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EVENTS ON TUESDAY, MAY 20, 2003
TIME: All Day
EVENT: NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES 86th meeting of the Polar Research Board.
AGENDA: Highlights:
10 a.m. - Welcome & Introductions, Robin Bell
10:05 a.m. PRB Projects: Completed Activities Moderator:
· Frontiers in Polar Biology, Evonne Tang
· Cumulative Effects of Oil and Gas Development on Alaska? s North Slope, David Policansky & Chuck Kennicutt
· Decline of the Stellar Sea Lion in Alaskan Waters, Susan Roberts
· Review of the Oil Spill Recovery Institute, Chuck Kennicut & Akhil Datta Guptat
11 a.m. PRB International Activities-International Polar Year, Robin Bell & Chris Elfring; SCAR-IASC, Chuck Kennicutt, Patrick Webber, Robin Bell
1 p.m. - NOAA Arctic Research Office, John Calder
1:30 p.m. - NSF- Office of Polar Programs, Karl Erb, Tom Pyle, Scott Borg, Erick Chiang
2:15 p.m. - NASA Polar Programs, Waleed Abdalati
3 p.m. - Office of Naval Research? High Latitude Dynamics Program, Dennis Conlon
3:30 p.m. - Arctic Research Commission, Garry Brass
4 p.m. - The Ocean Commission
5:15 p.m. - Meeting Adjourns
5:30 p.m. - Annual Prb-Antarctican Societyreception & Public Lecture· Reception (1st floor reception area)· Welcoming Remarks, Robin Bell· Tribute to George A. Llano, Robert Hoffman· Featured Speaker: Mary K. Miller, San Francisco Exploratorium, Webcasting Science Live from Antarctica?
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 500 5th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu
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:
Panel 4: What Is Publishing in the Future?
Moderator: Daniel Atkins, University of Michigan
8:30 a.m. - Opening Remarks by Moderator
8:35 a.m. - Implications of Emerging Recommender and Reputation Systems
Paul Resnick, Associate Professor, University of Michigan
8:50 a.m. - Pre-print Servers and Extensions to Other Fields
Richard Luce, Research Library Director, Los Alamos National Laboratory
9:05 a.m. - Institutional Repositories
Hal Abelson, Class of 1922 Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, MIT
Panel 5: What Constitutes a Publication in the Digital Environment?
Moderator: Clifford Lynch, Coalition for Networked Information
10:55 a.m. - Opening remarks by Moderator
11 a.m. - Signal Transduction Knowledge Environment
Monica Bradford, Executive Editor, Science
11:15 a.m. - Publishing Large Data Sets in Astronomy? the Virtual Observatory
Alex Szalay, Alumni Centennial Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, The Johns Hopkins University
11:30 a.m .- Data Curation and Integration with the Literature
David Lipman, Director, National Institutes of Health/National Center for Biotechnology Information
11:45 Discussion of Issues
Panel 6: Wrap-up Session
Moderator: Mary Waltham, Publishing Consultant
1:55 p.m. - Opening Remarks by Moderator
2 pm. - Symposium Summaries
1) Malcolm Beasley, Theodore and Sydney Rosenberg Professor
of Applied Physics, Stanford University
2) James O'Donnell, Provost, Georgetown University
3) Anne Wolpert, Director of Libraries, MIT
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: 2100 C Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-334-2138
WEB ADDRESS: nas.edu
TIME: 9:30 a.m.
EVENT: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES holds National Women & Diabetes Town Hall meeting.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: Cannon Caucus Room, Cannon Office Building, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-690-6343
WEB ADDRESS: hhs.gov
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH VRC SEMINAR SERIES entitled The Roles of Cellular and Humoral Immunity in Controlling SIV Replication In Vivo," with Dr. Joern Schmitz, Harvard University.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: Main Conference Room, Building 40, Bethesda, M.D.
CONTACT: 301-594-8491
WEB ADDRESS: nih.gov
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: SMITHSONIAN Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art presents John W. Dower, Elting E. Morrison Professor of History at MIT and author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book Embracing Defeat: Japan in the Wake of World War II -- uses words and photographs to describe Japan in the early postwar years, when the artists of Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics created their work.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: Hirshhorn Museum, Ring Auditorium, Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-357-3030
WEB ADDRESS: si.edu
TIME: 6 p.m.
EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS Books & Beyond presents biographer Robert Caro discusses his Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Master of the Senate," which covers President Lyndon Johnson's years as a senator.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: Montpelier Room, sixth floor, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., in Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-707-5221
WEB ADDRESS: loc.gov
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: LIBRARY OF CONGRESS presents the 11th annual Vardanants Day Armenian Lecture, titled "The U.S. Congress and Armenia Today," featuring Rep. Frank Pallone Jr. (D-N.J.)
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: Montpelier Room, sixth floor, James Madison Building, 101 Independence Ave., S.E., in Washington, D.C.
CONTACT: 202-707-5680
WEB ADDRESS: loc.gov
TIME: 7 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL ARCHIVES presents Patrick Maney will discuss his book, Young Bob: A Biography of Robert M. La Follette, Jr. U.S. Senator "Young Bob" La Follette entered politics as a young reformer in the shadow of his legendary father, "Fighting Bob" La Follette. He made his own mark as a key architect of Roosevelt's New Deal and as a champion of labor rights and civil liberties.
DATE: May 20, 2003
LOCATION: National Archives, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC,
CONTACT: 202-501-5000
WEB ADDRESS: nara.gov
