<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="590" align="center" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"><tbody><tr><td> </td></tr></tbody></table><table style="border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; background-color: #ffffff; border-top: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="590" align="center" xmlns:msxsl="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xslt"><tbody><tr><td><table style="border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-top: none; border-right: none" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="590"><tbody><tr width="100%"><td width="100%" align="center"><img alt="" src="http://custom.cvent.com/0210E44D3E1C4CDEA3F97E33D012A40A/pix/fce3d3aa27b34bd0a00b2741159821f6.jpg" /></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td><table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt" colspan="4" align="center"><p> </p><p> </p><tr><td style="width: 743px; font-family: Verdana; height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 14pt" colspan="4" align="center"><strong>The AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy</strong></td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 8pt" colspan="4" align="center"> </td></tr></td></tr></tbody></table><div><span lang="EN"> <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt">You are cordially invited to attend the annual AAAS Forum on Science and Technology Policy, scheduled for May 13-14, 2010. The Forum is <strong><em>the</strong></em> conference for people interested in public policy issues facing the science, engineering, and higher education communities. Since 1976, it has been the place where insiders go to learn what is happening and what is likely to happen in the coming year on the federal budget and the growing number of policy issues that affect researchers and their institutions. Come to the Forum, learn about the future of S&T policy, and meet the people who will shape it.</span></div><div> </div><div align="center"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt"><strong>PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS</strong></span></span></div><ul><li><div align="left"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Keynote Address by Presidential science advisor John P. Holdren</span></span></div></li><li><div align="left"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Budgetary and policy context for R&D in FY 2011</span></span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Strengthening the U.S. climate for innovation</span></span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Impacts of stimulus on science & technology</span></span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt">New approaches to international S&T engagement: Trans-Atlantic perspectives</span></span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt">National security and the roles for science and technology</span></span></div></li><li><div align="left"><span style="font-family: Verdana"><span style="font-size: 12pt">Climate change: Attendant issues</span></span></div></li></ul></span></span><p> </p></span></span></td></tr><tr><td><table id="Table1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="width: 632px; font-family: Verdana; height: 18px; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold" colspan="4" align="center">When</td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt" colspan="4" align="center">May 13, 2010 7:30 AM  -</td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt" colspan="4" align="center">May 14, 2010 3:30 PM </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold" colspan="4" align="center">Where</td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt" colspan="4" align="center">Ronald Reagan Bldg and International Trade Center </td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt" colspan="4" align="center">1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20004 </td></tr><tr><td colspan="4"> </td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt; font-weight: bold" valign="top" colspan="4" align="center">FEE</td></tr><tr><td style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt" valign="top" colspan="4" align="center"><a style="font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; font-size: 10pt" href="http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?2A,P1,5E5B9FD5-985C-46B1-AACA-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