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Appendix Second Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium Program
Pages 255-258

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From page 255...
... 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, E1 Monte, California Arthur Winer, University of California, Los Angeles NOTE: Topics are listed in alphabetic order.
From page 256...
... 256 SPEAKER: TITLE: DISCUSSANTS: APPENDIX Topic: COMPUTATION Larry Smarr, Organizer William Press, Harvard University Unexpected Scientific Computing 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 F ranclsco Kevin Struhl, Harvard Medical School Ruth Lehmann, Whitehead Institute for Biological Research Topic: GEOLOGY Raymond leanloz and Susan Kieffer, Organizers TITLE: SPEAKER: David Stevenson, California Institute of Technology How the Earth Works: Techniques for Understanding the Dynamics and Structure of Planets
From page 257...
... APPENDIX 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 DISCUSSANTS: TITLE: Z57 SPEAKER: Christof Koch, California Institute of Technology TITLE: Visual Motion: From Computational Analysis to Neural Networks and Perception 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 Photosynthesis—Real and Artificial
From page 258...
... 258 APPENDIX 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 T I T L E : . H i g h - T e m p e r a t u r e S u p e r c o n d u c t i v i t y DISCUSSANTS: Daniel Fisher, Harvard University Peter Gammel, AT&T Bell Laboratories Duncan Haldane, University of California, La lolla Paul Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania


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