U.S. Frontiers of Science

Thirteenth Annual Symposium on Frontiers of Science

National Academy of Sciences
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
Irvine, California
November 8-10, 2001

2001 Program

Climate Change Detection / Attribution
ORGANIZER:
Martin Visbeck
CHAIR:
Michael E. Mann, University of Virginia
SPEAKERS:
Gabi Hegerl, Texas A & M University - Use of Models in Climate Change Detection and Attribution
Drew Shindel, NASA-Goddard Institute for Space Studies - Natural Variability Patterns and Historical Climate Change

Nanoscience
ORGANIZER:
Stephen Quake
CHAIR:
Stephen Quake, California Institute of Technology - What's Interesting in Nanoscience?
SPEAKERS:
Hari Manoharan, Stanford University - Manipulating the Atom: Bottom-Up Assembly of Materials
Axel Scherer California Institute of Technology

Cosmic Microwave Background
ORGANIZER:
Steven T. Myers
CHAIR:
John Carlstrom, University of Chicago
SPEAKERS:
Suzanne Staggs, Princeton University - CMB Polarization: How We'll Measure It and Why We Want To.
Wayne Hu, University of Chicago - Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropies: Theory and Interpretation
Lyman Page, Princeton University

Emerging Infectious Diseases
ORGANIZER:
Elizabeth Winzeler
CHAIR:
David Relman, Stanford University - Emerging Infectious Diseases: Re-Thinking Our Approaches for Microbial Detection and Discovery
SPEAKERS:
Eva Harris, University of California Berkeley - Bringing Scientific Tools to Where Disease Occurs
Chris Plowe, University of Maryland School of Medicine - Emerging Infectious Diseases: Malaria

Single Molecule Dynamics / Molecular Motors
ORGANIZER:
Claudia Turro
CHAIR:
John T. Fourkas, Boston College - Single-Molecule Detection and Spectroscopy
SPEAKERS:
Robert Dickson, Georgia Institute of Technology - Interpreting And Harnessing Single Molecule Dynamics In Nanomaterials
Xiaowei Zhuang, Stanford University - Watching Enzymes Fold and Function, One Molecule at a Time

Neurogenomics
ORGANIZER:
Carrolee Barlow
CHAIR:
Cornelia Bargmann, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California San Francisco - Genes, Behavior, and the Sense of Smell
SPEAKERS:
Carrolee Barlow, The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences - Chipping Away at Complex Behavior: Transcriptome/Phenotype Correlations in the Brain
David J. Lockhart, Aventa Biosciences and The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences - Genes, Genomics and the Luxury of Too Much Data

Dynamics and Control and Their Applications to Robotics, Biology and Physics
ORGANIZER:
Michael I. Weinstein
CHAIR:
Anthony Bloch, University of Michigan - Nonlinear Dynamics and Control
SPEAKERS:
Daniel E. Koditschek, University of Michigan - Toward a Synthesis of Form and Function: Notes from the Pre-Genomic Era of Robotics
Hideo Mabuchi, California Institute of Technology - Multiscale Science, from Quantum to Bio

Species Formation and the Role of Development
ORGANIZER:
Gail Jarvik
CHAIR:
Eric Dyreson, Green Mountain College - Tools for the Analysis of Evolutionary Change in Patterns of Gene Expression Underlying Interspecific Differences In Morphology
SPEAKERS:
Kevin P. White, Yale University School of Medicine - Evolutionary Genomics and the Divergence of Species
Elio Sucena, Princeton University - Dissecting the Mechanistic Basis for Morphological Evolution


The Frontiers of Science symposium series is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences and supported, in part, with funding from the Agouron Institute, the Ellison Medical Foundation, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and the Kramer Family Foundation.