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2001   Nanoscience Angela M. Belcher The University of Texas at Austin Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The University of Texas at Austin November 2, 2001 Evelyn L. Hu University of California at Santa Barbara New Opportunities for Photons in Nanostructures Clifford P. Kubiak University of California at San Diego Electronic Conduction in Molecular Nanostructures Angela M. Belcher The University of Texas at Austin Nanoscience Brian A. Korgel The University of Texas at Austin Chemical Strategies to Coax Visible Light from Silicon Zhen Yao The University of Texas at Austin Carbon Nanotube Nanoelectronics C. Grant Willson The University of Texas at Austin Polymer Chemistry and Nanoscience 2002   Variational and Viscosity Methods in Partial Differential Equations Xavier Cabré Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Mathematics The University of Texas at Austin Co-sponsored by TICAM (Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics) Co-organized by Luis Caffarelli (The University of Texas at Austin) April 17-20, 2002 Luigi Ambrosio Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa Existence and Stability Results in L1 Theory of Optimal Transportation Francois Hamel Universite Aix - Marseille III Variational Principles and Applications to Some Propagation Phenomena in Periodic Media Changfeng Gui University of Connecticut Recent Progress on a Conjecture of De Giorgi Denis Labutin ETH - Zentrum, Zurich Potential Theory Estimates for Semilinear Elliptic Equations Henri Berestycki Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris Propagation of Fronts in Periodic Media Nikolai Nadirashvili University of Chicago Isoperimetric Inequalities for the Second Eigenvalue of a Sphere Regis Monneau Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, CERMICS One-Dimensional Symmetry and Fully Nonlinear Elliptic Equations Maria Esteban Universite Paris Dauphine About Some New Homogeneous and Non-homogeneous Hardy Inequalities Lihe Wang University of Iowa Estimates for Degenerate Equations and Applications Jean-Michel Roquejoffre Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Mathematical Justification and Qualitative Properties of a Class of Asymptotic Models for Spherical Flames Yanyan Li Rutgers University Extensions to a Theorem of Jörgens, Calabi, and Pogorelov Nassif Ghoussoub Pacific Institute, Vancouver Elliptic Equations with Singular Potentials Italo Capuzzo-Dolcetta Universita Roma La Sapienza Hadamard and Liouville Type Results for Fully Nonlinear PDE`s Fang Hua Lin Courant Institute, New York University On Faddeev and Skyrme Models David Jerison Massachusetts Institute of Technology Global Energy Minimizers for Free Boundary Problems and Full Regularity in 3 Dimensions     The Murray S. Johnson and Donald D. Harrington Conference on Monetary Economics Beatrix Paal Stanford University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Economics The University of Texas at Austin March 1-2, 2002 Details about conference participants unavailable 2003   Criticizing Asceticism: Asian and European Religious Views in Comparative Perspective Oliver Freiberger University of Bayreuth, Germany Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Asian Studies The University of Texas at Austin September 18-20, 2003 Oliver Freiberger University of Bayreuth, Germany The Criticism of Asceticism in Comparative Perspective Martha Newman The University of Texas at Austin Disciplining the Will, Disciplining the Body: Conflicting Modes of Asceticism in Cistercian Monasticism, 1100-1250 Peter Schalk University of Uppsala, Sweden The Saiva Devaluation of Bauddha and Jaina Asceticism in Pre-Colonial Tamilakam Andrew Crislip University of Hawaii at Manoa “I Have Chosen Sickness:” The Controversial Function of Sickness in Early Christian Asceticism Christoph Kleine University of Leipzig, Germany “The Epitome of the Ascetic Life:” The Controversy on Self-Mortification and Ritual Suicide as Ascetic Practices in East Asian Buddhism Patrick Olivelle The University of Texas at Austin The Ascetic and the Domestic in Brahmanical Religiosity Isabelle Kinnard College of William and Mary Imitatio Christi in Christian Martyrdom and Ascetism: A Critical Dialogue Ute Hüsken University of Heidelberg, Germany “Gotami, Do Not Wish to Go from Home to Homelessness!” Patterns of Objections to Female Asceticism in Theravada Bhuddhism Ulrich Berner University of Bayreuth, Germany Epicurus’ Role in Controversies on Asceticism in European Religious History Max Deeg University of Vienna, Austria Aryan National Religion(s) and the Criticism of Ascetism and Quietism in the 19th and 20th Centuries Designing for Civic Environmentalism Andrew Light New York University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow School of Architecture Co-sponsored by Center for Sustainable Development The University of Texas at Austin November 12-15, 2003 Open Studio Review of Student Work The Civic Environmentalism Workshop Student participants: Clayton Fry, Eric Geppalt, Brian Hagood, David Hincher, Chen Hui, Harlan Levien, Tajel Patel, Garret Reile, Hunter Savard, Jennifer Tullis, and Kristen William. Workshops Roger King University of Maine Playing with Boundaries: Ethical Reflections on Designing an Environmental Culture Michael Oden The University of Texas at Austin Civic Environmentalism, Self Interest, and the Problem of Power William Shutkin Massachusetts Institute of Technology Building Communities of Place: From Ideals to Practices Gary Rohrbacher The University of Texas at Austin Environmental Civility Yuriko Saito Rhode Island School of Design The Role of Aesthetics in Environmentalism Hope Hasbrouck Harvard GSD and The University of Texas at Austin Sites in Systems Eric Katz New Jersey Institute of Technology Follow the Money: Environmentalism and the Paradox of Greed Kevin Anderson The University of Texas at Austin Marginal Nature and Moral Margins: Valuing Nature in the Shadow of the City James Sheppard University of Missouri, Kansas City Civic Design and Regional Connectedness in Urban America Jonathan Smith Texas A&M University Modern Identity and the Predicament of Place Fritz Steiner The University of Texas at Austin The Human Ecology of the First Urban Century Kathleen Higgins The University of Texas at Austin Marketing Environmentalism: The Aesthetics of Ecology Barbara Parmenter The University of Texas at Austin Planners, Citizens, and Communities: Cautions and Opportunities for ‘Planning’ Civic Environmentalism Craig Hanks Southwest Texas State University The ‘American Century’ as Symptom and Dream: Some Notes Toward A Critical Urban Environmentalism John O’Neill Lancaster University, U.K. The Nature of Narrative Closing Comments and Discussion Andrew Light New York University Steven Moore The University of Texas at Austin 2004   The University and International Relations in the 21st Century Frank Gavin The University of Texas at Austin Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs Co-sponsored by UT Global Challenges Initiative (UT-GCI) The University of Texas at Austin June 23, 2004 International History and Public Policy – Why the Disconnect? Elspeth Rostow, Chair The University of Texas at Austin Matthew Connelly Columbia University Jeremi Suri University of Wisconsin Mark Kramer Harvard University Frank Gavin The University of Texas at Austin International Politics and the “Real” World: The View of the Government, the Military, and Private Sectors Ed Dorn, Chair The University of Texas at Austin Bob Inman The University of Texas at Austin Monty Meigs Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professor in World Peace James Taylor CIMA Strategies Bonnie Jenkins Harvard University Bruce Kuklick - “Intellectuals and War – A Cautionary Tale” with a response from Marc Trachtenberg, University of California – Los Angeles Hard Science” and International Politics – How Scientists, Engineers and Economists look at the World James Galbraith, Chair The University of Texas at Austin Steve Weinberg The University of Texas at Austin Kenneth Flamm The University of Texas at Austin Hans Mark The University of Texas at Austin Krishan A. Malik The University of Texas at Austin The Use and Abuse of International Relations Theory Peter Trubowitz, Chair The University of Texas at Austin Marc Trachtenberg University of California – Los Angeles Harrison Wagner The University of Texas at Austin John Lewis Gaddis Yale University Ronald Steel University of Southern California Philip Bobbitt, author, “Shield of Achilles: The Long War and the Market State” Empire, Human Rights, and Transnational Contexts in the History of American Law John Witt Columbia University Law School Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow University of Texas School of Law Co-sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin Global School of Law October 28, 2004 Law & Empire Lauren Benton, Law and Colonial Cultures (2002) Daniel Richter, Facing East from Indian Country (2001) Martti Koskenniemi, The Gentle Civilizer of Nations (2002) American Law in Transnational Context David Hendrickson, Peace Pact: The Lost World of the American Founding (2003) Thomas Bender, "Historians, the Nation, and the Plenitude of Narratives" (2002) Sanford Levinson, "Installing the Insular Cases into the Canon of Constitutional Law" (2001) Human Rights in Historical Perspective Kenneth Cmiel, "The Recent History of Human Rights," (2004) Kenneth Cmiel, "The Emergence of Human Rights Politics in the U.S." (1999) Carol Anderson, Eyes off the Prize: The U.N. and the African-American Struggle for Human Rights, 1944-1955 (2003) Rosemary Foot, Rights Beyond Borders: The Global Community and the Struggle over Human Rights in China (2000) 2005 Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism Ami Pedahzur University of Haifa. Israel Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Government Co-sponsored by The University of Texas at Austin Department of Government and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies The University of Texas at Austin May 12-13, 2005 Root Causes of Terrorism – Frameworks for Analysis Mia Bloom University of Cincinnati Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terrorism Joshua Sinai U. S. Department of Homeland Security Root Causes of Suicide Martyrdom Warfare and Its Effectiveness Assaf Moghadam Tufts University The Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism: A Multi-Causal Approach Islam, Al-Qaeda and Suicide Terrorism Marc Sageman University of Pennsylvania and the Foreign Policy Research Institute Islam and al Qaeda Fernando Reinares and Rogelio Alonso Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Madrid Maghreb Immigrants Becoming Suicide Terrorists: A Case Study on Religious Radicalization Processes in Spain Yoram Schweitzer Tel Aviv University Al Qaida and the Global Suicide Terrorism Epidemic The Role of Religion in Generating Suicide Terrorism Leonard Weinberg University of Nevada – Reno Suicide Terrorism for Secular Causes Nichole Argo Massachusetts Institute of Technology The Banality of the Sacred: Community Structure and Bombing Variance in Low- and High-Generating Palestinian and Iraqi Villages Mohammed Hafez University of Missouri – Kansas City Manufacturing Human Bombs: Strategy, Culture, and Conflict in the Making of Palestinian Suicide Bombers Alex Mintz Texas A&M University The Decision Calculus of Terrorists Bruce Hoffman RAND Corporation The Challenge of Countering Suicide Terrorism   State of Research in Strategy and Organizations James D. Westphal The University of Texas at Austin Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Red McCombs School of Business The University of Texas at Austin March 25, 2005 Research on Strategic Management: State of the Field Jim Fredrickson The University of Texas at Austin Ithai Stern The University of Texas at Austin Jim Westphal The University of Texas at Austin Research in Organization Theory: State of the Field Pamela Haunschild The University of Texas at Austin Donald Lange The University of Texas at Austin Kyle Lewis The University of Texas at Austin Transnational Circulation of Landscape Narratives and Nation Building Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra State University of New York – Buffalo Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of History The University of Texas at Austin April 15, 2005 Julia Adeney Thomas University of Notre Dame The Contentious Natures of the "New Japan" Raymond Craib Cornell University Time Passages: Nature, Nation, and History in Mexico John O'Brian University of British Columbia – Vancouver About Worms: The Predatory Desire for Wilderness in Canada Graciela Silvestri CONICET National Research Council/IDEHAB La Plata University and Universidad Di Tella, Buenos Aires River Plate Landscapes: The Construction of the "Empty Space" Thomas Lekan University of South Carolina Consuming Nature - Building Nations: Tourism and the Nationalization of the Rhine, 1800-1914 Fa-ti Fan State University of New York – Binghamton Chinese Central Asia in Transnational Scientific Discourse and International Politics Angela Miller Washington University Aesthetic Strategies for Advancing the Claims of Nation in an Era of Disunity: Landscape Arts in the U. S., 1820 to 1870 Alexandra Kennedy-Troya University of Cuenca, Ecuador Identities and Territories: Ecuadorian Landscape in the 19th Century Lily Litvak The University of Texas at Austin Campos de Castilla: The Invention of a Landscape in Turn-of-the-Century Spanish Literature Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra State University of New York – Buffalo Nations as Spiritual Gardens Chris Ely Florida Atlantic University The Whole Nation in a Little Backyard: Vasilii Polenov's Moskovskii Dvorik and Moscow's Ambiguous Identity 2006   Animal Humanities: A Symposium Ivan Kreilkamp Indiana University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow The University of Texas at Austin Department of English April 21-22, 2006 Plenary Speakers Steve Baker University of Central Lancashire Circling the Animal with Art and with Writing Harriet Ritvo Massachusetts Institute of Technology Animals on the Edge Cary Wolfe Rice University Learning From Temple Grandin, or Animal Studies, Disability Studies, and Who Comes After the Subject. Panel 1 Samuel Baker, Moderator The University of Texas at Austin Clare Palmer University of Washington - St Louis Context in Animal Ethics Susan McHugh University of New England Seeing Eyes, Blinding Justice: The Problem of Rights in Assistance Animal Narratives Nigel Rothfels University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Animals, History, and Sensitive Dependence on Initial Conditions Panel 2 Diana K. Davis, Moderator The University of Texas at Austin Teresa Mangum