Dispatches From the Field
AAAS 2000 Annual Meeting


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

  • Aaron Lanier, National Tele-Immersion Initiative, Internet2 Central Laboratory -- Information Technologies and the Future of Scientific Method
  • William Coyne, 3M Company -- Innovation as a Growth Driver

12:30 PM

  • Rita R. Colwell, National Science Foundation

1:30 PM
  • G. Edward Schuh, University of Minnesota, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs -- Competitiveness, Research, and Global Development: How Will the U.S. Cope?
  • George A. Miller , Princeton University -- Ambiguous Language
  • Matthew Meselson, Harvard University -- Averting the Hostile Exploitation of Biotechnology
  • Michael Hengartner, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory -- Programmed Cell Death in the Nematode, C.elegans.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19

8:00 AM

  • Kari Stefansson, de Code Genetics -- Population, Genomics, and Complex Traits: The Case of Iceland
  • Jennifer Tour Chayes, Microsoft, Inc. -- What Makes Hard Problems Hard? A Physicist's View of Algorithms and Intractability
  • Neil de Grasse Tyson, Hayden Planetarium -- Bringing the Universe Down to Earth: Designing a Planetarium for the 21st Century

2:00 PM

  • Carl Djerassi, Stanford University -- Contraception vs. Conception--A Millennial Prognosis
  • Edelgard Bulmahn, Ministry of Science and Education, Germany -- Education and Science In a Changing Society
  • 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

  • John Cosgrove, Long Island Jewish Medical Center -- Surgical History of the United States Presidents
  • Mary-Lou Pardue, Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Drosophila Telomeres: Evolutionary Links Between Chromosome Ends and Retrotransposable
  • Edward O. Wilson, Harvard University -- The Relation Between Biology and the Humanities

1:00 PM

  • Felice Frankel, Massachuestts Institute of Technology -- Science as Art and Art as Science
  • George Whitesides, Harvard University -- Science as Art and Art as Science

2:00 PM

  • Edward J. Larson, University of Georgia -- George Sarton Award Lecture: 75 Years Ago or Forever? The AAAS and the Scopes Trial
  • Felton Earls, Harvard School of Public Health -- Exposure to Violence in Childhood: Causes and Consequences
  • William A. Haseltine, Human Genome Sciences, Inc. -- Genes and Drugs: What to do with All the Genes

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21

2:00 PM

  • Kenneth Prewitt, U.S. Census Bureau -- The Science and Politics of the U.S. Census
  • Tim White, University of California, Berkeley -- Early Hominids


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