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Opening ceremony, plenary and topical lectures are given by eminent scientists and engineers.
6:30 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Fourth Floor
Grand Ballroom E-G
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Welcome by AAAS Board Chairman John Holdren
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Opening Remarks by Local Co-Chairs:
Susan Hockfield, President, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Ioannis Miaoulis, President and Director, Museum of Science, Boston
President's Address
David Baltimore, Ph.D.
AAAS President; Robert Andrews Millikan Professor of Biology, California Institute of Technology
Baltimore is one of the world's leading biologists and a co-recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Medicine for the discovery of reverse transcriptase. Since then, he has published more than 600 papers, including seminal research on the genetics of cancer, the workings of the HIV virus and AIDS vaccine candidates, and fundamental observations in molecular immunology. He was founding director of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and president of Rockefeller University and Caltech. Today he heads the Baltimore Lab at Caltech, with support from the Gates Foundation, to look for ways to genetically boost the immune system against infectious pathogens, particularly HIV. Throughout his career, Baltimore has influenced science policy. He helped set standards for recombinant DNA technology and received the 1999 National Medal of Science in part for his work on AIDS research policy. Today he is outspoken about what he sees as government efforts to distort and suppress scientific research.
Invited Address
His Excellency Paul Kagame
President of the Republic of Rwanda
Born in October 1957 in Ruhango, Southern Province, Kagame's family fled Rwanda in 1960 to escape persecution and ethnic programs that characterized the nation in subsequent decades. In 1990, he returned after 30 years in exile to lead the Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA) in a liberation struggle that succeeded in 1994. In 2000, he was unanimously elected President by the Transitional National Assembly, and three years later, he became the first democratically elected President of Rwanda. Confronting deep poverty and the aftermath of genocide, Kagame has demonstrated his strong support of plans to pursue sustainable development that are built on science and education to achieve growth and prosperity. He has received achievement awards and international recognition for uniting and reconciling Rwandans, promoting the use of Information and Communication Technologies for the overall development of the African continent, furthering gender mainstreaming and addressing social and cultural barriers that impede the involvement and advancement of women in national affairs, and abolishing the death penalty.
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Fourth Floor
Grand Ballroom E-G
Judith Rodin, Ph.D.
President, Rockefeller Foundation
Climate Change Adaptation: The Next Great Challenge for the Developing World
Rodin trained as a research psychologist and was the first woman to serve as president of an Ivy League institution, the University of Pennsylvania. A pioneer in the behavioral medicine movement, she taught at New York University before embarking on 22 years on the faculty at Yale and then becoming provost. Today she leads the Rockefeller Foundation, established in 1913 by John D. Rockefeller Sr., to "promote the well-being" of humanity by addressing the root causes of serious problems. The Foundation works around the world to expand opportunities for poor or vulnerable people and to help ensure that globalization's benefits are more widely shared. With assets of nearly $4 billion, it is one of the few institutions to conduct such work both within the United States and internationally. Rodin serves on several leading nonprofit and corporate boards. She has written or co-written 12 books, including most recently The University and Urban Revival. She served on President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. A member of several leading academic societies, including the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, she has received 14 honorary doctorate degrees.
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Fourth Floor
Grand Ballroom E-G
Nina V. Fedoroff, Ph.D.
Special Adviser, Science and Technology, U.S. Department of State; Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Willaman Professor of Life Sciences, Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences, Pennsylvania State University
Making the World Flat: Science and Technology in the Developing World
In August 2007, Fedoroff was named the Science and Technology Adviser to U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. She holds an academic post as the Evan Pugh Professor of Biology and Willaman Professor of Life Sciences at Pennsylvania State University, where she is also founding director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. As a leading geneticist and molecular biologist, she has contributed to the development of modern techniques used to study and modify plants. Her book, Mendel in the Kitchen: A Scientist's View of Genetically Modified Foods, examines the scientific and societal issues surrounding the introduction of genetically modified crops. She received the 2006 National Medal of Science for her pioneering work on plant molecular biology and for being the first to clone and characterize maize transposons.