University of Iowa Unleashing the Class: Theory, Pedagogy, and Praxis Janet Davis The University of Texas at Austin “Christ Among the Cattle”: Forging an Interdisciplinary History of the U. S. Animal Welfare Movement, 1866-1930 Jennifer Mason Consultant Animal Studies and Animal Politics Solid State Cavity Quantum ElectroDynamics Carlo Piermarocchi Michigan State University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Physics The University of Texas at Austin October 6-7, 2006 Pierre Petroff University of California - Santa Barbara Ultra Bright and Efficient Photon Sources from Cavity Coupled Quantum Dots Dennis Deppe University of Central Florida Self-Organized Single Quantum Dot Light Sources for Cavity QED Devices C. K. Shih The University of Texas at Austin Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Microcavities: Interactions of Excitons, Photons, and Phonons David Press Stanford University Strong Coupling Between a Single Quantum Dot and a Pillar Microcavity Peter Littlewood Cambridge University Polariton Condensation in Microcavities David Snoke University of Pittsburgh Bose-Einstein condensation of Exciton-Polaritons in Microcavities Carlo Piermarocchi Michigan State University Long-range Spin Qubit Interaction Mediated by Microcavity Polaritons Kerry Vahala California Institute of Technology High-Q Micro-Toroid Resonators on a Silicon Chip Hailin Wang University of Oregon Strong-coupling Cavity QED with NV Center and Deformed Silica Microsphere Wang Yao University of California at San Diego / The University of Texas at Austin Control of Spin-photon Dynamics in Coupled Dot-Cavity-Waveguide System for Quantum Information Processing Mark Dykman Michigan State University Metastable Decay of Modulated Oscillators: Quantum Activation John Martinis University of California - Santa Barbara High-Fidelity Gates using Josephson Phase Qubits Jay Gambetta Yale University Quantum Optics with Microwave Photons in Circuit QED 2007 Papyri and Classical Literature Ben Henry University of Oxford Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Classics The University of Texas at Austin April 16, 2007 Ben Henry University of Oxford Towards a New Edition of Philodemus, On Death IV Voula Tsouna University of California – Santa Barbara The Epilogismoi at the End of Philodemus, On Anger M. L. West University of Oxford A New Tragic Fragment with Music Dirk Obbink University of Michigan and University of Oxford New Light on the Poetry of Archilochus from Oxyrhynchus G. O. Hutchinson University of Oxford How to Do Things with Books: Earlier Greek and Latin Literary Papyri Guernica and After: The Power of Representation Andrea Giunta Universidad de Buenos Aires Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Art and Art History The University of Texas at Austin April 21, 2007 Andrea Giunta Universidad de Buenos Aires Guernica and After: The Power of Representation Serge Guilbaut University of British Columbia Picasso’s Faena: Joy of Living and Horrors of War Stephen Petersen University of Delaware Beyond Guernica: Picasso and the Politics of Realism in Postwar Milan Francis Frascina Keele University and Oxford Brookes University Guernica: Intellectuals, Dissent and the USA Linda Henderson The University of Texas at Austin Respondent Francisco Alambert Universidade de São Paulo Guernica in Brazil Robin Greeley and Michael Orwicz University of Connecticut Guernica, Falluja, and the Spectacle of War Estrella de Diego Universidad Complutense de Madrid Exploring Spain, Exporting ‘Spain’ Jacqueline Barnitz The University of Texas at Austin Respondent The Politics of Peace and the Consequences of War Ronald R. Krebs University of Minnesota Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Government The University of Texas at Austin May 6-7, 2007 War and the Domestic Economic Order Hugh Rockoff Rutgers University Mark Wilson University of North Carolina – Charlotte James Galbraith The University of Texas at Austin Discussant Globalization, Mobilization, and Civil-Military Relations Deborah Avant George Washington University Bartholomew Sparrow The University of Texas at Austin Zoltan Barany The University of Texas at Austin Discussant War Reform, and the Politics of Gender Gretchen Ritter The University of Texas at Austin Elizabeth Kier University of Washington William Forbath The University of Texas at Austin Discussant National Identity and National Narratives Dana Cloud The University of Texas at Austin Jay Winter Yale University Jeffrey Tulis The University of Texas at Austin Discussant Democratic Participation and Civil Society James Burk Texas A&M University Rieko Kage Kobe University Michael Young The University of Texas at Austin Discussant Democratic Contestation I: Executive Capacity and Authority Daniel Kryder Brandeis University Sanford Levinson The University of Texas at Austin Peter Trubowitz The University of Texas at Austin Discussant Democratic Contestation II: Civil Liberties