AAAS Science and Policy Programs

Science and Technology Policy
2007 AAAS Leadership Seminar

12-16 November 2007

• Overview
• Agenda
• General Information
• Registration
• Hotel Recommendation
   

Overview

The AAAS Leadership Seminar in Science and Technology Policy is a "crash course" in science and technology (S&T) policy, designed for those who need to know how S&T policy works.

It is modeled after the highly acclaimed orientation program that AAAS provides for its new S&T Policy Fellows each fall, but distills the key material into 4 1/2 days instead of two weeks. Space is limited to only 30 participants--the small group setting provides an ideal opportunity to learn about the challenges and solutions of S&T policy from the experts.

Agenda for the 2007 Leadership Seminar

(links to selected seminar presentations in PDF format)

Monday, November 12, 2007

12:00 noon

Registration Opens

1:00 p.m.

Welcoming Remarks

• Albert H. Teich
  Director, Science and Policy Programs
  AAAS

1:15 p.m.

Introductions

Participants, AAAS staff

2:15 p.m.

Break

2:30 p.m.

The Current Political Environment for Science

• David Goldston
  Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University; and Former Chief of Staff, House Committee on Science

4:30 p.m.

Welcoming Reception

6:30 p.m.

Get-Acquainted Dinner

Introduction: Albert H. Teich, Director, Science and Policy Programs, AAAS

• Rick Weiss, Science Reporter, The Washington Post
  "Covering Science in Washington"

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

Where Does Science Fit in Public Policy?

• Eric A. Fischer
  Senior Specialist in Science & Technology Policy
  Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

10:30 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m.

The Contrasting Cultures of Science and Policy-Making

• Stephen D. Nelson
  Associate Director, Science and Policy Programs
  AAAS

12:00 noon

Lunch

1:00 p.m.

How Policy is Made: Lessons from Current Issues

• Moderator: Albert H. Teich, AAAS
• Nanotechnology
  David Rejeski
  Director, Foresight and Governance Project, and
  Director, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies
  Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
• Stem Cell Research
  Rachel Levinson
  Director, Government and Industrial Liaison Office
  The Biodesign Institute
  Arizona State University

2:45 p.m.

Break

• Energy Policy and Climate Change
  Bob Simon
  Staff Director
  Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources
• U.S. Space Policy
  Howard McCurdy
  Professor of Public Affairs
  American University
• Strategic Weapons and Arms Control
  David Kay
  Consultant and former leader of the search for WMD in Iraq

5:00 p.m.

Dinner on your own

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

8:30 a.m.

Check-In

9:00 a.m.

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)

• John H. Marburger, III
  Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

10:00 a.m.

Leave for Capitol Hill

10:45 a.m.

Congress: Its Structure and Processes

• Judy Schneider
  Specialist on the Congress
  Government and Finance Division
  Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

12:30 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 p.m.

How a Scientist Can Interact with a Congressional Office

• Francis Slakey
  Associate Director of Public Affairs
  American Physical Society

2:15 p.m.

Break

2:30 p.m.

Lobbying in Washington

• Moderator: Joanne Padrón Carney
  Director, Center for Science, Technology and Congress AAAS
• Michael A. Waring
  Executive Director of Federal Relations, and
  Director of the Washington Office
  University of Michigan
  
• Jack Humphries
  Vice President of Government Relations
  United Technologies Corporation
• April L. Burke
  President and Founder
  Lewis-Burke Associates, LLC

4:00 p.m.

Scientists' Roles in Public Support for Research Funding

• Bill Leinweber
  Executive Vice President, Research!America

5:30 p.m.

Dinner on your own

Thursday, November 15, 2007

8:00 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Introduction to Federal Budget Procedure: Or, Why You'll Never Understand the Policy Process Unless You Understand the Budget

• Kei Koizumi
  Director
  AAAS R&D Budget and Policy Program

10:00 a.m.

Break

10:15 a.m.

An Interactive Workshop: Writing an Appropriations Bill

• Kei Koizumi, AAAS

12:15 p.m.

Lunch

1:15 p.m.

National Economic Policy

• Zanny Minton Beddoes
  Washington Economics Editor
  The Economist

2:45 p.m.

Break

3:00 p.m.

The Politics of Innovation and Competitiveness

• Kathryn Clay
  Professional Staff Member
  Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
• Louis A. Finkel
  Director of Policy and Outreach
  House Committee on Science and Technology

4:15 p.m.

Ethics, Science, and Policy

• Deborah G. Johnson
  Anne Shirley Carter Olsson Professor of Applied Ethics
  Department of Science, Technology, and Society
  School of Engineering and Applied Science
  University of Virginia

5:30 p.m.

Leave for restaurant

6-9 p.m.

Dinner

Introduction: Albert H. Teich, Director, Science & Policy Programs, AAAS

• Daryl E. Chubin
  Director, AAAS Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity

Friday, November 16, 2007

8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

9:00 a.m.

Science and Security in the Post-9/11 Environment

• Albert H. Teich
  Director, Science & Policy Programs
  AAAS

10:00 a.m.

Break

10:15 a.m.

The Role of Science and Technology in U.S. Foreign Policy

• Caroline S. Wagner
  Senior Research Scientist, George Washington University; and
  SRI International

11:30 a.m.

Concluding Remarks

• Albert H. Teich, AAAS