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Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Presentations
Appendix B: Workshop Agenda and Presentations
Pages 75-90
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Blue Lasers: Materials Growth, Characterization, and Computational Physics David B our and Chris Van de Walle 2:45 p.m. Coping with Complex Surfaces: An Interface between Mathematics and Condensed Matter Physics-Jack Douglas and Fern Hunt 3:45 p.m.
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Protein Folding Class Prediction& Temple Smith and James White 10:15 a.m. Economics in Infinite Dimensional Spaces Robert Andersoni and William Zame l 1: 1 5 a.m.
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The Elucidation and Quantification of Transport and Mixing Processes in the Ocean by Dynamical Systems Techniques Lawrence Pratt, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute Christopher Jones, Brown University Pratt, a physical oceanographer, and Jones, a mathematician, worked together on mixing and exchange in ocean current systems. The questions in oceanography included how mixing and exchange occur in major current systems such as the Gulf Stream and how current trajectories reduce to the physical features of the current.
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They were hampered by the lack of appropriate data on currents and by the lack of an explicit analytical expression for the velocity field. Success required that the mathematicians become accustomed to dealing in the imperfect world of physical oceanographers.
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The basic principle behind what is now known as CT scanning is the collection of simple X-ray images of the body from many different angles. Mathematical techniques allow one to reconstruct from these many images a single, more detailed image providing information on both bone structure and soft tissue.
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He noted that such students require good dual mentors from both disciplines in order to obtain sufficiently solid training in both disciplines, but that such dual mentoring brings faculty partners from different departments into closer, more fruitful relationships. For mathematicians, he felt it was important to engage in what he termed "service mathematics"-assisting scientists with problems that involve little or no new development of mathematics and thus do not further the mathematician's own research career-in order to open doors to other disciplines.
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Many have gone on to jobs at well-respected industrial firms such as Bell Labs, Shell, and Exxon. The question-and-answer period revolved around whether it is best to provide students with interdisciplinary training or to provide them with solid disciplinary training and foster the traits good communication, professional respect and curiosity, summed up by one participant as "entrepreneurial attitude" that will enable them to use their training to take on interdisciplinary tasks.
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Chris Van de Walle, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center Bour and Van de Walle collaborate at Xerox PARC on the development of blue semiconductor lasers. These devices are sought because the shorter wavelength of blue light can provide higher storage density on DVD devices and, in combination with red and green semiconductor lasers already available, enable full-color LED displays.
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The center uses highperformance parallel processing as a too] to mode} the behavior of fluids in permeable geologic formations such as petroleum and natural gas reservoirs, groundwater aquifers and aquitards, and shallow water bodies such as bays and estuaries.
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33: 1669-1687. Wavelets: A Synthesis of Ideas in Harmonic Analysis and Subband Filtering That Happened Serendipitously Ingrid Daubechies, Princeton University Martin Vetterli, University of California, Berkeley Wavelet theory has its roots in harmonic analysis and the development of the Fourier transform.
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Its roots lie in several fields, and influence can be traced to harmonic analysis, standard coherent-state decompositions used in quantum mechanics, approximation theory, vision theory, and computer-aided geometric design. The synthesis of these roots into wavelet theory occurred over a relatively short period, 1982 to 1988, and involved encounters and interactions among a number of researchers from different fields.
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Englewood Cliffs, N.~.: PrenticeHall. Language arid Dynamical Systems: A V'ewirom the Bridge Robert Berwick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Partha Niyogi, Bell Laboratories Niyogi and Berwick worked together on problems of modeling the development of human language using dynamical systems.
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protein folding using Markov models. Smith trained as a physicist and is now part of the Molecular Engineering and Research Center (MERC)
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James Phillips, The Boeing Company Suzanne Withers, University of Washington Margaret Wright, Bell Laboratories The discussion identified several themes that had come from the various presentations: · Time and patience were needed to develop individual interdisciplinary collaborations to develop trust and rapport between collaborators, to understand each other's language sufficiently, to recognize the emerging questions underlying each research problem. Time is also needed to build up a culture more supportive of interdisciplinary interactions generally.
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Differences in jargon between the disciplines can also make clear communication more difficult, and both parties must be willing to work to overcome them. · Proper reward systems can make interdisciplinary collaborations easier.
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