2010 Symposium Track Listing

Do you want to hear from some of the world's leading experts on safe water, global infectious diseases, and earthquakes? What do you think the report card on Obama's S&T initiatives will be?

Learn firsthand by attending a program that speaks to your multidisciplinary and field-related interests. Interact with your peers from around the world, all in one place—the AAAS Annual Meeting in San Diego, 18-22 February 2010.

The following list of symposia is organized by tracks. For complete details, including descriptions of each symposia, browse the program. Registrants can create their own itineraries.

Beyond the Classroom

• Civic Scientific Literacy in Developed and Developing Countries
• Building Bridges Between Ocean Scientists, Educators, and Students
• Learning Science in Informal Environments
• Mind Changes: Can Out-of-School Learning Contribute to Evolution Literacy?
• Reemergence of Science, Technology, and Education as Priorities in the Arab World
• Scientific Foundations of Future Physicians
• Strategies for Diaspora as Enablers of Capacity Building in Their Homelands
• Tomorrow's Scientists and Engineers
• Top-Down or Bottom-Up? Comparing European and U.S. Gender Policies in Science
• Women and Men in the Scientific Work Force: Issues of Networks, Partners, and Ethics

Cognitive Function and Development

• The Brain on Trial: Neuroscience Evidence in the Courtroom
• From Gene Discovery to Cell Biology in Psychiatry: An Emerging Case
• Language Learning in Deaf Children: Integrating Research on Speech, Gesture, and Sign
• Language Processing for Science and Society
• The Long Reach of Early Childhood Poverty: Pathways and Impacts
• Music-Language Interactions in the Brain: From the Brainstem to Broca's Area
• Role of Sleep in Memory from Development to Old Age
• Stress and the Central Role of the Brain in Health Inequities
• Traumatic Brain Injury: The Violent and Silent Epidemic
• Unexpected Discoveries on Brain Function and Development from Model Organisms

Communicating Science

• Communicating on the State and Local Level: How Can Scientists Support Policy-Makers?
• Communicating Science to the Public: Culture and Social Context in East Asia
• Covering Global Climate and Adaptation from the Ground Up
• Earthquake Science and Advocacy: Helping Californians Live Along the San Andreas Fault
• Eyes on Screen: Communicating Science in the New Information Age
• Facing the Uncertain Future of International Science Journalism
• Genetics and Ethics: Different Views on the Human Condition
• Plato's Progeny: Academies of Science
• Science in the Theater
• Science Meets Society: Walking the Talk
• Watching the Watchmen and Cheering the Heroes: The Science of Superheroes

Education in the Classroom

• Can Singapore Mathematics Enhance Student Learning in the United States?
  
• Demonstrating the Legal Sustainability of Effective STEM Diversity Programs
  
• Education Research at Minority Serving Institutions: What Have We Learned?
  
• First-Person Solvers? Learning Mathematics in a Video Game
  
• Role of Community Colleges in Increasing Minority Students in the STEM Pipeline
  
• Science Literacy: How To Train Teachers, Engage Students, and Maximize Learning
  
• Scientific Approaches to Teaching Science in K-16 Education
  
• TIMSS 2007: Exploring the Dramatic Improvements in Performance in Two States
  
• Visualizations in the Mind and in the World: Implications for STEM Education
  
• Worlds of Wonder: Can Video Games Teach Science?

Energy Today and Tomorrow

• Advanced Nuclear Energy Concepts for a Safe, Sustainable, Carbon-Free Future
• Biofuels' Uncertain Future: Unraveling the Science and Politics of Indirect Land Use
• Combating Global Emissions: The Urgent Need for a New Strategy in the Pacific Rim
• Consequences of Changes in Energy Return on Energy Invested
• Gray Is the New Green: How Energy Recycling Curbs Both Global Warming and Power Costs
• Nanotechnology: Will Nanomaterials Revolutionize Energy Applications?
• Nuclear Waste Management: From Public Perception To Industrial Reality
• Smart and Secure Transmission Grids To Realize U.S. and E.U. Renewable Energy Potentials
• Societal Strategies for Addressing the Climate and Energy Challenge
• Toward Green Mobility: Integrating Electric Drive Vehicles and Smart Grid Technology
• Urban Design and Energy Demand: Transforming Cities for an Eco-Energy Future

Global Science and Policy

• Bottom-of-the-Economic-Pyramid Technological Solutions: Lessons from Success Stories
• Building International Security Through Lab-to-Lab Exchanges
• Information Technologies and Remote Sensing for Understanding Human Rights Violations
• The Next Big Thing: Keys in the Transformation from Science to Society
• Mobilizing East Asian Science and Technology To Address Critical Global Challenges
• Oceans Apart? Transatlantic Perspectives on Public Research and Business Innovation
• Privacy in a New Global Context: Trapped Between Culture, Laws, and Technology
• Science Academies in Society
• What Went Wrong With the Global Economy?
• When Science Goes Global Can Everybody Win?
• Working Together for the Public: Challenges for Verification of Nuclear Activities

