2017 AAAS Annual Meeting (February 16-20, 2017)

Saturday, February 18, 2017

7:00 AM-10:00 AM

Minority and Women Scientists and Engineers Networking Breakfast
By Invitation Only

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Should We Mine the Seafloor?

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Strategies for Public Health Pandemics: Science, Clinical Practice, and Policy

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Supporting Silly-Sounding Science

Seminar: Science and the Law

When the Legal System Seeks Help From Scientists: Successes and Failures

8:00 AM-10:00 AM

AAAS Fellows Forum
By Invitation Only

8:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (COSEPP), Day Two
By Invitation Only

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Applying Data Analysis and Machine Learning

Career Development Workshop: Personal Development

Community-Scientist Partnerships: Bridging the Gap Between Communities and Science

9:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Section Business Meetings

Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
Open to all registrants

9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Science Video Screening Room, Day Two
Open to all registrants

9:30 AM-10:00 AM

Saturday Morning Coffee Break
Open to all registrants

9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Data Design Decisions: Pie Chart? 3D Bar Graph? What Kind of Visual Helps Explain Your Data Best?
Open to the Public

9:30 AM-4:30 PM

AAAS General Poster Session Saturday

AAAS Student Poster Competition Saturday

Presentation Rx Clinic (Day 2)

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Information Technology and Computing

Artificial Intelligence, People, and Society

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Community-Based Social, Ecological, and Health Assessments

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Global Conference Start-Ups: Inclusive Science and Society Engagement

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Going Supernova: Stellar Explosions as Objects of and Tools for Discovery

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Protecting the Crown Jewel of the Caribbean: Cuba's Marine Ecosystems

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

RNA Splicing at 40: Reflecting on Scientific Progress, Policy, and Social Justice

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Science Communication for Public Good

Seminar: Science and the Law

Science-Based Forensic Evidence: Getting the Science Right in Criminal Investigations

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Supporting Environmental Decision-Making: Modeling Complex and Noisy Biology

Symposium Track: Public Policy

The Role of Values in Delivering Science Advice for Policy

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

AAAS Section Business Meetings

Anthropology

AAAS Section Business Meetings

Biological Sciences
Open to all registrants

AAAS Affiliates

Foundation for Science and Disability Meeting
By Invitation Only

AAAS Section Business Meetings

General Interest in Science and Engineering
Open to all registrants

AAAS Section Business Meetings

Geology and Geography
Open to all registrants

AAAS Section Business Meetings

History and Philosophy of Science
Open to all registrants

AAAS Section Business Meetings

Medical Sciences
Open to all registrants

AAAS Section Business Meetings

Psychology
Open to all registrants

AAAS Section Business Meetings

Statistics
Open to all registrants

10:30 AM-10:45 AM

Data and Policy: Flash Talks

Building Capacity for Data-Driven Governance in Local Governments

10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

A Kaleidoscope of Public Policy Engagement

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Pathways for Scientist Participation in Policymaking

10:45 AM-11:00 AM

Data and Policy: Flash Talks

Counting on Data to Manage Africa's Resources and Deliver on UN Sustainable Development Goals

11:00 AM-11:15 AM

Data and Policy: Flash Talks

Political Viruses: Retroviruses During the War on Cancer

11:00 AM-4:00 PM

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

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Leila Takayama: Robotics Toward a More Human-Centered Future
Founder and Researcher, Hoku Labs

Career Development Workshop: Career Enhancement

Mind the Gaps: Wikipedia as a Tool to Connect Scientists and the Public

Susan Lindee: The Rise of the Genome: Genetics After the Bomb
Janice and Julian Bers Professor of History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania Sarton Memorial Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science

Career Development Workshop: Career Enhancement

U.S. Federal Budget for Research and Development

Venki Ramakrishnan: Potential and Risks of Recent Developments in Biotechnology
President, Royal Society

12:00 PM-4:30 PM

Share Your Science, Day Two
Open to all registrants

12:30 PM-4:30 PM

Meeting of the American Society for Cybernetics
By Invitation Only

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Seminar: Science and the Law

Discourse Analysis of Criminal Justice

Symposium Track: Education and Workforce

Finding Solutions to Implicit Bias in STEM: Thinking Fast Makes Changing Slow

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Genomic and Health Data: Global Sharing and Local Governance

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

Integrated Cellular Systems: Building Machines with Cells

Symposium Track: Agriculture and Food

Phytobiomes: Systems-Level Approaches to Improve Agricultural Productivity

Symposium Track: Information Technology and Computing

Programming Molecules Using Biology, Chemistry, and Computer Science

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Public Attitudes About Polarized Science: Evolution, Climate Change, Zika, and GMOs

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

The Legacy of Deepwater Horizon: New Science Affecting Marine Oil Development Policy

Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Think Global, Act Local: Science Diplomacy, Communication, and Advocacy

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

Urban Mobility as an Engine for Change: European Innovation for Sustainable Cities

1:00 PM-3:00 PM

AMA: The Importance of
Open to all registrants

1:00 PM-5:00 PM

National Association of Science Writers (NASW) Internship Fair
By Invitation Only

1:30 PM-1:45 PM

Teaching and Learning: Flash Talks

Symbols of Success: New Representations for Teaching and Doing Mathematics

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Beyond the Lecture: When Informal Science Communication Is More Effective

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Resisting Microaggressions at Your Institution

1:30 PM-4:30 PM

AJAS Oral Presentations

1:45 PM-2:00 PM

Teaching and Learning: Flash Talks

21st Century Learning Tools: From Research to Innovation

2:00 PM-2:15 PM

Teaching and Learning: Flash Talks

Social Transmission of Memory: Societal Implications

2:00 PM-3:00 PM

Speed Mentoring
Open to all registrants

2:00 PM-3:15 PM

Open Forum: Perspectives on the Future of STEM Graduate Education
Open to all registrants

2:15 PM-2:30 PM

Teaching and Learning: Flash Talks

Using Broader Impacts to Improve Undergraduate Education and Instruction

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Saturday Afternoon Tea and Coffee Break
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-4:00 PM

Science Policy and Science Diplomacy: Intergenerational Dialogue
Open to all registrants

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

What do Video Producers Really Want?

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Information Technology and Computing

A Pathway Perspective on Expanding the Participation of Women in IT

Seminar: Science and the Law

Crime, Justice, and Death

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

Green Chemistry: 25 Years of Progress

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Impact of Drug Shortages and Pricing on the Health of Americans

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Making Sense of an Abundance of Knowledge to Inform Policymaking

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Opening a New Ear to the Universe with Gravitational Waves

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Sustainability in the Changing Arctic: Interdisciplinary Insights for Policy

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

The Effectiveness of Ecosystem Services Science in Decision-Making

Symposium Track: Biology and Neuroscience

The Neuroscience of Time and Memory

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

The Power and Perils of the News Media in the Use of Scientific Evidence

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Thwarting Disease Epidemics and Pandemics With Emerging Technologies

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

AMA: Microbes, Health, and Society
Open to all registrants

3:30 PM-5:00 PM

AAAS Governance

Committee on Council Affairs: Closed Hearing
By Invitation Only

4:00 PM-5:00 PM

Defending Science and Scientific Integrity in the Age of Trump
Open to all registrants

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

May Berenbaum: Can Science Save the Honey Bees?
Professor and Department Head of Entomology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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 International Reception
Presented by the Research Councils UK
Open to all registrants

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

Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Reception
Open to all registrants

8:00 PM-10:00 PM

Annals of Improbable Research
Open to all registrants