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Symposia

Friday, February 18, 2011

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Biological Role and Consequences of Intrinsic Protein Disorder

Symposium Track: Energy

Biorefinery: Toward an Industrial Metabolism

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Communication Outside the Box

Symposium Track: Sustainability

Data Cocktails for Biodiversity: Protected Area Management Without the Hangover

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Evolutionary Personalized Medicine

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Growth and Form in Mathematics, Physics, and Biology

Symposium Track: Education

Learning Research and Educational Practice: How Can We Make Better Connections?

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Matter Wave Magic and Technology

Symposium Track: Security

New START and Nuclear Winter: Climatic Consequences of the Nuclear Weapons Agreement

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

The Crowd and the Cloud: The Future of Online Collaboration

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Beyond Lines on Maps: Marine Spatial Planning for a Dynamic World

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Climate Change: Altering the Physics, Ecology, and Socioeconomics of Fisheries

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Global Health Care: Advances and Challenges

Symposium Track: Sustainability

Mapping and Disentangling Human Decisions In Complex Human-Nature Systems

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Perspectives on Research and Development in the President's FY 2012 Budget Request

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Scientific and Ethical Issues for the Surgical Treatment of Psychiatric Disorders

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Education

Celebrating Marie Curie's 100th Anniversary of Her Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Crossing Boundaries and Opening Borders: The European Research Council as Innovation

Symposium Track: Energy

Energy Efficiency in Europe and the United States: Success Stories and Future Potentials

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Evangelicals, Science, and Policy: Toward a Constructive Engagement

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Mathematics and Collective Behavior

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Measurements as a Cornerstone of Global Trade and Quality of Life

Symposium Track: Security

Reconciling National Security Requirements with Research and Education

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Role of U.S. Federal Agencies in Building Scientific Capacity in Developing Countries

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Science Without Borders and Media Unbounded: What Comes Next?

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Sharper Images in Astronomy, Microscopy, and Vision Science Using Adaptive Optics

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

The Human Body as Supra-Organism, Microbial Observatory, and Ecosystem at Risk

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Cross-Border Responses to Global Challenges: Can Everybody Win?

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Earthwatch and the HSBC Climate Partnership: A Unique Citizen Science Model

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Education, Science, and Innovation as Tools for New Engagement with the Islamic World

Symposium Track: Education

Engaging Students in Undergraduate STEM Education with a Focus on Global Stewardship

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Networks and Culture of Scientific and Technological Communities in Global Policy

Symposium Track: Security

Science and Policy for Environmental Security in the Asia-Pacific Region

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

2050: Will There Be Fish in the Ocean?

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Borlaug’s Impact on World Agriculture: Will There Be a Second Green Revolution?

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Comparing National Responses to Climate Change: Networks of Debate and Contention

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Crossing Borders in Language Science: What Bilinguals Tell Us About Mind and Brain

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Epigenetic Processes in Development: Gene-Environment Interplay

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

GM Crop Regulations: Safety Net or Insurmountable Obstacle?”

Symposium Track: Education

Just-in-Time Support for Science Teaching: Web-Based Approaches

Symposium Track: Energy

Portraits of the California Energy System in 2050: Cutting Emissions by 80 Percent

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Reducing the Cost of Health Care Through Science and Engineering

Symposium Track: Sustainability

Telecoupling of Human and Natural Systems

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Through the Looking Glass: Recent Adventures in Antimatter

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Doing Good with Good OR: Applying Operations Research for Societal Impact

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

From Practice to Theory and Back: Ecosystem Services and Marine Spatial Planning

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

International Territory: Science at Sea, Science in Space, and Science at the Poles

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Solving the Weight of Evidence Problem: A Way Forward?

