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

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Sunday, February 19, 2017

8:00 AM-9:30 AM

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Assessing the Impact of Medical Marijuana: The Grass Could Be Greener

Symposium Track: Agriculture and Food

Genetically Engineered Crops: The Evidence and the Unknowns

Seminar: Scientific Reproducibility and Social Responsibility

How Ethical Science Supports Ethical Policy: Disciplinary Perspectives

Symposium Track: Education and Workforce

Leveraging Linguistics to Broaden Participation in STEM

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Medical Decision-Making: To Screen or Not to Screen?

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Ocean Science and Technology: Comments Requested on Federal Research Plan

Symposium Track: Agriculture and Food

Plan Bee: Pollinators, Food Production, and U.S. Policy

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

Quantum Computing and Post-Quantum Cryptography

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

Strengthening Health Systems in Africa: Intersections of Culture and Science

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

The Paris Agreement and Leveraging Religious Support for Climate Policy

8:30 AM-12:30 PM

AAAS Governance

AAAS Council Meeting
Open to all registrants

9:00 AM-10:00 AM

Career Development Workshop: Career Pathways

Opportunities in Science Policy: AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowships

9:00 AM-1:00 PM

Science Supporting Policy at the U.S. State Level
By Invitation Only

9:00 AM-4:30 PM

Science Video Screening Room, Day Three

9:30 AM-10:00 AM

Sunday Morning Coffee Break
Open to all registrants

9:30 AM-11:30 AM

Using Timelines to Tell a Story: There Are Many Ways to Show Changes Over Time
Open to the Public

9:30 AM-4:30 PM

AAAS General Poster Session Sunday
AAAS Student Poster Competition Sunday

10:00 AM-11:30 AM

Symposium Track: Climate Change

Climate Change and Fisheries: Accounting for Climate Effects in Fisheries Management

Symposium Track: Engineering, Industry, and Technology

Designing and Governing the New Industrial Transformation

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Engaging People Who Don’t Trust Science for Science Policy

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

From Literacy to Dialogue: How to Best Communicate (Controversial) Science

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

Language Across the Life Span: Clues Predicting Alzheimer's Disease

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Mathematical Modeling of Obesity: Integrating Scientific Evidence for Practical Use

Symposium Track: Education and Workforce

Policies and Practices Affecting the Success of Women in Science and Engineering

Symposium Track: Information Technology and Computing

Political Polling: Lessons from 2016 Elections

Seminar: Scientific Reproducibility and Social Responsibility

Rigor and Reproducibility One Year Later: How Has the Biomedical Community Responded?
Speed-Pitching Your Video Production Project, Session One
Open to all registrants

Symposium Track: Behavioral and Social Sciences

Statistical Issues in Criminology

10:00 AM-12:00 PM

Science Diplomacy Education Network
Open to all registrants

10:30 AM-11:30 AM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Dance Your Science

Career Development Workshop: Career Enhancement

Tools for Building and Enhancing Scholarly Communities on the Web

11:00 AM-4:00 PM

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

12:00 PM-1:00 PM

Alan Stern: The Pluto System as Explored by New Horizons
Principal Investigator, New Horizons mission
Jeremy DeSilva: All Walks of Life: Bipedal Diversity in Early Human Ancestors
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Dartmouth College
John Rickford: Using Linguistics to Fight Dialect Prejudice in Courtrooms and Beyond
J.E. Wallace Sterling Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Openness and Transparency: Contributing to the New World of Science Publishing

Career Development Workshop: Career Management, Resources, and Tools

Using Workforce Data to Guide Career Development

12:00 PM-1:30 PM

AAAS Mass Media Science and Engineering Fellowship Information and Networking Session
Open to all registrants

12:00 PM-4:30 PM

Share Your Science, Day Three
Open to all registrants

1:00 PM-2:30 PM

Symposium Track: Information Technology and Computing

Cybersecurity: Mathematics and Policy

Seminar: Scientific Reproducibility and Social Responsibility

Ensuring the Reproducibility of Scientific Findings: Where Does Psychology Stand?

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Global Environmental Assessments and the Bridge to Environmental Policy

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Gravitational Waves: Communicating the Science and Wonder of LIGO

Symposium Track: Agriculture and Food

Innovative Convergence Approaches to Solving Energy and Agricultural Issues

Symposium Track: Education and Workforce

Leveraging Informal Learning Environments to Close Socioeconomic Status–Related Achievement Gaps



Symposium Track: Global Perspectives and Issues

Serving Aging Societies Globally Through Science, Technology, and Innovation Policies
Speed-Pitching Your Video Production Project, Session Two
Open to all registrants

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

The Analysis and Control of Zika and Dengue Virus Epidemics

Symposium Track: Information Technology and Computing

The Human Brain and Computing Machines of the Future

1:00 PM-3:00 PM

AMA: Finding Solutions to Implicit Bias in STEM
Open to all registrants

1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Career Development Workshop: Communication Skills

Understanding the Media: What Makes a Good Science Story?
What They Didn’t Teach You in Grad School
Open to all registrants

2:00 PM-4:30 PM

AAAS Sections

Planning Meeting for the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting
By Invitation Only

2:30 PM-3:00 PM

Sunday Afternoon Tea and Coffee Break
Open to all registrants

3:00 PM-4:00 PM

Career Development Workshop: Career Enhancement

Science Communication Strategies in Academic, Government, and Non-Profit Sectors

3:00 PM-4:30 PM

Symposium Track: Public Policy

Big Data Synthesis for Health Policy

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Blue Growth: Conceptualizing Sustainable Development of Marine Environments

Symposium Track: Education and Workforce

Economic Implications of Scientific Training in the Biomedical Research Workforce

Symposium Track: Anthropology, Culture, and Language

How We Came to Our Senses: Ecology, Evolution, and the Future of Human Sensation

Symposium Track: Communication and Public Programs

Let’s Talk: Learning From Socio-Scientific Conversations Among Scientists and Publics

Symposium Track: Physics and Astronomy

Particle Therapy and 3-D Imaging: A Roadmap to the Future of Precision Medicine

Symposium Track: Medical Sciences and Public Health

Reducing Demographic Disparities in Oral Health

Symposium Track: Environment and Ecology

Science-Based Strategies for Optimizing Nitrogen Reduction in Northeast U.S. Estuaries

Seminar: Scientific Reproducibility and Social Responsibility

Social Responsibility in Science From the Inside Out

3:00 PM-5:00 PM

LGBTQA Scientists Reception
Open to all registrants

5:00 PM-6:00 PM

S. James Gates Jr.: Science and Evidence-Based Policymaking
John S. Toll Professor of Physics University of Maryland

6:30 PM-8:00 PM

AAAS Council and Section Officer Reception
By Invitation Only
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Open Access to Scientific Research
Open to all registrants
Public Engagement With Science Networking Reception
Open to all registrants