2004 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium

September 9, 2004 6:00 PM—September 11, 2004 2:00 PM
Irvine , California


Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center
Irvine, California

TENTH ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM ON FRONTIERS OF ENGINEERING
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

 

Staff contact: Janet Hunziker; 202-334-1571