Symposium Track: Education

The Challenge of Teaching Evolution in the Islamic World

Symposium Track: Security

Using Quantitative Content Analysis To Assess the Likelihood of Terrorist Violence

Saturday, February 19, 2011

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Communicating Diversity in Science: Implications for Climate Change Denial

Symposium Track: Education

Invisible Men? Addressing the Participation of Minority Males in Science and Engineering

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Medicine Safety in a World of Science Without Borders

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Networks, Collaboration, and Research in a Non-Western Context: The Role of Technology

Symposium Track: Security

Promoting Security and Sustaining Privacy: How Do We Find the Right Balance?

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Publication Without Borders: Spanning Countries, Disciplines, Audiences, and Roles

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Rethinking Adaptation to a Changing Global Environment

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Surprise…It’s Science! Reaching New Audiences in Unconventional Ways with Festivals

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Transatlantic Synergies To Promote Effective Traumatic Brain Injury Research

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Adapting to a Clear and Present Danger: Climate Change and Ocean Ecosystems

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Marine Spatial Planning: A Science-Based Tool for Conservation and the Economy

Symposium Track: Energy

Powering the Planet: Generation of Clean Fuels from Sunlight and Water

Symposium Track: Sustainability

Research Frontiers in Sustainability Science: Bridging Disciplines and Practices

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Research Integrity in the Global Perspective

Symposium Track: Education

The University of the Future

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Use of Lasers in Surgery, Regenerative Medicine, and Medical Device Fabrication

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Security

Atomic Detectives: Science Behind International Efforts To Combat Nuclear Terrorism

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Chronic Illness Management and Cognitive Science: Translation Beyond Genes?

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Crisis Averted? How a Critical Shortage in Helium-3 Was Good and Bad for Science

Symposium Track: Climate Change

In Hot Water: Rising Public Health Concerns from Changing Ocean Conditions

Symposium Track: Energy

Mathematics and Our Energy Future

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Personalized Medicine: Moving Forward or Backward?

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Plant Breeding Today: Genomics and Computing Advances Bring Speed and Precision

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Reaching Out to People in East Asia on Green Issues: Policies and Practices

Symposium Track: Sustainability

Resource Use and Ecological Resilience in a Tropical Socio-Ecological System

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

The Science of Eating: Perception and Preference in Human Taste

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Earth Science and Evolution

Symposium Track: Education

Implementing the Vision and Change Report on Undergraduate Biology Education

Symposium Track: Security

Space Weather: The Next Big Solar Storm Could Be a Global Katrina

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Anthropology and Global Health: Genes, Biology, and Culture

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

As Borders Dissolve, Which Standards and Mechanisms Prevail?

Symposium Track: Energy

Deepwater Drilling: A Risk Worth Taking?

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Diseases Without Borders: TB and AIDS

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

From Artificial Limbs to Virtual Reality: How the Brain Represents the Body

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Global and Local Responses to the Nitrogen Challenge: Science, Practice, and Policy

Symposium Track: Energy

If Termites Can Do It, Why Can't Humans?

Symposium Track: Sustainability

If a Culture of Growth Is Unsustainable, What Should Change?

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Nanoworld, Megaproblems? The Impact of Nanotechnology on the Environment and Society

Symposium Track: Education

Science Without Borders: Learning from TIMSS Advanced 2008

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Superconductivity: From 1911 to 2021

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

The Digitization of Science: Reproducibility and Interdisciplinary Knowledge Transfer

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Where Ocean Meets Land: Dynamic Shorelines in a Warming World

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Aeroecology: Transcending Boundaries Among Ecology, Meteorology, and Physics

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Foreign Participation in National Technology Development Programs

Symposium Track: Science and Society

TV Meteorologists Communicating Climate Change

Sunday, February 20, 2011

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Energy

Fractures Developing: The Science, Policy, and Perception of Shale Gas Development

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Humans Without Borders: Evolutionary Processes at Work in Humans and Their Relatives

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Joining Global Efforts in Post-Disaster Recovery and Reconstruction

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Science Behind Improved Foreign Language Expertise: Meeting the Global Challenge

Symposium Track: Science and Society

When Pollution Gets Personal: Ethics of Reporting on Human Exposures

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

A New Vision for Research: Goals for the National Institute of Food and Agriculture

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Bridging Nations and Fields: East Asian Approaches to Science and Technology Policy

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Can Reef Fisheries Take the Heat? Ecological and Economic Impacts of Climate Change

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Changing Climate, Changing Approaches: Conservation in the Face of Climate Change

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Cultural Evolutionary Dynamics of Cooperation

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Design Thinking To Mobilize Science, Technology, and Innovation for Social Challenges

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

First Physics from the Large Hadron Collider

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Global Agricultural History: Mapping the Past for Modeling the Future

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Invasive Species: What Harm Do They Do?

