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 2012 AAAS Annual Meeting Open House with Canadian Scientists (Daily 15:30  17:00) *Participants Subject to Change* Friday, February 17 th : Andre D. Bandrauk, Universite de Sherbrooke  Organizer/Moderator/Discussant: Imaging and Controlling Molecular Dynamics with Ultrashort Laser Pulses (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM) Dawn R. Bazely, York University Co-Organizer/Moderator: Transcending Interdisciplinary Research Barriers: Best Practices for Mobilizing Knowledge (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 P M) William Cheung, University of British Columbia Speaker: Predicting the Future Ocean: The Nereus Program (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 8:30 A M-11:30 AM) Villy Christensen, University of British Columbia Organizer / Speaker: Predicting the Future Ocean: The Nereus Program (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM) Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa Organizer/Moderator/Discussant: Imaging and Controlling Molecular Dynamics with Ultrashort Laser Pulses (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM) Brad deYoung, Memorial University of Newfoundland  Speaker: Designing Marine-Protected Area Networks Within Changing Global Climate Conditions (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM) Leena Evic, Pirurvik Center for Inuit Language, Culture, and Wellbeing Speaker: Endangered and Minority Languages Crossing the Digital Divide (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM) David Hik, University of Alberta Speaker: Transcending Interdisciplinary Research Barriers: Best Practices for Mobilizing Knowledge (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM ) Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo Moderator/Speaker:  Quantum Information Science and Technology: A Global Perspective (Satur day, February 18, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)  Quantum Information Technologies: A New Era for Global Communication (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM)

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2012 AAAS Annual Meeting – Open House with Canadian Scientists

(Daily 15:30 – 17:00)*Participants Subject to Change*

Friday, February 17th

:

Andre D. Bandrauk, Universite de Sherbrooke – Organizer/Moderator/Discussant: Imaging and

Controlling Molecular Dynamics with Ultrashort Laser Pulses (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30

AM)

Dawn R. Bazely, York University – Co-Organizer/Moderator: Transcending Interdisciplinary Research

Barriers: Best Practices for Mobilizing Knowledge (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

William Cheung, University of British Columbia – Speaker: Predicting the Future Ocean: The Nereus

Program (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM)

Villy Christensen, University of British Columbia – Organizer / Speaker: Predicting the Future Ocean: The

Nereus Program (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM)

Paul Corkum, University of Ottawa –

Organizer/Moderator/Discussant: Imaging and ControllingMolecular Dynamics with Ultrashort Laser Pulses (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM)

Brad deYoung, Memorial University of Newfoundland – Speaker: Designing Marine-Protected Area

Networks Within Changing Global Climate Conditions (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM)

Leena Evic, Pirurvik Center for Inuit Language, Culture, and Wellbeing – Speaker: Endangered and

Minority Languages Crossing the Digital Divide (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM)

David Hik, University of Alberta – Speaker: Transcending Interdisciplinary Research Barriers: Best

Practices for Mobilizing Knowledge (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM )

Raymond Laflamme, University of Waterloo – Moderator/Speaker:

  Quantum Information Science and Technology: A Global Perspective (Saturday, February 18,

2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

  Quantum Information Technologies: A New Era for Global Communication (Sunday, February 19,

2012: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM)

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Judith H. Myers, University of British Columbia – Speaker: Transcending Interdisciplinary Research

Barriers: Best Practices for Mobilizing Knowledge (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

David O'Brien, International Development Research Center – Moderator: Comprehensive Approaches

for HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM)

Natalie Prystajecky, University of British Columbia – Speaker: Norovirus: The Modern Scourge of Food

and Family (Friday, February 17, 2012: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

Jake Rice, Fisheries and Oceans Canada –

Speaker: Designing Marine-Protected Area Networks Within

Changing Global Climate Conditions (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM)

Claudio Slamovits, Dalhousie University – Organizer: Seeing Biosphere's Dark Matter: Genomic Methods

on Unculturable Microbial Diversity [Unlocking Biology's Potential Seminar] (Friday, February 17, 2012:

10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

Robert A. Stebbins, University of Calgary – Speaker: The Roles of Citizen Science and Serious Leisure in

Public Engagement with Science (Friday, February 17, 2012: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

William Trischuk, University of Toronto – Organizer: Particle Physics: Pushing Back the Frontiers of 

Global Collaboration (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM) 

David Welch, Kintama Research Ltd – Moderator: Tracking Progress: Success and Failure of Biologging in

Protecting the Global Ocean (Friday, February 17, 2012: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM)

Saturday, February 18th

:

Eddy Carmack, Fisheries and Ocean Canada  – Speaker: Documenting a Changing Ocean Through

International Multidisciplinary Collaborations (Friday, February 17, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

Nancy C. Doubleday, McMaster University – Speaker: Global Knowledge: The Challenge of Diversity and

Localism (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

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Elizabeth Dowdeswell, Council of Canadian Academies – Speaker:

  Can Science and the Public Collaborate on the Global Future of Nuclear Waste? (Sunday,

February 19, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

  Misreporting Fukushima: A Failure of Science Journalism with Global Repercussions? (Monday,

