Curious About Developments in Other Fields and Countries?

Meet some of the world's leading experts all under one roof. Explore a unique program that speaks to your multidisciplinary and field-related interests. Interact with your peers from around the world. AAAS creates opportunities for interdisciplinary interaction among researchers, engineers, faculty, and students through its Annual Meeting. Those who join us will choose among a broad range of activities, including lectures by some of the world's leading scientists and engineers, multidisciplinary symposia, cutting-edge seminars, networking activities, career development workshops, and an international exhibition.

International Participation

To date, the Annual Meeting has drawn international panelists from 37 countries. Out of 159 scientific sessions, 54% have international representation. This is your chance to interact with researchers from around the globe. Attend symposia spread across 12 tracks: Brain and Behavior, Climate Change, Education, Emerging Science and Technology, Energy, Global Collaboration, Human Biology and Health, Land and Oceans, The Science Endeavor, Science and Society, Security, and Sustainability. Browse the latest information at www.aaas.org/meetings and select "Browse the Program."

Special Workshop: Research Integrity

The AAAS Workshop on Responsible Research Practices in a Changing Research Environment on Thursday, 17 February, highlights emerging issues related to new challenges for researchers who seek to "practice" their craft responsibly. Register for the workshop online using the "Register Now" link; follow the steps for "General Attendee." Registrants have the option of selecting only the workshop as well as attending the full meeting. The workshop is partially funded by the Office of Inspector General at the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Office of Research Integrity. For more information, select "Browse the Program" www.aaas.org/meetings.
Photo: Peggy L. Fischer, National Science Foundation

Seminars

For details on sessions and speakers in each seminar, visit www.aaas.org/meetings and select "Seminars."

Body and Machine
No border is more fundamental than the one between humans and the external world. The limits of our body are defined by our brain—how we grasp an object or move around in a room is determined by how the brain perceives where the body is in space and time. These limits can be manipulated, extended, and explored when traditional scientific disciplines work together. By combining the fields of neuroscience, medicine, engineering, and information systems, science is rising to the challenge of finding solutions to disabilities that affect human experience.

Frontiers in Chemistry
Along with many organizations worldwide, AAAS is celebrating the International Year of Chemistry to acknowledge the achievements of chemistry, its contributions to the well-being of humankind, and what the future may hold. New organic materials will have broad industrial and societal impacts on information technology, energy, and biosensing. New knowledge about molecular self-assembly will provide the structural foundation for the next generation of artificial molecular machines. This seminar will disclose cutting-edge research that cuts across a variety of scientific disciplines, thereby exemplifying a multidisciplinary approach to scientific exploration.

Other Worlds
Session speakers will represent multidisciplinary and multinational initiatives that are closely coordinated at national and international levels. The Kepler Mission will do something that no other mission can do: determine the frequency of Earth-like planets in our galaxy and begin to constrain the prevalence of life in our universe. Other efforts are engaged in searching for evidence of extraterrestrial life, a broadly and deeply multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and transdisciplinary endeavor. The world's largest dedicated, full-time astronomical instrument—the Very Long Baseline Array—spans more than 5,000 miles, providing astronomers with the sharpest vision of any telescope on Earth or in space.

Meeting Hotels
Special room rates and benefits are available to Annual Meeting registrants.

Renaissance Downtown (Headquarters Hotel)
Rate: $232 Single/$252 Double
Embassy Suites Convention Center
Rate: $234 Single/$259 Double
Grand Hyatt Washington
Rate: $239 Single/$264 Double

Rooms are available on a first-come, first-served basis until 16 January 2011 for the Grand Hyatt and 23 January for the Renaissance, Embassy Suites, and Hampton Inn.

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Meeting events will be held in downtown Washington, D.C., at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, the Renaissance Downtown Hotel, and the Grand Hyatt Washington. Discounted advance registration rates are available until Thursday, 27 January 2011.

Professional
$295 Members
$375 New Members
$399 Non-Members
Postdoc
$235 Member
$315 New Members
$335 Non-Members
K-12 Teacher
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$315 New Members
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$235 Member
$315 New Members
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Student
$60 Member
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After 27 January 2011, on-site rates apply. Learn more...

Ways To Save

As student session aides, undergraduate- and graduate-level students receive free meeting registration. They will listen to and meet a range of interesting people, including leading scientists, Nobel Laureates, popular authors, government leaders, and radio and television personalities. Learn more at www.aaas.org/meetings under "Teachers & Students."

Special AAAS Membership Offer

Not a member of AAAS? Take advantage of this offer before it expires on 27 January. Register in advance for the Annual Meeting, pay the reduced New Member rate, and become a member at the same time — a $170 value for professionals. Receive 51 issues of Science and all of its archives as well as Science Express and Science Online. Canadian and other international members will receive the digital edition. This offer is subject to verification. Register now!

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