Wednesday, 15 February
Thursday, 16 February
Friday, 17 February
Saturday, 18 February
Sunday, 19 February
Monday, 20 February

Monday, 20 February

7:30AM–12:30PM
AAAS AFFILIATES

• AWIS Breakfast and Workshop
  Renaissance Grand, Level One, Landmark 2–3
  Open to all registrants

8:00AM–9:30AM
SEMINAR

• 2006 Forum for School Science: Research and Practice on Student Learning
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 231

8:30AM–9:30AM
PLENARY LECTURE

• Rodney Brooks, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  Renaissance Grand, Level Two, Majestic Ballroom

9:00AM–4:00PM

• Exhibit Hall Open
  America's Center, Level One, Exhibit Hall 1–2
  Open to all registrants and the public

9:45AM–12:45PM
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA

• Advancing Coupled Carbon-Cycle and Climate Models: Progress and Future Challenges
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 223

• Assembling the Tree of Life: Diversity of Opportunities
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 222

• Coral Reef Ecosystems and People in The Bahamas: Practical Applications of Biocomplexity Science
  Renaissance Grand, Level One, Landmark 5

• Environmental Terrorism: Risk Assessment Scenarios for Chemical, Biological, and Radiological Agents
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 229

• Future of Animal Agriculture in North America
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 220

• How Adults Learn About New Science and Technology
  Renaissance Grand, Level Two, Majestic C

• Infections from Animals: Assessing the Risks of Zoonotic Disease
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 242

• Orwell's Wolf Is Back: Tracking Kids, Dogs, Old People, and Everybody In Between
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 225

• Science and Technology for Economic and Social Development: What Works, and How Do We Know It?
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 228

• Space Matters! Spatial Dimensions of Complex Interactions Between People and the Natural Environment
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 224

• Stardust: Solar System Birth and Death
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 232

• Strengthening the Scientific Basis of Biometric Identification and Authentication
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 227

• Tailoring and Expanding Research Integrity Education Across the University
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 240

• The TEACH Research Program: What's Possible When Teachers and Researchers Collaborate?
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 230

• Technology Helping People with Communication Disorders
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 221

9:45AM–12:45PM
SEMINAR

• 2006 Forum for School Science: The TEACH Research Program—What's Possible When Teachers and Researchers Collaborate?
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 230

1:00PM–1:45PM
TOPICAL LECTURES

• Sir Partha Dasgupta, University of Cambridge
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 241

• 2006 John P. McGovern Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences
  Huda Akil, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 242

2:00PM–3:30PM
SCIENTIFIC SYMPOSIA

• Advancing Women in Science Through Institutional Transformation
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 228

• Business as Unusual: Alternative Models for a Positive Future for Fisheries
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 232

• A Central Role for Transcription Factor NFkB in Autoimmunity
  Renaissance Grand, Level Two, Majestic B

• Cultures of Apes
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 229

• Global Climate Change and Wildlife: Local Management Challenges
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 225

• How Basic Research in the Social Sciences Improves Public Policy
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 226

• Is Handwriting Like a Fingerprint?
  Renaissance Grand, Level Two, Majestic C

• Measuring Politics: Legislative Preferences, Political Representation, and Democracy
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 221

• Microbial Resistance: A Threat to Global Health
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 240

• "Race-Based" Therapeutics
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 241

• Refining Einstein: The Search for Relativity Violations
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 224

• Science Centers and Museums: The New Lab — Engaging Visitors in Real Research
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 227

• Soils as a Public Health Threat or Savior
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 231

• Strengthening Science and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 242

• Tremors in the Heartland: The Puzzle of Mid-Continent Earthquakes
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 223

• Understanding and Nourishing the Roots of Food Quality
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 220

• Using Ontologies To Teach Computers Biology
  America's Center, Level Two, Room 22