31st Annual AAAS FORUM ON

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY

 

April 20-21, 2006

Washington Court Hotel   Washington, DC

 

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

 

Thursday, April 20

 

8:00 a.m. Registration Opens

 

9:00                         Welcome: Gilbert S. Omenn, Professor of Internal Medicine, Human Genetics, and

                                                Public Health, University of Michigan; and Chair, Board of Directors, AAAS

 

                                Keynote Address: John H. Marburger, III, Director, White House Office of Science and

Technology Policy

 

10:00                       BUDGETARY AND POLICY CONTEXT FOR R&D IN FY 2007 (Plenary Session)

 

                                • AAAS Analysis of Federal Budget Proposals for R&D in FY 2007

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

 

                                • A Congressional Perspective on the FY 2007 Budget

                                                Bill Hoagland, Director, Budget and Appropriations, Office of the Senate

                                                Majority Leader, United States Senate

 

                                • An Overview of the Current and Long-Term Federal Budget Situation 

Douglas Holtz-Eakins, Director, Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic

Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; and former Director, Congressional Budget Office

 

                                • The Increasing Intersections of Science and Technology with Politics and Culture

                                                William Saletan, National Correspondent, Slate Online Magazine

                               

12:00 Noon            Luncheon   

 

                                Address:  Julie L. Gerberding, M.D., Director, Centers for Disease Control and

                                                Prevention                                              

 

2:00 p.m.                 MAJOR ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY POLICY (Concurrent

Sessions)

 

(A)    Science and Technology Policy for the Energy Challenges of the 21st Century   

 

Moderator: John Holdren, Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental

Policy, Harvard University; Director, Woods Hole Research Center;

and President, AAAS

 

                                                The Economic, Environmental, and National Security Challenges of Energy

                                                Supply and the Role of S&T in Addressing Them

                                                                John Holdren

 

National Policy for Addressing Our Energy Challenges

                                                                Jason Grumet, Executive Director, National Commission on Energy

                                                                Policy

 

                                                The Federal Energy R&D Portfolio

                                                                Kelly Sims Gallagher, Director, Energy Technology Innovation Project,

                                                                Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

 

                                                Discussant: David Hawkins, Director, Climate Center, Natural Resources

                                                                Defense Council

 

                                                Other speaker to be announced

 

               

(B)    Risk and Response: Coping With Uncertainty About Pandemic Flu and Other

       Global Health Threats

 

                                                Moderator:  Sharon Hrynkow, Acting Director, Fogarty International Center,

                                                                National Institutes of Health

 

Speakers:

 

Peter M. Sandman, Risk Communications Consultant, Princeton, NJ; and

Adjunct Professor, Rutgers University and Robert Wood Johnson Medical

School; Research Professor, Clark University

 

Other speakers to be announced

 

(C)  Homeland Security: Can Science Make Us Safer? 

                                Moderator: Benn H. Tannenbaum,  Senior Program Associate, Center for

                                                Science, Technology and Security Policy, AAAS

 

                                Speakers:

 

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

 

                                Gretchen L. Lorenzi, Weapons of Mass Destruction Unit, Headquarters, Federal

                                Bureau of Investigation

 

                                Starnes E. Walker, III, Chief Scientist, Office of Naval Research

 

                                Vayl Oxford, Director, Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, U.S. Department of

                                Homeland Security

 

Richard T. Roca, Director, Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins

University

                 

5:00                         Coffee Break

 

5:45                         The William D. Carey Lecture (public invited)

                                                Harold T. Shapiro, President Emeritus and Professor of Economics and Public

                                                Affairs, Princeton University

                                               

 6:45                        Reception

 

 

Friday, April 21

 

7:45 a.m.                 Breakfast  

                                                John Hamre, President and CEO, Center for Strategic and International Studies

 

9:00                         THE GLOBAL INNOVATION CHALLENGE: RESPONSES BY INDUSTRY

                                AND U.S. POLICY MAKERS  (Plenary Session)

 

                                Moderator: Shirley Ann Jackson, President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

 

• Global Challenges Facing the U.S. Economy

                Shirley Ann Jackson

               

• How U.S. Industry is Meeting the Challenge  

 

• How European Industry is Meeting the Challenge

                Andrew Dearing, Secretary General, European Industrial Research Management

                Association

 

• National Workforce Needs, Particularly in Science and Engineering  

                Richard Freeman, Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard

                                                University; and National Bureau of Economic Research

 

• The U.S. Policy Response: Adequate to the Task? 

                               

12:00 Noon            Luncheon

                                                Speaker to be announced

 

1:45 p.m.                 PROTECTING THE INTEGRITY OF SCIENCE  (Plenary Session)   

 

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

 

• Attacks on Peer Review

                Felice Levine, Executive Director, American Educational Research Association

               

• Political Uses of Science  

                John Horgan, Director, Center for Science Writings, Stevens Institute of

                Technology

 

 • Scientific Fraud

                Nicholas H. Steneck, Professor of History, University of Michigan

                 

3:30 p.m.                 Adjournment 

 

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