2007 AAAS meeting in San Francisco
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is having its annual meeting here in San Francisco.
The "Triple-A-S" meeting is designed for a broader audience than most science meetings. This year's theme is Science and Technology for Sustainable Well-Being and also has two days worth of events and demonstrations designed for the general public and whole family:
AAAS Family Science Days | |
| Saturday, 17 February | |
| 11:00 AM | "The Mythbusters: Jamie Savage and Adam Hyneman" — The Science Channel |
| Noon | "BioBug: Field to Fuel" — University of Idaho |
| 12:45 PM | "Iron Science" — The Exploratorium |
| 1:30 PM | "Fun with Science and Astronomy" — The Zula Patrol and KQED Kids! |
| 2:15 PM | AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books: Awards ceremony |
| 3:15 PM | "Waves in Nature: Lasers to Tsunamis and Beyond" — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory |
| 4:00 PM | "The Outreach Roadshow" — Women@SCS Outreach Roadshow, Carnegie Mellon University |
Sunday, 18 February | |
| 11:00 AM | "Name that Mammal!" — Platypus Media |
| 11:45 AM | "The Science Hour of Power" — Sikes Science |
| 12:30 PM | "Global Warming Discovery" — ClimateChangeEducation.Org |
| 1:15 PM | "The Science of Yo-Yos" — Yomega Corp. |
| 2:00 PM | "BioBug: Field to Fuel" — The University of Idaho |
| 2:45 PM | "Cloud Nine" — How The Weatherworks™ |
| 3:30 PM | "Robotics: The Next 10 Years" — The Robotics Society of America and San Francisco State University |
| 4:15 PM | "Kinetic City" — AAAS |
As usual, i'm not quite ready to leave for a long field expedition on Tuesday and have too much crap to do....maybe i'll try and go tomorrow.
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