Science Board Meeting-Schedule

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This meeting is for invited participants only.

Friday, May 12, 2006 - Santa Fe Institute, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Van Transportation to SFI from Hotel Santa Fe Lobby

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast at SFI

9:00 a.m. - 9:05 a.m. Welcome

9:05 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. President's Report, Geoffrey West

9:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Overview of SFI Educational Programs, Ginger Richardson Overview of International Program and Business Network, Shannon Larsen

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research "Laws of Life," Harold Morowitz (George Mason University) and Eric Smith (SFI)

10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m. Coffee break

10:50 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Trustees Operational Review

Overview 10:50 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Chris Wood, SFI Vice President

Science Governance, Roles of Science Board and Science Steering Committee (SSC) 11:00 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. "Retrospective on the SSC and the Science Board," Harold Morowitz (George Mason University) 11:10 a.m. - 11:20 a.m. "Report on Science Governance and Proposed By-Law Changes," Doug Erwin (Smithsonian Institution)

Science Resources 11:20 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. Jim Rutt

Characteristics of SFI Science 11:30 a.m. - 11:40 a.m. David Krakauer, Geoffrey West 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Discussion on Science Issues, Simon Levin (Princeton)

1:00 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Lunch

2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for SFI Future Research "The Future of Multiple Selves," Jon Wilkins (SFI) "A Half Billion Years of Ecological Networks," Jennifer Dunne (SFI and Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab) "Systems Biology and Aging," Walter Fontana (Harvard Medical School)

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break

3:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research "Network Dynamics of Cities and Industrial Fields," Doug White (University of California-Irvine) "Degeneracy: A Characteristic of the Immune System," Eli Sercarz (Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies)

4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Discussion on Science at SFI, Simon Levin (Princeton)

5:15 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. SFI Annual Secondary School Prize for Scientific Excellence Award Reception and Ceremony SFI Pods A and B Commons

Evening – Free

Saturday, May 13, 2006 - Santa Fe Institute, Robert N. Noyce Conference Room

8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Van Transportation to SFI from Hotel Santa Fe Lobby

8:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental breakfast at SFI

9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research "Emergent Behavior in Quantum Matter," David Pines (ICAM, U C Davis, and Los Alamos National Laboratory) "TBD," Jessica Flack (SFI) "New Frontiers and Opportunities for Complexity Education," Eric Klopfer (MIT)

10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 a.m. - 11:10 a.m. Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research "Foundations of Theoretical Medicine," David Krakauer (SFI) "TBD," Stephanie Forrest (University of New Mexico and SFI)

11:10 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Discussion on Science at SFI, Simon Levin (Princeton)

12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Frontier Areas of Research with Possible Implications for Future SFI Research "Socioeconomic Challenges for a Sustainable Biosphere," Simon Levin (Princeton) "TBD," "Energy and Its Consequences," Dan Schrag (Harvard University)

2:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Continuation of Discussion on Science at SFI, Simon Levin (Princeton)

3:15 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Coffee Break

3:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Closed Discussion and Science Board Business Session (including Science at SFI, future areas, initiatives and people to consider)

5:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Van shuttles depart SFI for Palace of the Governors (Dinner) Hotel Santa Fe shuttles depart SFI for Hotel Santa Fe

5:30 p.m. Reception and Dinner, Palace of the Governors Museum and Courtyard, 100 Palace Avenue, Santa Fe

Van shuttles will be leaving from SFI beginning at 5:00 p.m. to transport you to the Palace of the Governors should you need transportation. Parking is available in downtown Santa Fe at parking meters (no coins needed after 6:00 p.m.), or in the underground parking garage at 150 Washington Street (no charge). NOTE: garage closes at 10:30 p.m. There is also a city parking lot located at San Francisco and Sandoval Streets (charge), and on Marcy Street just east of Washington Street (charge).