Health, Medicine, and the Environment

• Applying Biogenomics to Ecology: From the Molecular to the Ecosystem Level
• A California Roadmap for Identifying Chemicals that Affect Breast Cancer Risk
• Consequences of Endocrine Disrupting Agents in the Laboratory and Home
• False Discoveries and Statistics: Implications for Health and the Environment
• The Impact of Genomics
• Innate Immunity: Theme and Variations
• Moving Across Scales: Mathematics for Investigating Biological Hierarchies
• Mutators Versus Antimutators in Evolution and Medicine
• One Health: Attaining Optimal Health for People, Animals, and the Environment
• Protecting the Consumer: Can "Omics" Keep the Promise?
• Rethinking the Science, Biology, and Importance of Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine
• Science of the Small: Nano-Bio-Technology Under the Biological Microscope

Physical Sciences Frontiers

• 50 Years of Exobiology and Astrobiology: Past, Present, and Future Life in the Universe
• Are Neutrinos the Reason We Exist?
• The Arrow of Time
• Astrobiology and the Future: Science, Ethics, and Societal Issues on Earth and Beyond
• Doomsday Versus Discovery
• How Computational Science Is Tackling the Grand Challenges Facing Science and Society
• Managing the Exaflood: Enhancing the Value of Networked Data for Science and Society
• Particles and People: How Basic Physics Benefits Society
• Physics and Art: A Gateway to the Sciences
• Real Numbers: Mathematical Technologies for Counterterrorism and Border Security
• SETI Turns 50
• Traffic, Crowds, and Society
• What’s Next for the Net? The Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Computing

Protecting Marine Resources

• Adam Smith Meets Jacques Cousteau: Using Economics To Protect Marine Resources
• Confronting Ocean Acidification: Options for Management and Policy
• Denial, Detente, and Decisions: Fisheries Science at the Crossroads
• Designing the Future Ocean: Baseline Data Needs for Marine Spatial Planning
• Ensuring Marine Policy Is Responsive to Social Dynamics and Management Experience
• Land-Ocean Linkages and Dynamics of High-Productivity Ecosystems in the Sea of Cortes
• Limits to Sustainability of Coral Reef Fisheries
• Management and Governance in a Melting Marine Arctic: Challenges and Opportunities
• Marine Reserves in a Changing World: Connecting Research with Human Needs
• One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, New Fish: Society Needs Marine Biodiversity Research
• Unraveling the Mysteries of the Deep: Effects of Human Activities on Marine Megafauna
• Will Coral Reefs Disappear? Separating Fact from Conjecture

Public Health and Wellness

• Children of Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Their Health and New Genetic Issues
• Decoding the Secret Pathologies of Dolphins: Significance for Human and Ocean Health
• Food Allergies: The Enemy Within
• Healthy and Plentiful Animal-Based Foods: Science Offers New Possibilities
• Impact of Biomedical Progress on Health Span and Health Care of the Elderly
• Improving Oral Health: Smiles for Life
• Repairing Our DNA: Bridging Molecular Mechanism and Human Health
• The Science of Well-Being and Implications for Societal Quality of Life
• Science in Motion: Addressing Complex Health Problems Through Upstream Solutions
• Targeting HIV/AIDS Prevention: New Research and Future Avenues
• Tracking and Tracing Our Food Supply: The Way Forward
• Translating the Science of Vector-Borne Disease to the Improvement of Global Health

Responding to Environmental Change

• Algae for Food, Feed, Fiber, Freshwater, and Fuel
• Can Geoengineering Save Us from Global Warming?
• Can Science Feed the World?
• Climate Change in Working Landscapes: Sustainability Science and Policy Perspectives
• America’s Climate Choices: Potential Strategies for a U.S. Response to Climate Change
• Coastal Adaptation
• Co-Evolution of Science and Society for Sustainability Innovation
• Geoengineering the Climate: The Royal Society Study
• Greening Cities Through Media, Education, and Science
• Human Dimensions of Geoengineering
• Infusing Science into Sustainable, Master-Planned Communities
• Research Translation and Environmental Health: A U.S.-Mexico Border Initiative

Science, Policy, and Economics

• The American Community Survey and the Census: A New Foundation for the Social Sciences
• DNA Identifiability: Ethical Issues and Policy Challenges
• Ethical and Societal Dimensions of Biosecurity and Dual-Use Research
• The Future of the National Science Foundation on Its 60th Anniversary
• Intelligence of Dolphins: Ethical and Policy Implications
• Mathematics and the Analysis of Fairness in Political Processes
• Past, Present, and Future of Forensic Science in the United States
• Scientific Rationality and Policy-Making: Making Their Marriage Work
• Speaking Scientific Truth to Power
• Using GIS and Spatial Analysis To Better Understand Patterns and Causes of Violence
• Value and Limits of Scientific Research: Past and Future R&D Budgets
• A Wobbly Three-Legged Stool: Science, Politics, and the Public

Understanding Environmental Change

• Bridging Science and Society for Sustainability: The Role of Visualization
• Dust in the Earth System
• Getting to the Roots of Agricultural Productivity
• Global Food Security, Land Use, and the Environment: Future Challenges
• Integrated Science for Society and the Environment
• Preserving the Global Commons Through Conservation and Cooperation
• Progress in the Use of Earth Observation for Fighting Hunger
• Sea Ice in the Changing Climate: Modeling a Multiscale Nonlinear System
• Sustainability Science: Transformative Research Beyond Scenario Studies
• Understanding Climate-Change Skepticism: Its Sources and Strategies
• Up in Flames: Fire in a Changing Environment