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A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier
Geosciences:Earthquake Prediction
Organizer:
Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Physics of Earthquake Recurrence
Thomas Heaton, US Geological Survey, Pasadena
Clocks in the Earth
William Ellsworth, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park
Discussion panel:
Thorne Lay, University of California-Santa Cruz Joann Stock, Geological Museum, Harvard University Kerry Sieh, California Institute of Technology Duncan Agnew, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
Geosciences:Mass Extinctions
Organizers:
Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Richard Muller, University of California-Berkeley
The Link Between Large-body Impact on Earth and Biological Mass Extinction
Walter Alvarez, University of California-Berkeley
The Geological Record of Mass Extinctions
Jan Smit, Free University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Astronomical Mechanisms for Multiple Impacts
Piet Hut, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
Discussion leader:
Alessandro Montanari, University of California-Berkeley
Material Science:Quantum Confined Semiconductors
Organizers:
Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology
Quantum Wires and Quantum Dots
Kerry J. Vahala, California Institute of Technology
Molecular Particles of Semiconductor Solids
Michael L. Steigerwald, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Atomic Layer Growth of Thin Films
David Rudman, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder
Mathematics:Topology
Organizer:
William Thurston, Princeton University
A Lecture on the Energy of a Knot (or an Unknot)
Michael H. Freedman, University of California-San Diego
Recent Progress in Algebraic Theory
Michael J. Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Physics:Manipulating Atoms by Laser Atom Trapping and Scanning TunnelingTips
Organizers:
Sylvia Ceyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories
Nautral Particle Manipulation with Light
Steven Chu, Stanford University
Atomic and Molecular Manipulation with the Scanning Tunneling Microscope