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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Symposia Programs." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2110.
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APPENDIX B
Symposia Programs

THIRD ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE NOVEMBER 7-9, 1991

Astrophysics: Looking Inside The Sun

Organizer:

William Press, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Helioseismic Observations of the Solar Interior

Ken Libbrecht, California Institute of Technology

Physical Inferences from Solar Oscillations

Doug Gough, Cambridge University, UK

Solar Neutrinos-Probing the Sun or Neutrinos?

John Wilkerson, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Biology: Basic Science Related to AIDS

Organizers:

Eric Lander, Whitehead Institute Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School

Cell/Virus Interactions Involved in Retrovirus Replication

Eric Hunter, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Games that HIV and Molecular Geneticists Play

Richard Young, Whitehead Institute

Computer Science: Aspects of Theoretical Computer Science

Organizer:

Robert Tarjan, Princeton University

Transparent Proofs

Laszlo Babai, University of Chicago

Geometry and Graphics: Challenges in Complexity

Maria Klawe, University of British Columbia

The Role of Randomness in Computer Architecture

F. Thomson Leighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Symposia Programs." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2110.
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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 Tunneling Tips

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

Donald M. Eigler, IBM Almaden Research Center

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Symposia Programs." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2110.
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FOURTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE NOVEMBER 5-7, 1992

Atmospheric Science: Ozone Holes—Causes and Effects of Polar Ozone Depletion

Organizer:

Mark Davis, California Institute of Technology

The Science of Ozone Depletion: Results from Aircraft Measurements in the Polar Stratospheres

David Fahey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder

An Overview of Polar Ozone Depletion

Mario Molina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussion leader:

Ralph Cicerone, University of California-Irvine

Biology: The Cell Cycle

Organizers:

Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School; Robert Tjian, University of California-Berkeley

The Replication of DNA and the Cell Cycle

Bruce Stillman, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

How Cell Division is Controlled During Growth of an Embryo

Patrick O'Farrell, University of California-San Francisco

Biology: Structure and Function of Proteins

Organizers:

Robert Tjian, University of California-Berkeley; Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School

The Leucine Zipper: New Twists in Gene Regulation and Protein Structure

Tom Alber, University of California-Berkeley

Protein Structure and Dynamics in Solution

Rick Dahlquist, University of Oregon

Chemistry and Physics: Buckminsterfullerenes—A New Form of Carbon

Organizers:

Shirley Chiang, IBM Almaden Research Center; Sylvia Ceyer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Experimental Studies of Fullerenes and Metallofullerenes

Donald Bethune, IBM Almaden Research Center

The Fullerenes and the Idea of Perfect Nanocrystals

Robert Whetten, University of California-Los Angeles

Geosciences: Venus—Results from Magellan

Organizer:

Marcia McNutt, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Venus—Dead or Alive? The View from Magellan

Robert Grimm, Arizona State University Suzanne Smrekar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Symposia Programs." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2110.
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Materials Science: New Materials—Conducting Polymers,Organic Magnets, Composites

Organizers:

Robert Cava, AT&T Bell Laboratories; Nathan Lewis, California Institute of Technology

A Chemist's View of Nonlinear Optical Materials

Seth Marder, California Institute of Technology

Magnetic Organic Materials

Dennis Dougherty, California Institute of Technology

Mathematics: The Wavelet Transform

Organizers:

David Donoho, Stanford University/University of California-Berkeley; Vaughan Jones, University of California-Berkeley

Wavelets and Signal Analysis

Ingrid Daubechies, Rutgers University

Wavelets and their Applications

Yves Meyer, Université de Paris

Discussion Panel:

Gregory Beylkin, University of Colorado-Boulder Michael Frazier, Michigan State University Stéphane Mallat, Courant Institute-New York University Victor Wickerhauser, Washington University

Physics: Current Topics in Hadron Collider Physics—Prelude to the Superconducting Supercollider Era

Organizer:

Jim Siegrist, SSC Laboratory

The Search for the Top Quark

John Huth, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

Testing Electroweak Theory: Present and Future

Kevin Einsweiler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Symposia Programs." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2110.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Symposia Programs." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2110.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Symposia Programs." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2110.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Symposia Programs." National Academy of Sciences. 1994. A Positron Named Priscilla: Scientific Discovery at the Frontier. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/2110.
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