Science - USA (2019-01-18)

6 AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE | aaas.org/meetings

BLOCKCHAIN AND THE SCIENTIFIC

METHOD

Organized by Kush Varshney, IBM

Research, Yorktown Heights, NY; Lav

Varshney, University of Illinois at Urbana-

Champaign, IL

BUILDING QUANTUM COMPUTERS:

WHY AND HOW

Organized by Charles Clark, Joint

Quantum Institute, Gaithersburg, MD;

Anice Anderson, Private Engineering

Consulting, Carmel, IN

DRIVERLESS FUTURES: DISCIPLINES,

SECTORS, AND GEOGRAPHIC

CONSIDERATIONS

Organized by Mahmud Farooque and

Jason Lloyd, Consortium for Science,

Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State

University, Washington, DC

EARTH’S MANTLE REVEALS EVIDENCE

OF NORTH AMERICA’S STORIED

GEOLOGICAL PAST

Organized by Beth Grassi and Elisabeth

Nadin, EarthScope National OVce,

Fairbanks, AK

EARTH’S SURFACE RESPONSE TO

EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANOES, AND

GROUNDWATER: BULGE AND RUPTURE

Organized by Beth Grassi and Elisabeth

Nadin, EarthScope National OVce,

Fairbanks, AK

ENABLING LONG:DURATION MANNED

EXPLORATION OF SPACE: CHALLENGES

AND NEW DEVELOPMENTS

Organized by Sigrid Reinsch and Sandra

Dueck, NASA Ames Research Center,

MoWett Field, CA

HOW NEW TECHNOLOGY AFFECTS

SOCIETY

Organized by Giovanni Felici, European

Research Council Executive Agency,

Brussels, Belgium; Frank Kuhn, European

Research Council Executive Agency, Saint-

Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium

MULTI:MESSENGER ASTROPHYSICS:

INSIGHTS FROM COMBINING GRAVITY

AND RADIO WAVES

Organized by Eric Murphy, National Radio

Astronomy Observatory, Charlottesville, VA

PUBLIC USE DATA PRODUCTS AND

PRIVACY PROTECTION: EXPERIENCES

FROM THE FRONT LINES

Organized by Jerome Reiter, Duke

University, Durham, NC

SOLVING THE BIGGEST MYSTERIES

WITH THE TINIEST PARTICLES

Organized by Kurt Riesselmann, Fermi

National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL

SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY AND ADAPTIVE

MANAGEMENT

Organized by Wayne Landis, Western

Washington University, Bellingham, WA;

Keegan Sawyer, The National Academies

of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,

Washington, DC

THE ORIGIN OF GOLD, PLATINUM,

AND OTHER HEAVY ELEMENTS IN THE

UNIVERSE

Organized by Reiner Kruecken and

Jonathan Bagger, TRIUMF, Vancouver,

Canada

THE SCIENCE OF QUANTUM

INFORMATION: DISENTANGLING

OPPORTUNITIES FROM THE HYPE

Organized by David Steuerman, The Kavli

Foundation, Los Angeles, CA

Feeding Society

ADDRESSING HUNGER THROUGH

AGRICULTURAL DISCOVERY

Organized by Elizabeth Ainsworth, USDA

Agricultural Research Center, Urbana, IL

FOOD AND NUTRITION SECURITY:

SCIENTIFIC PARTNERSHIPS AND

OPPORTUNITIES

Organized by Volker ter Meulen,

InterAcademy Partnership, Trieste, Italy;

Robin Fears, European Academies Science

Advisory Council, Halle (Saale), Germany

FOOD WASTE: A SOCIETAL CONCERN

Organized by Sheril Kirshenbaum,

Michigan State University, East Lansing,

MI; Michael E. Webber, University of Texas

at Austin, TX

GENOME EDITED LIVESTOCK AND

R EGU L ATO RY STA L E M AT ES

Organized by Alison Van Eenennaam,

University of California, Davis, CA

HUMAN INTERACTIONS, BIODIVERSITY,

AND SOCIO:ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS IN

DEEP TIME, PARTS I AND II

Organized by Stefani Crabtree, The

Pennsylvania State University, State

College, PA; Jennifer A. Dunne, Santa

Fe Institute, NM

SUSTAINABLY FEEDING TEN BILLION

PEOPLE

Organized by Jim Ballingall, Industry-

Academia Partnership, Los Gatos, CA

Forming Connections

IIN)JUSTICE BEFORE TRIAL:

UNDERSTANDING EARLY STEPS

IN THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

Organized by Barbara Spellman,

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

APPLIED SYSTEMS ANALYSIS:

BRIDGING EAST AND WEST

Organized by Jan Marco Müller,

International Institute for Applied Systems

Analysis, Laxenburg, Austria

CENSUS 2020: RECENT CHANGES AND

IMPACTS

Organized by Robin Mejia, Carnegie Mellon

University, Pittsburgh, PA

FUNDING SCIENCE IN CANADA:

POLITICAL INITIATIVE MEETS

GRASSROOTS SUPPORT

Organized by Mehrdad Hariri, Canadian

Science Policy Centre, Toronto, Canada

GOVERNMENT SCIENTISTS: ROLES AND

CHALLENGES

Organized by Margaret Taylor, Lawrence

Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC

PARTNERSHIPS: OPPORTUNITIES AND

CHALLENGES

Organized by Caroline S. Wagner, Ohio

State University, Columbus, OH; Rainer

Asse, American Academy of Arts and

Sciences, Cambridge, MA

LEGAL PROTECTION FOR SCIENTISTS:

OVERCOMING REAL AND PERCEIVED

BARRIERS

Organized by Joanne P. Carney and

Theresa Harris, AAAS, Washington, DC

PARTICLE PHYSICS: FRONTIER

SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL

PARTNERSHIPS

Organized by Pushpalatha Bhat, Fermi

National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, IL

POLICYMAKERS AND COMMUNICATING

SCIENCE: OPPORTUNITIES AND BEST

PRACTICES

Organized by Kei Koizumi, AAAS,

Washington, DC; Karen Akerlof, George

Mason University, Fairfax, VA

SCIENCE DIPLOMACY AND NORTH

KOREA: THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA

Organized by Mijung Jung and Soyeon

Shin, National Research Council of Science

& Technology, Sejong, Korea, Republic of

(South)

SCIENCE INFORMING POLICY:

RESPONSIBLE DECISION MAKING

Erica Goldman, National Council

for Science and the Environment,

Washington, DC; Stephen Posner,

COMPASS, Silver Spring, MD

SCIENCE MEETS PARLIAMENT:

LESSONS LEARNED

Organized by Kylie Walker and Emma

Johnston, Science & Technology Australia,

Canberra, Australia