Universe of Scales: From Nanotechnology to Cosmology: Symposium in Honor of Minoru M. Freund (Springer Proceedings in Physics Book 150)

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. Front Matter....Pages I-VI Front Matter....Pages 1-2 Reflections....Pages 3-3 Mino’s Smile....Pages 5-6 Mino in Adjectives....Pages 7-7 With Mino on the Road....Pages 9-10 Phone Call at 2 am....Pages 11-11 Witness to a Formidable Dialog....Pages 13-14 Stunning Intellect and Pure Mind....Pages 15-16 Growing Up....Pages 17-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 Mino in Japan: The Infrared Telescope in Space....Pages 23-32 Mino’s Sense of Stardust....Pages 33-36 How Brains Make Decisions....Pages 37-53 From Neurons to Neutrinos—Modeling the Whole Earth System....Pages 55-69 Microsatellite Ionospheric Network in Orbit....Pages 71-82 Formation Flying, Cosmology and General Relativity: A Tribute to Far-Reaching Dreams of Mino Freund....Pages 83-108 Earthquake Prediction Research Using Radio Tomography of the Ionosphere....Pages 109-132 Pre-Earthquake Signals at the Ground Level....Pages 133-157 Rock Softening with Consequences for Earthquake Science....Pages 159-178 Steerable Nanobots for Diagnosis and Therapy....Pages 179-189 Causal Factors for Brain Tumor and Targeted Strategies....Pages 191-204 Back Matter....Pages 205-206