Sixth Annual U.S. Symposium
Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy
November 3-5, 1994
Irvine, California
Sessions:
- Biology and Engineering: Animal Locomotion and Robot Design
- Biology and Paleontology: The Cambrian Explosion in Biological Diversification
- Chemistry: Solid State Chemistry – Turning Down the Heat
- Mathematics: Non-linear Inverse Problems
- Physics: Electronics with a Single Electron
- Physics and Materials Science: Optical Microscopy: Technological Advances and Future Potential
- Sociology and Demography: How Long Will We Live
Biology and Engineering: Animal Locomotion and Robot Design
Organizer: Deborah Penry
Speakers:
Robert Full, University of California, Berkeley
Diversity Enables Discovery: Lessons from Legged Locomotion
Marc Raibert, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dynamic Legged Robots
Discussion Leader:
Mimi Koehl, University of California, Berkeley
Biology and Paleontology: The Cambrian Explosion in Biological Diversification
Session One: Rates and Directions of Cambrian Evolution
Organizer: Marcia McNutt
Speakers:
Simon Conway Morris, Cambridge University
Understanding the Cambrian Explosion
Andrew Knoll, Harvard University
The Context of Early Animal Evolution
Discussion Leaders:
John Grotzinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Sam Bowring, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Session Two: Biological Mechanisms and Consequences of the Cambrian Explosion
Organizer: Deborah Penry
Speakers:
Douglas Erwin, National Museum of Natural History/Smithsonian Institution
The Origin of Ecological and Developmental Space During the Cambrian Radiation
Charles Marshall, University of California, Los Angeles
Using Molecular Data to Understand Inter-Phylum Relationships and the Morphological Transformations that Led to the Origin of the Phyla
Chemistry: Solid State Chemistry – Turning Down the Heat
Organizer: Geri Richmond
Speakers:
David Johnson, University of Oregon
Controlling Kinetics and Mechanisms of Solid State Reactions by Design of Superlattice Reactants
Thomas Mallouk, Pennsylvania State University
A Modular Approach to New Solid and Surfaces
Discussion Leader:
Mercouri Kanatzidis, Michigan State University
Mathematics: Non-linear Inverse Problems
Organizer: Ingrid Daubechies
Speakers:
Joyce McLaughlin, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Finding Properties of Vibrating Systems from Nodes and/or Nodal Lines
Michael Vogelius, Rutgers University
Electrical Impedance Tomography
Physics: Electronics with a Single Electron
Organizer: John Price
Speakers:
Michel Devoret, CEA-Saclay (France)
Transfer of Single Electrons in Metallic Nanostructures
John Martinis, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Is Digital Logic on a Nanometer Scale Possible?
Physics and Materials Science: Optical Microscopy: Technological Advances and Future Potential
Organizer: Tim Harris
Speakers:
Chris Jacobsen, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Soft X-ray Microscopy: Technology and Applications
Jay Trautman, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Seeing Single Molecules
Sociology and Demography: How Long Will We Live
Organizers: Beth Solodo and Barbara Torrey
Speakers:
James Curtsinger, University of Minnesota
The Experimental Demography of Genotypes and Genes: Findings on Longevity and Aging
James Vaupel, Duke University/Odense (Denmark) University Medical School
Beyond Gompertz and Buffon: Trajectories of Mortality at Advanced Ages
Discussion Leaders:
Jay Olshansky, University of Chicago
John Wilmoth, University of California, Berkeley
