Ninth Chinese-American Symposium
Chinese Academy of Sciences - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
October 26-28, 2006
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Alternative Energy Fuels
- Bionics/Human Machine Interface
- Bioremediation of Contaminated Elements
- Black Hole Growth and Their Host Environments
- The Genetics of Race and Human Populations
- Multiscale Modeling and Optimization
- Nanomedicine: Navigating into the Cell
- Smart Surface-Responsive Materials
Alternative Energy Fuels
Organizers: Angela Wilson and Zhu Jinsong
Chair:
Alternative Energy Fuels
Roy Periana, University of Southern California
Speakers:
Alternative Energy Fuels and Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells
Sun Gongquan, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics
Environmentally Friendly Nanoporous Oxide Catalysts for Biodiesel Synthesis
Victor Shang-Yi Lin, Iowa State University
Bionics/Human Machine Interface
Organizers: Tom Misteli, Win Burleson and Pei Duanqing
Chair:
Bionics / Human Machine Interface
Hong Tan, Purdue University
Speakers:
Bionic Human-Machine Interaction
Helen Meng, Chinese University Hong Kong
Neural Prostheses/Brain-Machine Interfaces
Krishna Shenoy, Stanford University
Bioremediation of Contaminated Elements
Organizers: Yongguan Zhu and Tanja Bosak
Chair:
Bioremediation of Contaminated Elements
Elizabeth Pilon Smits, Colorado State University
Speakers:
Bioremediation of Pollutants
Luo Yongming, Nanjing Institute of Soil Science
Engineering Pathways for Arsenic Hyperaccumulation in Plants
Om Parkash Dhankher, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Black Hole Growth and Their Host Environments
Organizers: Wang Yipeng and Teviet Creighton
Chair:
Living Black Holes
Zhang Shuang Nan, Tsinghua University
Speakers:
The Mass and Growth of Black Holes
Wu Xue-Bing, Peking University
Black Hole Growth and Their Host Environments
Milos Milosavljevic, The University of Texas, Austin
The Genetics of Race and Human Populations
Organizers: Tom Misteli, Fiona Crawford and Pei Duanqing
Chair:
The Genetics of Human Populations
Stephen Wooding, University of Utah
Speakers:
Genetic Influences on health: Does Race Matter?
Mike Bamshad, University of Washington
Population Genetic Implications to the Study of Human History and Diseases/Traits
Zhang Ya-Ping, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Multiscale Modeling and Optimization
Organizers: Hong Jialin and Angela Wilson
Chair:
Multiscale Modeling and Optimization
Anne Chaka, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Speakers:
“To Be or Not To Be”: A Story of Decision, Optimization, and Randomization
Zhang Shuzhong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Multiscale Optimization of Nanomaterials
Kyeongjae Cho, Stanford University
Nanomedicine: Navigating into the Cell
Organizers: Hari Manoharan and Zhu Jinsong
Chair:
Nanomedicine: Imitating Nature in the Design of New Therapies
Suzie Hwang Pun, University of Washington
Speakers:
Polymeric Nanopharmaceuticals: Good Things in Small (Plastic) Packages
Justin S. Hanes, Johns Hopkins University
Roadmap from BioNanotechnology to Nanomedicine
Xi Jianzhong, Beijing University
Smart Surface-Responsive Materials
Organizers: Zhao Hongwu and Bill Kelly
Chair:
Smart Surface-Responsive Materials
Pulickel Ajayan, Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute
Speakers:
Engineering Carbon Nanotube Architectures
Pulickel Ajayan, Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute
Design and Creation of Bioinspired Surfaces with Special Wettability
Lei Jiang, Institute of Chemistry, National Center for Nano-Science and Technology
The Kavli Chinese-American Frontiers of Science symposia are sponsored by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Major support in the U.S. is provided by the Kavli Foundation with additional support from the National Academy of Sciences and the Ellison Medical Foundation.