2012 AAAS Annual Meeting (16-20 February 2012)

Saturday, February 18, 2012

7:00 AM-10:00 AM

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Information

Symposium Track: Education

Symposium Track: Culture

Symposium Track: Policy

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Symposium Track: Climate

Symposium Track: Education

Symposium Track: Environment

Symposium Track: Culture

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

AAAS Fellows Forum
By invitation only

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Committee

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Health

Symposium Track: Food

Symposium Track: Health

Symposium Track: Environment

Symposium Track: Development

Symposium Track: Environment

Symposium Track: Discovery

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Seminar: Revealing the Universe

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

9:15 AM-10:45 AM

Career Development Workshop: Personal Development

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Policy

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Symposium Track: Education

Symposium Track: Policy

Symposium Track: Culture

Symposium Track: Education

Symposium Track: Culture

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Symposium Track: Environment

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Section Business Meeting

Biological Sciences
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Section Business Meeting

Industrial Science and Technology
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Statistics
Open to all registrants

10:00 AM-1:00 PM

Section Business Meeting

Anthropology
Open to all registrants

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

11:00 AM-12:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

11:00 AM-5:00 PM

12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Carl Wieman: A Scientific Approach to Science Education
Associate Director for Science, Office of Science and Technology Policy, Executive Office of the U.S. President
George Sarton Memorial Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science: Robert Smith, Making Science Big: From Little Science to Megaprojects?
Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta George Sarton Memorial Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science
Hon. Lillian Eva Dyck: The Medicine Wheel and Western Science
Senator, Parliament of Canada; Professor Emerita, University of Saskatchewan
Nobutaka Hirokawa: Kinesin Superfamily Molecular Motors: From Intracellular Transport to Brain Development, Wiring, and Learning and Memory
Distinguished Project Professor, Departments of Cell Biology and Anatomy, and Molecular Structure and Dynamics, University of Tokyo

12:45 PM-1:45 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Education

Symposium Track: Food

Symposium Track: Communication

Symposium Track: Communication

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Environment

Symposium Track: Health

Symposium Track: Discovery

Symposium Track: Education

Symposium Track: Culture

Symposium Track: Food

Symposium Track: Food

Symposium Track: Health

Symposium Track: Information

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Seminar: Revealing the Universe

Symposium Track: Development

Symposium Track: Environment

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Symposium Track: Information

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Coffee Break, Day Two
Open to all registrants

2:30 PM-3:30 PM

AAAS Governance

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Policy

Symposium Track: Discovery

Symposium Track: Education

Science Librarians Orientation
Open to all registrants

Symposium Track: Environment

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS Governance

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

5:00 PM-6:30 PM

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

AAAS International Reception
Open to all registrants
AAAS Social Media Soiree
Open to all registrants
Union of Concerned Scientists Reception
Open to all registrants

7:00 PM-9:00 PM

Annals of Improbable Research
Open to all registrants