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The
1997 Volen National Center for Complex Systems
Scientific Retreat
The Center for Complex Systems: New Directions
Marine Biological
Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts
March 27-28, 1997
On March 27
and 28, 1997, the Volen National Center for Complex Systems
held its annual scientific retreat. This year the retreat
returned to the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), in
Woods Hole, Massachusetts. The MBL facility includes lecture
halls, function rooms, cafeteria-style dining, and overnight
dorm room accommodations. Bringing the researchers together
off-campus for a 24-hour retreat was tremendously successful.
The MBL provided a stimulating environment for interactions
between the faculty, post-docs and graduate students,
as well as a scenic site for walking and relaxing. This
year's retreat was titled "Aging Brains".
Approximately
120 people attended the retreat, which consisted of a
poster session, a keynote speaker, and talks by four of
the Center's senior faculty. The keynote speaker was Dr.
Marilyn Albert, from the Department of Psychiatry and
Gerontology at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.
She gave a thought provoking talk on "The Aging Brain:
Normal and Abnormal Memory".
Thursday,
March 27, 1997
"The
Aging Brain: Normal and Abnormal Memory"
Keynote
Speaker:
Marilyn Albert, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry/Gerontology Massachusetts General
Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts
Friday,
March 28, 1997
"Optimal
Implementation of Functional Programming Languages:
Complexity, Linear Logic, and the Geometry of Interaction"
Harry
Mairson, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor of Computer Science
Volen
Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University
Waltham,
Massachusetts
"Coevolutionary
Learning Systems"
Jordan
Pollack, Ph.D.
Associate
Professor of Computer Science
Volen
Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University
Waltham,
Massachusetts
"Molecular
Mechanisms that Underlie
the Circadian Pacemaker in Drosophila"
Michael
Rosbash, Ph.D.
Professor
of Biology
Investigator,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Volen
Center for Complex Systems Brandeis University
Waltham,
Massachusetts
"How
the Brain Works - Modulation of Ion Channels by Protein
Phosphorylation"
Irwin
Levitan, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Director,
Volen Center for Complex Systems
Brandeis
University
Waltham,
Massachusetts
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