2009 SPRING GENERAL MEETING
April 23 – 25, 2009
Benjamin Franklin Hall
427 Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
(updated March 3, 2009)
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. Valet and self-parking are available at the OMNI.
Reservations, Changes, Cancellations: Room reservations should be made directly with the OMNI by calling 1-215-925-0000. Also, please register on-line at apsmeetings.org or complete and return the enclosed form to the Society. Should your plans change and you or your guests be unable to use all or part of your reservation, please cancel room reservations directly. Please cancel meal reservations by contacting Annie Westcott at 1-215-440-3441 or by e-mail at westcott [AT] amphilsoc [DOT] org. You will be billed for room reservations and meals not canceled 72 hours before your scheduled arrival.
Registration: Registration will open in Benjamin Franklin Hall at 12:00 noon on Thursday, April 23. 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: 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 on both days. Friday evening’s dinner (business attire) will be held at The Simeone Foundation (6825-31 Norwitch Drive). Please choose a table in advance for dinner by signing the reservation sheets located in the registration room of Benjamin Franklin Hall. Table selections will be available for review in the dining room that evening.
Exhibition: During the Meeting, members and guests are heartily encouraged to visit Philosophical Hall (104 South 5th Street) to view “Dialogues with Darwin,” an APS Museum exhibition celebrating the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of On Origin of Species. The show presents a selection of books and manuscripts from the APS’s own Darwin collection—the largest outside Cambridge, England—and it combines them with commissioned works by a contemporary artist. In addition to this unusual dialogue between art and science, the exhibition also incorporates visitor-created responses and conversations. Darwin was a Society member from 1869 until his death in 1882.
Publications: Books recently published by the Society, its members, or Meeting speakers will be on display in the registration room.
MEETINGS
Class Committees on Membership will meet at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 22, in Philosophical Hall.
Council will meet at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, April 23, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
New Member Orientation will be offered at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 23, in Library Hall.
Members’ Business Meeting will begin at 4:00 p.m. on Friday, April 24, in Benjamin Franklin Hall.
Thursday Morning, April 23, 2009
Council Meeting
9:30 a.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall
(427 Chestnut Street)
New Member Orientation
11:00 a.m.
Library Hall
(105 South Fifth Street)
Thursday Afternoon, April 23, 2009
1:15 p.m.
Baruch S. Blumberg, President, in the Chair
Richard A.F. Penrose Lecture
JANET BROWNE
Aramount Professor of the History of Science
Harvard University Center for Science
"Two Hundred Years of Darwin: The Role of Anniversaries in the History of Science"
Intermission
LAUREL THATCHER ULRICH
300th Anniversary Professor, Harvard University
"In the Garrets and Rat Holes of Old Houses: How Objects Make History"
SYDNEY VERBA
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus
Director Emeritus, Harvard University Library
Research Professor of Government
Harvard University
"Political Equality in America: The Impact of the Internet"
Memorial Service for Whitfield J. Bell, Jr.
Benjamin Franklin Hall
5:00 p.m.
Dinner on Own
Friday Morning, April 24, 2009
9:15 a.m.
Clyde F. Barker, Vice President, in the Chair and Symposium Moderator
Symposium
"The Relation of Organ, Limb, and Face Transplantation"
THOMAS E. STARZL
Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh
"The Unlikely Birth of Organ Transplantation"
JEAN-MICHEL DUBERNARD
Hospital Edouard Herriot, Lyon, France
"Hand and Face Transplantation: Myth, Dream, and Reality"
LAURENT A. LANTIERI
Professor of Plastic Surgery
Henri Mondor Hospital Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris
Paris XII University
"Accepting Transplantation for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery: A Real Philosophical
Debate for the Medical Community and the Society"
Intermission
ANGELA SIRIGU
Research Director, Center for Cognitive Neuroscience
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
"How the Brain Represents our Movements and Our Intentions"
PATRICIA S. CHURCHLAND
University of California President’s Professor of Philosophy
University of California at San Diego
Adjunct Professor, Salk Institute
"Self-Representation in the Brain"
Luncheon for Members and Invited Guests
Friday Afternoon, April 24, 2009
1:15 p.m.
Conrad K. Harper, Vice President, in the Chair
Presentation of Society Prizes and Awards
THOMAS A. WADDEN
Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
Director, Center for Weight and Eating Disorders, University of Pennsylvania
"Losing Weight: It Is Not Over When the Thin Lady Sings"
HARVEY J. SUGERMAN
Emeritus Professor of Surgery, Virginia Commonwealth University
"Bariatric Surgery for Severe Obesity"
Intermission
Inaugural Frank E. Taplin, Jr. Memorial Concert
The Ying Quartet
3:00 p.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Members Business Meeting
4:00 p.m.
Benjamin Franklin Hall
Cocktails and Dinner
6:15 p.m.
The Simeone Foundation
Recognition of the Retirement of Carl F. Miller
Saturday Morning, April 25, 2009
9:15 a.m.
Harriet Zuckerman, Vice President, in the Chair and Symposium Moderator
Symposium
"Tribute to William T. Golden: Citizen Patriot"
ELLEN FUTTER
President, American Museum of Natural History
"A Man for All Seasons: A Museum for All People and All Time
RICHARD A. MESERVE
President, Carnegie Institution
"Presidential Science Advising: A Golden Legacy"
WILLIAM DRAYTON
Founder and Chair, Ashoka: Innovations for the Public
"Beyond the Millennia of Elites"
FRANK H. T. RHODES
President Emeritus, Cornell University
"A Tribute to Bill Golden"
Luncheon for Members and Invited Guests