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Friday, 18 February

7:00AM-8:30AM
AAAS SECTIONS

• General Meeting for the Section Officers
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Delaware
  Open to all section officers

8:30AM-10:00AM
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA

• Beginning- and End-of-Life Technologies and Core Constitutional Values
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Virginia Suite C
• Can Studying Epilepsy Lead to Improved Knowledge About Depression?
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1
• Evolutionary Fisheries Science
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room F
• The Genetic Age: Changing Paradigms in Science Funding-- Has the RO1 Outlived Its Usefulness?
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room E
• Museums and Science Research: Mediating the Context, Content and Implications for the General Public
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite A
• Pharmacogenomics in Action
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3
• Restoring Damaged Inner Ear Hair Cells and Their Neural Connections
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Diplomat
• Salivary Diagnostics Instead of Blood Testing … Finally
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson B
• Scientific Exchange in an Insecure World: The Middle East
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
• University-Industry Research Collaboration and Regional Development
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Congressional B

8:30AM-11:30AM
SEMINAR

• Nanotechnology 2005: Frontiers in Bioinspired Materials and Nanosystems
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson C

8:30AM-11:30AM
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA

• Farming Ocean Carnivores: The Science, Economics and Politics of Rapidly Expanding Fish Aquaculture
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Congressional A
• Frontiers in Bioinspired Materials and Nanosystems
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson C
• Industrial Research Trends
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite C
• Neuroethics: Neuroscience and Its Ethical, Legal and Social Implications
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Level 2B, Empire
• Phytoremediation: New Solutions to Pollution on Land and in the Sea
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson A
• Research Evaluation for Policy-Making: American, European and Worldwide Perspectives
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Level 2B, Lobby Level, Pallidian
• Science in a Few Attoseconds
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite B
• Some Children Are Left Behind: Improving Reading by Understanding Language
  Marriott Wardham Park, Lobby Level, Virginia Suite B
• What People Around the World Think and Know About Science
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Virginia Suite A

8:30AM-11:30AM
CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Science NetLinks Internet Content for the Classroom: Teacher Session
  AAAS Headquarters, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Cabot Laboratory; use entrance at 12th and H Streets
  Ticket required

8:30AM-1:00PM
AAAS COMMITTEES

• Meeting of the Committee on Public Understanding of Science (COPUST)
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Ethan Allen
  Closed meeting

8:30AM-5:00PM
AAAS COMMITTEES

• Meeting of the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility
  AAAS Headquarters, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Board Room; use entrance at 12th and H Streets
  By invitation only

8:45AM-11:45AM
SECTION BUSINESS MEETINGS

• Engineering
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Park Tower Suite 8212
  Open to all registrants
• History and Philosophy of Science
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Nathan Hale
  Open to all registrants

9:00AM-1:00PM
AAAS COMMITTEES

• Meeting of the Advisory Committee on International Science, Day One
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Embassy
  Closed meeting

10:00AM-NOON
AAAS AFFILIATES

• AAAS Affiliates Meeting
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Harding
  Open to all affiliate representatives

SECTION BUSINESS MEETING

• Social, Economic and Political Sciences
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Congressional
  Open to all registrants

10:00AM-2:00PM
SPECIAL EVENT

• Luncheon for Students and Scientists with Disabilities
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Delaware
  Sponsored by IBM
  By invitation only

10:30AM-NOON
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA

• Climate Change and the Insurance Industry
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
• The Dilemma of History: Trajectories in Reforming Science Education
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Virginia Suite C
• The 8 June 2004 Transit of Venus: Nature’s Rare Spectacle
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Congressional B
• Evolutionary Phonology
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson B
• Formal Models of, for and in International Negotiations
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3
• The Genetic Age: Intellectual Property and Information Access
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room E
• Millennium Ecosystem Assessment: New Approaches to Multi-Scale Analyses
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1
• The Mind, the Brain and the New Science of Politics
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Diplomat
• The Nascent Learning Mind
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite A

10:30AM-NOON
CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Science NetLinks Internet Content for the Classroom, Overview
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room F
  Open to all registrants

11:00AM-1:00PM
SPECIAL EVENT

• National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation: Science Friday
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Executive
  Open to all registrants

NOON-1:30PM
CAREER AND EXHIBITOR WORKSHOPS

• The AAAS Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity: Helping Universities Help Students and Faculty
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room B
• NASA Living With a Star (LWS) Master Teachers
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room C
• Women and Science: A UK Perspective on Obstacles, Scientific Revolution and the Future
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room D

NOON-3:00PM
SECTION BUSINESS MEETINGS

• Atmospheric and Hydrospheric Sciences
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Park Tower Suite 8219
  Open to all registrants
• Dentistry and Oral Health Sciences
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Coolidge
  Open to all registrants
• General Interest in Science and Engineering
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Hoover
  Open to all registrants
• Geology and Geography
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Park Tower Suite 8216
  Open to all registrants
• Industrial Science and Technology
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardham Tower, Thomas Paine
  Open to all registrants

NOON-6:00PM

• Exhibit Hall Opens
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibition Level, Exhibit Hall ABC
  Open to all registrants

12:30PM-1:15PM
TOPICAL LECTURES

• 2005 George Sarton Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science
  Philip J. Pauly, Rutgers University
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3
• Alfred Sommer, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1

1:00PM-6:00PM
POSTER SESSION

• American Junior Academy of Science (AJAS) Poster Session
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibition Level, Exhibit Hall ABC
  Open to all registrants

