MGM 2007

Speakers

	Anna Krylov Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California How Unpaired are Single electrons in Triradicals: Tales of Bonding in Open-shell Compounds
	Natia Frank Department of Chemistry, University of Washington Structural and Electronic Factors Governing Charge Transport and Magnetic Phenomenon within Biology and Materials
	Kimberly Prather Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego Measuring Particles One by One: What Can We Learn?
	Juli Feigon Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles Recognition of Nucleic Acids by Proteins; Structure, Folding, and Cation Interactions

Session Chairs

Leah-Nani Alconcel, Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, Pasadena, CA
Maryann Martone, Department of Neurosciences
Debbie Tahmassebi, Department of Chemistry, University of San Diego
Jayashree Srinivasan, University of CAlifornia, San Diego

Maria Goeppert-Mayer Symposium Highlights Interdisciplinary Science
SDSC Co-Hosts Ninth Annual 2004 Gathering

Scientific research leaders in materials science, chemistry, protein structure, and aerosol chemistry spoke at the ninth Maria Goeppert-Mayer Interdisciplinary Symposium, held March 6, 2004 at the University of California, San Diego. The annual meeting,, named in honor of the co-winner of the 1963 Nobel Prize in physics, explores fundamental scientific achievements that cross traditional discipline boundaries.

“The symposium has struck a chord in the research community with its focus on interdisciplinary science,” said Kim Baldridge, professor of theoretical chemistry at the University of Zurich and SDSC Distinguished Scientist, who founded the symposium in 1996. “The event has also become an important forum for the interrelated themes of presenting outstanding achievements of women scientists, encouraging career development for all scientists and students, and community building in science, computer science, and computational science,” said Baldridge.

Invited speakers at the 2004 symposium included Birgitta Whaley of UC Berkeley in Physical Chemistry; Sabeeha Merchant of UCLA in Chemistry/Biochemistry; Janet Del Bene of Youngstown State University in Physical Chemistry; Connie Hall of the Pritzker Institute in Biophysics; and Emma Parmee of Merck in Pharmaceutics. The meeting, which has grown each year to reach some 100 attendees, also featured nearly 30 research posters presented by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from UCSD and other academic institutions.

The career of Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972), a UCSD Nobel Prize-winning physicist, demonstrated a keen sense of the interdisciplinary nature of science, crossing the boundaries of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and early computational chemistry. Sponsors of the 2004 symposium included the National Science Foundation and its National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure, the National Biomedical Computational Resource, the American Chemical Society, and the UCSD Center for Theoretical and Biological Physics.