25th Annual U.S. Symposium
November 7-9, 2013
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- The Art-Science Interface
- Assessing the Threat of Asteroid Impacts on Earth
- Biodegradable Materials
- Infochemicals and Cell Signaling
- Making Sense of the World with Deep Learning
- Neupsychaitric Disease
- Ocean Observatories
- Progress in Bringing a Star to Earth
- Protein Folding
Video Available
The Art-Science Interface
Organizer: Kay Bidle, Rutgers University and Desney Tan, Microsoft Research
CHAIR:
The Art-Science Interface
Andrew S. Yang, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
SPEAKERS:
The Art-Science Interface
Natalie Jeremijenko, New York University
Humanizing Science: Lessons from Artists
James Gillooly, University of Florida
Assessing the Threat of Asteroid Impacts on Earth
Organizer: Marla Geha, Yale University
CHAIR:
Assessing the Threat of Asteroid Impacts on Earth: Current knowledge and outstanding questions for Near Earth Objects
David Trilling, Northern Arizona University
SPEAKERS:
Defending the Earth with a Telescope: Mitigating Impact Hazard through Studies of Near-Earth Asteroids
Nicholas Moskovitz, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Where do near-Earth Asteroids come from?
Kevin Walsh, Southwest Research Institute
Biodegradable Materials
Organizer: Janis Louie, University of Utah
CHAIR:
Next-Gen Bio-inspired Polymeric Tissue Adhesive Technologies
Jeffrey Karp, Harvard University
SPEAKERS:
Translational Regenerative Medicine
Jennifer Elisseeff, John Hopkins University
Biodegradable Hydrogels for Cardiac Repair
Jason Burdick University of Pennsylvania
Infochemicals and Cell Signaling
Organizer: Kay Bidle, Rutgers University and Magdalena Bezanilla, University of Massachusetts
CHAIR:
Infochemicals and Cell Signaling
Wai-Leung Ng, Tufts University
SPEAKERS:
Signals and Nutrient Sensing in Microbial Communities
Vanessa Sperandio, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Infochemical Signaling and the Marine Carbon Cycle: How Might Microbial Communications Control the Levels of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere?
Ben Van Mooy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Making Sense of the World with Deep Learning
Organizer: Desney Tan, Microsoft Research and Marla Geha, Yale University
CHAIR:
An Overview of Deep Learning
Rob Fergus, New York University
SPEAKERS:
Supervised Deep Learning
Marc’Aurelio Ranzato, Facebook
Unsupervised Deep Learning
Adam Coates, Stanford University
Neuropsychiatric Disease
Organizer: Karen Bales, University of California, Davis
CHAIR:
What’s wrong with my Brain? The Neurobiology of Mental Illness
Alex Dranovsky, Columbia University
SPEAKERS:
Chasing an Autism Biomarker down the Trail of Brain Development
Jeremy Veenstra-Vanderweele, Vanderbilt University
Genetic Diversity and Psychiatric Risk
Zoe Donaldson, Columbia University
Ocean Observatories
Organizers: Kay Bidle, Rutgers University and Lee Cerveny, USDA Forest Service
Ocean Observatories
Joshua Kohut, Rutgers University
SPEAKERS:
Running Head: Spatial Aggregations Regulate Community
Kelly Benoit Bird, Oregon State University
Using Ocean Observatories to Discover Habitat Associations
Matthew Oliver, University of Delaware
Progress in Bringing a Star To Earth
Organizers: Hartmut Haeffner, University of California, Berkeley and Marla Geha, Yale University
CHAIR:
Progress in Brining a Star to Earth
Antoine Cerfon, Courant Institute, New York University
SPEAKERS:
Understanding and Controlling Turbulence at 100 Million Degrees
Walter Guttenfelder, Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
Enclosing a Star: The Challenges of Materials in Magnetic Fusion Energy
Zachary Hartzwig, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Protein Folding
Organizer: Magdalena Bezanilla, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
CHAIR:
Protein Folding
Patricia Clark, University of Notre Dame
SPEAKERS:
Order from Disorder: Defining 'Structure' in Disordered Proteins
Elizabeth Rhoades, Yale University
Ideas for Solving the Rest of the Protein Folding Problem
Lisa Lapidus Michigan State University
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.
