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Previous Presentations
Innovation Choke Points:What Thwarts U.S.
R&D Investments, Commercialization,Job Growth &Competitiveness Most?
Date: Thur., 15 July 2010
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where: B-339 Rayburn House Office Building
Moderator: Dr. Mary Good, Chairman, ASTRA
Speaker Presentations:
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Richard Bendis - President & CEO, Innovation America
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Brian Darmady –
Associate Vie President, Research & Economic Development, University of Maryland
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Dr. Stuart Graham – Chief Economist, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office |
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Wayne Johnson - Member, ASTRA Board of Directors, Former VP, University Relations Worldwide, Hewlett-Packard Co. |
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Dr. R. Duane Shelton, World Technology Evaluation Center (WTEC) |
Sponsoring Organizations:
ASTRA
IEEE-USA
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Date:
Wed., 28 April 2010
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where: B-339 Rayburn House Office Building
Speaker Presentations:
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Mike Rinn - Vice
President and Program Director, Airborne Laser Test Bed, The
Boeing Company — "Military
Laser Applications" |
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Dr. E. Duco Jansen –
President, American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery and
Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Neurosurgery, Vanderbilt
University — "Lasers
in Medicine" |
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Dr. Thomas Baer – 2009
President of OSA and Executive Director, Stanford Photonics
Research Center, Stanford University |
Sponsoring Organization: Task Force on American Innovation
The Advanced Research
Project Agency - Energy (ARPA-E)
Date: Wed. 21 April 2010
Time: 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Where: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building
Opening Remarks:
The Honorable
Rush Holt
(D-N.J.)
The Honorable
Judy Biggert
(R-Ill.)
Speaker:
Arun Majumdar,
Director ARPA-E
Sponsoring Organization:
Engineering Energy Policy
Alliance
Overview on Research and Development in the Fiscal Year 2011 Budget Request
When: Tuesday, 16 March, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Where: Cannon Caucus Room
Speakers
Patrick Clemins, Director, AAAS R&D Budget Policy Program
Defense Basic Research
When: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010
Time: 12 Noon
Where: B-338, Rayburn House Office Building
Speakers:
Douglas Schmidt, Professor of Computer Science and Associate Chair of Computer Science and Engineering at Vanderbilt University
W. Lewis Johnson, Co-founder, President and Chief Scientist of Alelo, Inc.
Lisa McCauley, Vice President and Manager, Chemical Environmental and Materials Operations, National Security Global Business at Battelle
Sponsoring Organizations:
CNSR
Modernizing the
Electric Grid: A 'Smart' Way to Use Energy
When: Thursday, 26 March, 2009
Time: 12 Noon
Where: H-137, Capitol Building
Speakers:
Dr. Massoud
Amin,
Professor of
Electrical Engineering, Director of the Center
for the Development of Technological Leadership,
University of Minnesota "Smart
Grid: Opportunities and Challenges Toward
a Stronger and Smarter Grid."
David A. Wollman, Chief of the Quantum
Electrical Metrology Division, National
Institute of Standards and Technology
"Status of NIST'S EISA Smart Grid Efforts"
Sponsoring Organizations:
ASME
IEEE-USA
RSVP to
Rasheedah Smith at
smithrj@asme.org
The American Recovery &
Reinvestment Act of 2009, R&D Funding, and Ways
to Measure Its Effectiveness: Three Perspectives
When: Wednesday, 11 Feb., 2009
Time: 12 Noon
Where: B338 Rayburn House Office Building
Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Dr. Mary L. Good,
ASTRA Chairman
Speakers:
Dr. Charles
Wessner,
Director,
Technology & Innovation, National Academies
of Science: "Making the New Stimulus Work
in the Global Economy”
Dr. Robert
Atkinson,
President,
President, Information Technology &
Innovation Foundation (ITIF):
“The Digital
Road to Recovery: A Stimulus Plan to Create
Jobs, Boost Productivity and Revitalize
America”
Dr. Robin
Gaster,
Vice
President for Research, The Alliance for
Science & Technology Research in America (ASTRA): “New Tools for Tracking the Innovation
Stimulus: the ASTRA Innovation Index®”
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Sponsoring Organizations:
ASTRA,
The Alliance
for Science & Technology Research in America
SETWG
— The
Science, Engineering & Technology Working Group
— Bringing you Congressional Visits Day 2009 on
April 28, 2009
Climate and Energy Technology:
Current Options and Research Possibilities
