2006 Advisory Board and Program Meetings
June 7-9, 2006, IBM Palisades Conference Center
Palisades, New York
Preliminary Agenda
| Advisory Board Meetings | ||
| Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | ||
| 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Brain Cancer Advisory Board Meeting (Closed Session) | |
| 2:30 – 5:30 p.m. | Brain, Mind and Behavior Advisory Board Meeting (Closed Session) | |
| ________________________________________________________________________ | ||
| 21st Century Science Initiative Program Meeting, Everything Old Becomes New Again – Or Does It? | ||
| Wednesday, June 7, 2006 | ||
| 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Opening Reception (Program Meeting) | |
| 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. | Dinner (Program Meeting) | |
| Thursday, June 8, 2006 | ||
| 8:30 - 8:35 a.m. | Welcoming remarks - Susan Fitzpatrick | |
| 8:35 - 12:00 noon | Session 1: The Buzz-apalooza: Applying the “rule of hand” to complex problems—which factors really matter? | |
| N.B. this session is inspired by Crawford “Buzz” Holling, a valued advisor to the Complex Systems program. | ||
Chair and Moderator: Speakers: |
Jane Maienschien, Arizona State University Jean
Hebert, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
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| 8:35 - 8:50 a.m. | Moderator's remarks - Jane Maienschein | |
| 8:50 - 9:15 a.m. | Jean Hebert, Albert Einstein College of Medicine "Unlocking Brain Tumors: Which Genes Are Key?" |
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| 9:30- 9:55 a.m. | Lori Holt, Carnegie Mellon University "Cracking the Speech Code" |
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| 10:10 - 10: 30 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:40 - 11:05 a.m. | Craig Allen, University of Nebraska "Complex, Not Complicated: Patterns in Ecological and Other Systems" |
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| 11:20 - 11:30 a.m. | Moderator's summary remarks - Jane Maienschien | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 12:00 noon | Lunch Break | |
| 1:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Session 2: The Importance of the New (Novelty) in Adaptation | |
Chair and Moderator: Speakers: |
Jonathan Weiner, Columbia University School of Journalism David
Kranz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
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| 1:35 – 1:50 p.m. | Moderator’s remarks - Jonathan Weiner | |
| 1:50 – 2:15 p.m. | David Kranz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Forty Years Since 'Fantastic Voyage': Visions of Nanotechnology and Molecular Immunology" |
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| 2:30 – 2:55 p.m. | Carolyn Baum, Washington University "Life After Stroke: The Same, Only Different" |
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| 3:10 – 3:30 p.m. | BREAK | |
| 3:40 – 4:05 p.m. | Eve Marder, Brandeis University "How good is good enough: tuning the parameters in rhythmic motor networks" |
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| 4:15 – 4:30 p.m. | Moderator’s summary remarks - Jonathan Weiner | |
| 4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Discussion |
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| 6:00 – 7:00 p.m. | Poster Session/Reception | |
| 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. | Dinner | |
| Friday, June 9, 2006 | ||
| 8:30 – 12:00 noon | Session 3: What goes around comes around: Do we always recognize a new (old) idea when we see it? | |
| Chair and Moderator: Speakers: |
Keith Wailoo, Rutgers University Mitchell
Sutter, University of California - Davis |
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| 8:35-8:50 a.m. | Moderator’s remarks, Keith Wailoo | |
| 8:50-9:15 a.m. | Mitchell Sutter, University of California - Davis "How are vocalizations encoded in the primate auditory system? Why is this question popular again?" |
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| 9:30-9:55 a.m. | Katy Borner, Indiana University “Yesterday's and Today's Scientific Ideas: Mapping the Structure and Evolution of Scholarly Knowledge” |
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| 10:10-10:30 a.m. | BREAK | |
| 10:40-11:05 a.m. | Herb Terrace, Columbia University “Becoming Human: Why two minds are better than one” |
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| 11:20-11:30 a.m. | Moderator’s summary remarks - Keith Wailoo | |
| 11:30-12:00 p.m. | Discussion | |
| 12:00 noon | Closing Lunch (Program Meeting) | |
| ________________________________________________________________________ | ||
| Advisory Board Meeting | ||
| Friday, June 9, 2006 | ||
| 12:30 – 4:00 p.m. | Complex System Advisory Board Meeting (Closed Session) | |
