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Paul Alivisatos – Nanoscience and the Future of the Global Carbon Cycle

William W. Stead – Biomedical Informatics

Francis S. Collins – Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research

Arun Majumdar – Science & Engineering for a Sustainable Energy Future

8:30 – 9:00 AM Breakfast
East Court
 
9:00 – 9:15 AM Opening Remarks
Lecture Room 

Joe Campbell, PhD
President, Virginia Society of Science, Engineering, and Math

Ralph Cicerone, PhD
President, National Academy of Sciences
9:15 – 9:45 AM Mark R. Warner
U.S. Senator, Commonwealth of Virginia
 
9:45 – 11:45 AM Session One: Future of Energy Policy
Lecture Room
 
9:45 – 10:35 AM Arun Majumdar, PhD
Vice President for Energy, Google
“Science and Engineering for Sustainable Energy Future”
 
10:35 – 11:25 AM Paul Alivisatos, PhD
Director, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
“Nanoscience and the Future of the Global Carbon Cycle”
 
11:25 – 11:45 AM General Discussion
 
11:45 – 1:30 PM Luncheon and Keynote Address
Great Hall

Mildred Dresselhaus, PhD
Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering, Emerita Institute Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Materials as an Enabling Technology”
1:30 – 4:00 PM Session Two: Creative Solutions for Health Challenges
Lecture Room
 
1:30 – 2:15 PM Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD
Director, National Institutes of Health
“Exceptional Opportunities in Biomedical Research”
 
2:15 – 3:00 PM Rita Colwell, PhD
Distinguished University Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, and Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health
“Providing Safe Water – A Global Health Priority”
 
3:00 – 3:45 PM William W. Stead, MD
McKesson Foundation Professor of Biomedical Informatics and Medicine, Vanderbilt University
“Biomedical Informatics: Closing the Loop between Discovery and Healthcare”
 
3:45 – 4:00 PM General Discussion