Oren Gross University of Minnesota Ronald Krebs University of Minnesota H. W. Brands The University of Texas at Austin Discussant Where Do We Go From Here? Peter Katzenstein Cornell University Paul Starr Princeton University Neural Systems of Social Behavior Conference Jennifer Beer University of California – Davis Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Psychology The University of Texas at Austin May 11-13, 2007 John F. Kihlstrom University of California – Berkeley The Footprints of Phineas Gage David G. Amaral University of California – Davis Neurobiology of Social Behavior in the Rhesus Monkey Elizabeth Phelps New York University Social Learning of Fear Ralph Adolphs California Institute of Technology Facial Processing, the Amygdala and Autism Colin Camerer California Institute of Technology Hyperscan fMRI Imaging of Buyer-Seller Bargaining with Asymmetric Buyer Values Lisa Feldman Barrett Boston College The Neural Reference Space for Emotion: New Meta-Analytic Insights 2008   Geology of the Aegean (Program) Professor Elizabeth Catlos Oklahoma State University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Geological Sciences The University of Texas at Austin Monday-Wednesday, April 28-30, 2008 IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science Mexico-U.S. Migration: Rural Transformation Development Professor Rebecca Torres, East Carolina University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow The University of Texas at Austin Department of Geography and the Environment Wednesday-Thursday, April 9-10, 2008 The Economics of Business and the Law Professor Niko Matouschek, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow The University of Texas at Austin School of Law and Department of Economics Friday, April 18, 2008 Green Chemistry for Catalytic C-C Bond Formation: USA-Japan Young Chemist Exchange Professor Fumitoshi Shibahara, Gifu University, Japan Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow The University of Texas at Austin Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Friday-Saturday, July 11-12, 2008     2009 Race, Ethnicity, and the History of Books: A Symposium Professor Matt Cohen, Duke University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of English The University of Texas at Austin Saturday, February, 7, 2009 Weather Patterns Climate, Culture, and Place Making Professor Allan W. Shearer, Rutgers University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow School of Architecture The University of Texas at Austin Saturday, February, 7, 2009 Texas Symposium on the Development of Close Relationships: An Interdisciplinary Integration* Professor Lorne Campbell, University of Western Ontario Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Human Development and Family Sciences May 8-9, 2009 *"Interdisciplinary Research on Close Relationships: The Case for Integration" was published in December 2011 by the American Psychological Association.  The volume was edited by Dr. Campbell and Thomas J. Loving and is largely based on the presentations from Campbell's symposium.        2010 Quantitative Methods in Finance: A Bayesian Perspective Professor Carlos Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Information, Risk and Operations Management The University of Texas at Austin December 4, 2009 Seaborne Renaissance: Global Exchanges and Religion in Early Modernity Professor Su Fang Ng, University of Oklahoma, Norman Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of English The University of Texas at Austin February 6, 2010 Discourses of Music, Sound, and Film: A Meeting of Disciplines Professor Mark J. Butler, Northwestern University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Butler School of Music The University of Texas at Austin February 14-17, 2010 The Archives and The Profession of Literary Studies: Early Modern and Modern British and Irish Literature Professor Jason E. Powell, St. Joseph's University Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of English The University of Texas at Austin February 20, 2010 Symposium on Bayesian Non-Parametrics Professor Carlos M. Carvalho, University of Chicago Booth School of Business Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Information, Risk and Operations The University of Texas at Austin March 26, 2010 Nonlinear Analysis and PDEs Professor Alessio Figalli, University of Nice, France Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Mathematics The University of Texas at Austin April 16-17, 2010 Just Ethics: Topics in Normative Ethics Professor David Enoch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow School of Law The University of Texas at Austin May 1-2, 2010     2011 Harrington Symposium in Biomedical Engineering Professor Ali Khademhosseini, Harvard-MIT's Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Harvard Medical School Donald D. Harrington Faculty Fellow Department of Biomedical Engineering November 10, 2011