Speakers include symposium chair Mae Jemison, the first female African American astronaut, as well as astronomer Jill Tarter, a co-founder of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence SETI Institutete, Johnnetta B. Cole, director of the Smithsonian Museum of African Art, space journalist Miles O'Brien, and photographer Norman Seeff.
A beleaguered bank economist trudged to France to defend himself at a symposium chaired by the head of the country's constitutional court.Small east European countries are poised to do well in the rankings battle in 2011.
The scope of this symposium, chaired by Felix Browder, was very broad, but many talks were devoted to fixed point theory.
The Organizing Committee of this symposium includes: Chair Persons: Fawu Wang (Director, Project Center on Natural Disasters Reduction, Shimane University), and Toshitaka Kamai (Director, Research Center on landslides, DPRI, Kyoto University).
In his introductory speech to the 2-day symposium, the chair of the senate of Delft Technical University underlined that Dutch investment in science and technology is below the European target and is growing only marginally.
The symposium was chaired by Tim Marzullo, the co-founder of Backyard Brains, a young company that makes and distributes affordable neuroscience kits for students of all ages.
The event is backed by former President Bill Clinton, who will serve as the symposium's honorary chair.
It is currently hosting a large team working on ocean acidification; they haven't been able to sit down in their conference room for the past few days because the symposium commandeered their chairs.
Former Institute of Medicine President Harvey Fineberg, who chaired the symposium committee, compared the polarized debate over the GOF flu studies to the movie Groundhog Day, in which the main character wakes up and relives the same day over and over.
Eagleman chaired a symposium at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in San Diego earlier this week, in which he and others presented the latest findings about the condition.
She also is active in the field of open science and research reproducibility and chaired a symposium on reproducibility at the Wellcome Trust last year.
