2014 AAAS Annual Meeting (13-17 February 2014)

2014 AAAS Annual Meeting (13-17 February 2014)

Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | Monday

Saturday, 15 February 2014

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: Communication Skills

Fight the PowerPoint! Become a Science Presentation Superstar

Career Development Workshop: Career Enhancement

Fulbright and Your Future: Discovery and Innovation

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Competing Universities Collaborate on Standard Metrics for Global Benchmarking

Symposium Track: Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics

Elections Through the Lens of Mathematics

Seminar: Big Data: Applications and Implications

How Big Data Supports Biomedical Discovery

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

New Insights into Animal Behavior: The Role of the Microbiome

Symposium Track: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

New North-South Funding for Fighting Poverty-Related Diseases

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry and Technology

Open Science: Reducing Barriers to Scientific Breakthroughs

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

The Arctic Cocktail: Shaken, Not Stirred

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

The Physics of Information

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

AAAS Fellows Forum
By invitation only

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Committee

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

8:00 AM-4:30 PM

Presentation Rx Clinic (Day 3)
For speakers and moderators only

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Agricultural, Plant, and Food Sciences

Biosciences for Farming in Africa

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Building Babies: Development, Evolution, and Human Health

Symposium Track: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Convergence Science: A Revolution for Health Solutions

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

How to Rebuild Informed Trust in Science: Insights from Social Sciences

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry and Technology

Innovation in Community Deployment of Water Technologies

Symposium Track: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Making the Best Use of Academic Knowledge in Innovation Systems

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Responsible Innovation in a Global Context

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry and Technology

The Future of Cities: Dense or Dispersed?

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry and Technology

U.S. National User Facilities: A Major Force for Discovery and Innovation

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

9:15 AM-10:15 AM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Working for Human Rights: Communicating for Effective Engagement

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Accelerating Innovation in the Middle East: Lessons for the Developing World

Seminar: Big Data: Applications and Implications

Data Availability: Making Sure the Gift Keeps Giving

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

New Millimeter-Wavelength Insights into Galaxy Evolution in the Early Universe

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Rebooting Our Approach to Increasing Indigenous STEM Participation: Lessons from Hawai`i

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Stakeholder Engagement in Science: Strategies, Experiences, and Implications

Symposium Track: Public Policy

The Golden Goose Award: Highlighting the Value of Federal Support for Basic Research

Symposium Track: Sustainability and Resource Management

The Soils of Africa: A Forgotten Resource

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Video Games, Brains, and Society

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

History and Philosophy of Science
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Medical Sciences
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Psychology
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Statistics
Open to all registrants

10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Funding opportunities in the EU for creative minds from anywhere in the world

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Reaching OUT- LGBTQ and Allies in STEM: Mentoring and Resources

11:00 AM-2:00 PM

AAAS Division Executive Meeting

11:00 AM-5:00 PM

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

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Have You Heard About the Higgs? How to Share Your Science Globally

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Cori Bargmann: Using Fixed Circuits to Drive Variable Behaviors
Torsten N. Wiesel Professor, Rockefeller University

SARTON LECTURE: Susan Lederer: The Living and the Dead: Biomedical Science, American Society, and the Human Body
Robert Turell Professor of Medical History and Bioethics, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Trevor Mundel: The Surprising Complexity of Simple Health Solutions and the Importance of Measurement in Global Health
President, Global Health Program Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

JAPAN: Science Contributing to Society

Career Development Workshop: Personal Development

Work-Life Satisfaction: Developing Your Own Personal Action Plan

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Inside Out: The Impact of Gut Flora on Diabetes and Obesity

Symposium Track: Sustainability and Resource Management

Making Products Sustainable as Materials Become Scarce

Symposium Track: Energy and Renewable Resources

Opportunities and Challenges for Nuclear Small Modular Reactors

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Risk-Based Standards for Cybersecurity: Global Challenges and Solutions

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

Variability in Speech and Language in Individuals with Autism and Associated Traits

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Will the Workplace of Tomorrow Have Any Workers? Computing, Productivity, and Jobs

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

Seminar: Big Data: Applications and Implications

A New Era for Urban Research: Open Data and Big Computation

AJAS Oral Presentations: Animal Science and Behavioral Science
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Cellular Science
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Creativity and Innovation
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Engineering
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Environmental Science and Earth Science, Room One
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Environmental science and Plant Science, Day Two
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Medicine
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Microbiology and Biochemistry
Open to all registrants

AJAS Oral Presentations: Physics and Chemistry
Open to all registrants

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Agrobiodiversity and Global Change: New Linkages to Sustainability

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Air Pollution as a Risk Factor for Central Nervous System Diseases and Disorders

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Extremities of the Cosmos: New Experimental Results in Particle Astrophysics

Symposium Track: Agricultural, Plant, and Food Sciences

Innovative and Integrated Approaches To Reducing Malnutrition

Symposium Track: Energy and Renewable Resources

Is It Possible to Reduce 80% of Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Energy by 2050?

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Rhythmic Entrainment in Non-Human Animals: An Evolutionary Trail of Time Perception

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

STEM Education Policies and Policymaking: Pushing in the Same Direction

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Santa's Revenge: The Impacts of Arctic Warming on the Mid-Latitudes

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Synthetic Biology Approaches to New Chemistry

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

The Evolving Great Lakes: New Techniques, Discoveries, and Management Implications

2:15 PM-3:15 PM

CrossMark: Helping Researchers decide What Scholarly Content to Trust
Open to all registrants

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Promoting Science Through Storytelling: A Case Study

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-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Analogical Processes in STEM Learning

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Canada’s Oil Sands: Environmental and Economic Dimensions

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

How Does Oral Health Fit in the Emerging Health Care Environment?

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry and Technology

Innovations in Crystallography Meet Demands in Materials Science, Energy, and Health

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Nexus of Cell Signaling and Drug Therapy: Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Nitrogen

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Physiological and Cultural Foundations of Human Social Behavior

Science Librarians Orientation
Open to all registrants

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Science Policy-Making that Meets Social Challenges and Motivates Scientists

3:30 PM-4:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

AuthorAID: A Service to Use and a Chance to Serve

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS Governance

Committee on Council Affairs: Closed Hearing
Closed meeting

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Alan Alda: Getting Beyond a Blind Date with Science
Plenary Lecture

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

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

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

Journal of Responsible Innovation Reception
By invitation only

Reception for Fellows and Guests of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
By invitation only

Union of Concerned Scientists Reception
Open to all registrants

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

NOVA Science Caf� on Innovation
Open to the Public

National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) Reception
By invitation only

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Annals of Improbable Research
Open to all registrants