Second Annual U.S. Symposium
November 1-3, 1990
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Astrophysics
- Atmospheric Sciences
- Computation
- Dynamic Systems
- Gene Regulation/Transcription Factors
- Geology
- Neural Networks
- Nuclear Magnetic Imaging
- Photosynthesis Real and Artificial
- Physics
Astrophysics
Organizers: Margaret Geller and Larry Smarr
Speaker:
Tony Tyson, AT&T Bell Labs
Imaging the Distant Universe: Galaxies & Dark Matter
Discussion Panel:
S.G. Djorgovski, California Institute of Technology
David Koo, University of California, Santa Cruz
Edmund Bertschinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jill Bechtold, University of Arizona, Tucson
Atmospheric Sciences
Organizer: Larry Smarr
Speaker:
Gregory J. McRae, Carnegie Mellon University
Using Supercomputing and Visualization in LA Smog Simulation
Discussion Panel:
Alan C. Lloyd, South Coast Air Quality Management District, CA
Arthur Winer, University of California, Los Angeles
Computation
Organizer: Larry Smarr
Speaker:
William Press, Harvard University
Unexpected Scientific Computing
Discussion Panel:
Jean Taylor, Rutgers University
Stephen Wolfram, University of Illinois, Urbana
Alan Huang, AT&T, Holmdel
Dynamic Systems
Organizer: William Thurston
Speaker:
John Hubbard, Cornell University
Chaos, Determination and Information
Discussion Panel:
Robert Devaney, Boston University
Steven G. Krantz, Washington University, St. Louis
Curt McMullen, University of California, Berkeley
Gene Regulation/Transcription Factors
Organizer: Eric Lander
Speaker:
Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley
Gene Regulation in Animal Cells: Transcriptional Factors and Mechanisms
Discussion Panel:
Arnold Berk, University of California, Los Angeles
Doug Hanahan, University of California, San Francisco
Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School
Ruth Lehmann, Whitehead Institute
Geology
Organizers: Raymond Jeanloz and Susan Kieffer
Speaker:
David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology
How the Earth Works: Techniques for Understanding the Dynamics and Structure of Planets
Discussion Panel:
Jeremy Bloxham, Harvard University
Michael Gurnis, University of Michigan
Russ Hemley, Carnegie Institution Washington
Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Neural Networks
Organizer: Peter Dervan
Speaker:
Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology
Visual Motion: From Computational Analysis to Neural Networks and Perception
Discussion Panel:
Paul Adams, SUNY, Stony Brook
James Bower, California Institute of Technology
William Newsome, Stanford University
Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute and University of California, San Diego
Shimon Ullman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Nuclear Magnetic Imaging
Organizer: Peter Dervan
Speaker:
William G. Bradley, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center
Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy
Discussion Panel:
David Stark, Mass General (contrast agents)
Robert Balaban, NIH (theory)
Graeme Bydder, Hammersmith
John Crues III, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital (NMR of joints)
Photosynthesis Real and Artificial
Organizer: Peter Dervan
Speaker:
Mark Wrighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chemical and Biological Systems for the Conversion of Light
Discussion Panel:
Nathan S. Lewis, California Institute of Technology
Thomas E. Mallouk, University of Texas, Austin
George L. McLendon, University of Rochester
Douglas C. Rees, California Institute of Technology
Physics
Organizers: Orlando Alvarez, David Nelson, and Raphael Kasper
Speakers:
Peter Bancel, IBM Yorktown Heights
Icosahedral Quasicrystals
Alex Zettl, University of California, Berkeley
High-Temperature Superconductivity
Discussion Panel:
Daniel Fisher, Princeton University
Peter Gammel, AT&T Bell Labs
Duncan Haldane, University of California, La Jolla
Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
