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Science at the Frontier (1992)
National Academy of Sciences (NAS)

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Greenwood, Addison. "Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program." Science at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 1992.

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Science at the Frontier: Volume I

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

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