17th German-American Symposium
Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung - U.S. National Academy of Sciences
April 9-11, 2011
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Climate Change and Biodiversity: Paradise Lost or Found?
- Endocrine Disruptors
- Mathematics of Pattern and Structure
- Memory
- Non-coding RNAs: Tiny Regulators with Great Potential
- Quantum Mechanics on the Macro-Scale
- Systems Chemistry and Functional Nanodevices
Climate Change and Biodiversity: Paradise Lost or Found?
Organizers: Gregor Rehder and Charlie Zender
Introductory Speaker:
Climate Change and Biodiversity: Paradise Lost or Found?
Peter Wilf, Pennsylvania State University
Speakers:
The Biodiversity and Biogeography of Prochlorococcus: The Dominant Photosynthetic Microbe in a Globally Changing Ocean
Zackary Johnson, Duke University
Fish Being Fished in Waters Being Warmed: Revealing Climate-Driven Changes in the Productivity of Marine Fish Species
Myron Peck, Hamburg University
Endocrine Disruptors
Organizers: Henner Hollert and Katia Koelle
Introductory Speaker:
20 Years of Endocrine Disrupter Research – What’s Next?
Markus Hecker, University of Saskatchewan
Speakers:
Is the Birth Control Pill an Effective Form of Reproduction for Wild Fish?
Karen Kidd, University of New Brunswick
Endocrine Disrupters in Sewage Effluents: Occurrence & Removal
Daniel Stalter, Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Mathematics of Pattern and Structure
Organizers: Yoichiro Mori and Angela Stevens
Introductory Speaker:
Stability of Patterns
Margaret Beck, Boston University
Speakers:
Patterns in Systems with Hysteresis
Pavel Gurevich, Free University of Berlin
Pattern Formation by Energy Minimization
Cyrill Muratov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
Memory
Organizers: Alexander Gail and Donna Maney
Introductory Speaker:
Memory Storage in Distributed Cell Assemblies
Stefan Leutgeb, University of California, San Diego
Speakers:
Activity Dependent Synaptic Plasticity: Mechanisms and Function in Learning and Memory
Ingrid Ehrlich, Werner Reichardt Centre for Integrative Neuroscience Tübingen
Linking Patterns of Neural Activity to Learning and Memory
Loren Frank, University of California, San Francisco
Non-coding RNAs: Tiny Regulators with Great Potential
Organizers: Petra Dersch and Jens Walter
Introductory Speaker:
Non-coding RNAs: Tiny Regulators with Great Potential
Jens Kortmann, Ruhr-University Bochum
Speakers:
Novel Insights into the Gene Regulatory Potential of Messenger RNA Structures
Andreas Wachter, University of Tübingen
Global Identification and Analysis of Small RNAs that Regulate Virulence in Pathogenic Yersinia Species
Wyndham Lathem, University of Chicago
Quantum Mechanics on the Macro-Scale
Organizers: Jack Harris and Ulrich Schwarz
Introductory Speaker:
Schrödinger's Cat in Modern-day Experiments
Florian Marquardt, University of Erlangen, Germany
Speakers:
Can Acoustics be Quantum?
Konrad Lehnert, JILA, University of Colorado
Probing the Wave-Particle Duality with Complex Molecules
Klaus Hornberger, Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems
Systems Chemistry and Functional Nanodevices
Organizers: Oliver Trapp and Krista Walton
Introductory Speaker:
Systems Chemistry and Functional Nanodevices – An Introduction
Heather D. Maynard, University of California, Los Angeles
Speakers:
New Concepts in Mass and Energy Transport within Carbon Nanotubes: Coherence Resonance Through Nanotube Pores and Thermopower Waves
Michael Strano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Thin Layers – Big Effects: Self-assembled Monolayers as Functional Materials
Andreas Terfort, Frankfurt University
The German-American Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation, with additional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.
