2012 AAAS Annual Meeting (16-20 February 2012)

2012 AAAS Annual Meeting (16-20 February 2012)

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Sunday, February 19, 2012

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Career Development Workshop: Personal Development

Just Outgoing Enough: Networking and Other Scary Interpersonal Adventures in Science

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Information

Accelerating Scientific Progress Through Public Availability of Research Data

Symposium Track: Information

Applying Assistive Technology To Improve Quality of Life

Symposium Track: Information

Architectural Precautions in Networked Networks

Symposium Track: Culture

Gesture, Language, and Performance: Aspects of Embodiment

Symposium Track: Education

Interconnected Communities for Biological Research: Integrating Undergraduates

Symposium Track: Climate

Non–Carbon Dioxide Greenhouse Gases and Aerosols: Climate Science Information for Decisions

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Population, Development, and Environment: Solutions for Global Challenges

Symposium Track: Policy

Scientific Integrity Reform in the U.S. Administration: Pitfalls, Progress, and Plans

Symposium Track: Policy

The Global Quest for Excellence

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Development

Anthropology and Engineering: Technological Innovations in Global Health

Symposium Track: Energy

Can a Smarter Grid Slow Down Climate Change While Accelerating Energy Independence?

Symposium Track: Climate

Climate Solutions: The Challenges of Getting to 350

Seminar: Climate Change in Northern Latitudes

Forest Fires in Canada: Impacts of Climate Change and Fire Smoke

Symposium Track: Communication

Globalization Then and Now: Scale, Complexity, and Communication of Sustainability

Symposium Track: Education

Moving (Actively) from Vision to Change in Undergraduate Biology Education

Symposium Track: Culture

Neuroscience and Criminal Justice in the 21st Century: A Cross-Country View

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Physical Sciences Approaches to Cancer: Growing Interdisciplinary Collaborations

Symposium Track: Environment

The Magnitude 9.0 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami: Significance for Japan and the World

Symposium Track: Environment

Vulnerability and Adaptation to Oil Spills

9:00 AM-12:30 PM

AAAS Governance

AAAS Council Meeting
Open to all registrants

9:15 AM-10:15 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Searching for and Securing Your Next Job: Using Technology Effectively

9:30 AM-11:30 AM

AAAS Affiliate

National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) Business Meeting
By invitation only

10:00 AM-11:00 AM

Opportunities for North Americans in European Research Programs (FP7)

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Health

Genomics and Cancer: A Global Challenge Needing Global Solutions

Symposium Track: Information

Human Rights: Quantitative Methods in the Age of Information and Communication

Symposium Track: Culture

Making Visible the Invisible

Symposium Track: Collaboration

New Concepts in Integrating Arts and Science Research for a Global Knowledge Society

Symposium Track: Food

The Role of Information and Communications Technology in Making Sense of Global Food Prices

Symposium Track: Health

Toward the Control of HIV and AIDS Through Comprehensive Treatment as Prevention

Symposium Track: Food

Underreported Yet Overoptimistic: Fisheries Catch Reconstructions and Food Security

Symposium Track: Information

Whole-Earth Simulations for Decision-Making: Realistic Goal or Pipe Dream?

10:30 AM-12:00 PM

Good Science, Good Communication: Talking to the Media and the Public
Open to all registrants

11:00 AM-5:00 PM

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

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Get REAL! Researchers, Educators, and Labs

12:00 PM-12:45 PM

Donald B. Dingwell: Explosive Volcanism in the Earth System
Secretary General, European Research Council

Julio Montaner: Toward the Control of HIV and AIDS: Comprehensive Treatment as Prevention
Professor and Head of Division of AIDS, University of British Columbia; Director, BC Center for Excellence in HIV/AIDS

Yolanda T. Moses: Origins of Social Inequality in Complex Societies
Professor of Anthropology, Vice Provost for Conflict Resolution, and the Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Excellence and Diversity, University of California, Riverside

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship Luncheon
By invitation only

12:15 PM-1:15 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Keep Out! Kids Only: How To Morph Your Science into a Whiz-Bang Book for Kids

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Policy

Changing Paradigms in the Delivery of Health Care in the United States

Symposium Track: Discovery

Chemical Evolution: From Prebiotic Soup to Intelligent Molecules of the Future

Symposium Track: Collaboration

HUBzero: Building Collaboratories for Research on a Global Scale

Seminar: Climate Change in Northern Latitudes

Northern Soils: What If They Thaw?

Symposium Track: Discovery

Pulsars: Astronomical Gifts that Keep on Giving

Symposium Track: Food

Sub-Saharan Africa: Livestock Science Provides New Hope and Faces New Challenges

Symposium Track: Energy

The True Costs of Coal

Symposium Track: Information

Updating the International System of Units: The Foundation for Science and Technology

Symposium Track: Energy

Low-Carbon Innovation for an Electricity-Dependent World

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS General Poster Session

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Recommendation Letters: Requesting Them Effectively and Writing Them Efficiently

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Energy

Can Science and the Public Collaborate on the Global Future of Nuclear Waste?

Symposium Track: Climate

Climate Change and the Long-Term Sustainability of Human Societies

Symposium Track: Collaboration

Global Knowledge: The Challenge of Diversity and Localism

Symposium Track: Communication

Innovations in Reducing International Knowledge Isolation

Symposium Track: Information

Is There Life Beyond Moore's Law?

Symposium Track: Culture

Scientific Humanists and Humanistic Scientists:Flattening the World with Anthropology

Symposium Track: Environment

Sustaining People and Oceans: Governance in Marine Social-Ecological Systems

Symposium Track: Health

The Mouth as a Global Window to Systemic Health

Symposium Track: Education

The Role of Standards in Achieving Science Literacy: A Multi-Country Perspective

2:00 PM-4:30 PM

AAAS Sections

Planning Meeting for the 2013 AAAS Annual Meeting
Open to all Section Officers

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Coffee Break, Day Three
Open to all registrants

2:45 PM-3:45 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Communicating in a Minute: Reaching Decision-Makers

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Climate

Adapting to Climate Change: The Case of Bangladesh

Seminar: Climate Change in Northern Latitudes

Causes and Effects of Relative Sea-Level Changes in the Northeast Pacific

Symposium Track: Policy

Declaration of Rights for Cetaceans: Ethical and Policy Implications of Intelligence

Symposium Track: Discovery

Excursions into the Mathematics of Medical Imaging

Symposium Track: Policy

International Comparisons of Research and Development Policy

Symposium Track: Information

Leveling the Global Playing Field: Global Inferences from Reliable Global Samples

Symposium Track: Communication

Perspectives from Science Media Centers: Should Scientists Bother with Media?

Symposium Track: Discovery

Quantum Information Technologies: A New Era for Global Communication

Symposium Track: Food

The Next Agricultural Revolution: Emerging Production Methods for Meat Alternatives

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

NOGLSTP Reception
Open to all registrants

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Personal Development

Boosting, Boasting, and Banning Bashing: Self-Promotion Techniques for Women

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Plenary Lecture: Ismail Serageldin, Science and Democracy
Director, The New Library of Alexandria

6:00 PM-7:30 PM

AAAS Council and Section Officer Reception
By invitation only