2016 AAAS Annual Meeting (February 11-15, 2016)

Friday, February 12, 2016

6:30 AM-8:15 AM

AAAS Sections

General Meeting of the Section Officers
Open to all Section Officers

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Environment, Ecology, and Climate Change

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

Symposium Track: Education

Seminar: Food Security

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

8:00 AM-5:00 PM

AAAS Committee

8:30 AM-4:30 PM

Presentation Rx Clinic (Day 2)
For speakers and moderators only

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Transformation Update
Open to all registrants

9:15 AM-10:15 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

9:30 AM-11:30 AM

9:30 AM-12:00 PM

Section Business Meeting

9:30 AM-12:30 PM

Section Business Meeting

Engineering
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Industrial Science and Technology
Open to all registrants

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Environment, Ecology, and Climate Change

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Symposium Track: Environment, Ecology, and Climate Change

Seminar: Food Security

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Symposium Track: Environment, Ecology, and Climate Change

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Affiliate

AAAS Meeting of Affiliates
Open to all affiliate representatives

Section Business Meeting

10:00 AM-2:00 PM

10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

10:45 AM-12:45 PM

AAAS Affiliate

NAAS Delegates Assembly
By invitation only

11:30 AM-12:00 PM

11:45 AM-12:45 PM

Career Development Workshop: Personal Development

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Gary Machlis: The Near-Horizon Future of Science in National Parks
Science Advisor to the Director, U.S. National Park Service
Thaisa Storchi Bergmann: Supermassive Black Holes and the Evolution of the Universe
Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil

12:30 PM-1:30 PM

12:30 PM-4:30 PM

1:00 PM-2:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Seminar: Food Security

Symposium Track: Environment, Ecology, and Climate Change

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Symposium Track: International and Sustainable Development

1:00 PM-4:00 PM

AAAS Committee

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

2:00 PM-2:30 PM

2:15 PM-3:15 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Exhibit Hall Coffee Break, Day One
Open to all registrants

3:00 PM-3:30 PM

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Education

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

Symposium Track: Information Technology and Computing

Symposium Track: Environment, Ecology, and Climate Change

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

3:30 PM-4:30 PM

Power(ful programming) to the People!
Open to all registrants

4:00 PM-4:30 PM

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

Christopher Dye: A Problem Shared: Teaming Up to Fight Epidemic Diseases
Director of Strategy, Office of the Director General World Health Organization

6:30 PM-7:45 PM

7:00 PM-7:30 PM

7:00 PM-8:30 PM

Forum of Global FORA
By invitation only

7:30 PM-9:30 PM

Section Business Meeting

Section Business Meeting

Astronomy
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Chemistry
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Education
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Section Business Meeting

Linguistics and Language Science
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Mathematics
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Neuroscience
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Pharmaceutical Sciences
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting

Physics
Open to all registrants

Section Business Meeting