February 20, 2012: 9:45 AM-12:45 PM)

Naser Faruqui, International Development Research Center –

Organizer: Global Knowledge

Collaborations: The Atlas of Islamic World Science and Innovation (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 8:00

AM-9:30 AM)

David Flanders, University of British Columbia – Speaker: Causes and Effects of Relative Sea-Level

Changes in the Northeast Pacific; Climate Change in Northern Latitudes (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 3:00

PM-4:30 PM)

Roger Francois, University of British Columbia – Organizer: Documenting a Changing Ocean Through

International Multidisciplinary Collaborations (Friday, February 17, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

David Hall, University of Calgary –

Speaker: The One Health Vision: From Institutional Support to Local

Practice (Friday, February 17, 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

J. Adam Holbrook, Simon Fraser University – Speaker: Searching for the Right Space for Innovation

(Friday, February 17, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

Thomas Jennewein, University of Waterloo – Speaker: Quantum Information Technologies: A New Era

for Global Communication (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM)

Rees Kassen, University of Ottawa – Organizer: Early Career Scientists in a Flat World (Saturday,

February 18, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM)

Martin Laforest, Institute for Quantum Computing –Organizer: Quantum Information Technologies: A

New Era for Global Communication (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 3:00 PM-4:30 PM)

Cooper Langford, University of Calgary – Speaker: Searching for the Right Space for Innovation (Friday,

February 17, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

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David Layzell, University of Calgary – Speaker: Hydraulic Fracturing of Shale: Building Consensus Out of 

Controversy (Friday, February 17, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

John N. Saddler, University of British Columbia – Speaker: Food, Feed, and Fuel: Optimizing Economic

and Sustainable Biofuel Production (Friday, February 17, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

Sarah Symons, McMaster University – Moderator: Interdisciplinary Science: Teaching the Key Points of 

Integration (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

Diane-Gabrielle Tremblay, Université du Québec à Montréal –

Speaker: Searching for the Right Space

for Innovation (Friday, February 17, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

Rickey Yada, University of Guelph – Organizer / Discussant: Do Public Health and Food Safety Policies

and Regulations Impede Innovation? (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM)

E. Paul Zehr, University of Victoria – Organizer/Speaker: Using Pop-Culture Icons To Slip Science into the

Mainstream (Saturday, February 18, 2012: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM)

Hisham Zerriffi, University of British Columbia  – Organizer/Speaker: The Climate and Health Impacts of 

Cooking with Biomass (Friday, February 17, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

Sunday, February 19th

:

Samir Doshi, Queen's University – 

  Organizer/Moderator: The Future of Mineral Resource Dependence in the 21st Century

(Saturday, February 18, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

  Organizer/Speaker: The True Costs of Coal (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM)

Hassan Farhangi, British Columbia Institute of Technology – Organizer/Speaker: Can a Smarter Grid Slow

Down Climate Change While Accelerating Energy Independence? (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM)

Mike Flannigan, Natural Resources Canada – Speaker: Forest Fires in Canada: Impacts of Climate Change

and Fire Smoke; Climate Change in Northern Latitudes Seminar Series (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 8:30

AM-11:30 AM)

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Sarah Harper, University of British Columbia – Organizer: Underreported Yet Overoptimistic: Fisheries

Catch Reconstructions and Food Security (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

Judy Illes, University of British Columbia – Organizer: Neuroscience and Criminal Justice in the 21st

Century: A Cross-Country View (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 8:30 AM-11:30 AM) & Speaker: Curing

Spinal Cord Injury: The Need for Global Collaboration (Monday, February 20, 2012: 9:45 AM-12:45 PM)

Jatin Nathwani, University of Waterloo  – Speaker: Low-Carbon Innovation for an Electricity-Dependent

World (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM)

Daniel Pauly, University of British Columbia – Discussant: Underreported Yet Overoptimistic: Fisheries

Catch Reconstructions and Food Security (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM)

Heather A. Piwowar, NESCent and the University of British Columbia – Speaker: Accelerating Scientific

Progress Through Public Availability of Research Data (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM)

Alan G. Steele, National Research Council of Canada – Organizer: Updating the International System of 

Units: The Foundation for Science and Technology (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 1:00 PM-2:30 PM)

Rashid Sumaila, University of British Columbia – Speaker:

  Whole-Ocean Economics: Global Fisheries Analysis Reveals Potential for Policy Action (Monday,

February 20, 2012: 9:45 AM-12:45 PM) & Moderator: Sustaining People and Oceans

  Governance in Marine Social-Ecological Systems (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 1:30 PM-4:30 PM)

Charles Tator, University of Toronto  – Speaker: Curing Spinal Cord Injury: The Need for Global

Collaboration (Monday, February 20, 2012: 9:45 AM-12:45 PM)

Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson, University of British Columbia – Speaker: Gesture, Language, and Performance:

Aspects of Embodiment (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 8:00 AM-9:30 AM)

Dirk Zeller, University of British Columbia –

Organizer: Underreported Yet Overoptimistic: FisheriesCatch Reconstructions and Food Security (Sunday, February 19, 2012: 10:00 AM-11:30 AM)