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2013 AAAS Annual Meeting (14-18 February 2013)

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Sunday, February 17, 2013

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Opportunities at Intersection of Science and Policy: Government and Nonprofit

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Cultivating the Science and Scientists for 21st Century Drug Discovery and Development

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Finding the Fault: Sampling the Source of the M9.0 Tohoku Earthquake

Symposium Track: Biological Science and Genomics

Interfacing with the Body Using Implants and Prostheses

Seminar: Global Fisheries and Food Supply

Realizing Jacques Cousteau’s Vision of Aqua-Farming Replacing Hunting of the Sea

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Scientists’ Understanding of the Public

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

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

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Advanced Manufacturing: Today, Tomorrow, and Beyond

Symposium Track: Cognitive, Neural, and Social Sciences

Advances in Brain-Machine Interfaces: Applications and Implications

Symposium Track: Animal, Plant, and Food Sciences

Alternate Paths to Food Security: Making the Right Choices While Feeding the World

Symposium Track: Materials Science and Chemistry

Attosecond Science in Chemical, Molecular Imaging, Spintronics, and Energy Science

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Building Resilience of Coastal Communities to Environmental and Institutional Shocks

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Effective Science for Community Adaptation to Climate Change

Symposium Track: Atmospheric, Hydrospheric, and Oceanic Sciences

Green Dreams, Blue Waves, and Shades of Gray: The Reality of Water

Symposium Track: Biological Science and Genomics

How Macro-Evolutionary Studies Call for an Extended Synthesis

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Role of Science in the American Democracy: Roots, Tensions, and Paths Forward

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Science After School: Scientists Inspire the Next Generation Outside of the Classroom

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Spatially Distributed Environmental Factors and Health Effects

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Toward Bridging the Duality of Science: Seed-Push, Issue-Driven, or "Encounter"?

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences

What's Hot in Cold

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Writing About Science for the Public

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Governance

AAAS Council Meeting
Open to all registrants

9:30 AM-10:30 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Opportunities at Intersection of Science and Policy: Industry

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-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

A 50 Year Legacy: Why does Rachel Carson Matter?

Seminar: Global Fisheries and Food Supply

Moving Toward Sustainable Development of Large Marine Ecosystems

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Pathways to Health Equity for Aboriginal Peoples

Symposium Track: Materials Science and Chemistry

Surprises at the Frontier of the Periodic Table: Novel Paradigms in Actinide Science

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Unreasonable Usefulness of Test-Ban Verification for Disaster Warning and Science

11:00 AM-12:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Opportunities at the Intersection of Science and Policy: Academia

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

Participate in the Live Recording of "Point of Inquiry" with Guest Steven Pinker!

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Chad Mirkin: Nucleic Acid-Modified Nanostructures as Programmable Atom Equivalents: Forging a New Periodic Table
Director of International Institute for Nanotechnology and George B. Rathmann Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University
JOHN P. McGOVERN AWARD LECTURE IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: Walter Mischel: Demystifying Delay of Gratification
JOHN P. McGOVERN AWARD LECTURE IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES
Peter Norvig:Technology for Educating Everyone
Director of Research, Google Inc.

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship Luncheon
By invitation only

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Stories from the Science Cafe: Casual Encounters in Outreach

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Designing, Producing, and Marketing Field Guides: From Paper to Apps

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Engaging Students in Complex Science Learning via Games and Simulations

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Predicting Major Events and Planning for Hazards: An Art or Science?

Symposium Track: Cognitive, Neural, and Social Sciences

The Elusive Common Good: What Moral Psychology and Neuroscience Now Tell Us

Symposium Track: Biological Science and Genomics

The Invisible Revealing the Dangerously Beautiful

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS General Poster Session

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Animal, Plant, and Food Sciences

Advancing Food Safety in a Global Marketplace

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Coal, Communities, Commerce, and China: A Nexus for the Sciences and Public Policy

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Creating Interdisciplinary Competency-Based Curricula for Undergraduate Students

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Creative and Participatory Methods in Climate Communication

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Engineering the Nervous System: Solutions to Restore Sight, Hearing, and Mobility

Symposium Track: Cognitive, Neural, and Social Sciences

Evidence from Music, Fiction, and Visual Arts: Transfer of Learning from the Arts?

Symposium Track: Biological Science and Genomics

Evolution of Giants: The Great Whales

Symposium Track: Animal, Plant, and Food Sciences

How Microbes Can Help Feed the World

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Networks of Discovery: Delivering Unsurpassed Insight into Changing Global Ecosystems

Symposium Track: Materials Science and Chemistry

Nucleic Acid Nanotechnology

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Overcoming Dualisms and Promoting Minority Inclusion in Science Networks and Pipelines

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences

The Dark Matter of the Universe, Supersymmetry and Beyond

Symposium Track: Physical Sciences

The Mirror World of Antiatoms and Antimolecules

Seminar: Global Fisheries and Food Supply

Weaving the Future Ocean Web Through Collaboration: the Nereus Program

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Working with Congress: Communicating in Difficult Fiscal and Political Times

2:00 PM-4:30 PM

AAAS Sections

Planning Meeting for the 2014 AAAS Annual Meeting
Open to all Section Officers

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Coffee Break, Day Three
Open to all registrants

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Health and Pharmaceutical Science

Control Engineering of Brain in Health and Disease

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Dynamics of Disasters: Harnessing the Science of Networks To Save Lives

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Environmental Challenges and Adaptation in Cities

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

In the Eye of the Beholder: Engaging the Public in Societal Implications of Science

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

NOGLSTP Reception
Open to all registrants

3:30 PM-4:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Enriching Mentoring Relationships from Both Sides: Tools for Mentees and Mentors

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Robert Kirshner: The Beauty of the Accelerating Universe
Plenary Lecture

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

AAAS Council and Section Officer Reception
By invitation only

6:30 PM-8:30 PM

Association for Women in Science Reception
Open to all registrants