Symposium Track: Education

Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age: Reliable Resources Across the Disciplines

Symposium Track: Sustainability

The Challenge of Measuring Sustainability

Symposium Track: Energy

Waste Not, Want Not: Waste As the World’s Most Abundant Renewable Resource

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

From Freud to fMRI: Untangling the Mystery of Stuttering

Symposium Track: Security

International Neighborhood Watch: Citizen Scientists and International Security

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Oral Sex Is Sex and Can Lead to Cancer

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Techno-Optimism or Pessimism? Media Coverage of Quick Fixes for Global Climate Change

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Hunter-Gatherers and Language Change

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Innovative Strategies for Ensuring Access to the Benefits of Scientific Progress

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Neurodegenerative Diseases: A Need for Multidisciplinary and Global Approaches

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Oral Clefts: Equal Opportunity Disorders

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Education

Aiming for Scientific Literacy by Teaching the Process, Nature, and Limits of Science

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Astronomical Pioneering: The Implications of Finding Other Worlds

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Bringing Innovation to International Development: New Actors, New Mechanisms

Symposium Track: Science and Society

Crossing Boundaries with Citizen Science

Symposium Track: Sustainability

Estimating Earth’s Human Carrying Capacity

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Explaining Phase Transitions

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Limiting Climate Change: Reducing Black Carbon and Tropospheric Ozone Precursors

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Lost at Sea: Where Are the Humans in Marine Ecosystem Management?

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Modeling Across Millennia: Interdisciplinary Paths to Ancient Socionatural Systems

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Molecules to Mind: Challenges for the 21st Century

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

One Health: From Ideas to Implementation, Rhetoric to Reality

Symposium Track: Energy

Pillars, Polymers, and Computers: Creative Approaches to Electrical Energy Storage

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

The Practice of Science Diplomacy in the Earth Sciences

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Sustainability

How Can the World Feed 9 Billion People by 2050 Sustainably and Equitably?

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Inspiring Researchers: Building on the Legacy of Marie Curie

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

It Is Unethical Not To Do Research with Animals

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

The Surprising Influenza H1N1 Pandemic, Waves I and II: The Race To Vaccinate

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Thinking About Thinking: How Do We Know What We Know?

Monday, February 21, 2011

9:45 AM-11:15 AM

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Bioprinting: A Future of Regenerative Medicine

Symposium Track: Global Collaboration

Can Global Science Solve Global Challenges?

Symposium Track: Climate Change

How Climate Change Affects the Safety of the World’s Food Supply

Symposium Track: Brain and Behavior

Nature, Nurture, and Antisocial Behavior: Biological and Biosocial Research on Crime

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Research Infrastructures: The Emergence of Key Players for Environmental Research

Symposium Track: Sustainability

Social Networks and Sustainability

Symposium Track: Education

Transcending Gender and Ethnic Barriers to Full STEM Participation

9:45 AM-12:45 PM

Symposium Track: Emerging Science and Technology

Chemically Speaking: How Organisms Talk to Each Other

Symposium Track: Human Biology and Health

Interfering with Gene Expression and Interfering with Disease

Symposium Track: The Science Endeavor

Reaching a Global Standard in Research Integrity

Symposium Track: Energy

The Energy and Water Nexus: Turning a Double Problem into a Solution

Symposium Track: Security

White-Blue Arctic: Promoting Cooperation and Preventing Conflict in the Arctic Ocean