ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
April 28 - April 30,2005
HELD AT PHILADELPHIA FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN HALL
427 CHESTNUT STREET
PHILADELPHIA
PARTICULARS
ACCOMMODATIONS: Members, their spouses (or one family member) and invitees are guests of the Society while attending the Meeting. The Society will pay room and tax charges for members and Society guests at the Omni Hotel (4th and Chestnut Streets) for two nights. Those who wish to include additional persons will be billed for their guests' hotel and meal expenses. Check-in time is 4:00 p.m.; checkout time is 11:00 a.m. When checking out, please pay all charges except the two-night allowance.
PARKING: Valet and self-parking are available at the Omni Hotel.
RESERVATIONS, CHANGES, CANCELLATIONS: Please register on-line at www.apsmeetings.org or complete and return the enclosed registration form to the Society. You will receive confirmation of your reservation about two weeks prior to the Meeting. Should your plans change and you or your guests are unable to use all or part of your reservation, please notify Annie Westcott promptly by telephone at 215-440-3441 or email at westcott@amphilsoc.org. The Society must pay for all rooms and meals not canceled 72 hours in advance. We will bill you for room reservations and meals not canceled 72 hours before your scheduled arrival.
REGISTRATION: Registration will open in Benjamin Franklin Hall on Thursday, April 28, at 9:30 a.m. and will reopen on Friday and Saturday mornings, April 29 and 30, at 7:45 a.m. Please sign in and receive a program, a list of those expected to attend, a name badge and other related Meeting materials.
PAGERS AND CELL PHONES: As a courtesy to our speakers and audience, please silence pagers and cell phones upon entering the Auditorium.
ACOUSTICS: Earphones are available at the registration desk to enhance hearing as necessary. Participation in the discussion to follow each presentation or symposium is encouraged. To ensure that everyone will be able to hear and appreciate your question or comment, please stand upon being recognized by the Chair, wait for the arrival of a microphone, and introduce yourself to the audience.
DINING: A continental breakfast will be served in Benjamin Franklin Hall on Friday and Saturday mornings from 7:45 to 9:00 a.m. Luncheon will be served in Benjamin Franklin Hall both days. Thursday evening's dinner (business attire) will be held at the Independence Seaport Museum. Friday evening's dinner (business attire) will be held at the Philadelphia Convention Center's "Train Shed." Please choose a table in advance, each day, by signing the reservation sheets located in the registration room of Benjamin Franklin Hall. Table selections will be available for review during cocktails on each evening.
EXHIBITIONS: During the Meeting, members and guests are encouraged to view the Society's exhibition - "Treasures Revealed: 260 Years of Collecting at the American Philosophical Society" - located in Philosophical Hall. In addition, books recently published by the Society and by its members will be on display in the registration room.
MEETINGS
THE CLASS COMMITTEES ON MEMBERSHIP will meet at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
THE STATED MEETING OF COUNCIL will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 28, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
ORIENTATION FOR NEW MEMBERS will begin at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 28, in Library Hall.
THE BUSINESS MEETING will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, April 29, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
THURSDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 28
1:15 p.m.
Admission of New Members *
FRANK H.T. RHODES
President, in the Chair
SYMPOSIUM
DISCOVERY AND INVENTION IN CONTEMPORARY CHEMISTRY
JERROLD MEINWALD
Moderator
Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, Cornell University
JOHN I. BRAUMAN
Moderator
J.G. Jackson-C.J. Wood Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University
BALDOMERO (TOTO) OLIVERA
Distinguished Professor of Biology, University of Utah
Using Deadly Cone Snails to Understand Nervous Systems
FRASER STODDART
Fred Kavli Chair in Nanosystems Sciences
University of California at Los Angeles
Nano Toys and Nano Art: How Fun and Beauty Inspire Chemical Creativity
Intermission
JON CLARDY
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Discovery of New Compounds in Nature
GEORGE M. WHITESIDES
Woodford L. and Ann A. Flowers University Professor, Harvard University
Inventing Complexity From Molecules to Bubbles
* New members will be formally admitted at the beginning of each session.
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 28
5:30 p.m.
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
The Independence Seaport Museum
211 South Columbus Boulevard
Penn's Landing
Buses will depart from the Omni Hotel beginning at 5:15 p.m.
At the conclusion of the dinner, all buses will go to Benjamin Franklin Hall and the Omni Hotel.
8:45 p.m.
CONCERT
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Time For Three
On this occasion, we gratefully remember the services to the
Society of I. Minis Hays, Secretary and Librarian, 1897-1922,
whose generous bequest included a modest sum
for entertainment at our stated Meetings.
FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 29
7:45 to 9:00a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS
AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
9:15a.m.
PURNELL W. CHOPPIN
Vice President, in the Chair
WARREN M. WASHINGTON
Senior Scientist, The National Center for Atmospheric Research
20th and 21st Century Climate Change
THOMAS H. JORDAN
University Professor and Director of the Southern California Earthquake Center
University of Southern California
Earthquake Prediction: A Gambler's Game
Intermission
HOWARD C. BERG
Herchel Smith Professor of Physics and Professor
of Molecular and Cellular Biology, Harvard University
Marvels of Bacterial Behavior
TREASURES REVEALED: 260 YEARS OF COLLECTING
AT THE AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY
Private Curatorial Tour
Philosophical Hall
104 South Fifth Street
11:45 a.m.
LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
FRIDAY AFTERNOON, APRIL 29
1:15 p.m.
BARUCH S. BLUMBERG
Vice President, in the Chair
MICHAEL WOOD
Professor of English, Princeton University
Found in Translation: Travels Between Languages
ROBERT MIDDLEKAUFF
Preston Hotchkiss Professor of American History, Emeritus
Department of History, University of California at Berkeley
Mark Twain's Humor - With Examples
Intermission
RICHARD A.F. PENROSE LECTURE
AMARTYA SEN
Lamont University Professor and Professor of Economics and Philosophy
Harvard University
Identity and the Violence of Illusion
3:30 p.m.
BUSINESS MEETING
(Members Only)
Benjamin Franklin Hall
FRANK H.T. RHODES
President, in the Chair
Necrology
Election of Officers
Election of Members
Proceedings of the Council
Report of the President
Reports of the Committees
Other Business
FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 29
5:30 p.m.
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
Philadelphia Convention Center's "Train Shed"
12th and Market Streets
Buses will depart from the Omni Hotel beginning at 5:15 p.m.
PRESENTATION OF AWARDS
At the conclusion of the evening, buses will return to the Omni Hotel.
SATURDAY MORNING, APRIL 30
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS
AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
9:15a.m.
VINCENT L. McKUSICK
Vice President, in the Chair
PAULA FINDLEN
Ubaldo Pierotti Professor of Italian History, Stanford University
Newtonianism for Ladies: Science in the Mirror of Enlightenment Society
CAROLINE HUMPHREY
Professor of Asian Anthropology, Cambridge University
Life in Common and Russian Ideas About Freedom
Intermission
SYMPOSIUM
THE POWER OF THE ATOM
FREEMAN J. DYSON
Moderator
Professor of Physics Emeritus, Institute for Advanced Study
J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
California Institute of Technology
Atomic Weapons
(November 16, 1945)
RICHARD L. GARWIN
IBM Fellow Emeritus, T.J. Watson Research Center
Living with Nuclear Weapons: Fifty Years and Counting
LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall