This year's conference, entitled "Sciences Impacting Our Future," will mark the Center's 20th anniversary. The conference will focus on sciences that are destined to affect the future of mankind. Invited speakers include 14 members of the National Academy of Sciences, four of whom are Nobel Prize winners. The speakers are drawn from a wide variety of fields from astrophysics and nanoscience to neuroscience and cellular biology. To make the lectures more accessible to a broad audience, the speakers will combine an overview of the current status of their fields with speculative outlooks on what is to come. Speakers expected at this year's conference include:
- David M. Ceperley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Leon Knopoff, University of California -- Los Angeles
- Mark A. Reed, Yale University
- D. Di Vincenzo, IBM
- Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury, Einstein College of Medicine
- Robert Laughlin, Stanford University
- Michael L. Roukes, Caltech
- David A. Weitz, Harvard University
- Johann Deisenhofer, Southwestern Texas Medical Center
- W. N. Lipscomb, Harvard University
- George M. Whitesides, Harvard University
- Michael Ghil, University of California -- Los Angeles
- Peter B. Moore, Yale University
- Eric Davidson, Caltech
- Harry Rubin, University of California -- Berkeley
- Olaf Sporns, Neuroscience Institute- San Diego, California
- Peter G. Wolynes, University of Illinois
- Donald Glaser, University of California -- Berkeley
- Pierre Wiltzius, Bell Labs
- James M. Tour, Rice University
- William Press, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- Michael S. Turner, University of Chicago
Since 1981, the Center for Nonlinear Studies' mission has been to identify and study fundamental nonlinear phenomena in the physical sciences. The Center serves as the focal point for research in nonlinear science at Los Alamos and fulfills its mission by hosting graduate students, postdoctoral researchers as well as short- and long-term visitors. Additionally, the Center organizes workshops and meetings in emerging research areas. The first CNLS annual international conference was held in 1981.
For more information about the conference, contact Roderick Garcia, CNLS Conference Coordinator, Mail Stop B258, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545; by phone: (505) 667-1444; by fax: (505) 665-2659; or by e-mail to rgarcia@cnls.lanl.gov. Individuals also may register by visiting the Conference Web site at http://cnls.lanl.gov/Conferences/Annual/index.html.
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