Understanding Complex Systems

Tuesday, May 14, 2002

7:30am Continental Breakfast and Poster Setup, 1014 Materials Research Lab

Opening Session I, 190 Engineering Sciences Building chaired by Bob Clegg
7:55am Opening Remarks (Bob Clegg)
8:00am Leslie Loew, "The Virtual Cell Project"
8:40am Michael Savageau "Physiological and Evolutionary 
        Response Times of Elementary Gene Circuits"
9:20am Bruce Wheeler, "Designing In Vitro Patterned Neuronal Networks"

10:00am Coffee Break

Opening Session II, 190 ESB chaired by Alfred Hubler
10:10am Eric Jakobsson "Multiscale Analysis and Simulation of Biomolecular Function"
10:40am Bruce Hannon "Spatial Dynamic Modeling"
11:10am Paul Goldbart, "Games for Judges:  An Approach to the Design of Optimal 
        Legal Liability Rules"

11:40 Lunch in the Ballroom of the Illini Union

Session III: ,  190 ESB chaired by Karin Dahmen
1:00pm Herbert Levine, "Biological Applications of Pattern-Formation Physics"
1:40pm Ray Goldstein
2:20pm Narendra Ahuja "Computer Vision - Seeing Scenes in Images
2:50pm Martha Gillette "The Neurobiology of Time:  Decision-Making Mechanisms in the Clockworks in the 
        Brain"

3:20pm Coffee Break

Session IV:  190 ESB chaired by Glenn Foster
3:30pm Pierre Wiltzius "Colloidal Self-Assembly, Multi-Beam Interference Lithography,
         and Photonic Crystals"
4:00pm Gregory Timp "The Prospects for using Silicon Nanotechnology to Understand 
        Biological Complexity"
4:30pm Munir Nayfeh, "Tree-Like Assembly of Ultrasmall SI Nanoparticles under the 
        Influence of Electric Current"

5:00pm Coffee Break

Session V:  190 ESB chaired by Paul Melby
5:10pm John Whitmarsh, "Modeling Photosynthesis: Towards an ePhotosynthesis 
        Workbench"
5:40pm David Kranz "The Immune System, Cancer, and Protein Engineering"
6:10pm Rhanor Gillette, "Decison-making in neural networks based on sensation, internal state and experience"
6:40pm Matt Gordon, "Information Theory and DNA Optimality: Why Does DNA Have Four 
        Bases?"

6:55pm Poster Session with Refreshments, 1014 Materials Research 

Wednesday, May 15, 2002

7:30am Continental Breakfast and Poster Setup, 1014 Material Research Lab

Session VI, 190 Engineering Sciences Building chaired by Christopher Strelioff
8:00am Enrico Gratton "Brain blood circulation and energy delivery in humans"
8:30am Gottfried Mayer, "Modeling the control of isometric force production with 
        piece-wise linear, stochastic maps of multiple time-scales"
9:10am Harry Cook, "A Simple Model for Managing Complex Firms"
9:40am Paul Lauterbur, "A way around the complexity bottleneck in the chemical origin of life?"

10:10am Coffee Break

10:20am Barbara Kitchell, "Cancer as a complex system"
10:50am Samuel Beshers, "Division of labor in social insects:  simple models and 
        complex biology"
11:20am Jay Mittenthal, "How cells avoid errors:  Design of molecular networks with 
        topology for robust performance"

11:50 Lunch in the Ballroom of the Illini Union

Session VIII: ,  190 ESB chaired by Alfred Hubler
1:00pm Allen Hunt "Continuum Percolation Theory for Water Retention and Hydraulic 
        Conductivity of Fractal Soils: Estimation of the Critical Volume Fraction 
        for Percolation and Extension to Non-Equilibrium"
1:40pm Duane Johnson, "Chemical Ordering Complexity in Multi-component Alloys"
2:10pm Klaus Schulten, "From simplicity to complexity and back: Function, 
        architecture and mechanism of light harvesting systems in photosynthetic bacteria"
2:40pm Karin Dahmen  "Avalanches, Earthquakes, and Bacteria: Phase Transitions and 
        Critical Phenomena in Driven Disordered Systems"

3:10pm Coffee Break

Session IX:  190 ESB chaired by Austin Gerig
3:20pm Alex Scheeline, Complexity in Enzyme Networks: in Vitro, in Vivo, in 
        Simulato 
3:50pm Taekjip Ha "Molecular individualism of simple biological molecules"
4:20pm Yoshi Oono "Rernomalization group theory and classification"

4:50pm Coffee Break

Session X:  190 ESB chaired by Jian Xu
5:00pm Paul Selvin, "Nanometer-scale motion of molecular motors and ion channels."
5:30pm Sahraoui Chaieb, "Faraday instabilities at the cellular level"
6:00pm Gerard Wong "Condensed Matter Physics of the Cytoskeleton"
6:30pm Jason Sutin "Physical Mechanisms of Transcription Regulation"
7:00pm end

7:00pm End of Symposium