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2013 AAAS Annual Meeting (14-18 February 2013)

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Friday, February 15, 2013

6:30 AM-8:15 AM

AAAS Sections

General Meeting of the Section Officers
Open to all Section Officers

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Grant Savvy for Early Career Faculty

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

A Science and Art Interface: Geographic Information Systems and Remotely Sensed Images

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Engaging Lay Publics in Museums on Provocative Societal Questions Related to Science

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences

Is Beauty Truth? Mathematics in Physics from Dirac to the Higgs Boson and Beyond

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Multi-Scale Study of Cancer

Symposium Track: Animal, Plant, and Food Sciences

Plant Viruses: Mutualists, Modulators, and Manipulators

Symposium Track: Materials Science and Chemistry

Quantum Sensors: Toward the Ultimate Limits

Symposium Track: Sustainability and Resource Management

Socio-Hydrology: Co-Evolution and Future of Human-Water Resource Systems

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

The Invisible Beauty: How Security Research Helped in Real Life, but Nobody Noticed

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) Breakfast with Scientists
By invitation only

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
By invitation only

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Artful Science

Symposium Track: Atmospheric, Hydrospheric, and Oceanic Sciences

Contributions of Citizen Scientists to Climate Science

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

For Scientists and Society: A New Vision of Chemistry Graduate Education

Symposium Track: Sustainability and Resource Management

Getting to Global Ecological Sustainability: Climate and Small-Planet Ethics

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

How K-12 Curriculum Reform Can and Will Affect University Studies

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Measurement of Economic and Social Impacts of Science and Technology Investments

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

New Tools to Engage Publics and Assess the Impact of Science Communication

Symposium Track: Animal, Plant, and Food Sciences

Power of New Generation Biotechnology To Transform Global Food Security

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Promoting Collaborative, Policy-Relevant Science: Learning from Fulbright

Seminar: The Biology and Evolution of Human Language

The Language Organ: The Bases of Human Language in Human Biology

Symposium Track: Atmospheric, Hydrospheric, and Oceanic Sciences

U.S. Climate and Weather Extremes: Past, Present, and Future

9:00 AM-10:30 AM

Presentation Rx: A Drop-In Clinic for Speakers, Day One
Open to all presenters by appointment

9:00 AM-11:00 AM

AAAS Affiliate

Foundation for Science and Disability Meeting
Open to all registrants

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Section Business Meeting

Pharmaceutical Sciences
Open to all registrants

9:15 AM-10:15 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Navigate the Hidden Job Market Through Informational Interviews

9:30 AM-12:30 PM

Section Business Meeting

Engineering
Open to all registrants

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Curiosity's Mission at Gale Crater, Mars
Open to all registrants

Symposium Track: Animal, Plant, and Food Sciences

Fixing the Broken Tomato: What We Like and Why We Like It

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Indigenous and Western Science: Collaborating for Better Research and Education

Symposium Track: Biological Science and Genomics

The Architecture of the Cell Nucleus

Symposium Track: Biological Science and Genomics

The Science of Uncertainty in Genomic Medicine

Symposium Track: Materials Science and Chemistry

Watching Atoms Move: From Structures to Dynamics to Mesoscale Processes

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Affiliate

AAAS Meeting of Affiliates
Open to all affiliate representatives

AAAS Affiliate

National Association of Academies of Science (NAAS) Delegates Assembly
By invitation only

Section Business Meeting

Social, Economic, and Political Sciences
Open to all registrants

10:30 AM-11:00 AM

Conversation: Navigate the Hidden Job Market Through Informational Interviews

10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

The Burgeoning Field of Research Development: Pathways, Potential, Impact, and NORDP

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Introduction to Canadian Research Excellence: Evidence & Examples

11:45 AM-12:15 PM

Conversation: The Burgeoning Field of Research Development: Pathways, Potential, Impact, and NORDP

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Moving Up and Out: Transition Points in the Career of a Scientist

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Felice Frankel: More Than Pretty Pictures: How the Process of Making Science Images and Graphics Clarifies Understanding
Research Scientist, Center for Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Karl Deisseroth: Optogenetics: Development and Application
D.H. Chen Professor of Bioengineering and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

