HAGLER INSTITUTEiqse.tamu.edu/conferences/2017/TIASSymposium.pdf · Director, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University Marlan Scully, Symposium Coordinator Director,

HAGLER INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDYa t T e x a s A & M U n i v e r s i t y

HAGLER INSTITUTESymposium

Hawking Auditorium, Mitchell InstituteTexas A&M UniversityFebruary 22–24, 2017

ABOUT THE HAGLER INSTITUTE

This year marks the completion of the Institute’s start-up phase. During these first five years, the Institute has brought forty-five world-class scholars to Texas A&M. Those scholars include two Nobel Prize laureates and recipients of many other national and international awards representing the highest honors in a variety of fields, from engineering to economics, medicine to mathematics, agriculture to astronomy, literature to law.

Top-level scholars from all over the world come to Texas A&M for up to twelve months to work with our faculty and students, collaborate on research at the frontiers of knowledge, and generate ideas and inspiration. When one of those Faculty Fellows chooses to come to

Texas A&M, most scholars in their field take notice, expanding Texas A&M’s reputation as a destination for the finest in the world.

In 2016, the Institute was unquestionably secured forever as a part of the University with a $20 million commitment from one of Texas A&M’s most generous, accomplished, and admired supporters—Jon L. Hagler. Thanks to Jon Hagler, the future is now bright for the Hagler Institute for Advanced Study, and Texas A&M continues its march toward world academic leadership.

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National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Medicine

Nobel Prize

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wolf Prize

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

National Medal of Science

Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature

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A 1958 graduate of Texas A&M, Hagler was corps commander and a Ross Volunteer before serving on active military duty as an officer in the US Army for three years. He earned a master’s degree in business administration at Harvard University in 1963 and subsequently launched a career that led to remarkable success and accomplishment in the highly competitive financial investment community.

Hagler has been a longtime supporter of Texas A&M as a philanthropist and as a strategic planner on A&M’s behalf. He also serves on the Institute’s External Advisory Board. Hagler’s life sets a standard of excellence, generosity, and principled leadership.

Achieving a position of national and international leadership among peer universities is an aggressive goal, particularly for a land-grant university. Thanks to Hagler’s generosity, the newly renamed Hagler Institute for Advanced Study is now a permanent feature at Texas A&M, and will continue to bolster academic excellence and ability to attract world-class talent to the University for years to come.

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ABOUT THE HAGLER ENDOWMENT

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Wednesday FEBRUARY 22, 2017WELCOME

1–1:30 p.m.John SharpChancellorThe Texas A&M University System

John L. JunkinsDirector, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University

Marlan Scully, Symposium CoordinatorDirector, Institute of Quantum Science & EngineeringTexas A&M University

Session IGENOMICS AND MEDICINE

1:30–1:40 p.m. IntroductionsJames E. Womack, Session I ChairUniversity Distinguished ProfessorCollege of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical SciencesTexas A&M University

1:40–2:20 p.m. What Small Aquarium Fish Can Tell Us About Human Cancer Manfred SchartlUniversity of Würzburg, Germany

2015-2016 Faculty Fellow, Texas A&M University Institute for Advanced Study

2:20–3:00 p.m. Integrating Genomics for Adult Clinical Care and Research DiscoveryRichard Gibbs Baylor College of Medicine


National Academy of Engineering

National Academy of Sciences

National Academy of Medicine

Nobel Prize

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Wolf Prize

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

National Medal of Science

Jay B. Hubbell Medal for Lifetime Achievement in American Literature

3–3:30 p.m. Break – Atrium

3:30–4:10 p.m. Genomics in Veterinary Medicine James E. WomackTexas A&M University

4:10–4:50 p.m. Genetic Aspects of Human Reproduction in the 21st CenturyArthur L. BeaudetBaylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital

Session IILITERARY DEMOCRACY

8:30–8:40 a.m. WelcomeJerome Loving, Session II ChairTexas A&M University

IntroductionsWilliam Bedford ClarkProfessor of EnglishCollege of Liberal ArtsTexas A&M University

8:40–9:20 a.m. Frederick Douglass in Fiction from Harriet Beecher Stowe to James McBride Robert S. LevineUniversity of Maryland


9:25–10:05 a.m. A Yet More Terrible and More Deeply Complicated Problem: Walt Whitman, Race and American DemocracyEd FolsomUniversity of Iowa

10:05–10:35 a.m. Break – Atrium

10:40–11:20 a.m. Crowd-sourcing Moby-Dick: Melville, C. L. R. James, Frank StellaWai Chee DimockYale University

11:25 a.m.–12:00 p.m. A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song Jerome LovingTexas A&M University

12–1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own

Session IIITHE NOBEL FOUNDATION CELEBRATES QUANTUM MECHANICS

1:30–1:40 p.m. WelcomeMichael K. YoungPresidentTexas A&M University

IntroductionsGlen A. LaineVice President for ResearchTexas A&M University

1:40–2:10 p.m. Max Born and Emil Wolf: Optics in Our TimeGirish AgarwalTexas A&M University

2:10–2:40 p.m. Using the Atom as a Laboratory: Willis Lamb Kick-starts Modern Quantum PhysicsWolfgang SchleichTexas A&M UniversityUniversity of Ulm, Germany


2:40–3:10 p.m. Quantum Electrodynamics (QED): Julian Schwinger vs Richard FeynmanMarlan ScullyTexas A&M University

3:10–3:50 p.m. Break – Atrium

Physics COLLOQUIUM

3:50–4:00 p.m. Welcome and introductionsRobert “Bob” Albritton Member, Board of RegentsThe Texas A&M University System

4:00–5:00 p.m. The Super of Superfluidity David LeeNobel Prize in Physics, 1996Texas A&M University

One Hundred Years of Light QuantaRoy GlauberNobel Prize in Physics, 2005 Harvard University Texas A&M University


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Session IV INFORMATION AND COMPUTATION: TOOLS FOR BETTER LIVING

8:30–8:40 a.m.Introductions Costas N. Georghiades Session IV ChairSenior Associate Vice President for Research Professor and Holder of the Delbert A. Whitaker ChairCollege of EngineeringTexas A&M University

8:40–9:20 a.m. Remembering ShannonRobert CalderbankDuke University


9:20–10:00 a.m. Surfing with Wavelets Ingrid DaubechiesDuke University

2016-2017 Faculty Fellow, Hagler Institute for Advanced Study at Texas A&M University

10:00–10:30 a.m. Break – Atrium

Friday FEBRUARY 24, 2017

10:30–11:10 a.m. Quantitative Imaging Phenotypes and Deep Learning in Precision MedicineMaryellen L. GigerThe University of Chicago


11:10 a.m.–12:00 p.m. From Engineering Failure to Materials Design Alan NeedlemanTexas A&M University


12:00–1:30 p.m. Lunch on your own

Session V WRITING IN DARK TIMES

1:30–1:40 p.m. Introductions Richard Golsan, Session V ChairUniversity Distinguished Professor of FrenchDirector, Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research College of Liberal ArtsTexas A&M University

1:40–2:10 p.m. Diaries in a Time of Catastrophe: Who Writes for Whom? Why Write and How?Susan Suleiman Harvard University


2:10–2:40 p.m.Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: The Duchesse de Berry, Simon Deutz and France’s First Antisemitic AffaireMaurice SamuelsYale University

2:40–3:00 p.m. Break – Atrium

3:00–3:30 p.m. Modiano at the Movies Lynn HigginsDartmouth College

3:30–4:00 p.m. Writing on the Dark Side of the Recent PastHenry RoussoFrench National Center for Scientific Research Institute of the History of the Present

Session IGENOMICS AND MEDICINE

SPEAKERS

Manfred SchartlProfessor and ChairmanPhysiological Chemistry BiocenterMedical SchoolUniversity of WürzburgGermany


http://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/?id=42039

What Small Aquarium Fish Can Tell Us About Human Cancer Cancer is one of the most devastating diseases with still increasing incidences. To achieve better prevention measures, to find the most sensitive diagnostic tools for early detection and disease development monitoring, and to provide novel successful therapeutic strategies, small laboratory fish are becoming outstanding useful models for biomedical research.

Richard A. GibbsHolder, Wofford Cain Chair in Molecular and Human GeneticsProfessor, Program in Translational Biology and Molecular MedicineProgram in Integrative Molecular and Biomedical SciencesFounding Director, Human Genome Sequencing CenterBaylor College of Medicine


https://www.bcm.edu/people/view/richard-gibbs-phd/b1560782-ffed-11e2-be68-080027880ca6

Integrating Genomics for Adult Clinical Care and Research DiscoveryGenetic approaches are a powerful way to elucidate the molecular basis of human disease. The relative contribution of variants of different frequencies to human common disease is therefore a central question in genetics.

James E. WomackUniversity Distinguished ProfessorW.P. Luse Endowed ProfessorCollege of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical SciencesCollege of MedicineTexas A&M University

https://medicine.tamhsc.edu/mcm/ faculty/joint/james-womack.html

Genomics in Veterinary MedicineGenes responsible for most simply inherited traits of health and economic importance have been identified in common domestic animal species and genetic testing is commercially available and widely used by animal breeders. As in humans, however, there are challenges in finding the genes or genomic markers of complex genetic traits, i.e., those traits that are influenced by multiple genes as well as by environmental factors.

Arthur L. BeaudetHenry and Emma Meyer Chair and ProfessorMolecular and Human Genetics and PediatricsProgram in Integrative Molecular and Biomedical SciencesMolecular and Cellular BiologyBaylor College of MedicineTexas Children’s Hospital

https://www.bcm.edu/people/view/arthur-beaudet-md/b15432e4-ffed-11e2-be68-080027880ca6

Genetic Aspects of Human Reproduction in the 21st CenturyNew developments have radically altered the options for use of genetic information in the course of reproduction. It is feasible to perform exome or genome sequencing on parents prior to conception to identify risks of inherited disabilities, and soon it will be feasible to perform sequencing of the fetal genome during the first trimester to detect de novo mutations.

Session IILITERARY DEMOCRACY

SPEAKERS

Robert S. LevineDistinguished University ProfessorDepartment of EnglishUniversity of Maryland


https://www.english.umd.edu/profiles/rlevine

Frederick Douglass in Fiction: From Harriet Beecher Stow to James McBrideFrom the moment that Douglass published his first autobiography, The Narrative, in 1845, nineteenth-century novelists began to use him as a character in their fiction. After Douglass’s autobiographies were republished during the 1960s, there was an upsurge of fiction that featured Douglass as a character.

Ed FolsomRoy J. Carver Professor of EnglishCollege of Liberal Arts and SciencesThe University of Iowa

https://english.uiowa.edu/people/ed-folsom

A Yet More Terrible and More Deeply Complicated Problem: Walt Whitman, Race, and American DemocracyCritics once worried about “the unwritten war,” the way that so few major American writers directly engaged the Civil War, but an even more glaring failure of our writers has been “the unwritten Reconstruction,” when the fragile beginnings of a biracial democracy began to take root but found little nourishment from the nation’s white writers.

Wai Chee DimockWilliam Lampson Professor of English and American StudiesDepartment of EnglishYale University

http://english.yale.edu/people/tenured-and-tenure-track-faculty-professors/wai-chee-dimock

Crowd-sourcing Moby-Dick: Melville, C.L.R. James, Frank StellaCrowd-sourcing Moby-Dick examines Melville’s classic beyond the imposed critical boundaries of national traditions and across centuries, genres, and media. It looks at C.L.R. James’s attempt in Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways to put a different, more international spin on Melville’s novel and Frank Stella’s paintings and installations of Chinese artisans to restore the “artisanal” and the “workmanlike” to a world no longer simply dominated by Ahab.

Jerome LovingUniversity Distinguished ProfessorDepartment of EnglishCollege of Liberal ArtsTexas A&M University

https://english.tamu.edu/dr-jerome-loving/

A State-Raised Convict and the Legacy of Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s SongA famous mistake was made in law and literature, juxtaposing a serial criminal, Jack Henry Abbott, and one of our most renowned writers, Norman Mailer, in a tragic dance of affirmation and denial. Why did Abbott, a self-made writer of extraordinary power, throw away fame and fortune by killing again so soon after his release?

Session IIITHE NOBEL FOUNDATION CELEBRATES QUANTUM MECHANICS

SPEAKERS

Girish AgarwalInstitute for Quantum Science and EngineeringProfessorDepartment of Biological and Agricultural EngineeringCollege of Agriculture and Life SciencesTexas A&M University

https://baen.tamu.edu/people/agarwal-girish/

Max Born and Emil Wolf: Optics in Our Time

Wolfgang SchleichDistinguished Professor of Quantum PhysicsUniversity of Ulm, GermanyVisiting ProfessorTexas A&M AgriLife ResearchThe Texas A&M University System


https://www.uni-ulm.de/nawi/institut-fuer-quantenphysik/unser-institut/mitarbeiter/wolfgang-p-schleich/

http://iqse.tamu.edu/fellow.php?uname=wschleich

Using the Atom as a Laboratory: Willis Lamb Kick-Starts Modern PhysicsWillis Eugene Lamb Jr., 1955 Nobel Laureate, was a towering figure in twentieth-century physics and one of the last physicists to excel in both theory and experiment. The Lamb shift experiment was a turning point in modern physics. It stimulated people such as Julian Schwinger and Richard Feynman to develop relativistic QED and modern renormalization theory.

Marlan ScullyDirector, Institute of Quantum Science and EngineeringUniversity Distinguished ProfessorColleges of Science and EngineeringTexas A&M UniversityProfessor in Mechanical and Aerospace EngineeringPrinceton Institute for the Science and Technology of MaterialsPrinceton University

http://iqse.tamu.edu/faculty.php?uname=mscully

http://www.princeton.edu/engineering/research/index.xml?area=2

Quantum Electrodynamics (QED): Julian Schwinger vs Richard FeynmanThe history of and interaction between two giants of physics—Julian Schwinger, 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics, and Richard Feynman, 1965 Nobel Prize in Physics.

David LeeUniversity Distinguished ProfessorInstitute for Quantum Science and EngineeringDepartment of Physics and AstronomyCollege of ScienceTexas A&M University

https://physics.tamu.edu/people/dmlee/

The Super of SuperfluidityThis lecture traces the series of events that led to the discovery of superfluidity in liquid 3He in the basement of Clark Hall at Cornell University.

Roy GlauberMallinckrodt Professor Emeritus of PhysicsHarvard UniversityEminent Scholar in Residence and Visiting ProfessorCollege of Agriculture and Life SciencesTexas A&M University


https://www.physics.harvard.edu/people/facpages/glauber

One Hundred Years of Light QuantaWhat was considered in 1900 to be a perfect complete theory of light, changed with the introduction of the quantum theory of light by Planck and Einstein in the early 1900s. Qantum optics and the theory of coherence was developed from the 1950s on. It is an enormously versatile theory which comprehends a vast range of interesting and occasionally strange ways in which light quanta can behave.

PHYSICS COLLOQUIUM

SPEAKERS

Session IVINFORMATION AND COMPUTATION: TOOLS FOR BETTER LIVING

SPEAKERS

Robert CalderbankCharles S. Sydnor Professor of Computer ScienceProfessor, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and MathematicsDirector, Information InitiativeDuke University


http://ece.duke.edu/faculty/robert-calderbank

Remembering ShannonThe foundation of our Information Age is the transformation of speech, audio, images, and video into digital content, and the man who started the digital revolution was Claude Shannon. We will review some of what Shannon did and speculate about what he might have done if he were among us today.

Ingrid DaubechiesJames B. Duke Professor of Mathematics and Electrical and Computer EngineeringDuke University


http://ece.duke.edu/faculty/ingrid-daubechies

Surfing with WaveletsAn overview of wavelets: what they are, how they work, why they are useful for image analysis and image compression. We will discuss how they have been used recently for the study of paintings by e.g., van Gogh, Goossen van der Weyden, Gauguin, and Giotto.

Maryellen L. GigerA.N. Pritzker Professor of RadiologyCommittee on Medical PhysicsCollege Vice-Chair for Basic Science ResearchDepartment of RadiologyThe University of Chicago


https://radiology.uchicago.edu/directory/maryellen-l-giger

Quantitative Imaging Phenotypes and Deep Learning in Precision MedicineAdapting the Precision Medicine Initiative into imaging research includes studies in both discovery and translation to enable conversion of radiological interpretation from the “average patient” to the individual patient. The goal is to detect disease and give the right person the right treatment at the right time.

Alan NeedlemanUniversity Distinguished ProfessorMaterials Science and EngineeringColleges of Engineering and ScienceTexas A&M University


https://engineering.tamu.edu/materials/people/aneedleman

From Engineering Failure to Material DesignStructures and components subject to mechanical forces can fail by fracturing or by undergoing a mechanical buckling instability. Much engineering research has been focused on developing the knowledge and computational tools to design against such failures, which has led to safer structures and components.

Session VWRITING IN DARK TIMES

SPEAKERS

Susan SuleimanC. Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of FranceProfessor of Comparative LiteratureHarvard University


http://rll-faculty.fas.harvard.edu/susanrubinsuleiman/home

Diaries in a Time of Catastrophe: Who Writes for Whom? Why Write and How?

Maurice SamuelsBetty Jane Anlyan Professor of FrenchChair, Department of FrenchYale University

http://french.yale.edu/people/maurice-samuels

Dress Rehearsal for Dreyfus: The Duchesse de Berry, Simon Deutz, and France’s First Antisemitic AffaireIn 1832, the Duchesse de Berry fought a guerrilla war against the July Monarchy in the hope of recapturing the throne for her 12-year-old son. Her dream of another Bourbon restoration was dashed, however, by a Jewish convert named Simon Deutz. After becoming the duchess’s confidant and emissary, he betrayed her to the government, leading to her arrest and imprisonment.

Lynn A. HigginsEdward Tuck Professor of FrenchProfessor of Comparative Literature and Film StudiesArts and SciencesDartmouth College

http://dartmouth.edu/faculty-directory/lynn-higgins

Modiano at the MoviesModiano’s participation as a scriptwriter for Louis Malle’s Lacombe Lucien is well known, as is the film’s role in launching the “Mode Rétro,” with its return of the national consciousness toward the “Dark Years” of the Occupation. Less familiar are Modiano’s other engagements with the world of the cinema, and especially how movies may have mediated his obsessive “memory” of a historical period that ended before his birth.

Henry RoussoSenior ResearcherFrench National Center for Scientific Research Institute of the History of the PresentParis, France

http://www.ihtp.cnrs.fr/spip/spip.php?article537&lang=fr

Writing on the Dark Side of the Recent PastMore than ever, historians have to rethink their standards and the ways that they are writing history. In an era where opinions, “post-truth,” and so-called democratization of knowledge are predominant, they should foster a reliable conception of how to write about recent issues. This is all the more necessary given that contemporary societies are deeply marked by the memory of recent conflicts and bitter controversies over horrific traumas, like genocides and mass crimes.

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