Fifth Annual U.S. Symposium
Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy
November 4-6, 1993
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Astrophysics: The Universe at Radio and Infrared Wavelengths
- Biology: The Human Genome
- Chemistry: Chemical Reaction Dynamics
- Mathematics: Groups and Quantum Groups
- Neuroscience: Is Homosexuality Biological?
- Neuroscience: Neurological Bases of Learning and Memory
- Oceanography: Paleoceanography Milankovitch and Beyond
- Physics: Baryogenesis or Why the Universe is Matter and Not Anti-matter
Astrophysics: The Universe at Radio and Infrared Wavelengths
Organizer: Shrinivas Kulkarni, California Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Charles I. Bennett, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
The Microwave Sky As Seen By the Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE)
Andrew E. Lange, University of California, Berkeley
Measuring Absolute Velocity
Biology: The Human Genome
Organizer: Gerald Rubin, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:
David Page, Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Whitehead Institute
The Human Genome Project and the Secret of Life
Jasper Rine, University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
The Dog Genome Initiative: Towards A Genetics of Body and Mind
Chemistry: Chemical Reaction Dynamics
Organizers: Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology and Sylvia Ceyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Gilbert M. Nathanson, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Bouncing Gases Off Liquids
James J. Valentini, Columbia University
The World Beyond Arrhenius
Discussion Leader:
Steven Sibener, University of Chicago
Mathematics: Groups and Quantum Groups
Organizer: Vaughan Jones, University of California, Berkeley
Speakers:
John Conway, Princeton University
Elementary Geometry and Quantum Logic
Adrian Ocneanu, Pennsylvania State University
Quantum Groups
Neuroscience: Is Homosexuality Biological?
Organizer: Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon
Speakers:
Dean Hamer, National Cancer Institute
Molecular Genetics of Sexual Orientation
Michael Bailey, Northwestern University
Population Genetics of Human Sexual Orientation
Discussion Leader:
Laura Allen, University of California School of Medicine
Neuroscience: Neurological Bases of Learning and Memory
Organizer: Geraldine Richmond, University of Oregon
Speakers:
Scott Fraser, California Institute of Technology
Probing Brain Development
Sue McConnell, Stanford University
Plasticity and Commitment in Brain Development
Discussion Leader:
Marianne Bronner-Fraser, University of California, Irvine
Oceanography: Paleoceanography Milankovitch and Beyond
Organizer: Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Speakers:
Maureen Raymo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Scott Lehman, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Edouard Bard, Universite de Marseille
Physics: Baryogenesis or Why the Universe is Matter and Not Anti-Matter
Organizer: Jim Siegrist, Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory
Speakers:
Michael Mattis, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Baryon Number Violation via Quantum Tunneling: How (Otherwise) Intelligent Theoretical Physicists Can Differ by 180 Orders of Magnitude
Ann Nelson, University of California, San Diego
Baryogenesis The Origin of Matter
