Fourth Annual U.S. Symposium
November 5-7, 1992
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Atmospheric Science: Ozone Holes: Causes and Effects of Polar Ozone Depletion
- Biology: The Cell Cycle
- Biology: Structure and Function of Proteins
- Chemistry and Physics: Buckminsterfullerenes: A New Form of Carbon
- Geosciences (Planetary Science): Venus Results from Magellan
- Materials Science: New Materials: Conducting Polymers, Organic Magnets, Composites
- Mathematics: The Wavelet Transformation
- Physics: Current Topics in Hadron Collider Physics: Prelude to the Superconducting Supercollider Era
Atmospheric Science: Ozone Holes: Causes and Effects of Polar Ozone Depletion
Organizer: Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
David Fahey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
The Science of Ozone Depletion: Results from Aircraft Measurements in the Polar Stratospheres
Mario Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
An Overview of Polar Depletion
Discussion Leader:
Ralph Cicerone, University of California, Irvine
Biology: The Cell Cycle
Organizers: Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School and Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:
Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
The Replication of DNA and the Cell Cycle
Patrick O'Farrell, University of California, San Francisco
How Cell Division is Controlled During Growth of an Embryo
Biology: Structure and Function of Proteins
Organizers: Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley and Robert Struhl, Harvard Medical School
Speakers:
Tom Alber, University of California, Berkeley
The Leucine Zipper: New Twists in Gene Regulation and Protein Structure
Rick Dahlquist, University of Oregon
Protein Structure and Dynamics in Solution
Chemistry and Physics: Buckminsterfullerenes: A New Form of Carbon
Organizers: Shirley Chiang, IBM Almaden Research Center and Sylvia Ceyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Donald Bethune, IBM Almaden Research Center
Experimental Studies of Fullerenes and Metallofullerenes
Robert Whetten, University of California, Los Angeles
The Fullerenes and the Ideas of Perfect Nanocrystals
Geosciences (Planetary Science): Venus Results from Magellan
Organizer: Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Robert Grimm, Arizona State University
Suzanne Smrekar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Venus Dead or Alive? The View from Magellan
Materials Science: New Materials: Conducting Polymers, Organic Magnets, Composites
Organizers: Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories and Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Seth Marder, California Institute of Technology
A Chemist's View of Nonlinear Optical Materials
Dennis Dougherty, California Institute of Technology
Organic Magnetic Materials
Mathematics: The Wavelet Transformation
Organizers: David Donoho, Stanford University/University of California, Berkeley and Vaughan Jones, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:
Ingrid Daubechies, Rutgers University
Wavelets and Signal Analysis
Yves Meyer, University de Paris
Wavelets and their Applications
Discussion Panel:
Gregory Beylkin, University of Colorado, Boulder
Michael Frazier, Michigan State University
Stéphane Mallat, Courant Institute-New York University
Victor Wickerhauser, Washington University
Physics: Current Topics in Hadron Collider Physics: Prelude to the Superconducting Supercollider Era
Organizer: Jim Siegrist, SSC Laboratory
Speakers:
John Huth, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
The Search for the Top Quark
Kevin Einsweiler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Testing Electroweak Theory: Present and Future
