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Suggested Citation:"Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program." National Academy of Sciences. 1992. Science at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1859.
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Appendix

Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program

Topic: ASTROPHYSICS

Margaret Geller and Larry Smarr, Organizers

SPEAKER:

Tony Tyson, AT&T Bell Laboratories

TITLE:

Imaging the Distant Universe: Galaxies and Dark Matter

DISCUSSANTS:

S.G. Djorgovski, California Institute of Technology

David Koo, University of California, Santa Cruz

Edmund Bertschinger, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Jill Bechtold, University of Arizona, Tucson

Topic: ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCE

Larry Smarr, Organizer

SPEAKER:

Gregory McRae, Carnegie Mellon University

TITLE:

Using Supercomputing and Visualization in Los Angeles Smog Simulation

DISCUSSANTS:

Alan Lloyd, South Coast Air Quality Management District, El Monte, California

Arthur Winer, University of California, Los Angeles

NOTE: Topics are listed in alphabetic order.

Suggested Citation:"Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program." National Academy of Sciences. 1992. Science at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1859.
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Topic: COMPUTATION

Larry Smarr, Organizer

SPEAKER:

William Press, Harvard University

TITLE:

Unexpected Scientific Computing

DISCUSSANTS:

Jean Taylor, Rutgers University

Stephen Wolfram, Wolfram Research

Alan Huang, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Topic: DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

William Thurston, Organizer

SPEAKER:

John Hubbard, Cornell University

TITLE:

Chaos, Determinism, and Information

DISCUSSANTS:

Robert Devaney, Boston University

Steven Krantz, Washington University

Curt McMullen, University of California, Berkeley

Topic: GENE REGULATION

Eric Lander, Organizer

SPEAKER:

Robert Tjian, University of California, Berkeley

TITLE:

Gene Regulation in Animal Cells: Transcription Factors and Mechanisms

DISCUSSANTS:

Arnold Berk, University of California, Los Angeles

Douglas Hanahan, University of California, San Francisco

Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School

Ruth Lehmann, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research

Topic: GEOLOGY

Raymond Jeanloz and Susan Kieffer, Organizers

SPEAKER:

David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology

TITLE:

How the Earth Works: Techniques for Understanding the Dynamics and Structure of Planets

Suggested Citation:"Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program." National Academy of Sciences. 1992. Science at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1859.
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DISCUSSANTS:

Jeremy Bloxham, Harvard University

Michael Gurnis, University of Michigan

Russell Hemley, Carnegie Institution of Washington

Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Topic: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING

Peter Dervan, Organizer

SPEAKER:

William Bradley, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center

TITLE:

Clinical Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy

DISCUSSANTS:

David Stark, Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert Balaban, National Institutes of Health

Graeme Bydder, Royal Post-Graduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital

John Crues III, Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

Topic: NEURAL NETWORKS

Peter Dervan, ;Organizer

SPEAKER:

Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology

TITLE:

Visual Motion: From Computational Analysis to Neural Networks and Perception

DISCUSSANTS:

Paul Adams, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, SUNY at Stony Brook

James Bower, California Institute of Technology

Terrence Sejnowski, Salk Institute

Shimon Ullman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Topic: PHOTOSYNTHESIS

Peter Dervan, Organizer

SPEAKER:

Mark Wrighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

TITLE:

Photosynthesis—Real and Artificial

Suggested Citation:"Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program." National Academy of Sciences. 1992. Science at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1859.
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DISCUSSANTS:

Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology

Thomas Mallouk, University of Texas, Austin

George McLendon, University of Rochester

Douglas Rees, California Institute of Technology

Topic: PHYSICS

Orlando Alvarez, David Nelson, Raphael Kasper, Organizers

SPEAKER:

Peter Bancel, IBM Corporation, Yorktown Heights

TITLE:

Icosahedral Quasicrystals

SPEAKER:

Alex Zettl, University of California, Berkeley

TITLE:

High-Temperature Superconductivity

DISCUSSANTS:

Daniel Fisher, Harvard University

Peter Gammel, AT&T Bell Laboratories

Duncan Haldane, University of California, La Jolla

Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania

Suggested Citation:"Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program." National Academy of Sciences. 1992. Science at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/1859.
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