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U.S. Frontiers of Science

Seventeenth Annual
Frontiers of Science Symposium  

National Academy of Sciences
Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
Irvine, California
October 27-29, 2005

2005 Program and Audio Presentations - sessions in alphabetical order

Addiction: Proximate Mechanisms and Ultimate Causes

 Micro RNA / SiRNA 
Design Principles of the Brain Past Earths
Do Black Holes Destroy Information? Robot Learning
Frontiers in Synthetic Chemistry and Biology

 What's Driving Climate Change?

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Addiction: Proximate Mechanisms and Ultimate Causes
Organizer: Kaoru Kitajima, University of Florida 
CHAIR: Addiction, Evolution and Neuroscience
Brian Knutson, Stanford University		 -Abstract PDF Icon
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SPEAKER:  Why Our Brain Gets Addicted: Insights from Neurobiology
Regina Carelli, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill 		-Abstract PDF Icon
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SPEAKER:  Addiction:  An Evolutionary Perspective On Understanding Individual Differences in Risk and Resilience
Allyson Bennett, Wake Forest University

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Design Principles of the Brain
Organizer: Stephanie White, University of California, Los Angeles 
CHAIR: How Does Evolution Build A Complex Brain?
Leah Krubitzer, University of California, Davis 		 -Abstract PDF Icon
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SPEAKER: Using Constrained Optimization to Understand Brain Design
Dmitri Chklovskii, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory		 -Abstract PDF Icon
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 SPEAKER: Metabolic, Functional and Volumetric Constraints on Brain Architecture
Sam Wang, Princeton University

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Do Black Holes Destroy Information?
Organizer: Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania 
CHAIR: Black Hole Basics
Donald Marolf, University of California, Santa Barbara     		 -Abstract PDF Icon
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SPEAKER:  Laura Ferrarese, National Research Council Canada -Presentation audio_icon

SPEAKER:  Ideas for Resolving the Black Hole Information Paradox
Per Kraus University of California, Los Angeles

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Frontiers in Synthetic Chemistry and Biology
Organizer: Milan Stojanovic, Columbia University 
CHAIR: From Synthetic Chemistry to Synthetic Biology
Anna Map, University of Michigan		 -Abstract PDF Icon
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SPEAKER:  Floyd Romesberg, Scripps Research Institute -Presentation audio_icon

 SPEAKER:  Programming Collaborative Behavior and Pattern Formation in Synthetic Multicellular Systems
Ron Weiss, Princeton University

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Micro RNA / SiRNA
Organizer: Blanka Rogina, University of Connecticut Health Sciences Center 
CHAIR: MicroRNAs and small interfering RNAs
Frank Slack, Yale University 		 -Abstract PDF Icon
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SPEAKER:  Phillip D. Zamore, University of Massachusetts Medical School
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SPEAKER:  RNAi
Gregory Hannon, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Past Earths
Organizer: Ted Bergin, University of Michigan 
CHAIR: Astrobiology and Planetary Exploration: Contextualizing Life on Earth
David Grinspoon, Southwest Research Institute 		 -Abstract PDF Icon
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SPEAKER: Titan's Elusive World
Caitlin Griffith, University of Arizona 		 -Abstract PDF Icon

SPEAKER: Sedimentary and Isotopic Characterization of the Paleoproterozoic Glacial Interval
Alan Jay Kaufman, University of Maryland

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Robot Learning
Organizer: Juan Gilbert, Auburn University 
CHAIR: Peter Stone, University of Texas, Austin 
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SPEAKER: Robot Learning: Human-Inspired Techniques for Space and Field Robotics
Ayanna Howard, NASA-JPL		 -Abstract PDF Icon
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SPEAKER: Robot Learning
Brian Scassellati, Yale University

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What's Driving Climate Change?
Organizer: Christina Hulbe, Portland State University 
CHAIR: Eric Steig, University of Washington
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SPEAKER: Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Center for Climate Systems Research -Presentation audio_icon

SPEAKER: Clara Deser, National Center for Atmospheric Research

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The Frontiers of Science symposium series is supported in part by funding from the Agouron Institute and the Beckman Foundation.


 

  

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Chinese-American Kavli Frontiers (2009):
KFOS bullet Cyberinfrastructure / LHC Data Challenge
KFOS bullet Drug Design/Protein Structure
KFOS bullet Epgenetics / Disease
KFOS bullet Gamma-Ray Bursts
KFOS bullet Life in Extreme Environments / Early Life
KFOS bullet Neural Plasticity / Sleep
KFOS bullet Organic Devices in Energy and Electronics
KFOS bullet Quaternary Climate Change / Paleoecology

U.S. Kavli Frontiers (2009): 
KFOS bullet Antibiotic Resistance
KFOS bullet Game theory, economic modeling, and economic regulation from a computational perspective
KFOS bullet Geoengineering
KFOS bullet Holography
KFOS bullet MicroRNA
KFOS bullet Our Hot and Uncertain Future: Is Adaptation to Climate Change Possible?
KFOS bullet Sex Differences in the Brain
KFOS bullet Understanding Dark Matter

Japanese-American Kavli Frontiers (2008):
KFOS bullet Bayesian Statistics & Massive Data Streams
KFOS bullet Detecting Dark Matter
KFOS bullet Evolution of Sleep and Memory
KFOS bullet Measurements and Conditions for Happiness
KFOS bullet Nanomedicine
KFOS bullet New Chemistry of Renewable Raw Materials
KFOS bullet Optical Measurement and Control of Neuronal Activity
KFOS bullet Prediction of Future Sea Level in a Greenhouse World - Theory and Observations

Indo-American Frontiers (2009):
KFOS bullet Atmospheric Haze
KFOS bullet Bioinspired Chemistry
KFOS bullet Cellular Mechanisms for Encoding Information
KFOS bullet Infection and Cognition
KFOS bullet Particle physics at the Energy and Intensity Frontiers
KFOS bullet String Theory and Geometry
KFOS bullet The Changing Brain
KFOS bullet Unraveling the tiny wrinkles in Cosmic Microwave Background radiation: Determining the past and future evolution of the Universe

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