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EVENTS ON MONDAY, MAY 19, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Electronic Publishing Symposium entitled Electronic Scientific, Technical, and Medical Journal Publishing and its Implications. At this symposium, producers and users of scientific, technical, and medical information that is disseminated through professional journals will gather to explore recent changes in electronic publishing.
AGENDA: Highlights:
8:30 a.m. - Welcoming Remarks
Bruce Alberts, President, National Academy of Sciences
8:45 a.m. - Symposium Overview
Edward Shortliffe, Professor and Chair, Department of Medical Informatics,
Deputy Vice President for Information Technology Health Sciences Division, Columbia University and Symposium Chair
9 a.m. - Keynote Address
James Duderstadt, President Emeritus and University Professor of Science and Engineering Millennium Project, University of Michigan
Panel 1: Costs of Publication
Moderator: Floyd Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute
9:30 a.m. - Opening Remarks by Moderator
9:35 a.m. - Overview Presentation
Michael Keller, CEO, HighWire Press
9:55 a.m. - Comments by panel participants
-- Kent Anderson, Publishing Director, NEJM
-- Robert Bovenschulte, Director, Publications Division, ACS
-- Bernard Rous, Deputy Director/Electronic Publisher, ACM
-- Gordon Tibbitts, President, Blackwell Publishing USA
Panel 2: Publication Business Models and Revenue
Moderator: Jeffrey MacKie-Mason, University of Michigan
1 p.m. - Opening remarks by Moderator
1:05 p.m. - Overview presentation
Aaron Edlin, Founder, The Berkeley Electronic Press and Professor of
Economics and Law, UC Berkeley
1:25 p.m. - Comments by Panel Participants
-- Brian Crawford, VP and GM, Life and Medical Sciences, John Wiley & Sons
-- Joseph Esposito, President and CEO, SRI Consulting
-- Wendy Lougee, Director, University of Minnesota Library
-- Patrick Brown, Professor of Biochemistry, Stanford University
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES Committee on Science, Engineering and Public Policy
Board on Physics and Astronomy Committee on Setting Priorities for NSF's Large Research Facility Projects holds a meeting.
AGENDA: Highlights:
12 noon - Congressional Perspective
Cheh Kim, Professional Staff Member, Majority Staff, Senate Appropriations
Committee
Allen Cutler, Staff Assistant, Senate Appropriations Committee
David Goldston, Chief of Staff, Majority Staff, House Committee on Science
Scott Giles, Deputy Chief of Staff, Majority Staff, House Committee on Science
Peter Rooney, Staff Director, Majority Staff, House Committee on Science,
Research Subcommittee
Jim Wilson, Professional Staff Member, Minority Staff, House Committee on Science, Research Subcommittee
2 p.m. - Office of Management and Budget Perspective
David Radzanowski, Branch Chief, Science and Space Programs Branch
White House Office of Management and Budget
David Trinkle, Program Examiner, Science and Space Programs Branch
White House Office of Management and Budget
2:30 National Science Foundation Perspective
Rita Colwell, Director, National Science Foundation
Joseph Bordogna, Deputy Director, National Science Foundation
3:45 Scientific Community Perspectives
Barry Barish
Maxine and Ronald Linde Professor of Physics and
Director of Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave
Observatory (LIGO) Laboratory
California Institute of Technology
Martha Haynes Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy and
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Cornell University
Ted Moore
Professor of Geological Sciences
University of Michigan
James Tiedje
University Distinguished Professor of Microbiology and
Director of the National Science Foundation Center for Microbial
Ecology at Michigan State
Michigan State University
6 p.m. - Reception/Dinner
Club Quarters' Banquet Room located at 839 17th Street, N.W.
John Marburger, III (accepted), Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: The National Academies, Keck Center, 500 5th Street, NW, Keck 201, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Center for the Book 's author series, Books & Beyond presents Vartan Gregorian, president of Carnegie Corporation of New York, will discuss his new autobiography, "The Road to Home: My Life and Times."
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Room 119, first floor, Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, S.E., in Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202) 707-6362
WEB ADDRESS: loc.gov
TIME: 11:30 a.m.
EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS The Library's Science, Technology and Business Division presents K.C. Cole, Los Angeles Times science columnist, who talks about her new collection of essays, "Mind Over Matter."
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Pickford Theater, third floor of the Madison Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-707-5664
WEB ADDRESS: loc.gov
TIME: 3:30 p.m.
EVENT: US AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVEMOPMENT holds a program releasing its new Trade Capacity Strategy.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: 1015 18th Street NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-712-4320
WEB ADDRESS:usaid.gov
TIME: 6:30 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associate Program presents Chef Roberto Donna preparing a bountiful eight-course meal of contemporary Italian dishes, using the freshest and most intriguing products on the market. A scrumptious dessert and fine wine complete a magnificent dining experience.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Laboratorio del Galileo 1110 21st St., NW, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Resident Associate Program presents Adam Nicolson giving a fascinating account of the anonymous scholars and theologians -- frequently muddled, self-serving, ambitious, ruthless, obsequious, and flawed -- who translated and created the extraordinary text in the King James Bible.
DATE: May 19, 2003
LOCATION: Hirshorn Museum, Ring Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu