Third Annual U.S. Symposium
November 7-9, 1991
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Astrophysics: Looking Inside the Sun
- Biology: Basic Science Related to AIDS
- Computer Science: Aspects of Theoretical Computer Science
- Geosciences: Earthquake Prediction
- Geosciences: Mass Extinctions
- Materials Science: Quantum Controlled Semiconductors
- Mathematics: Topology
- Physics: Manipulating Atoms by Laser Atom Trapping and Scanning Tunneling Tips
Astrophysics: Looking Inside the Sun
Organizer: William Press, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Speakers:
Ken Libbrecht, California Institute of Technology
Helioseismic Observations of the Solar Interior
Doug Gough, Cambridge University, UK
Physical Inferences from Solar Oscillations
John Wilkerson, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Solar Neutrinos Probing the Sun or Neutrinos?
Biology: Basic Science Related to AIDS
Organizers: Eric Lander, Whitehead Institute and Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School
Speakers:
Eric Hunter, University of Alabama-Birmingham
Cell/Virus Interactions Involved in Retrovirus Replication
Richard Young, Whitehead Institute
Games that HIV and Molecular Geneticists Play
Computer Science: Aspects of Theoretical Computer Science
Organizer: Robert Tarjan, Princeton University
Speakers:
Laszlo Babai, University of Chicago
Transparent Proofs
Maria Klawe, University of British Columbia
Geometry and Graphics: Challenges in Complexity
F. Thomson Leighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Role of Randomness in Computer Architecture
Geosciences: Earthquake Prediction
Organizer: Maria McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Thomas Heaton, US Geological Survey, Pasadena
The Physics of Earthquake Recurrence
William Ellsworth, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Clocks in the Earth
Discussion Panel:
Thorne Lay, University of California, Santa Cruz
Joann Stock, Geological Museum, Harvard
Kerry Sieh, California Institute of Technology
Duncan Agnew, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Geosciences: Mass Extinctions
Organizers: Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Richard Muller, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:
Walter Alvarez, University of California, Berkeley
The Link Between Large-body Impact on Earth and Biological Mass Extinction
Jan Smit, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Geological Record of Mass Extinctions
Piet Hut, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Astronomical Mechanisms for Multiple Impacts
Discussion Leader:
Alessandro Montanari, University of California, Berkeley
Materials Science: Quantum Confined Semiconductors
Organizers: Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Kerry J. Vahala, California Institute of Technology
Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots
Michael L. Steigerwald, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Molecular Particles of Semiconductor Solids
David Rudman, NIST, Boulder, CO
Atomic Layer Growth of Thin Films
Mathematics: Topology
Organizer: William Thurston, Princeton University
Speakers:
Michael H. Freedman, University of California, San Diego
A Lecture on the Energy of a Knot (or an Unknot)
Michael J. Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Recent Progress in Algebraic Theory
Physics: Manipulating Atoms by Laser Atom Trapping and Scanning Tunneling Tips
Organizers: Sylvia Ceyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Speakers:
Steven Chu, Stanford University
Neutral Particle Manipulation with Light
Donald M. Eigler, IBM Almaden Research Center
Atomic and Molecular Manipulation with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope
