The CDFN site review will occur on 1 November at Caltech in Pasadena, California.

Ralph Archuleta is Professor of Seismology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His primary research interest is in understanding the earthquake source process and the generation of strong ground motion. He is currently the Deputy Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC; a consortium of 12 major research universities and the US Geological Survey). Prof. Archuleta is a former President (and Vice President) of the Seismological Society of America, has served as Acting Director and Associate Director of the UCSB Institute for Crustal Studies, and has served on the NAS Committee on Seismology and numerous USGS External Research Panels. He has been consultant to the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, US Bureau of Reclamation on issues regarding strong ground motion and critical structures.

Jean Carlson (Professor of Physics at UCSB) is a specialist in complex systems theory, with applications in materials science, seismology, and more recently ecology and evolutionary biology. She is a recipient of a Sloan Foundation Fellowship, a Packard Foundation Fellowship, and a McDonnell Foundation 21st Century Science Award in the area of Complex Systems Theory. Currently Carlson serves as Director of the Keck Foundation Interdisciplinary Program in Seismology and Materials Physics at UCSB and is the founding faculty sponsor of the popular Physics Circus, K-12 outreach program at UCSB, and a PI on the NSF supported LEAPS (Let's Enjoy Applied Physical Sciences) program

Michael Dickinson is the Esther and Abe Zarem Professor of Bioengineering at the California Institute of Technology. Dr. Dickinson's research focuses on the mechanics and physiology of animal behavior. Specifically, he has studied the flight behavior of insects simultaneously at several levels of analysis, in an attempt to integrate cellular physiology, biomechanics, aerodynamics, and behavior. His awards include the Larry Sandler Award from the Genetics Society of America (1990), a Packard Foundation Fellowship in Science and Engineering (1992), the Quantrell award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching (1993), and the George A. Bartholemew Award for Comparative Physiology from the American Society of Zoologists (1995). In 2001, he was awarded and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

John C. Doyle is Professor of Control and Dynamical Systems, Bioengineering, and Electrical Engineering at Caltech. His current research interests are in theoretical foundations for complex networks in engineering and biology, as well as multiscale physics and financial markets, focusing on the interplay between robustness, feedback, control, dynamical systems, computation, communications, and statistical physics. Prize papers include the IEEE Baker (also ranked in the top 10 ``most important'' papers world-wide in pure and applied mathematics from 1981-1993), the IEEE AC Transactions Axelby paper (twice), and the AACC Hugo Schuck best paper award. Individual awards include the IEEE Centennial Outstanding Young Engineer, the IEEE Hickernell award, the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) Donald P. Eckman award, and the Bernard Friedman award. He is the recipient of the 2004 IEEE Control Systems Field Award.

James S. Langer is a professor of physics at the University of California in Santa Barbara, and is the Vice President of the National Academy of Sciences. His primary research interests have been in theories of nonequilibrium phenomena such as the kinetics of phase transitions, pattern formation in fluid dynamics and crystal growth, earthquakes, and--most recently--the dynamics of deformation and fracture in solids. At UCSB, Langer served as Director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics from 1989 to 1995. He was awarded the American Physical Society’s Oliver Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize in 1997, and was president of the American Physical Society in 2000.

Simon A. Levin is the George M. Moffett Professor of Biology at Princeton University, and was the Founding Director of the Princeton Environmental Institute at Princeton University. Levin examines the dynamics of populations and communities; spatial heterogeneity and problems of scale; evolutionary ecology; and mathematical and theoretical ecology. Levin is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and American Philosophical Society, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Levin has also served as President of the Ecological Society of America and has won its MacArthur Award and Distinguished Service Citation, and was also President of the Society for Mathematical Biology and recipient of its first Okubo Lifetime Achievement Award. He was awarded the Dr A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences 2004 by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was the founding Editor of the journal Ecological Applications, and has edited numerous journals and book series. He also edited the five-volume Encyclopedia of Biodiversity.

Jerrold E. Marsden is the Carl F. Braun Professor of Engineering and Control and Dynamical Systems at Caltech. His primary current interests are in applied dynamics, control theory, and multiscale systems, especially how these subjects relate to dynamical and mechanical systems with symmetry He is the recipient of the prestigious Norbert Wiener prize (AMS and SIAM) in 1990, was a Humboldt Fellow in Germany (1991 and 1999), and a Fairchild Fellow at Caltech (1992). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, of the American Academy of Arts and Science and received the Max Planck Research award in 2000. He was Director of the Fields Institute, 1990--1994, and a member of the Council of the American Mathematical Society, 1995--1998. He is a Chief Editor of Springer-Verlag's Applied Mathematical Sciences Series and is on the editorial boards for a number of prominent journals in applied dynamics and mechanics. He currently serves is the Chair of the Board of Trustees of the NSF Institute IPAM (the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics) at UCLA.

Naomi Ehrich Leonard is Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University and Associated Faculty Member of the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics at Princeton. Her research focuses on the dynamics and control of mechanical systems using nonlinear and geometric methods. Current interests include underwater vehicles, mobile sensor networks, adaptive sampling and application to observing and predicting physical processes and biological dynamics in the oceans. She is the recipient of a NSF CAREER award, an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award and an Automatica Prize Paper Award. Most recently she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship (2004). She will participate on the plenary panel at the 2004 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control entitled Challenges and Opportunities for the Future of Controls. She is currently Associate Editor for Automatica and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization.

Richard M. Murray is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and the Division Chair (dean) of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena. His current research is in the application of feedback and control to mechanical, biological and information systems. Murray is the recipient of the IEEE Donald P. Eckman award, an ONR Youn Investigator award and an NSF CAREER Award. In 1998-99, Professor Murray was the Director of Mechatronic Systems at the United Technologies Research Center, where he managed a group of 80 engineers and scientists engaged in research on active control, sensing and actuation technology, embedded communications and computation, and harsh environment electronics. He is an IEEE Fellow, a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, a member of the JPL Advisory Council and chair of the JPL Technical Divisions Advisory Group, and serves on several university visiting committees.

Linda Petzold is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of Computer Science, Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, and Director of the Computational Science and Engineering Program at the University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Petzold was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2004. She was awarded the Wilkinson Prize for Numerical Software in 1991, the Dahlquist Prize in 1999, and the AWM/SIAM Sonia Kovalevski Prize in 2003. She served as SIAM (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics) Vice President at Large from 2000-2001, as SIAM Vice President for Publications from 1993-1998, and as Editor in Chief of the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing from 1989-1993.

Margaret Wertheim is a freelance science writer and author who has worked in virtually all media - for newspapers, magazines, television, radio, and interactive media. Margaret is the author of three books, including two about the cultural history of physics. For her book Pythagoras Trousers, a history of the relationship between physics and religion, she won the J.K. Russell Fellowship from the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences at UC Berkeley. Margaret writes a regular column on science and technology for the LA Weekly, sister paper to the Village Voice. One of these columns was selected for the Best American Science Writing anthology in 2003. Margaret has written a dozen television science programs including the six-part series Catalyst that was aimed at teenage girls. Catalyst won several major awards including first prize at the International Children's Film and Television Awards, Cairo 1991.

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