11th Chinese-American Symposium

Chinese Academy of Sciences - U.S. National Academy of Sciences

October 2-4, 2008
Irvine, California

Sessions:

Alternative Energy/CO2 to Methane

Organizers: Susmita Bose and Zhu Jinsong

Chair:
Assessing Value Chains and Venture Opportunities for Alternative Energy Technologies
Peter Adriaens, University of Michigan

Speakers:
Alternative Liquid Fuel from Coal
Han Yizhuo, Institute of Charcoal Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Science

Plastic Solar Cells? Challenges and Opportunities using New Materials for Photovoltaics
David Ginger, University of Washington

Chemistry-Aerosol-Climate Interactions

Organizers: Hong Liao and Thorsten Becker

Chair:
Chemistry-Aerosol-Climate Interactions: A Challenging Scientific Issue in Global Change
Wang Tijian, Nanjing University

Speakers:
Clean Air - Cool Planet: On The Global Climate Benefits of Smog Control
Nadine Unger, NASA Godard Institute for Space Studies

Long-Range Transport of Mineral Dust and the Effects on Clouds and Precipitation
Yin Yan, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology

Consciousness

Organizer: Fiona Crawford

Chair:
Consciousness: An Introduction
Po-Jang (Brown) Hsieh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speakers:
Visual Consciousness
LI, Wu, Beijing Normal University

Can We Ever Fully Understand Consciousness?
Geoffrey Lee, New York University

Evolution of New Genes/Body Morphology

Organizers: Kirsten Hagstrom and Zhang Jian

Chair:
Evolution of Biological Diversity through New Gene Origination
Manyuan Long, University of Chicago

Speakers:
Genome Novelty and Origin of Human Intelligence
Bing Su, Kunming Institute of Zoology

The Origins and Evolution of de Novo Genes
Corbin Jones, University of North Carolina

Exoplanets

Organizers: Fan Zuhui and Andrew MacFadyen

Chair:
Exoplanets
Sara Seager, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Speakers:
Observations of Exoplanets
Joshua Winn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Exoplanets: A Challenge to Planet Formation Theory
Jilin Zhou, Nanjing University

Human-Robot Interactions

Organizers: Gillian Hayes and Bai Fengshan

Chair:
Human-Robot Interactions
Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Institute of Technology

Speakers:
Human-Robot Interactions
Xie Guangming, Peking University

Designing Fluent Human-Robot Collaboration
Guy Hoffman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Integrated Microfluidics

Organizers: Ian Appelbaum and Huang Yanyi

Chair:
Integrated Microfluidics
Zheng Bo, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Speakers:
Integrated Multi-Scale Microfluidics
Donald DeVoe, University of Maryland

Integrated Microfluidics
Wu Hongkai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Nuclear Reprogramming

Organizers: Zhang Jian and Justin Hanes

Chair:
Nuclear Reprogramming
Zhang Jian, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences

Speakers:
The Therpeutical Potential of Plurpotent Stem Cells (ES or iPS) for Major Diseases
Duanqing Pei, Guangzhou Institute of Biomedicine and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences

A Chemical Approach to Pluripotency and Reprogramming
Sheng Ding, The Scripps Research Institute

The Chinese-American Kavli 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.

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