ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
April 25 – 27, 2007
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 (4 th 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.
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 in advance. We will bill you forroom reservations and meals not canceled 72 hours before your scheduled arrival.
REGISTRATION: Registration will be open in Benjamin Franklin Hall from 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25. It will reopen each morning of the Meeting 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 brief comment, please stand upon being recognized by the Chair, wait for the arrival of a microphone, and introduce yourself to the audience.
DINING: Wednesday evening’s dinner (business attire) will be held at the Independence Seaport Museum . A continental breakfast will be served in Benjamin Franklin Hall on Thursday and Friday mornings from 7:45 to 9:00 a.m. Luncheon will be served in Benjamin Franklin Hall on both days. Thursday evening’s dinner (business attire) will be held in Turbine Hall, an historic power-generating station on Chester ’s waterfront. Please choose a table in advance for Thursday evening’s dinner by signing the reservation sheets located in the registration room of Benjamin Franklin Hall. Table selections will be available for review during cocktails that evening.
MEETINGS
THE CLASS COMMITTEES ON MEMBERSHIP will meet at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 25, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
THE STATED MEETING OF COUNCIL will begin at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
NEW MEMBER ORIENTATION will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, in Library Hall.
THE BUSINESS MEETING will begin at 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 26, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
Wednesday Evening, April 25
5:30 p.m.
COCKTAILS
Independence Seaport Museum
Penn’s Landing
Philadelphia
Buses will depart from the Omni beginning at 5:15 p.m.
6:15 p.m.
HENRY LA BARRE JAYNE LECTURE
HAROLD VARMUS
President, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
DINNER
At the conclusion of the evening, buses will return to the hotel.
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.
Thursday Morning, April 26
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS
AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
9:15 a.m.
Admission of New Members *
Harriet Zuckerman , Vice President and Moderator, in the Chair
WALTER L. ROBB SYMPOSIA
FOR PROMOTING USEFUL KNOWLEDGE
WILLIAM NOEL
Curator of Manuscripts and Rare Books
Walters Art Museum , Baltimore , MD
and
ROGER L. EASTON, JR.
Chester F. Carlson Center for Imaging Science
Rochester Institute of Technology
Infinite Possibilities: Eight Years of Study
of the Archimedes Palimpsest
Intermission
STEVEN W. SQUYRES
Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, Cornell University
Imaging Mars
ALAN C. NELSON
Chairman and CEO, VisionGate, Inc.
Cell-CT: The 3D World of Cancer Cells
11:45 a.m.
LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Thursday Afternoon, April 26
1:15 p.m.
Clyde Barker, Vice President and Moderator, in the Chair
WILLIAM G. BRADLEY
Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiology
University of California at San Diego
Imaging In Medicine
HAILE T. DEBAS
Executive Director, Global Health Sciences
University of California at San Francisco
Challenges and Opportunities in Global Health
Intermission
CELEBRATORY CONCERT
IN HONOR OF
MARY MAPLES DUNN AND RICHARD S. DUNN
Co-Executive Officers, March 2002 to June 2007
by
Time for Three
Zachary DePue ~ Nicolas Kendall ~ Ranaan Meyer
3:45 p.m.
BUSINESS MEETING
(Members Only)
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Baruch S. Blumberg, 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
Thursday Evening, April 26
6:00 p.m.
COCKTAILS AND DINNER
Turbine Hall
Chester Waterfront
2501 Seaport Drive
Buses will depart from the Omni Hotel beginning at 5:30 p.m.
AWARDS PRESENTATION
At the conclusion of the evening, buses will return to the hotel.
Friday Morning, April 27
7:45 to 9:00 a.m.
CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST FOR MEMBERS
AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
9:15 a.m.
Conrad K. Harper, Vice President and Moderator, in the Chair
ROBERT S. LUBAR
Associate Professor of Fine Arts
Institute of Fine Arts , New York University
Barcelona and Modernity: Art and Social Movements
in the “City of Bombs ”
BARBARA MITTLER
Chair, Institute of Chinese Studies
Center of East Asian Studies at the University of Heidelberg
Popular Propaganda? Art and Culture in Revolutionary China
Intermission
DANIEL K. RICHTER
Director, McNeil Center for Early American Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Re-Reading William Penn’s 1681 Letter to the Kings of the Indians
DANIEL J. KEVLES
Stanley Woodward Professor of History, Yale University
Protections, Privileges, and Patents: Intellectual Property
in Plants from the Late Nineteenth Century to 1930
11:45 a.m.
LUNCHEON FOR MEMBERS AND INVITED GUESTS
Benjamin Franklin Hall
or
BUSES DEPART FOR APS/AAAS/NAS JOINT MEETING
Omni Hotel
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