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Universe of Scales: From Nanotechnology to Cosmology

Symposium in Honor of Minoru M. Freund

  • Conference proceedings
  • © 2014

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Editors:
  1. Friedemann Freund

    1. SETI Institute, Mountain View, USA

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  2. Stephanie Langhoff

    1. NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, USA

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Part of the book series: Springer Proceedings in Physics (SPPHY, volume 150)

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Table of contents (19 papers)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VI
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  2. Memories of a Great Life

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-2
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    2. Reflections

      • Friedemann Freund, Hisako Matsubara
      Pages 3-3

    3. Mino’s Smile

      • Pete Worden
      Pages 5-6

    4. Mino in Adjectives

      • Steve Zornetzer
      Pages 7-7

    5. With Mino on the Road

      • Alan Weston
      Pages 9-10

    6. Phone Call at 2 am

      • David Morse
      Pages 11-11

    7. Witness to a Formidable Dialog

      • Robert Dumais
      Pages 13-14

    8. Stunning Intellect and Pure Mind

      • R. Norris Keeler
      Pages 15-16

    9. Growing Up

      • Friedemann Freund
      Pages 17-20

  3. Science Chapters

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. Mino in Japan: The Infrared Telescope in Space

      • Michael D. Bicay
      Pages 23-32

    3. Mino’s Sense of Stardust

      • Yvonne Pendleton
      Pages 33-36

    4. How Brains Make Decisions

      • V. I. Yukalov, D. Sornette
      Pages 37-53

    5. From Neurons to Neutrinos—Modeling the Whole Earth System

      • Robert Bishop
      Pages 55-69

    6. Microsatellite Ionospheric Network in Orbit

      • Stuart Eves
      Pages 71-82

    7. Formation Flying, Cosmology and General Relativity: A Tribute to Far-Reaching Dreams of Mino Freund

      • Douglas Currie, James Williams, Simone Dell’Agnello, Giovanni Delle Monache, Bradford Behr, Kris Zacny
      Pages 83-108

    8. Earthquake Prediction Research Using Radio Tomography of the Ionosphere

      • Vyacheslav Kunitsyn, Elena Andreeva, Ivan Nesterov, Artem Padokhin, Dmitrii Gribkov, Douglas A. Rekenthaler
      Pages 109-132

    9. Pre-Earthquake Signals at the Ground Level

      • Jorge A. Heraud P.
      Pages 133-157

    10. Rock Softening with Consequences for Earthquake Science

      • Claes Hedberg
      Pages 159-178
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The presentations at this NASA-hosted Symposium in honor of Mino Freund will touch upon the fields, to which his prolific mind has made significant contributions. These include low temperature physics, cosmology, and nanotechnology with its wide-ranging applicability to material science, neuroscience, Earth sciences and satellite technology. To learn more about Mino’s career you can download the "Tribute" http://multimedia.seti.org/mino/Tribute.pdf which outlines his journey from (i) low-temperature physics and superconductivity at the ETH Zürich to (ii) building one remarkable milliKelvin refrigerator for the US-Japan IRTS mission at UC Berkeley and ISAS in Japan to (iii) a decade in cosmology, to (iv) being on the micro-bolometer team at NASA Goddard for the HAWC instrument on SOFIA, to (v) developing at AFRL the nanotechnology portfolio for the entire Air Force. This was followed by six years at the NASA Ames Research Center, where Mino formulated his far-ahead ideas about swarms of capable nanosats circling the Earth, which have since started to become a reality. He engaged in a broad range of nanotechnology projects, including novel applications in neuroscience well before he himself was struck by the deadly brain tumor.

Editors and Affiliations

  • SETI Institute, Mountain View, USA

    Friedemann Freund

  • NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, USA

    Stephanie Langhoff

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