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2014 AAAS Annual Meeting (13-17 February 2014)

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Sunday, 16 February 2014

8:00 AM-9:00 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Grant Skills Are Career Skills: Integrate to Accelerate

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Discovering Long-Term Climate Vulnerabilities at the Nature-Society Interface

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Focusing the Gender Lens on Science and Innovation: Improving Lives and Livelihoods

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Intelligent Autonomous Robots: Biologically Inspired Engineering

Symposium Track: Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics

People and Computing: On Human-Computer Collaborations for Tackling Hard Problems

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Streamlining U.S. Visa and Immigration Policies

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Targeting Tumors: Ion Beam Accelerators Take Aim at Cancer

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Teen Cafés: Innovative Model for Effective Science Communication with Key Demographic

8:00 AM-4:30 PM

Presentation Rx Clinic (Day 4)
For speakers and moderators only

8:30 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry and Technology

Discovery and Innovation in Science and Engineering Security Technologies

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Exploring the Foundations of Magnetism with New Nanoscale Probes

Seminar: Food Security and Sustainability

Feeding Grown Population While Sustaining the Earth

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Guns and Violence: Psychological, Economic, Political and Public Policy Implications

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Inventing New Ways To Understand the Human Brain

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Religious Communities, Science, Scientists, and Perceptions: A Comprehensive Survey

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

Rethinking Repatriation of Human Remains: Is It Possible to Move Beyond Conflict?

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Technological Innovations and Their Impact on Astronomical Discovery

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Thinking Skills for the 21st Century: Teaching for Transfer

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Governance

AAAS Council Meeting
Open to all registrants

9:15 AM-10:15 AM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Improvisation for Scientists

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: Education and Human Resources

Beyond the Pipeline: New Strategies to Build a Competitive and Diverse Workforce

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Evaluating the Global Impact of Research Investments



Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Genetic and Epigenetic Determinants of Susceptibility to Toxicants

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Global Excellence: New Drivers and Innovative Solutions

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Harnessing the Immune System: From Bench to Bedside and Back Again

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry and Technology

Integrated Cellular Systems: Building Machines with Cells

Symposium Track: Sustainability and Resource Management

New Scenarios for Assessing Future Climate Change

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Your Genome: To Share or Not To Share?

10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Applying Science for Society: Opportunities at the Intersection of Science and Policy

11:00 AM-5:00 PM

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

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Editing Your Own Papers and Proposals: How to Wow Reviewers and Aid Readers

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Amy Smithson: Scientists and (the Ultimate) Responsibility
Senior Fellow, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Diana Wall: Lessons from an Antarctic Desert: Documenting Climate Change and Measuring Impact on Soil Life
University Distinguished Professor, Colorado State University
Eli Finkel: The Suffocation of Marriage
Professor of Psychology and Management and Organizations, Northwestern University

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship Luncheon
By invitation only

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Working with Congress: Communicating in Difficult Fiscal and Political Times

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Discovery and Innovation: What’s the Connection and Why Does It Matter?

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Project Teams and Public Expenditures of Scientific Research: An International Comparison

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Quantum Information Technologies

Seminar: Food Security and Sustainability

Research and Development for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Security

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Resolving Our Greatest Public Health Challenges via Science Diplomacy

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Science Festivals as Regional Collaborations: Extending Resources by Working Together

Symposium Track: Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Understanding the Science Needed for Sustainable Urban Development

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS General Poster Session

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics

Advances in Citizen Science: Large-Scale Community Engagement for Sensing and Analysis

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Challenges in Conducting Risk Based Technology Assessments Globally

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Changing Earth and Eco Systems in the Antarctic Peninsula

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

Comparative Advantage: Global Perspectives on Human Biology and Health

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Dark Matter Discoveries: Challenges and Innovation

Symposium Track: Sustainability and Resource Management

Deep-Ocean Industrialization: A New Stewardship Frontier

Symposium Track: Energy and Renewable Resources

Nanoelectronics for Renewable Energy: How Nanoscale Innovations Address Global Needs

Symposium Track: Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics

Re-Identification Risk of De-Identified Data Sets in the Era of Big Data

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

The Central Role of Energy Concepts in K-12 Science Education

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

The Science of Resilient Aging

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry and Technology

Unlocking the Power of Big Data by Integrating Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences

2:00 PM-4:30 PM

AAAS Sections

Planning Meeting for the 2015 AAAS Annual Meeting
Open to all Section Officers

2:15 PM-3:15 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Ask for Evidence

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Coffee Break, Day Three
Open to all registrants

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Air Quality and Climate Change: Science and Policy Challenges

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Building Global Partnerships: Sharing Discovery and Innovation, Safeguarding Difference

Symposium Track: Sustainability and Resource Management

Challenges and Opportunities in Transitioning Small-Scale Fisheries to Sustainability

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Improvisation for Scientists: Making a Human Connection

Symposium Track: Education and Human Resources

Leveling the Playing Field: Why Cultural Relevance Matters in Computer Science

Seminar: Food Security and Sustainability

Perennial Grains for Food Security in a Changing World: Gene to Farm Innovations

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Securing the Future of Science: Using the Higgs to Inspire the Young

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP) Reception
Open to all registrants

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Susan Lindquist: From Yeast Cells to Patient Neurons: A Powerful Discovery Platform for Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s Diseases
Plenary Lecture

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

AAAS Council and Section Officer Reception
By invitation only