2004 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium (Print This)
TENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING
September 9-11, 2004
Irvine , California
Chair: Pablo G. Debenedetti, Princeton University
U.S. 2004 FOE List of Participants
U.S. 2004 FOE Sponsors
U.S. 2004 FOE Presentations
Program
MULTISCALE MODELING
Organizers: Grant Heffelfinger, Sandia National Laboratories, and Dimitrios Maroudas, University of Massachusetts
Introductory overview of the state of the art in multiscale modeling and simulation for engineering applications
Yannis G. Kevrekidis, Princeton University
Theoretical and computational methods linking atomic-scale structure and dynamics to the macroscopic behavior of materials
Rob Phillips, California Institute of Technology
Coupling genomic information to cellular response
Adam Arkin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Understanding and incorporating the role of small-scale processes in climate and global dynamics simulations
Bjorn Stevens, National Center for Atmospheric Research
DESIGNER MATERIALS
Organizers: Kristi Anseth, University of Colorado, Boulder, and Diann Brei, University of Michigan
Thin Film Active Materials, From Nano to Micro
Greg P. Carman, University of California, Los Angeles
The Future of Engineering Materials: Multifunction for Performance-Tailored Structures
Leslie A. Momoda, HRL Laboratories
Design of ECM-Mimetic Polymers for Tissue Engineering
Jennifer West, Rice University
ENGINEERING FOR EXTREME ENVIRONMENTS
Organizers: Mary Kae Lockwood, NASA Langley Research Center, and John Weatherly, U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory
Cool Robots: Scalable Mobile Robots for Instrument Network Deployment in Polar Climates
Laura R. Ray, Dartmouth College
The Role of Modeling and Simulation in Extreme Engineering Projects
Jon Berkoe, Bechtel National Inc.
The Challenges of Landing on Mars
Tommaso Rivellini, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Human Space Exploration Missions
B. Kent Joosten, NASA Johnson Space Center
ENGINEERING AND ENTERTAINMENT
Organizers: David Baraff, Pixar Animation Studios, and Chris Kyriakakis, University of Southern California
Virtual actors, virtual environments, and applying computer graphics to creative projects
Paul Debevec, University of Southern California
Frontiers in audio technology
Bill Gardner, Wave Arts, Inc.
Entertainment robots
Cynthia Breazeal, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
DINNER SPEECH
Unlikely Partners: DARPA and Me
Alex Singer, Film Director
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