News from the National Academy of Sciences

DATE: November 12, 2015

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

National Academy of Sciences Selects the 2015 Kavli Fellows

Washington – The National Academy of Sciences announces the selection of two hundred eight of the nation's brightest young scientists from industry, academia, and government to take part in the National Academy of Sciences' U.S. and international Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia for 2015. These three-day events bring together scientists who are 45 or younger and engaged in exceptional research in a variety of disciplines. A committee of NAS members selected the participants from among young researchers who have already made recognized contributions to science, including recipients of major fellowships and awards.  Attendees at these symposia are designated Kavli Fellows.

Beginning in 1989, the Frontiers of Science symposium series has provided a forum for the future leaders in U.S. science to share ideas across disciplines and to build contacts and networks that will prove useful as they advance in their careers. More than 5,200 young scientists have attended to date, 195 of whom have been elected to the NAS and eleven of whom have been awarded the Nobel Prize.

In 2015, the National Academy of Sciences held five Kavli Frontiers of Science symposia that included the US national symposium and international bilateral symposia with India, Indonesia, Israel and South Korea.

The U.S. symposium took place on Nov. 5-7 at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering in Irvine, California. The meeting covered a variety of topics in sessions focusing on challenges in personalized medicine, climate of short period planets, cyber security, decision making / behavioral economics, minding our microbial symbionts: microbiome-nervous system interactions in health and disease, observing earth from space, reverse engineering the brain with brain computer interface, topology meets functionality: meta materials and protected properties and utilizing new feedstocks to access the next-generation of materials.  A complete symposium program with videos of presentations may be found at the following link www.nasonline.org/uskfos2015.

The following scientists were selected for the U.S. symposium:

Yong Yeol Ahn, Indiana University Bloomington (Participant)
Andrea Alu, The University of Texas at Austin (Introductory Speaker)
Sara Aton, University of Michigan (Participant)
Janelle Ayres, The Salk Institute (Participant)
Julien Ayroles, Princeton (Organizer)
Maria Barna, Stanford University School of Medicine (Participant)
Michele Battle, Medical College of Wisconsin (Participant)
Jonathan Berg, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Introductory Speaker)
Charlotte Boettiger, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Participant)
Roberto Bonasio, University of Pennsylvania (Participant)
David Brumley, Carnegie Mellon University (Speaker)
Nicolas Cowan, McGill University (Introductory Speaker)
Karl Deisseroth, Stanford Universtity (Speaker)
Tamara Denning, University of Utah (Speaker)
William Dichtel, Cornell University (Participant)
Robin Dowell, University of Colorado Boulder (Organizer)
Courtney Dressing, California Institute of Technology (Speaker)
Rachel Dutton, University of California, San Diego (Speaker)
Natalie Ebner, University of Florida (Speaker)
Daniel Foreman-Mackey, University of Washington (Participant)
Stephanie Fraley, University of California San Diego (Participant)
Krzysztof Gajos, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (Participant)
Jorg Grandl, Duke University (Participant)
Obi Griffith, Washington University School of Medicine (Speaker)
Barney (Robert B.) Grubbs, Stony Brook University (Participant)
Emanuel Gull, University of Michigan (Participant)
Daryl Haggard, McGill University (Organizer)
Benjamin Handel, University of California at Berkeley (Speaker)
Michael Hausser, University College London (Speaker)
Alan Haynie, NOAA Fisheries (Participant)
Elaine Hsiao, University of California, Los Angeles (Introductory Speaker)
William Irvine, University of Chicago (Organizer)
Jedidah Isler, Vanderbilt University (Participant)
Eldin Jasarevic, University of Pennsylvania (Speaker)
Shingo Kajimura, University of California, San Francisco (Participant)
Eleni Katifori, University of Pennsylvania (Participant)
Josef Kellndorfer, Woods Hole Research Center (Speaker)
Seyoung Kim, Carnegie Mellon University (Participant)
Engin Kirda, Northeastern University (Introductory Speaker)
Jhumku Kohtz, Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine & Children's Research Institute (Participant)
Scott Kominers, Harvard University (Introductory Speaker)
Genevieve Konopka, UT Southwestern Medical Center (Organizer)
Jennifer Labus, Univeristy of California, Los Angeles (Speaker)
Jin Hyung Lee, Stanford University (Participant)
Na Liu, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems; University of Heidelberg, Germany (Speaker)
Maureen Long, Yale University (Participant)
Christine Luscombe, University of Washington (Participant)
Katherine Mackey, University of California Irvine (Participant)
Mahesh Mahanthappa, University of Minnesota (Participant)
Stephen Miller, University of Florida (Speaker)
Carrie Morrill, University of Colorado and NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (Participant)
Elizabeth Nolan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Participant)
Daniela Oliveira, University of Florida (Organizer)
Brian O'Roak, Oregon Health & Science University (Participant)
Karim Oweiss, University of Florida (Introductory Speaker)
Jeremie Palacci, University of California, San Diego (Participant)
Stephanie Palmer, University of Chicago (Participant)
Matthew Pritchard, Cornell University (Speaker)
Jeffrey Pyun, University of Arizona (Speaker)
Gautam Rao, Harvard University (Speaker)
Megan Robertson, University of Houston (Introductory Speaker)
Stuart Rowan, Case Western Reserve University (Organizer)
Rahul Satija, New York Genome Center (Participant)
Jacob Schwartz, University of Arizona (Participant)
Noelle Selin, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Participant)
Anna Selmecki, Creighton University Medical School (Participant)
Olga Sergienko, Princeton University (Participant)
Aomawa Shields, University of California, Los Angeles / Harvard University (Speaker)
Pia Sörensen, Harvard University (Speaker)
Jason Stajich, University of California, Riverside (Participant)
Patrick Taylor, NASA Langley Research Center (Participant)
Jenny Tung, Duke University (Participant)
David Uminsky, University of San Francisco (Participant)
Isabella Velicogna, University of California, Irvine (Introductory Speaker)
Vincenzo Vitelli, Leiden University (Speaker)
Bradley Voytek, University of California, San Diego (Participant)
Laura Wallace, University of Texas (Organizer)
Ben Webster, University of Virginia (Participant)
Aaron Wech, US Geological Survey (Participant)
Jimmie Ye, University of California, San Francisco (Speaker)

