Dispatches From the Field
AAAS 2000 Annual Meeting

Symposia

These sessions are the are the meat of the meeting. They are usually three hours long with four to five speakers and a moderator. At any one time there are 16-20 symposia happening. The sessions are proposed by the members of AAAS and the final sessions are selected by the meeting program committee and members of the various topics sections of AAAS. The symposia are organized into different program tracks with an overarching theme so that a person can attend them all without any overlapping time. It is interesting to look at the program tracks where one can see the true diversity of the meeting.

The program track titles for this meeting are:

Changing Landscapes
Communicating Science
Education and Public Understanding of Science
Environment, Food, and Natural Resources
Global Change/Earth Systems Science
Human Futures
Industry and Engineering
Interconnectivity and Life in Cyberspace
Life Science and the Science of Life
Looking Back to Forecast the Future
Looking Beyond Earth
Mathematics and Physical Science
Natural History in the New Millennium
Public Health and Medicine
Science and Society
Science, Engineering, and Public Policy
Science Innovation

Friday Morning Symposia

  • Amateurs and Professionals: Advancing Science Together
  • Amphibian Declines: Untangling the Complexity
  • Can Universities Change Quickly Enough for the Innovation Economy?
  • Cyberterrorism in the Next Millennium: An Old Threat from a New Technology
  • Geoscience and Geophilosophy: New Theoretical and Practical Issues
  • Global Climate Change and Human Values
  • Human Resources for Science, Technology, the Nation, and the World
  • Integrating Technology into Science Education
  • News Knowledge on Homocyst(e)ine Could Change Public Health Policy and Medical Practice
  • Space Access and Utilization Beyond 2000
  • The Drosophila Genome
  • The Millennial Mind
  • The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: Mathematics in Hollywood, Industry, and Daily Life
  • Unearthing Climate Variability from the Geologic Record
  • Weapons of Mass Destruction and Scientific Responsibility
  • What's for Dinner? A Menu for the 21st Century Food System

Friday Afternoon Symposia

  • About Faces: Regulating Form and Function
  • Alien Species in Coastal Waters: What Are the Real Ecological and Social Costs?
  • Human Health and Climate ChangeHuman Resources for Science, Technology, the Nation, and the World
  • Mars Exploration: Recent Results and Future Plans
  • Population and Environment in Coastal Areas of Africa and Asia
  • Prophylaxis or Therapy: Are We Spending Our Research Dollars Wisely?
  • Scientific Modeling of Complex Scale Relationships: From Astronomy to Manufacturing
  • Synapses, Memory and Development of the Brain
  • The Initial Peopling of the New World
  • The Mathematics of Politics: Census, Representation and Voting
  • The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics: Complexity and Computation-Paradigms for the 21st Century
  • The Science of Baseball
  • Three Jobs-Two People: 21st Century Solutions to Overwork
  • University Research and Industrial Performance: Are They Related?


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