Dispatches From the Field
AAAS 2000 Annual Meeting
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Topical Lectures
These lectures, each be a single speaker, are 45 minutes long and address a current general-interest science topic or one related to a particular symposium. There are usually two to three lectures happening at any one time. The lecturers are invited to present at the meeting based on a nomination process from the members. Following is a list of all the lectures at this year¹s AAAS meeting
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18
8:00 AM
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Aaron Lanier, National Tele-Immersion Initiative, Internet2 Central Laboratory -- Information Technologies and the Future of Scientific Method
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William Coyne, 3M Company -- Innovation as a Growth Driver
12:30 PM
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Rita R. Colwell, National Science Foundation
1:30 PM
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G. Edward Schuh, University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs -- Competitiveness, Research, and Global Development: How Will the U.S. Cope?
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George A. Miller , Princeton University -- Ambiguous Language
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Matthew Meselson, Harvard University -- Averting the Hostile Exploitation of Biotechnology
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Michael Hengartner, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Programmed Cell Death in the Nematode, C.elegans.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19
8:00 AM
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Kari Stefansson, de Code Genetics -- Population, Genomics, and Complex Traits: The Case of Iceland
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Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft, Inc. -- What Makes Hard Problems Hard? A Physicist's View of Algorithms and Intractability
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Neil de Grasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium -- Bringing the Universe Down to Earth: Designing a Planetarium for the 21st Century
2:00 PM
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Carl Djerassi, Stanford University -- Contraception vs. Conception--A Millennial Prognosis
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Edelgard Bulmahn, Ministry of Science and Education, Germany -- Education and Science In a Changing Society
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Esther M. Sternberg, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health -- Does Stress Make You Sick and Believing Make You Well? The Science of Mind-Body
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 20
8:00 AM
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John Cosgrove, Long Island Jewish Medical Center -- Surgical History of the United States Presidents
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Mary-Lou Pardue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Drosophila Telomeres: Evolutionary Links Between Chromosome Ends and Retrotransposable
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Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University -- The Relation Between Biology and the Humanities
1:00 PM
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Felice Frankel, Massachuestts Institute of Technology -- Science as Art and Art as Science
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George Whitesides, Harvard University -- Science as Art and Art as Science
2:00 PM
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Edward J. Larson, University of Georgia -- George Sarton Award Lecture: 75 Years Ago or Forever? The AAAS and the Scopes Trial
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Felton Earls, Harvard School of Public Health -- Exposure to Violence in Childhood: Causes and Consequences
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William A. Haseltine, Human Genome Sciences, Inc. -- Genes and Drugs: What to do with All the Genes
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21
2:00 PM
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Kenneth Prewitt, U.S. Census Bureau -- The Science and Politics of the U.S. Census
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Tim White, University of California, Berkeley -- Early Hominids
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