The Israeli-American symposium was co-organized by the Israel Academy of Science and Humanities and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was held February 23-25, 2015 in Jerusalem, Israel.  The meeting covered a variety of topic in sessions focusing on dynamics, geometry and number theory, extrasolar planets, life in extreme environments, materials for energy storage, quantum computation, tissue / electronic interface, virus evolution and watching the brain think.  A complete symposium program with videos of presentations may be found here www.nasonline.org/isakfos2015.

The following scientists were selected for the Israeli-American symposium:

Anastassia Alexandrova, University of California, Los Angeles (Participant)
Mark Andermann, Harvard University (Chair)
Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Washington University (Organizer, Participant)
Erik Cordes, Temple University (Speaker)
Dion Dickman, University of Southern California (Participant)
Daniel Dombeck, Northwestern University (Speaker)
Bethany Ehlmann, California Institute of Technology (Participant)
Nels Elde, University of Utah (Speaker)
Thomas Hamman, Michigan State University (Speaker)
Daniel A. Heller, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Chair)
Tessa Hill, University of California, Davis (Participant)
David Jones, Amherst College (Participant)
Stephen Jordan, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (Speaker)
Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland (Speaker)
Matthew Kanan, Stanford University (Organizer)
Michael Kessler, Washington State University (Organizer)
Julie Kientz, University of Washington (Organizer)
Jennifer A. Lau, Michigan State University (Organizer)
Wen Li, Wayne State University, Department of Chemistry (Participant)
Dayu Lin, NYU School of Medicine (Participant)
Alexander Maier, Vanderbilt University (Participant)
R. Thane Papke, University of Connecticut (Chair)
Malin Pinsky, Rutgers University (Participant)
Assaf Rotem, Harvard University (until 8/2014) (Speaker)
Amar Sahay, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard University (Organizer)
Elizabeth J. Sbrocco, Duke University (Organizer)
Yogesh Surendranath, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Speaker)
Bozhi Tian, University of Chicago (Speaker)
Nikki Traylor - Knowles, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station (Participant)
Benjamin Tu, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center (Organizer)
Ramon Van Handel, Princeton University (Participant)
J. Mathias Weber, University of Colorado (Organizer)
Rachel Whitaker, University of Illinois (Participant)

