24th Annual U.S. Symposium
November 2-4, 2012
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Big Data Science: The Algorithmic Advances that Lie Underneath
- Diversity of Planetary Systems
- Geoengineering: The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
- Neurostimulation as a tool for Basic Science and Medicine
- Next Generation Batteries for Energy Storage
- Of Both Mice and Men – Humanized Mice
- Science Communication
- Synthetic Biology
- The Higgs and Beyond
Big Data Science: The Algorithmic Advances that Lie Underneath
Organizer: Alison Adcock, Duke University
CHAIR:
Big Data: Analysis Algorithms
Alexander Gray, Georgia Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS:
Approximate Computation and Implicit Regularization for Very Large-scale Data Analysis
Michael Mahoney, Stanford University
The Efficient and Effective Transmission, Storage, and Retrieval of Information on a Large-Scale are Among the Core Technical Problems in the Modern Digital Revolution
Anna Gilbert, University of Michigan
Diversity of Planetary Systems
Organizer: Eliza Kempton, University of California, Santa Cruz
CHAIR:
An Exoplanet Overview
John Johnson, California Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS:
Is the Solar System Rare?
Dan Fabrycky, University of Chicago
Origins of Structure in Planetary Systems
Ruth Murray-Clay, Harvard University
Geoengineering – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Organizer: Kay Bidle, Rutgers University and Lee Cerveny, U.S. Forest Service
CHAIR:
The Role of Geoengineering among Climate Strategies
Bob Kopp, Rutgers University
SPEAKERS:
Solar Geoengineering: The good, the bad, and the ugly from a physical science perspective
Kate Ricke, Stanford University
Solar Geoengineering: International and Intergenerational Equity – An Economic Perspective
Juan Moreno-Cruz, Georgia Institute of Technology
Neurostimulation as a tool for Basic Science and Medicine
Organizer: Alison Adcock, Duke University
CHAIR:
Optogenetics: Molecular and Optical Axes of Control
Feng Zhang, Broad Institute
SPEAKERS:
From Correlation to Causation: Insights and Novel Therapeutic Opportunities Using Neurostimulation and Neuroimaging in Humans
Amit Etkin, Stanford School of Medicine
Dissecting the Neural Circuits Mediating Anxiety
Kay Tye, The Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
Next Generation Batteries for Energy Storage
Organizer: Jeffry Pyun, University of Arizona
CHAIR:
Next Generation Batteries for Energy Storage
Shirley Meng, University of California, San Diego
SPEAKERS:
Advanced Materials for Energy Storage: Challenges And Opportunities
Keith Stevenson, University of Texas at Austin
Electrochemical Energy Storage
Yang Shao-Horn, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Of Both Mice and Men – Humanized Mice
Organizer: Clodagh O’Shea, The Salk Institute for Biological Studies
CHAIR:
Of both Mice and Men: Humanized mice
Kristin Baldwin, Scripps Research Institute
SPEAKERS:
Human Liver Chimeric Mice in Biomedical Research
Karl-Dimiter Bissig, Baylor College of Medicine
Genetic Basis of Humanness: Determining the Role of Hominoid-Specific and Human-Specific Gene Duplications during Brain Development
Franck Polleux, Scripps Research Institute
Science Communication
Organizer: Edward Patte, National Academy of Sciences
CHAIR:
The Brave New World of Science Communication: Why Ignoring Empirical Social Science Increasingly Undermines Scientific Progress
Dietram A. Scheufele, University of Wisconsin—Madison
SPEAKERS:
Science Communication in the Online World: Challenges and Opportunities
Dominique Brossard, University of Wisconsin—Madison
From Public Engagement to Engagement of Publics: Rethinking Models of Citizen Participation in Science Policy Decisions
Andrew R. Binder, North Carolina State University
Synthetic Biology
Organizer: Clodagh O’Shea, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences and Kay Bidle, Rutgers University
CHAIR: Xiaokun Shu, University of California, San Francisco
SPEAKERS:
Engineered Gene Circuits: From Oscillators to Synchronized Clocks and Biopixels
Jeff Hasty, University of California, San Diego
Aliens, Computers and the Bio-Economy
Drew Endy, Stanford University
The Higgs and Beyond
Organizer: Hartmut Haeffner, University of California, Berkeley
CHAIR:
The Higgs and Beyond
Beate Heinemann, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
SPEAKERS:
An experimental discovery in the search for the Higgs boson
Ben Kilminster Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Higgs and Hierarchies
Jesse Thaler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation, with additional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.