1:45PM-3:15PM
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA

• A Cross-Species Perspective on Integration of Spatial Information for Navigation
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite B
• Food-Based Approaches to Micronutrient Nutrition for Human and National Development
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite C
• The Genetic Age: Economics of Health
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room E
• Geographical Information Systems Foster Disease Surveillance and Early Outbreak Detection
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite A
• The Political Framing of Empirical Results in Psychology
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson C
• Shaping the Future: Environmental Pollution, Population Change and Economic Productivity
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Palladian
• The Significance of the Hubble Space Telescope: Space Science Past, Present and Future
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Congressional A
• The Steller Sea Lion Dispute: Lessons from the Science-Law Interface in Fisheries Management
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Virginia Suite B
• What Social Scientists Learn by Conducting Experiments in Peoples’ Homes
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3

1:45PM-3:15PM
CAREER AND EXHIBITOR WORKSHOPS

• Better Science Through Storytelling
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room C
• Deliver Sound-Bites that Score: Media Interview Tips and Techniques
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room A
• Research Training at the National Institutes of Health
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room B
• Working with Congress: A Guide for Scientists and Engineers
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room D

1:45PM-3:15PM
CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Science NetLinks Internet Content for the Classroom, Overview
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room F
  Open to all registrants

1:45PM-4:45PM
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA

• Detection and Attribution—Methods and Results—of Climate Trends in Temperature Sensors, Species and Glaciers
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson A
• Fusion: Energy Source for the Future?
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 1
• Interfacing Science with Technology for Medicine
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2
• Public Attitudes and Engagement with Science: American and European Perspectives
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Palladian
• Professional Development for Teaching Science K-20
  Omni Shoreham, Lobby Level, Congressional B
• Scientist-Practitioner Dialogue on Science and Technology for Sustainability
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Virginia Suite A
• Signatures of Anthropogenic Warming in the Oceans and Their Implications for Society
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson B
• Understanding Dark Energy
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Diplomat
• Voting Technology: Current Assessment and Future Prospects—A Post-2004 Election Update
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Virginia Suite C

2:00PM-5:00PM
CONTINUING EDUCATION

• Science NetLinks Internet Content for the Classroom Teacher Session
  AAAS Headquarters, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Cabot Laboratory; use entrance at 12th and H Streets
  Ticket required

3:30PM-5:00PM
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA

• Animal Genomics: Where Are We and Where Are We Going?
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Wilson C
• Extracellular Matrix (ECM) in Tissue Engineering
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Lobby Level, Congressional A
• Foreign Student Visas: New Policies and Updated Data
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite C
• The Genetic Age: Regulation, Standards and Public Confidence
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room E
• Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) and Policy-Making at the Intersection of Science and Ethics
  Omni Shoreham Hotel, Level 2B, Empire
• Language on the Internet: Usage Patterns, Global Issues and Future Trends
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite B
• Research Without Consent: Practical and Ethical Issues
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 3
• Something from Nothing? Scientific Inference and Missing Data
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Maryland Suite A

3:30PM-5:00PM
CAREER AND EXHIBITOR WORKSHOPS

• Introduction to the NSF: Its Proposal and Merit Review Process, and Proposal Preparation
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room B
• Moving from Competent to Compelling: Advanced Persuasive Communications Workshop
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room A
• Strategic Networking
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibit Hall B North, Workshop Room D

4:00PM-6:00PM
SPECIAL EVENT

• Orientation Meeting for Librarians
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Park Tower Suite 8212
  Open to all registrants

4:30PM-6:00PM
SPECIAL EVENT

• Exhibit Hall Opening Reception
  Marriott Wardman Park, Exhibition Level, Exhibit Hall ABC
  Open to all registrants

4:45PM­6:15PM
CAREER AND EXHIBITOR WORKSHOP

• The AAAS Center for Science, Innovation, and Sustainable Development: Helping Connect Scientists with Development Practice and Needs
  Marriott Wardman Park Hotel, Virginia Suite A
  Open to all registrants

5:00PM-6:30PM
SPECIAL EVENT

• AAAS Dialogue on Science, Ethics and Religion (DoSER) Reception
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Delaware
  Open to all registrants

6:30PM-7:30PM
PLENARY LECTURE

• Steven W. Squyres, Cornell University
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Marriott Ballroom Salon 2 and 3
  Open to all registrants

6:30PM-8:30PM
SPECIAL EVENT

• COSEPP and AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellowship Programs Reception
  Omni Shoreham, Lobby Level, Hampton
  By invitation only

7:45PM-10:00PM
SECTION BUSINESS MEETINGS

• Agriculture, Food and Renewable Resources
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Park Tower Suite 8212
  Open to all registrants
• Astronomy
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Park Tower Suite 8217
  Open to all registrants
• Biological Sciences
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Congressional
  Open to all registrants
• Education
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Nathan Hale
  Open to all registrants
• Information, Computing and Communication
  Marriott Wardman Park, Mezzanine Level, Marriott Balcony A
  Open to all registrants
• Linguistics and Language Sciences
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Thomas Paine
  Open to all registrants
• Mathematics
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Park Tower Suite 8216
  Open to all registrants
• Medical Sciences
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Ethan Allen
  Open to all registrants
• Physics
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Park Tower Suite 8219
  Open to all registrants
• Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering
  Marriott Wardman Park, Wardman Tower, Embassy
  Open to all registrants

8:00PM-10:30PM
SPECIAL EVENT

• Annals of Improbable Research
  Marriott Wardman Park, Lobby Level, Delaware
  Open to all registrants