Eighth Chinese-American Symposium
Chinese Academy of Sciences - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
November 2-4, 2005
Xiamen, China
Sessions:
- Aging/Neudegeneration/Alzheimers
- Brain Imaging
- Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
- Large Scale Structure of the Universe
- Nanoscale Materials
- Origin of Language/Phylogenetics
- Quantum Information
- RNAi and Genome Defense
Aging/Neudegeneration/Alzheimers
Organizers: Dora Kovacs and Tom Mistelli
Chair: Raymond J. Kelleher, MIT and Harvard Medical School
Speakers:
Andy Dillin, Salk Institute
Jiawei Zhou, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Brain Imaging
Organizers: Zhang Yu and Raj Mohanty
Chair: Yan Zhuo, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Speakers:
Gina Kuperberg, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital
Li-Hai Tan, University of Hong Kong
Carbon Cycle and Climate Change
Organizers: Kong Ping and Whitey Hagadorn
Chair: Xu Yongfu, Institute of Atmosphere Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Speaker: Dai Minhan, Xiamen University
Large Scale Structure of the Universe
Organizers: Teviet Creighton and Zhang Shuangnun
Chair: Chung-Pei Ma, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:
Joseph Mohr, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Junxian Wang, The University of Science and Technology of China
Nanoscale Materials
Organizers: Fang Xiaohong and Angela Wilson
Chair: Zhen Yao, University of Texas-Austin
Speakers:
Yuliang Zhao, Institute of High Energy Physics, CAS
Hari Manoharan, Stanford University
Origin of Language/Phylogenetics
Organizers: Tiffani Williams, Dora Kovacs, and Zhou Aihui
Chair: Zev Handel, University of Washington
Speakers:
Wang Feng, Peking University
Luay Nakhleh, Rice University
Quantum Information
Organizers: Tiffani Williams, Raj Mohanty, and Wu Chenxu
Chair: Fei Xue, Institute of Theoretical Physics, CAS
Speaker: Pan Jian-wei, University of Science and Technology of China
RNAi and Genome Defense
Organizers: Suzanne Rutherford and Wang Yizheng
Chair: Rodolfo Aramayo, Texas A&M University
Speakers:
Xiaofeng Cao, Institute of Genetics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Bill Kelly, Emory University
The Chinese-American Frontiers of Science symposium series is sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and supported, in part, with funding from the Beckman Foundation, and the Agouron Institute.