Symmetries Throughout the Sciences
Organized by Ernest Henley
May 11-12, 1996
Irvine, CA
Saturday, May 11
Ernest Henley, University of Washington
Introduction
Group Representations and Geometry
Michele Vergne, École normale supérieure
Asymmetries and Symmetries in Bacterial Motility
Howard Berg, Harvard University
Mapping the Universe in Three Dimensions
Martha Haynes, Cornell University
Symmetry, Stability and Dynamics of Multidomain and Multicomponent Biomacromolecular Systems
Tom Blundell, University of London
Symmetry Arguments in Chemistry
Jack Dunitz, ETH, Zurich
Symmetries and Their Breaking Along Biological Evolution
Antonio Garcia-Bellido, University of Madrid
Forbidden Symmetry and Quasicrystals
Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
From Symmetry to Asymmetry: Evolution of Bilateral Asymmetries in Animals
A. Richard Palmer, University of Alberta
Symmetries in Geology and Geophysics
Donald Turcotte, Cornell University
Sunday, May 12
Astrophysical Symmetries: Bipolar Structure in Quasars, Spiral Galaxies, Young Stellar Objects, and Other Systems
Virginia Trimble, University of Maryland and University of California, Irvine
Symmetries, Mainly Approximate or Broken, in Biopolymers
Hans Frauenfelder, Los Alamos
A Brief History of Symmetry in Mathematics
George D. Mostow, Yale University
Five-fold Symmetry in Virus, Fullerene and Quasi-crystal Structures
Donald Caspar, Florida State University
The Role Of Symmetry in Fundamental Physics
David Gross, Princeton University
Symmetry and Quasi-symmetry in DNA Sequence Recognition by Drugs and Proteins
Richard Dickerson, University of California, Los Angeles
Symmetry in Chemistry From the Hydrogen Atom to Proteins
Michael Kellman, University of Oregon
Ernest Henley
Concluding Remarks
