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SYMPOSIUM
SPEAKERS 2013
Edward Burger
Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics
Williams College / President Elect, Southwestern University
"Thinking Through the Natural Numbers: A Rational and Irrational Look at 1, 2, 3, 4, ..."
John Dabiri
Professor of Aeronautics & Bioengineering
California Institute of Technology
"So Swimming Animals Mix the Ocean?"
Kevin Laland
Professor of Biology
University of St. Andrews, UK
"Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited"
Seth Putterman
Professor of Physics
University of California, Los Angeles
"Spontaneous Energy Focusing Phenomena"
Scott Ransom
Astronomer
National Radio Astronomy Observatory &
The University of Virginia
"Millisecond Pulsars: Nature's Gifts that Keep on Giving"
Pamela Ronald
Professor in the Department of Plant Pathology and the Genome Center
University of California, Davis
"Plant Genetics and the Future of Food"
Julie Theriot
Assistant Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry, Microbiology and
Immunology, Stanford University
"New Directions in Cell Motility: Dynamics and Mechanics of Cell Turning and Pathfinding"
George Whitesides
Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor
Harvard University
"'Simplicity' as a Component of Invention"
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SYMPOSIUM
SPEAKERS 2012
R. Tom Baker - University of Ottawa
“Carry
that Weight: Enabling Catalysis Studies of
Amine-Borane Dehydrogenation towards Renewable
Transportation Fuels”
Carl Bergstrom - University of Washington
“Dealing
with Deception in Biology”
Steve Cowley - Culham Centre for Fusion Energy
“Fusion Power—the Scientific and Technological Challenge”
Peter Olson - Johns
Hopkins University
“When Earth’s Magnetic Field Reverses Itself: How, Why and So What?”
Kristin Scott - University of California
Berkeley
“Taste Recognition: Food for Thought”
Tom Seeley - Cornell
University
“Swarm Intelligence in Honey Bees”
Jack Szostak
- Harvard University
“The Origin of Life and the Emergence of Darwinian Evolution”
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SYMPOSIUM
SPEAKERS 2011
Ronald Breaker - Yale University
“The Expanding Diversity of Noncoding RNA in Bacteria"
Naomi Halas - Rice University
"Plasmonics:
Nanoscale Manipulation of Light"
Greg Laughlin- UC Santa Cruz
"The
Galactic Planetary Census”
Claire Max- UC Santa Cruz
"Black
Holes in Colliding Galaxies seen with Adaptive Optics
Corrie Moreau - The Field Museum, Chicago
"Evolution
and Diversification of the Ants”
James Nelson - Stanford University
"Evolution
of a Polarized Epithelium: not just for Animals”
Taylor Ricketts - World Wildlife Fund Conservation Science Program
"Natural
Capital: Quantifying the Economic Benefits Provided by Nature”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2010
Michael Brenner - Harvard University
“Linear
Algebra and Darwin's Finches”
Bruce Buffett - UCB
“The
Origin of Earth’s Magnetic Field”
Scott Emr- Cornell
University
“Using
Cell Biology to Understand Diseases like Cancer, AIDS,
and Neuro-degeneration”
Neil Gershenfeld - MIT
“Programming
Bits and Atoms”
Debbie Jin - University of Colorado - Boulder
“Fun with Ultracold Atoms”
Lisa Kewley -
University of Hawaii
“The Star
Formation and Chemical History of Galaxies”
Gero Miesenböck -
University of Oxford
“Lighting
Up the Brain: Imaging and Control of Genetically Targeted Neural Circuits”
David Nelson - Harvard University
“Gene
Surfing and Survival of the Luckiest”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2009
John Bush - MIT
“Surface
Tension in Biology”
Alyssa
Goodman - Harvard University
“Astronomy
as I ‘See’ It”
Hopi
Hoekstra - Harvard University
“What
Darwin Didn’t Know: The Genetic Basis of Adaptation”
Paul McEuen - Cornell University
“Nano
Carbon: From String Theory to Atomic Drums”
Jerry Mitrovica - University of Toronto
“Solving
the Enigma of Global Sea Level Rise”
Paul
Sherman - Cornell University
“Darwinian
Medicine?”
Chris
Somerville - UC Berkeley
“Development
of Cellulosic Fuels”
Avi Wigderson -
Institute for Advanced Studies
“The ‘P
vs. NP’ Problem: Efficient Computation, Internet Security,
and the Limits to Human Knowledge”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2008
Michael Manga - UC Berkeley
"Why
do volcanoes only sometimes erupt explosively?”
Avi Loeb - Harvard University
"The
Past and Future of our Universe"
Susan Lindquist - MIT
"Extraordinary
Surprises from Protein Folding in Biology"
Nima Arkani-Hamed -
Institute for Advanced Study
"Fundamental
Physics, Cosmology, and the Large Hadron Collider”
Joshua Jortner - Tel Aviv University
“Dynamics
at Extremes”
David
Chandler - UC Berkeley
“Dynamics
on the way to forming glass, the past, present, and future”
Haynes
Miller - MIT
“Knots
& Numbers”
Terrie
Williams - UC Santa Cruz
“The Carnivore
Conundrum: How environmental perturbation is
leading to a small, snarling, smelly world"
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2007
Bruce
Ames - UC Berkeley
“Delaying
(or Accelerating) the Degenerative Diseases of Aging”
Joe DeRisi - UCSF
“Bugs,
Drugs, and Microarrays”
Phillip Geissler - UC
Berkeley
“Emergence
of Glassy Disorder in Biological Systems”
Christian Körner -
University of Basel
“Change in
cash flow or capital? Plants in a CO2-rich world”
Charlie Peskin - NYU
Courant Institute
"Muscle
and Blood and Valves, and Electricity, too: Fluid-Structure Interaction in the
Heart”
Harry Swinney -
University of Texas Austin
“Emergence
of Order in Physical, Chemical, and Biological Systems”
Lonnie Thompson - Ohio State University
“Glaciological
Evidence of Abrupt Tropical Climate Change:
Past and Present”
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SYMPOSIUM
SPEAKERS 2006
Karen De Valois - University of California, Berkeley
"A
New Understanding of Color Vision”
Chris Dobson - Cambridge University
"Protein
Folding, Molecular Evolution and Human Disease”
L. Mahadevan - Harvard
University
"Shape,
Flow and Movement: the Science of Everyday Life”
Akkihebbal Ravishankara -
University of Colorado/NOAA
"Chemistry
and Its Role in Climate”
Paul Steinhardt - Princeton University
"A
Tale of Two Universes”
Steven Strogatz - Cornell
University
"Sync:
The Emerging Science of Spontaneous Order”
Irving Weissman - Stanford
University
"Stem
Cells”
Xiaowei Zhuang-Harvard
University
"Tracking
Individual Virus Particles in Live Cells”
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SYMPOSIUM
SPEAKERS 2005
Bonnie Bassler-Princeton
University
"Tiny
Conspiracies: Cell-to-Cell Communications in Bacteria”
Carolyn Bertozzi-UC
Berkeley
"Chemistry
in Living Systems: New Tools for Probing the Glycome”
Paul Chaikin - New York
University
"Colloids
and Candies”
Arup Chakraborty - UC
Berkeley
"Intercellular
Communication in the Adaptive Immune System”
Michael Malin - Malin Space Science Systems
"The
'New' Mars"
Lord Robert May - University of
Oxford
"Hard
Choices for Tomorrow's World”
David McLaughlin - New York University
"Modeling
of Spatial Temporal States in Primary Visual Cortex”
Eliot Quataert - UC
Berkeley
"The
Big Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2004
Charles Bennett - IBM Research
“Quantum
Information Processing”
Jennifer Chayes -
Microsoft Research
“Phase
Transitions in Computer Science:
How Do You Melt A Resource Allocation System”
George Lauder - Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology
"Fishes,
Submarines, and Robots: Moving About in the Underwater World”
Chung-Pei Ma - University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
"What's
the Matter with Dark Matter?”
Geoff Marcy - University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
"New
Planets, Old Yellowstone, and Life in the Universe”
Sally Otto - University of British Columbia, Dept. of Zoology
"Why
Have Sex? The Population Genetics of Sex and Recombination”
JoAnne Stubbe -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry
"Ribonucleotide Reductases:
Radical Enzymes with Suicidal Tendencies”
David Weitz -Harvard
University, Dept. of Applied Physics
"What
Makes Soft Materials Soft”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2003
Sir Michael Berry - Bristol University, United Kingdom, H. H. Wills Physics
Laboratory
"Making
Light of Mathematics”
Louis Brus - Columbia
University, Dept. of Chemistry
"Chemistry
and Physics of Semiconductor Nanocrystals”
David Helfand - Columbia
University, Dept. of Astronomy & Astrophysics
"Nuclear
Physics at a Distance: Seeking Quarks at
10,000 Light Years”
Sidney Nagel - The University of Chicago, Dept. of Physics
"Shadows
and Ephemera: A Post-Modern Photographic Exploration of Our Singular World”
Dianne Newman - California Institute of Technology, Geobiology &
Environmental Science
"Microbe
- Mineral Interactions”
Fred Nijhout - Duke
University, Dept. of Biology
"The
Control and Evolution of Polyphenic Development of Insects”
George Oster - University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Molecular
& Cell
Biology,
Dept. of Environmental Science, Policy, & Management
"The
Mysterious Meanderings of Myxobacteria”
Steve Wofsy - Harvard
University, Dept. of Chemistry
"Forests,
The Global Carbon Cycle, and Climate Change”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2002
Philip Anfinrud -
National Institutes of Health,
Laboratory
of Chemical Physics
"Watching
a Protein as it Functions: Real Time Observations Using
Time-Resolved
Spectroscopy and X-ray Crystallography”
Persi Diaconis -
Stanford University, Dept. of Statistics
"The
Problem of Thinking Too Much”
Michael Dickinson - University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Integrative
Biology
"The
Eponymous Fly”
Ursula Goodenough -
Washington University, Dept. of Cell Biology & Biochemistry
"Sex
and Speciation at a Molecular Level”
Harry Gray - California Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry
"The
Currents of Life: Electron Flow Through Biological
Molecules”
David Jewitt -
University of Hawaii, Institute for Astronomy
"The
Solar System: Bigger & Better”
Lawrence Krauss - Case Western Reserve University, Dept. of Physics
"Life,
The Universe, and Nothing: Life and Death in an Ever-expanding Universe”
Chris McKay - NASA Ames Research Center
"Life
on Mars”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2001
Steven Chu - Stanford University, Dept. of Physics
"Biological
Processes, One Molecule at a Time”
Christopher
Garrett - University of Victoria, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy
"From
Millimetres to Megametres: the Interacting Scales of Ocean Physics”
David Haig - Harvard University, Botanical Museum
"The Divided Self”
Susan Kieffer - S. W. Kieffer Science Consulting
"Geological
Nozzles: The Rapids of the Colorado
River, Old Faithful Geyser, Mount St. Helens, and Planetary Volcanoes”
Dan Kleppner -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics
"Future
Knowledge”
George Whitesides - Harvard
University, Dept. of Chemistry
"Self-Assembly”
Gregory Wray - Duke University, Dept. of Biology
"Ants,
Urchins, and the Hox Paradox: The Evolution of Gene Networks”
Peter Sarnak -
Princeton University, Dept of Mathematics
“The
Riemann Hypothesis”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 2000
Fred Adams - University of Michigan, Dept. of Physics
"Into
the Dark: The long term fate and evolution of astrophysics objects in a dying
universe”
Jackie Barton - California Institute of Technology, Dept. of Chemistry
"A
Different View of the DNA Double Helix: A Conduit for Charge Transport”
Ann Burke - Wesleyan University, Dept. of Biology
"Evolution
and Development: Exploring intrinsic mechanisms in the evolution of morphology”
Ingrid Daubechies -
Princeton University, Dept. of Mathematics
"Surfing
with Wavelets”
Jack Horner - University of Montana, Museum of the Rockies
"Dinosaur
debates; sorting out science from opinion”
Leo Kadanoff - University
of Chicago, Depts. of Physics & Mathematics
"Making
a Splash; Breaking a Neck: Physics and Complexity”
Tom
Koob - Shriner's Hospital Tampa, University of
South Florida, Skeletal Biology
"Biomimetic
Fibers: Bridging the Gap”
Walter
Pitman - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University,
Dept. of Earth/Environmental Science
"Noah's
Flood”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 1999
Eric Cornell - University of Colorado JILA, Dept. of Physics
"The
Day the Gas Stopped: Physics within a Millionth of a Degree of Absolute Zero”
Alex Filippenko -
University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Astronomy
"Einstein's
Biggest Blunder? Evidence for Cosmic Antigravity”
Hiroo Kanamori -
California Institute of Technology, Dept. of Geophysics
"Chaos
and Order in Earthquakes”
Mary-Claire King - University of Washington, Dept. of Molecular Biology,
Division
of Medical Genetics
"The
Limits of Genetic Omnipotence”
Mimi Koehl -
University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Integrative Biology
"Feeding,
Smelling and Swimming with Hairy Little Legs”
Daniel Nocera -
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Dept. of Physical Inorganic Chemistry
"After
the Oil Runs Out, then What?
Harnessing the two-Electron Bond as the Fuel Source of the Future”
Baldomero Olivera -
University of Utah, Dept. of Biology
"Learning
Drug Design from Venomous Cone Snails”
Steve Smale - City
University of Hong Kong, Dept. of Mathematics
"On
the Limits of Intelligence”
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 1998
Steven Block - Princeton University, Biological Sciences
"Biophysics
of Single Molecules”
Vaughan Jones - University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Mathematics
"Noncommutative Geometry”
William
Kahan - University of California, Berkeley,
Depts. of Mathematics and Computer Science
"How
Java's Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere”
Dan
Rokhsar - University of California, Berkeley,
Dept. of Physics
"Modeling
Protein Folding”
Sherwood
Rowland - University of California, Irvine, Dept. of Chemistry
"Atmospheric
Chemistry”
Dan
Simberloff - University of Tennessee, Dept. of
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
"Nonindigenous
species, biological control and biodiversity”
Mike
Turner - University of Chicago, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics
"Cosmology
and background anisotropies”
Nature Walk with Bill Dietrich & Mary Power - University of California,
Berkeley,
Depts. of Earth & Planetary Science and Integrative Biology
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SYMPOSIUM SPEAKERS 1997
Charles Alcock - Lawrence Livermore National
Lab,
Dept. of Astronomy Dark Matter
Walter Alvarez - University of California, Berkeley,
Dept. of Earth & Planetary Science
Cretaceous-Tertiary
Extinction Joe Felsenstein-
University
of Washington, Dept. of Genetics Population Genetics
Robert Kirshner - Harvard University,
Dept. of Astronomy Supernovae
James Randi - James Randi Educational Foundation
Science
and Pseudoscience
Carla Shatz -
University of California, Berkeley,
Dept. of Molecular & Cell Biology (Neurobiology) Brain Wiring
Chuck Stevens - Salk Institute for Biological Studies, Dept. of Neurobiology
Coding in
the Brain
Richard Zare- Stanford
University, Dept. of Chemistry
“Is There
Life on Mars”
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