[Sci-tech-public] Invitation to AAAS Forum on S&T Policy

[Leslie Warrick]

May 3-4 2007, Washington, DC
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20004

See the latest preliminary program (updated on a regular basis) by clicking on 'View Event Agenda' below

REDUCED RATE REGISTRATION ENDS APRIL 18!

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You are cordially invited to attend the AAAS Forum (formerly Colloquium) on Science and Technology Policy.  This meeting, held in Washington each spring, provides a setting for discussion and debate about budget and other policy issues facing the S&T community.  Since its beginning in 1976, it has grown into an annual institution that draws approximately 500 top science and technology experts.  The Forum is the major public meeting in the U.S. on science and technology policy issues. 

This year's program will include sessions on:
- The budgetary and policy context for research and development in 2008
- States' expanding roles in science and technology
- Building science, technology, and innovation capacity in developing nations
- Surveillance, privacy, and the roles of science and technology
- Pharmaceutical and biotechnolgy R&D and their policy implications
- Sequestered research: when science isn't shared

In addition, the meeting will feature:
- Keynote address by John H. Marburger, III, Director, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
- Friday Breakfast address by Rear Admiral Jay M. Cohen, USN (Ret.), Under Secretary for Science and Technology, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Friday Luncheon address to be announced
-The annual William D. Carey Lecture, given this year by Sherwood Boehlert, Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; former Member, U.S. House of Representatives; former Chairman, House Committee on Science

For an up-to-date agenda, fees, and online registration materials, please go to www.aaas.org/forum. 

Please click the link below, view the invitation, and respond by clicking either the Yes or No button at the bottom of the invitation.  We look forward to your response.

Register at reduced rates by April 18.

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Sincerely,
Leslie Warrick

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