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Bruce Hajek
AUDIO Life and random algorithms are intertwined. Individuals and communities are built upon random algorithms, through mechanisms of mutation and biological regulatory networks for evolution of individuals, to social order emerging from traditions, constitutions, and communication platforms.…
Karl Hess
Quantum Computers that eclipse the performance of conventional digital computers represent the holy grail of current research goals. Quantum entanglement is basic to their operation and was the subject of a famous debate between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr who attempted to resolve the following…
Thomas S Huang
Computer technologies are progressing at a breakneck pace. But tremendous computing speed and enormous storage capacity do not amount to anything unless we have intelligent human-computer interfaces. In this talk, Tom Huang will describe some of the research he and his students have been conducting…
Marianne E Kalinke
With the fall of the Roman Empire and the invasions of the Germanic tribes, a literate culture was submerged by an oral one. As the pagan Germanic peoples became Christianized, the literate and Latin culture of the clergy began to coexist with the illiterate and vernacular culture of the laity.…
Benita S Katzenellenbogen
Estrogen hormones play crucial roles in women and men throughout the life cycle, regulating fertility and reproduction, supporting bone and cardiovascular health, and influencing brain function, yet estrogens can also fuel the growth of some breast cancers. Because estrogens act through specific…
Susan Kieffer
How does a curious little kid grow up to become a research scientist? Join us for an evening of fun and thought as we explore the elements that nurture creativity and careers in science. Our journey is through the second half of the 20th century to the present--from personal infancy and maturity to…
Paul Lauterbur
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Anthony J Leggett
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Stephen P. Long
As we look to plants for energy as well as food and feed, demand for major crops is expected to rise 70% by 2050. Yet yield increases from the Green Revolution, a period of agricultural innovation, are stagnating. The Green Revolution’s approaches have reached their biological limits, but…
James Marchand
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Michael Moore
The neuroscience of the last 30 years has discovered that our voluntary actions are initiated by certain happenings in our brains well prior to our consciously willing such actions to occur. That finding seems to threaten the common sense view of persons as agents who both cause such actions and…
Tere O'Connor
Tere O’Connor has created dances for the last 35 years. Often classified as an iconoclast, O’Connor perceives his journey as an organic excavation of the philosophical underpinnings of the form. A tension between his love for the art of dance and persistent questions about its use and fundamental…
David Pines
Following an elementary description of superconductivity, Pines will review the development of the microscopic theory by John Bardeen and others at the University of Illinois in the late 1950s. Pines will then describe the search for superconductivity and superfluidity in the universe, from the low…
Gene Robinson
True societies are very rare in biology, but have evolved repeatedly in a group of insects that include the ants, bees, and wasps, with the honey bee widely considered a paragon of sociality.  This lecture uses the honey bee and related species to demonstrate how the new science of genomics enables…
Abigail A Salyers
Much of modern medicine relies on the continued efficacy of antibiotics, but the disease-causing bacteria that are targeted by antibiotics are becoming increasingly resistant to them. To make matters worse, many pharmaceutical companies have reduced or suspended their antibiotic discovery programs…
Jonathan Sweedler
What is the chemical nature of thought? What is memory?  Why, over 2,000 years since Aristotle first asked such questions, are we still searching for answers? Animal nervous systems range from the simple nerve nets found in jellies to the complexity of the human brain. While the spatial…
Dale J Van Harlingen
Superconductivity is one of the most remarkable and potentially useful phenomena ever discovered --- the ability of a material to carry electrical current without any loss of energy by heating was an amazing and unexpected observation first made almost 100 years ago. The mysterious behavior of…
Peter Wolynes
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Ladislav Zgusta
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Presentations

he CAS Forum on Critical Issues: Reforming Social Security, held on February 23, has been archived in both video and audio only format. In the first State of the Union address of his second term, President Bush announced plans to overhaul Social Security by allowing younger workers to open…
Earlier this month, President Bush announced his decision to limit federal funding of embryonic stem cell research to existing stem cell lines. Since then, there has been tremendous media attention on this area of scientific inquiry, and the resulting moral, ethical and societal considerations. We…
Twenty-nine early career faculty members and graduate students from 22 campuses and 7 countries will convene at Illinois for the Human-Animal Studies Summer Institute, July 9-15. The ambitious program--developed in partnership with the Animals & Society Institute--includes presentations by UI…
Friday, September 28, 2001 Imagining Mind/Imagining Science Symposium Program in Science, Technology, Information, and Medicine
A two day interdisciplinary symposium highlighting work of recent Center for Advanced Study Associates and Fellows Day One – Monday, April 20, 2015 8:00-8:30 Continental Breakfast and Registration 8:30-8:40 Introductory Remarks Vice Chancellor for Research Peter Schiffer 8:40-10:30 Directors Panel…