Topical Panel: European Science Policy on the Move

12:00 PM-3:00 PM

Section Business Meeting

Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
Open to all registrants

1:00 PM-1:30 PM

Conversation: Moving Up and Out: Transition Points in the Career of a Scientist

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

America's Scientist idol

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Sharing Science: Presenting Yourself and Your Work

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Cognitive, Neural, and Social Sciences

Breakthroughs in Our Understanding of Primate Cognition and Psychopathology

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Getting What We Pay For: Incentives, Peer Review, and Conservatism in Science

Seminar: The Biology and Evolution of Human Language

Historical Syntax

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences

Mathematics of Tipping Points: Framework, Applications, and Prediction

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Monitoring and Assuring the Quality of Essential Medicines

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Preparing Our Future Scientific Work Force to Ensure the Success of Science

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

The Benefits of Randomized Experiments for Science and Society

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

The Whole of Culture: Anthropology Back on Track

Symposium Track: Biological Science and Genomics

Visualizing Chemistry: Seeing Another Dimension of Plants and Animals

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS Committee

AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPP), Day One
By invitation only
American Junior Academy of Sciences (AJAS) Poster Session

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

A New Social (Media) Contract for Science

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Convergence of Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences:  Next Innovation Economy

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences

Exploring Other Worlds and Seeing Our Own Anew

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Global Food Security in Relation to Climate, Population, Technology, and Earth Changes

Symposium Track: Biological Science and Genomics

Resurrected Ancestral Proteins: Fundamentals and Applications

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Scientific Advances and New Strategies for Reconstruction of Oral and Facial Tissues

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences

The Beauty and Utility of Scientific Images

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

The Scars of Human Evolution

Symposium Track: Public Policy

The Science of Politics

2:00 PM-4:00 PM

NAAS/AJAS Forum Council of Science Academies
By invitation only

2:15 PM-3:15 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

A Roadmap to Training Grants

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Conversation: Sharing Science: Presenting Yourself and Your Work
Exhibit Hall Coffee Break, Day One
Open to all registrants

2:30 PM-3:30 PM

Japan: your next career destination?

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Accelerating School Readiness and Cumulative Academic Performance: Birth to Age 10

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Clinical Trial and Error: Beauty and the Beast

Symposium Track: Atmospheric, Hydrospheric, and Oceanic Sciences

Electric Oceans: Finding the Space for Marine Renewable Energy in Crowded Waters

Symposium Track: Sustainability and Resource Management

Global Health and Environmental Impacts of E-Waste Recycling

Seminar: The Biology and Evolution of Human Language

Language Evolving: Genes and Culture in Ongoing Language Evolution

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Partners for the Earth: Scientists and Religious Groups Working for the Environment

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Stroke Research: New Concepts and Innovative Solutions

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences

Tiny But Mighty: Neutrinos and the New Frontiers of Science

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Understanding and Communicating Uncertainty in Climate Change Science

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Where and How Are Research and Innovation Fostering Job Creation?

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Mentorship Program Meeting
By invitation only

3:30 PM-4:00 PM

Conversation: A Roadmap to Training Grants

3:30 PM-4:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Bad Presenter Bingo 2.0: Be a Loser of this Science Communication Game

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Sherry Turkle: The Robotic Moment: What Do We Forget When We Talk to Machines?
Plenary Lecture

6:30 PM-7:45 PM

AAAS Awards Ceremony and Reception
Open to public

6:30 PM-8:30 PM

National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) Reception
By invitation only

7:00 PM-7:30 PM

AAAS Section Q (Education) Fellows Reception
By invitation only

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion Reception
Open to all registrants
AAAS Section G (Biological Sciences) Fellows Reception
By invitation only
CRDF Global Reception
Open to all registrants

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Section Business Meeting

Agriculture, Food, and Renewable Resources
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Mathematics
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Medical Sciences
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
Open to all registrants

7:00 PM-9:30 PM

Section Business Meeting

Neuroscience
Open to all registrants

7:30 PM-9:30 PM

Section Business Meeting

Astronomy
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Chemistry
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Education
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Information, Computing, and Communication
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Linguistics and Language Science
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Physics
Open to all registrants