The Indonesian-American symposium was co-organized by the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) and the National Academy of Sciences and was sponsored by USAID.  The symposium was held July 28-31, 2015 in Makassar, Indonesia. The meeting covered a variety of topics in sessions focusing on astrophysics / exo-planets, health informatics: biobank, human creativity / cave painting, infectious disease: biocontrol, marine microbiology and nanomaterials from nature.  A complete symposium program may be found at the following link www.nasonline.org/idakfos2015.

The following U.S. scientists were selected for the Indonesian-American symposium:

William Bush, Case Western Reserve University (Participant)
Michael Cook, National Cancer Institute (Participant)
Michael Dahlstrom, Iowa State University (Chair, Organizer)
Tawanna Dillahunt, University of Michigan (Praticipant)
Dawn Erb, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Participant)
Nathan Gianneschi, University of California, San Diego (Participant, Organizer)
William Gilhooly, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (Participant)
Christopher Haiman, USC Keck School of Medicine (Participant, Organizer)
James Lacey, City of Hope (Participant)
Monica Medina, Penn State University (Organizer)
Enid Montague, Northwestern University (Speaker)
Christopher Mores, Louisiana State University (Speaker)
Vikram Ravi, Swinburne University of Technology (Speaker)
Jason Rhodes, NASA JPL (Introductory Speaker)
Kimberly Ritchie, Mote Marine Laboratory (Introductory Speaker)
Megan Robertson, University of Houston (Participant)
Jeff Sakamoto, University of Michigan (Participant, Speaker, Organizer)
Jodi Schwarz, Vassar College (Participant)
Cheryl D. Seals, Auburn University (Participant, Participant, Organizer)
Matthew Shawkey, University of Akron (Speaker)
Nicholas C. Stone, Columbia University (Participant)
F. Akif Tezcan, University of California, San Diego (Speaker)
Chris Weaver, University of Oklahoma (Participant)
Michelle Wykes, Queensland Institute of Medical Research (Speaker)
Jesse Zaneveld, Oregon State University (Speaker)
Pablo Zavattieri, Purdue University (Participant)

The Korean-American symposium was co-organized by the Korean Academy of Science and Technology (KAST) and the National Academy of Sciences and was held June 16-18, 2015 in Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. The meeting covered a variety of topics in sessions focusing on new eyes on the sky: astronomy’s discovery potential with the next-generation of large telescopes, molecular paleontology / paleogenoimcs, microbiomes and human health, self-assembly: lego blocks in nature, pleistocene-to-modern records of climate change, robotics, synaptic basis of neurological disorders and foundations of quantum mechanics: macroscopic superposition, entanglement, and new frontiers.  A complete symposium program may be found at the following link www.nasonline.org/kakfos2015.

The following U.S. scientists were selected for the Korean-American symposium:

Maria-Florina Balcan, Carnegie Mellon University (Participant)
Louise Berben, University of California Davis (Participant)
Erin E. Carlson, Indiana University (Participant, organizer15)
Lincoln Carr, Colorado School of Mines (Organizer)
Kyung Soo Choi, University of Waterloo (Participant)
Ian Crossfield, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (Speaker)
Christopher Deppmann, University of Virginia (Participant)
David Fike, Washington University, St. Louis (Organizer)
Anna Frebel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Organizer)
Gabor Furesz, MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Introductory Speaker)
Elodie Ghedin, New York University (Organizer)
Benjamin Gill, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Participant)
Jan Hannig, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill (Participant)
Thomas Hnasko, University of California, San Diego (Participant)
Daniel Janies, University of North Carolina at Charlotte (Participant)
Young-Shin Jun, Washington University in St. Louis (Participant)
Roman Krems, University of British Columbia (Participant)
YunKyung Lee, California Institute of Technology (Speaker)
Catherine Lozupone, University of Colorado School of Medicine (Introductory Speaker)
Shaun Marcott, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Speaker)
Megan McClean, University of Wisconsin, Madison (Participant)
Paul Nealey, University of Chicago (Speaker)
T.S. Eugene Ng, Rice University (Organizer)
Yulia Pushkar, Purdue University (Participant)
Marcos Rigol, The Pennsylvania State University (Participant)
Gavin Rumbaugh, The Scripps Research Institute (Speaker)
Ramkumar Sabesan, University of California, Berkeley (Participant)
Sarah Schaack, Reed College (Speaker)
Beth Shapiro, University of California, Santa Cruz (Introductory Speaker)
Stephen Shepherd, Rockefeller University (Participant)
R. Keith Slotkin, The Ohio State University (Organizer)
Mark P. Stoykovich, University of Colorado-Boulder (Speaker)
John Teufel, U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (Speaker)
Andrea Thomaz, Georgia Tech (Speaker)
Aradhna Tripati, University of California, Los Angeles (Introductory Speaker)
Elizabeth Wilbanks, California Institute of Technology (Participant)
Mikel Zaratiegui, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (Participant)
Larry Zweifel, University of Washington (Organizer)

The Indo-American symposium was sponsored by the Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum (IUSSTF) in partnership with the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and was held August 10-12, 2015 in Irvien, California at the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center. The meeting covered a variety of topics in sessions focusing on biomechamical basis of animal behavior, cognition at the edge of awareness, exoplanets and cosmic habitability, from molecules to public health - impact of big data on medicine, monsoon / precipitation variability and prediction, origin and extent of life, particle physics at the energy and intensity frontiers and machines that can hear, see and act.  A complete symposium program may be found at the following link www.nasonline.org/iakfos2015.

The following U.S. scientists were selected for the Indo-American symposium:

Jeffrey Basara, University of Oklahoma (Organizer)
Lauren Becnel, Baylor College of Medicine (Introductory Speaker)
Daniel Bond, University of Minnesota (Organizer)
Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University (Organizer)
Benjamin Cook, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, GISS (Participant)
Sarah Eichhorn, University of California, Irvine (Participant)
Evelina Fedorenko, Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School (Organizer)
Jonathan Fortney, University of California, Santa Cruz (Introductory Speaker)
Stephen Fuchs, Tufts University (Participant)
David Garcia, Stanford University School of Medicine (Participant)
Laura Hug, University of California, Berkeley (Participant)
Corey Jamieson, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Participant)
Sadia Khalil, Kansas State University (Speaker)
Gert Lanckriet, University of California, San Diego (Speaker)
Rafael Lang, Purdue University (Organizer)
Laura Lewis, Harvard University (Speaker)
Karen Lloyd, University of Tennessee (Introductory Speaker)
Matthew McHenry, University of California, Irvine (Participant)
Martin M Monti, University of California Los Angeles (Introductory Speaker)
Chirag Patel, Harvard University (Speaker)
Alison Pischedda, University of California, Santa Barbara (Organizer)
Alyssa Rhoden, Arizona State University (Organizer)
Labib Rouhana, Wright State University (Organizer)
Deepti Singh, Stanford University (Speaker)
Ahna Skop, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Participant)
Mary Stoddard, Harvard University (Speaker)
Louis Strigari, Texas A&M University (Participant)
Zarath Summers, ExxonMobil Research Engineering (Participant)
Cristina Thomas, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, GSFC/USRA/PSI (Participant)
Rene Vidal, Johns Hopkins University (Introductory Speaker)
Kevin Walsh, Southwest Research Institute (Speaker)
Kelly Wrighton, The Ohio State University (Speaker)
Quan Zhong, Wright State University (Participant)

The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation, with additional funding from the National Academy of Sciences.

The National Academy of Sciences is a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare. It was established in 1863 by a congressional act of incorporation signed by Abraham Lincoln that calls on the Academy to act as an official adviser to the federal government, upon request, in any matter of science or technology.

Meeting programs and more information about Kavli Frontiers of Science are available at http://www.nasonline.org/kfos.