2014 Annual Conference Program
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Thursday, January 16, 2014
Welcome and Remarks
The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison
TAMEST Honorary Chair
The Honorable Joe Straus
Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives
Program Introduction
J. Tinsley Oden, Ph.D. (NAE)
2014 Conference Program Chair
Associate Vice President for Research; Director, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES)
The University of Texas at Austin
Keynote Address: The Curious Case of Making Clean: the Modeling & Simulation behind Improving Everyday Life
Thomas J. Lange
Director, R&D, Modeling & Simulation
Procter & Gamble Company
Monitored Destruction of the Mouse Genome by Random Germ Line Mutagenesis
Bruce A. Beutler, M.D. (Nobel Laureate, IOM, NAS)
Director, Center for the Genetics of Host Defense
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Keynote Address: Modeling Cardiac Function and Dysfunction
Natalia Trayanova, Ph.D.
Murray B. Sachs Endowed Chair, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Joint Appointment, Medicine, Institute for Computational Medicine
Johns Hopkins University
From Protein Folding to Molecular Machines in Biology
José N. Onuchic, Ph.D. (NAS)
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Chemistry, and Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Co-director, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics
Rice University
The Growing Scientific Importance and Competitive Advantage of Supercomputing to Science, Engineering, Medicine—and Texas
Dan Stanzione, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center
The University of Texas at Austin
Special Address: A New Social Compact for Science
Harvey V. Fineberg, M.D., Ph.D. (IOM)
President
Institute of Medicine
Presentations by the Recipients of the 2014 Edith and Peter O’Donnell Awards
Alan Needleman, Ph.D.
Professor of Materials Science and Engineering
University of North Texas
MEDICINE
Richard K. Bruick, Ph.D.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
ENGINEERING
Thomas M. Truskett, Ph.D.
The University of Texas at Austin
SCIENCE
Zhifeng Ren, Ph.D.
University of Houston
TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION
James Walker, Ph.D.
Southwest Research Institute
Dinner Honoring the Recipients of the 2014 Edith & Peter O’Donnell Awards
2014 Awards Tribute Video
2014 O’Donnell Awards Dinner
Friday, January 17, 2014
Studying the Impacts and Mitigation of Hurricane Storm Surges and Oil Spills
Clint N. Dawson, Ph.D.
Professor and Edward S. Hyman Endowed Chair in Engineering
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Leader of the ICES Computational Hydraulics Group
The University of Texas at Austin
Visualizing Viruses Inside and Outside the Cells
Wah Chiu, Ph.D. (NAS)
Alvin Romansky Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Director, National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Baylor College of Medicine
Digital Discovery and Design: toward the New Age of Materials on Demand
Sharon C. Glotzer, Ph.D.
Stuart W. Churchill Collegiate Professor of Chemical Engineering
Professor of Material Science & Engineering, Macromolecular Science and Engineering, and Physics
University of Michigan
Closing luncheon: Legislative Panel on Higher Education
Moderator: Larry R. Faulkner, Ph.D.
President Emeritus
The University of Texas at Austin
Panelists:
The Honorable Robert Duncan
Texas State Senator
The Honorable Donna Howard
Texas State Representative
The Honorable Diane Patrick
Texas State Representative
The Honorable Judith Zaffrini
Texas State Senator