6:30 p.m.-7:30 p.m.
Boston Marriott Copley Place, Fourth Floor
Grand Ballroom E-G
Nicholas Negroponte, Ph.D.
Founder, One Laptop per Child
One Laptop per Child
Negroponte is founder and chairman of the One Laptop per Child non-profit association. He is currently on leave from MIT, where he was co-founder and director of the MIT Media Laboratory, and the Jerome B. Wiesner Professor of Media Technology. A graduate of MIT, Negroponte was a pioneer in the field of computer-aided design, and has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1966. Conceived in 1980, the Media Laboratory opened its doors in 1985. He is also author of the 1995 best seller, Being Digital, which has been translated into more than 40 languages. In the private sector, Negroponte serves on the board of directors for Motorola Inc., and as general partner in a venture capital firm specializing in digital technologies for information and entertainment. He has provided start-up funds for more than 40 companies, including Wired magazine.
8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 302-306
AAAS President David Baltimore, moderator
AAAS President Baltimore will moderate a Davos-style panel discussion that explores global health challenges from three perspectives: philanthropy, world leadership, and program successes and challenges. Executive director of UNAIDS since its creation in 1995 and under secretary-general of the United Nations, Piot comes from a distinguished academic and scientific career focusing on AIDS and women's health in the developing world. Drawing on his skills as a scientist, manager, and activist, he has challenged world leaders to view AIDS in the context of social and economic development as well as security. Kim has worked to improve health in developing countries for more than 20 years and is an expert in tuberculosis. He is a founding trustee and the former executive director of Partners In Health, a not-for-profit organization that supports a range of health programs in poor communities in Haiti, Peru, Russia, Rwanda, and the United States. Following two decades of elected politics in the U.S. Congress, Wirth served in the U.S. Department of State as the first Undersecretary for Global Affairs. Since 1998, he has organized and led the formulation of the United Nations Foundation's mission and program priorities. The Foundation also engages in extensive public advocacy, resource mobilization, and institutional strengthening efforts on behalf of the UN.
Jim Yong Kim, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, François Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, Harvard School of Public Health, and Professor of Social Medicine and Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Peter Piot, M.D., Ph.D.
Executive Director, UNAIDS, and Under Secretary-General of the United Nations
Timothy Wirth, Ph.D.
President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund
Recordings of the Plenary Panel, "Global Health Challenges"
NOON-1:30 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 304
AAAS President David Baltimore, moderator
Mark Fishman, M.D.
President, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
Shirley Ann Jackson, Ph.D.
President, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Janez Potočnik, Ph.D.
Commissioner for Science and Research, European Commission
Curtis T. McMullen, Ph.D.
Cabot Professor of Mathematics, Harvard University
The Geometry of 3-Manifolds
12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 312
Charles Elachi, Ph.D.
Director, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The Golden Age of Robotic Space and Earth Exploration: Challenges and Opportunities
12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 302
Angela M. Belcher, Ph.D.
Germeshausen Professor of Materials Science and Engineering and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
From Nature and Back Again: Giving New Life to Materials for Energy, Electronics, and the Environment
12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 304
Janet Browne, Ph.D.
Aramont Professor of the History of Science, Harvard University
2008 George Sarton Memorial Lecture in the History and Philosophy of Science
Commemorating Darwin: The History of Scientific Celebrations
12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 302
Lawrence Susskind, Ph.D.
Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Strengthening the Global Environmental Treaty-Making System
12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 312
Nathan D. Wolfe, Ph.D.
Professor of Epidemiology, UCLA School of Public Health
Viral Forecasting
12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 304
Daniel Kahneman, Ph.D.
Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
2008 John P. McGovern Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences
Architecture of the Mind
12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 312
Per Pinstrup-Andersen, Ph.D.
H.E. Babcock Professor of Food, Nutrition, and Public Policy, Cornell University
Science and Policy Priorities for the Global Food System
12:30 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level
Room 302
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