When: Thursday, 20 Nov., 2008
Time: 12 Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Where: B369 Rayburn House Office Building
Welcome and Opening Remarks:
Alan Leshner, Chief Executive Officer, AAAS
Speaker:
Dr. Roberta
M. Hotinski,
Science
Communicator,
Climate Stabilization Wedges
Dr. Jae
Edmonds,
Joint Global
Change Research Institute,
Climate and Energy Technology Potential
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Sponsoring Organizations:
AAAS
Defense Basic Research: Lifeblood of Innovation
When: Thursday, 10 July, 2008
Time: 12 Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Where: 2323 Rayburn House Office Building
Introduction and Welcome:
Selmer
Bringsjord,
Chair of the Cognitive Science Department and
Professor of Computer Science and Cognitive
Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Speakers:
Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA)
Chair, House Armed Services Subcommittee on
Terrorism and Unconventional Threats and
Capabilities - Federal Support for Basic
Research
Bob Guenther,
Professor of Physics at Duke University -
High Risk Technologies: From the Lab to the
Battlefield
Farnam
Jahanian,
Professor and Interim Chair of the Computer
Science and Engineering Department at The
University of Michigan - Why Sustained
Investment is Important & What it Can Produce
Lisa
McCauley,
Vice President and Deputy Director of
Operations, National Security Global Business,
Battelle - Defense Technologies in Use by the
Military Today Will Have Broader Applications
Tomorrow
Understanding
President Bush’s FY2009 Budget Request for
Biodefense
When: Thursday, 12 June, 2008
Time: 12 Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Where: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building
Featured
Speaker:
Alan Pearson,
Ph.D.,
Center for Arms Control and NonProliferation -
FY 2009 Budget Analysis
Roundtable Panelists:
Brad Smith, Ph.D.,
Center for Biosecurity of UPMC -
Medical
Countermeasures
Georges Benjamin, M.D.,American
Public Health Association - Public Health
Preparedness Infectious Disease Surveillance
Eric Toner, M.D.,
Center for Biosecurity of UPMC - 2001 Anthrax
Letters: Lessons Learned
James Roth, D.V.M.,
Ph.D., Iowa State University -
Agriculture and Food Defense
Gerald Epstein, Ph.D.,
Center for Strategic and International Studies -
Prevention Strategies
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Research Parks:
Creating Communities of
Innovation
Dear Colleague Letter
When: Thursday, 22 May, 2008
Time: 12 Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Where: B340 Rayburn House Office Building
Speakers:
Brian Darmody, Associate Vice President,
Research and Economic Development, University of
Maryland
Bill Dean, Director, Piedmont Triad
Research Park, Wake Forest University
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Coal to Liquid
When: Thursday, 24 April, 2008
Time: 12 Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Where: 2168 Rayburn House Office Building (Gold
Room)
Speakers:
Qingyun Sun Ph.D., Associate Director, US-China
Energy Center, West Virginia University,
"Coal-to-Liquid Development in China"
C.
Lowell Miller, Director Office of Sequestration,
Hydrogen, and Clean Coal Fuels, Office of Fossil
Energy
U.S. Department of Energy,
"Coal Conversion Technology."
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Sponsoring Organization:
United
Engineering Foundation
Fostering Innovation:
Key to U.S. Competitiveness in the Global
Economy
When: Thursday, 3 April, 2008
Time: 12 Noon - 1:30 p.m.
Where: B340 Rayburn House Office Building
Welcome & Special Remarks:
Sam Y.
Zamrik,
Ph.D.
President, ASME
Moderator:
John W.
Ahlen, Ph.D.,
President,
Arkansas Science & Technology Authority
Speakers:
Carla
O'Dell, Ph.D.,
President,
ACPQ
Fostering Innovation: Measuring What Matters
George
Pohle, Vice
President and Global Leader, IBM Business
Strategy Consulting Practice Innovating
on Your Own Terms
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Sponsoring Organization:
American Society
of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
APQC
IBM
New Nuclear Technology
When: Jan 17, 2008
Time: 12 Noon - 1:00
Where: 2168 Rayburn House Office Building (the
Gold Room)
Welcome:
John Meredith, 2007 President, IEEE-USA
Speakers:
John Goossen, Director, Science and Technology
Department, Westinghouse Electric Company:
"New Nuclear Technology"
Bryan Erler, Vice Chair and Chairman-elect of
ASME Board on Nuclear Codes and Standards,
President of Erler Engineering:
"New Nuclear Codes and Standards"
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Sponsoring Organization:
IEEE-USA
ASME
ANS
Sputnik in the YouTube Age
When: Nov. 8, 2007
Time: 12 Noon - 1:30
Where: B339 Rayburn House Office Building
Welcome:
John Palafoutas:
Co-Chair, Task Force for the Future of American
Innovation and
Senior VP for Congressional Affairs, American
Electronics Association
Speakers:
Mae C. Jemison, M.D.
