glotzer, University of Michigan
From Squish to Self-Assembly: The New Science and Engineering of Colloids
Speakers:
David W. M. Marr, Colorado School of Mines
Colloids for Micro- and Nanotechnology
John C. Crocker, University of Pennsylvania
Computational Analysis of Social Networks
Organizer: Avrim Blum
Chair: Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
Computer Science, Economics and Networks
Speakers:
Duncan Watts, Columbia University
Networks, Search, and The Small-World Problem
Tim Roughgarden, University of California at Berkeley
Selfish Routing and the Price of Anarchy
From Quarks to Cosmos
Organizer: Licia Verde
Chair: Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
From Quarks to Cosmos
Speakers:
William H. Kinney, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
The Inflationary Universe
Laura Baudis, University of Florida
Underground Searches For Dark Matter Particles
Life off Earth
Organizer: Josh Klein
Chair: Edwin Bergin, University of Michigan
Life Off Earth
Speakers:
Paul Butler, Carnegie Institute
Extrasolar Planets: The Next Decade
James Bell, Cornell University
Origin of Language
Organizer: Stephanie White
Chair: Marco Iacoboni, University of California, Los Angeles
Origin of Language
Speakers:
Jianzhi George Zhang, University of Michigan
Evolutionary Genetics of Human Speech/Language Emergence
Amanda Miller-Ockhuizen, Cornell University
Evolutionary Advantages and Disadvantages of Click Consonants
Tree of Life
Organizer: Cameron Currie
Chair: David M. Hillis, University of Texas, Austin
The Tree of Life
Speakers:
Maureen A. O’Leary, Stony Brook University
Bret Larget, University of Wisconsin at Madison
The Challenge of Estimating the Tree of Life from Molecular Data
