Annual National Symposium on Frontiers of Science, November 7-9, 1991, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Center, Irvine, CA

第一届全国科学前沿研讨会于1989年3月在加利福尼亚州欧文的贝克曼中心举行。第二次会议于1990年11月1日至3日举行。这些会议旨在将一群经过挑选的美国年轻科学家聚集在一起，讨论各自领域令人兴奋的进展和机会，这种形式鼓励与会者进行非正式的一对一讨论，并留出足够的时间。除其他外，美国未来科学领袖的互动旨在促进未来的研究合作和跨领域的新技术和方法的转移。演讲者将他们的演讲重点放在当前各自领域的尖端研究上，面向科学成熟但不是专业的听众，并提供对实验数据的感觉--在各个领域中实际测量和看到的数据。它们提供的信息包括：该领域的主要研究问题和独特工具是什么？目前在进步和前沿方面的限制是什么？1991年11月7日至9日的会议主题包括：衰老、艾滋病和艾滋病传播、生物结构、免疫学、材料化学、蛋白质结构和折叠、进化生物学、粒子物理、核物理、太阳、暗物质、宇宙波背景、行星科学、物质灭绝、海洋学、全球变化、地震科学和预测、人工智能、组合算法、计算几何、微加工、激光原子捕获、扫描隧道显微镜和加速器质谱学。

The first National Symposium on Frontiers of Science meeting was held in March 1989 at the Beckman Center in Irvine, California. A second meeting was held November 1-3, 1990. The meetings are designed to bring together a selected group of young U. S. scientists to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in their respective fields in a format that encourages, and allows adequate time for, informal one-on-one discussions among participants. Interaction of the future leaders of U. S. science is intended, inter alia, to stimulate future collaboration in research and the transfer of new techniques and approaches across fields. Speakers focus their talks on current cutting-edge research in their field to a scientifically sophisticated but non-specialist audience and provide a sense of the experimental data--what is actually measured and seen in the various fields. They provide information such as: What are the major research problems and unique tools in the field? What are the current limitations on advances as well as the frontiers? Topics for the November 7-9, 1991 meeting include: aging, AIDS and AIDS transmission, biological structure, immunology, materials chemistry, protein structure and folding, evolutionary biology, particle physics, nuclear physics, the Sun, dark matter, cosmic wave background, planetary science, mass extinctions, oceanography, global change, earthquake science and prediction, artificial intelligence, combinatorial algorithms, computational geometry, micromachining, laser atom trapping, scanning tunneling microscopy, and accelerator mass spectrometry.