U.S. Frontiers of Science

Twelfth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Science

National Academy of Sciences
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
Irvine, California
November 2-4, 2000

2000 Program

Superconducting Vortex Dynamics
Organizer: Heinrich Jaeger
CHAIR:
Franco Nori, University of Michigan - Intermittently Flowing Rivers of Quantized Magnetic Flux: Vortex Motion, Noisy Fractal Networks, and Flux Avalanches in Superconductors
SPEAKERS:
David Grier, University of Chicago - Interactions, Dynamics and Phase Transitions in Vortex Matter and Related Systems
Wai-Kwong Kwok, Argonne National Laboratory - Vortex Behavior in High Temperature Superconductors

Visualizing Biological Processes
Organizer: Carolee Barlow
CHAIR:
Julie Theriot, Stanford University
SPEAKERS:
Matthew A. Wilson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Noninvasive Imaging of Molecular Events in Living Subjects
Sanjiv Gambhir, University of California, Los Angeles

Extrasolar Planets
ORGANIZER:
Martin White
CHAIR:
Dimitar Sasselov, Harvard University - Images Of Distant Worlds: The Many Faces Of Extrasolar Planets
SPEAKERS:
Geoffrey W. Marcy, University of California, Berkeley - The Revolution in Extrasolar Planets
Norman W. Murray, University of Toronto

Population Biology & Modeling / Emerging Viruses
ORGANIZER:
Stuart Nichol
CHAIR:
Beatrice H. Hahn, University of Alabama at Birmingham - AIDS as a Zoonosis: Characterizing the Primate Reservoir
SPEAKERS:
Jeffery Taubenberger, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology - Genetic Characterization of the 1918 'Spanish' Influenza Virus
Rustom Antia, Emory University - Modeling CD8 responses

Surface Molecular Recognition - including Self-Assembly
ORGANIZER:
John Hartwig
CHAIR:
Nicole Sampson, State University of New York at Stony Brook
SPEAKERS:
Milan Mrksich, University of Chicago - A Surface Chemistry Approach to Studying Cell Adhesion
Carolyn Bertozzi, University of California, Berkeley - Chemistry and Biology at the Surfaces of Cells

Mathematical frontiers in optical solitons
ORGANIZER:
Mary Pugh
CHAIR:
Jared Bronski, University of Illinois - A History of Solitons
SPEAKERS:
Michael Weinstein, Lucent Technologies
Mordechai Segev, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology / Princeton University - Incoherent Solitons

Acquisition of Language in Children
ORGANIZER:
Nancy Bonini
CHAIR:
John Trueswell, University of Pennsylvania - Studying Real-Time Language Processing in Children: The Monitoring of Eye Movements During Listening
SPEAKERS:
Jenny Saffran, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Infant Statistical Learning and Language Acquisition
Ann Senghas, Barnard College - From Symbols to Syntax: The Creation of New Language by Deaf Children

North Atlantic Oscillation
ORGANIZER:
Susan Trumbore
CHAIR:
Martin Visbeck, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - What is the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) and why is it important?
SPEAKERS:
Heidi Cullen, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - The North Atlantic & The Middle East: Investigating Climate Dynamics and Variability in a Water Scarce Region
Jim Hurrell, National Center for Atmospheric Research - The North Atlantic Oscillation
Lorenzo Polvani, Columbia University - Is the North Atlantic Oscillation coupled to the Stratosphere?