Meetings of the WAS Board of Managers

Usually held the second Thursday of the month (except in July and August) in the 6th floor Conference Room at 7:00 PM.
(check this page for exceptions)
AAAS Building
1200 New York Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20005
Telephone: 202-326-8975
Please use the 12th Street entrance

The Board of Managers does not regularly meet in July and August

Philosophical Society of Washington
WHEN: Friday, Sept. 10, 2010 8:15 PM
WHERE: John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Cosmos Club. 2170 Florida Ave.
SPEAKER: Hod Lipson, Professor of Computing and Information Science, and of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
TOPIC: The Limits of Science: Can Scientific Discovery Be Automated?

The Washington Academy of Sciences
WHEN: Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010 6:30 pm
WHERE: Haskins-Abelson Room, AAAS Building 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC
SPEAKER: Captain Philip Renaud, Director, Living Oceans Foundation
TOPIC: Exploring the Rain Forests of the Red Sea and other Expeditions

Philosophical Society of Washington
WHEN: Friday, Sept. 24, 2010 8:15 PM
WHERE: John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Cosmos Club. 2170 Florida Ave.
SPEAKER: Robert Kahn CEO of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives
TOPIC: Interoperability of Heterogeneous Information Systems on the Internet

Philosophical Society of Washington
WHEN: Friday, Oct. 15, 2010 8:15 PM
WHERE: John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Cosmos Club. 2170 Florida Ave.
SPEAKER: Joel M. Gottesfeld Professor of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
TOPIC: Chromatin, Epigenetics and Human Inherited Diseases

Philosophical Society of Washington
WHEN: Friday, Oct. 29, 2010 8:15 PM
WHERE: John Wesley Powell Auditorium, Cosmos Club. 2170 Florida Ave.
SPEAKER: Steven Salzberg Hurvitz Professor of Computer Science and Director, Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, University of Maryland
TOPIC: How many human genes are there?

The Washington Academy of Sciences
WHEN: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 6:30 pm
WHERE: Haskins-Abelson Room, AAAS Building 1200 New York Ave NW, Washington DC
AUTHORS PANEL: Dana Cameron (The Emma Fielding series of archaeological mysteries), Ellen Crosby (The Virginia wineries series of mysteries), Louis Bayard (Forensics in history) and more to come.
TOPIC: SCIENCE IS MURDER