Sessions:

Batteries to Power the World

Organizer: Saskia Mordijck, William & Mary
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Dan Steingart, Columbia University
SPEAKERS: Jennifer Dunn, Northwestern University
Nina Balke, North Carolina State University
Organizers: Jason Williams, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Lindsay MacPherson, University of Texas at San Antonio

Cameras as Nanophotonic Optical Computers

Organizer: Saskia Mordijck, William & Mary
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Felix Heide, Princeton University
SPEAKERS: Thomas Naselaris, University of Minnesota
Ren Ng, University of California, Berkeley

Obesity

Organizer: Mel Wohlgemuth, University of Arizona and Ed O’Brien, Pennsylvania State University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Ricardo Samms, Eli Lilly and Co.
SPEAKERS: Lisa Beutler, Northwestern University
Zaman Mirzadeh, Barrow Neurological Institute

Quantum

Organizer: Greg Mosby, NASA
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: James D. Whitfield, Dartmouth University / Amazon Web Services
SPEAKERS:Jacob Taylor, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Dvir Kafri, Google

Reproductive Justice

Organizer: Benika Dixon, Texas A&M University and Elena Glassman, Harvard University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: To be confirmed
SPEAKERS: Robyn Adams, Texas Tech University
Jallicia Jolly, Amherst College

Superorganisms? Collective Intelligence in the Animal Kingdom

Organizer: Doug Blackiston, Tufts University
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: Will Ratcliff, Georgia Institute of Technology
SPEAKERS: Sarah Kocher, Princeton University
Tim Linksvayer, Arizona State University

Who is Space for?

Organizer: Greg Mosby, NASA
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER:
Melissa de Zwart, University of Adelaide
SPEAKERS: Hoor Al Mazmi, UAE Space Agency
Meredith Rawls, University of Washington

Wildfire Management

Organizer: Katlin Bowman Adamczyk, U.S. Geological Survey
INTRODUCTORY SPEAKER: To be confirmed
SPEAKERS: Gavin M. Jones, USDA Forest Service
J. Carlee Purdum, University of Houston

The Kavli Frontiers of Science symposium is sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences. Major support is provided by the Kavli Foundation. The US symposium is also supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation under Grant No. G-2024-23965. Additional funding is also provided from the National Academy of Sciences.

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