Inaugural U.S. Symposium
March 2-4, 1989
Irvine, California
Welcome
Frank Press, President, National Academy of Sciences
Introductory Remarks
Roy Schwitters
Sessions:
Complex Systems
Organizers: Corey Goodman and William Schopf
Speakers:
Stephen H. Schneider
Hierarchical Approach to Climate Theory and Forecasting
Michael MacCracken
Time-Dependent Climate Projections with Regional Resolution
Vaughn Jones
Knot Theory and Statistical Mechanics
Paul Adams
Ion Channels: Membrane Molecules Underlying Electrical Activity of the Brain
Leonard Kaczmarek
Prolonged Changes in the Activity of Neurons
Innerspace/Outerspace
Organizers: Chris Quigg and Robert Kirshner
Speakers:
Michael Witherill
The Standard Model of Elementary Particle Physics
Orlando Alvarez
String Theory: Towards a Unified Description of the Fundamental Forces of Nature
Frank Wilczek
Gauge Fields in Unusual Places
Bernard Sadoulet
Dark Matter: An Example of the Dialogue Between Particle Physics and Cosmology
Margaret Geller
Large-Scale Structure in the Universe
Stanford Woosley
SN 1987a
Material Matters
Organizer: Mark Wrighton
Speakers:
Frank DiSalvo
The Synthesis of Solids with Unusual Structures: A Route to the Discovery of New Chemical Phenomena
Sylvia Ceyer
Sticky Collisions with a Solid: Splats and Hammers
Shirley Chiang
Imaging Molecules on Surfaces by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy
David Nelson
Physics of Polymerized Membranes
Robert Cava
Superconductivity at High Temperatures in Metal Oxides: Progress and Prospects
Dana Anderson
Adaptive Processing with Non-Linear Optics
Molecular Transformations
Organizer: Jacqueline Barton
Speakers:
Clark Still
Designing Molecules
Ahmed Zewail
Femtosecond Laser Clocking of the Chemical Bond
Peter Wolynes
Fundamental Problems in Reaction Dynamics in Complex Systems
Greg Petsko
Chemical Catalysis: The Central Theme of the Central Science
Peter Schultz
New Strategies for the Design of Biological Catalysts
Tom Cech
RNA as a Enzyme
Patterns For Life
Organizer: Charles Cantor
Speakers:
Francis Collins
Mapping and Sequencing the Human Genome: Relevance to an Understanding of Human Disease
Eric Lander
Unraveling Human Heredity
Peter Dervan
Sequence-specific Recognition of DNA
Gary Struhl
Spatial Determinants of Body Pattern
Douglas Melton
Molecular Approaches to Studying Vertebrate Development
Scott Fraser
Positional Cues in the Formation of the Vertebrate Nervous System
