2011 AAAS Annual Meeting (17-21 February 2011)

2011 AAAS Annual Meeting (17-21 February 2011)

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Saturday, February 19, 2011

7:00 AM-10:00 AM

Minority and Women Scientists and Engineers Networking Breakfast
By invitation only

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Career Development Workshop: Personal Development

From Conflict to Collaboration: Getting the Most from Mentoring

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

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

AAAS Fellows Forum
By invitation only

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Committee

Meeting of the AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPP), Day Two
By invitation only

8:00 AM-4:00 PM

Tweet and Meet (Saturday)

8:30 AM-9:30 AM

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore: A Fast Growing, Globalizing University
Open to all registrants

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Climate Change

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

Seminar: Other Worlds

Kepler: Looking for Other Earths

Symposium Track: Land and Oceans

Marine Spatial Planning:鼦 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

8:30 AM-12:30 PM

Meeting of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists
By invitation only

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

Section Business Meeting

Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Geology and Geography
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

History and Philosophy of Science
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Psychology
Open to all registrants

9:30 AM-11:00 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Opportunities at the Intersection of Science and Policy

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

International Training in Science Journalism: The Mentoring Approach

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

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Section Business Meeting

Anthropology
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Biological Sciences
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

General Interest in Science and Engineering
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Statistics
Open to all registrants

10:00 AM-2:00 PM

AAAS Luncheon and Presentation for Students and Scientists with Disabilities
By invitation only

10:00 AM-5:00 PM

AAAS Exhibition, Day Two

11:00 AM-5:00 PM

Family Science Day and Meet the Scientists Series, Day One
Open to all registrants

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

AAAS Report: Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education
Open to all registrants

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research: Significant Partnership Opportunities
Open to all registrants

11:30 AM-1:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Personal Development

Keeping Your Batteries Charged in Grad School: Staying Motivated and Productive

12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Colin Phillips: Linguistic Illusions: Where You See Them, Where You Don't
Professor of Linguistics, Neuroscience, and Cognitive Science, University of Maryland, College Park

George Sarton Memorial Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science: Lawrence M. Principe, Revealing the Secrets of Alchemy
Drew Professor of the Humanities, Johns Hopkins University

Patrick Cunningham: Growing the Knowledge Economy: An Irish Perspective
Chief Scientific Adviser to the Government of Ireland

Samantha B. Joye: Offshore Ocean Aspects of the Gulf Oil Well Blowout
Professor of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens

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

Is Lecture a Dirty Word?
Open to all registrants

Symposium Track: Security

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

Seminar: Other Worlds

The Universe Revealed by High-Resolution, High-Precision Astronomy

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS Student Poster Competition

National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Internship Fair
Closed meeting

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

AJAS Oral Presentations: Chemistry and Biochemistry
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Creativity and Innovation
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Earth and Environmental Sciences
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Engineering
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Medicine and Cellular
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Medicine and Microbiology
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Microbiology and Environmental Science
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Physics, Computer Sciences, and Mathematics

AJAS Oral Presentations: Plant, Animal, and Behavioral Sciences
Open to all registrants

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

2:00 PM-3:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Scientists Working for Human Rights: Approaches to Effective Engagement

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Coffee Break, Day Two
Open to all registrants

2:30 PM-3:30 PM

AAAS Governance

Committee on Council Affairs: Open Hearing
Open to all registrants

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Funding Opportunities in Europe for Creative Minds from Anywhere in the World
Open to all registrants

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

Seminar: Other Worlds

Seeking Signs of (ET) Life: The Search Steps Up on Mars and Beyond

Symposium Track: Science and Society

TV Meteorologists Communicating Climate Change

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

Science Librarians Orientation
Open to all registrants

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS Governance

Committee on Council Affairs: Closed Hearing
Closed meeting

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Just Outgoing Enough:Get Comfortable with Networking and Other Scientific Adventures

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Plenary Lecture: Frances H. Arnold, Design and Evolution: Engineering Biology in the 21st Century
Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, California Institute of Technology

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

AAAS Awards Ceremony and Reception
Open to all registrants

AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books Reception
By invitation only

6:15 PM-7:30 PM

CRDF Global Reception
Open to all registrants

6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Union of Concerned Scientists Reception
Open to all registrants

7:00 PM-8:00 PM

Dublin City of Science/Science Foundation Ireland Reception
By invitation only

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPP) and AAAS Science Technology Policy Fellowships Reception
By invitation only

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Annals of Improbable Research
Open to all registrants