President, BioSentient Corporation; Founder,
International Science Camp:
The Earth We Share (TM); Chairman (TX) Product
Development and Small Business Incubator
Committee "S.E.E.ing The Future: Science,
Engineering and Education"
Kathryn Sullivan, Ph.D. Vice Chairman,
National Science Board; Director, Battelle
Center for Mathematics and Science Education
Policy, John Glenn School of Public Affairs,
Ohio State University "American Math and
Science Education: Fifty Years Later"
Adan Vielma, Junior, Major in
Communications, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon
"Screening of YouTube Innovation Video
Contest Winner"
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Sponsoring Organization:
Task Force on the Future of American Innovation
Green Gasoline: an Alternative Alternate Fuel
When: Oct. 4, 2007
Time: 12 Noon - 1:30
Where: 2325 Rayburn House Office Building
Moderator:
Dale Keairns, Ph.D.,
AIChE President-Elect
Lisa
L. Myers, Ph.D.,
Director of Biofuels Research & Develoment,
ConocoPhillips
John Regalbuto, Ph.D., Director of the
Catalysis and BioCatalysis Program, Directorate
for Engineering, National Science Foundation
Randy
D. Cortright, Ph.D., Chief Technology
Officer, Co-Founder and Executive Vice
President, Virent Energy Systems, Inc.
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Sponsoring Organization:
United
Engineering Foundation
AIChE
ASCE
AIME
ASME
IEEE-USA
July 12, 2007
The Future of Biofuels: An International
Perspective
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Co-Chairs,
Congressional Research & Development Caucus
Moderator:
Donna J. Michalek, Ph.D.
ASME Board on Government Relations
Guest Speakers:
Dr. Mauricio Tolmasquim
President, Energy Research Company Brasilia,
Brazil,
"THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS:
AN INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE"
May 9, 2007:
Harvesting
Ocean Power: An International Perspective
Featured
Speaker:
Max Carcus,
Business Development Manager Ocean Power
Delivery Edinburgh, Scotland
Welcome:
Terry E. Shoup, Ph.D.
ASME President
Moderator:
Thomas
Libertiny
ASME Board on Government Relations
Closing Remarks:
Thomas
Libertiny
ASME Board on Government
Relations
Opening Remarks:
Representative
Holt (NJ)
Representative Judy Biggert (IL)
Sponsored by the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
April 24, 2007:
Science,
Innovation and the FY 2008 R&D Budget
Featured
Speaker:
Speaker: Kei Koizumi, AAAS Director,
R&D Budget & Policy Program
American
Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS
April 17, 2007:
The
Importance of Basic Research in Innovation,
Economic Competitiveness and National Security
Featured
Speakers:
Doug Comer,
Chair, Taskforce for the Future of American
Innovation and Director of Legal Affairs and Technology Policy, Intel
Corporation —
Measuring the Moment: Innovation, National
Security, and Economic Competitiveness (Part
I)
C. Dan Mote,
Ph.D., President, University of Maryland and
Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of
Engineering
—
Measuring
the Moment: Innovation, National Security, and
Economic Competitiveness (Part II)
Amy Burke,
Director, Government Relations, Texas
Instruments —
"The
Importance of Federal Investment in Research &
Development: An Industry Perspective"
February 13, 2007: "Using
Spaceborne Radar to Understand Our Changing
Earth"
Featured
Speaker:
Dr.
Jean-Bernard Minster Professor of
Geophysics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
UCSD
Dr. Paul Rosen
NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California
Institute of Technology
Welcome
Moderator:
Dr. Martin Sokoloski
IEEE-USA
R&D
Caucus Co-Chairs
The
Honorable Judy Biggert (R-IL)
The
Honorable Rush Holt (D-NJ)
Sponsored by
AGU
IEEE-USA
July 12, 2006: "Science
and Technology Policy in Japan and JST
Activities"
Featured
Speaker:
Dr.
Yukio Sato,
Advisor to and Former Executive
Director of Japan Science and Technology Agency
(JST)
Welcome
Moderator:
Susan H. Skemp, Executive Vice President, Civil Engineering
Forum for Innovation
American Society of Civil Engineers
R&D
Caucus Co-Chairs
The
Honorable Judy Biggert (R-IL)
The
Honorable Rush Holt (D-NJ)
Sponsored by
United
Engineering Foundation
American
Society of Mechanical Engineers
ASCE
American
Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE)
American
Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and Petroleum
Engineers (AIME)
IEEE-USA
May 9, 2006: "The Quantum Universe: The
Revolution in 21st Century Particle Physics"
Featured
Speaker:
Dr.
Brian Greene, Physicist, Author and Host of
the Hit PBS Miniseries The Elegant Universe
May 3, 2006: "Bioceramics: Where Engineering and
Health Sciences Meet to Repair the Human Body"
Welcome:
Dr. Aris Christou, President, Federation of
Materials Societies
Featured
Speakers:
Dr.
Delbert Day, Curators' Professor of Ceramic
Engineering, University of Missouri-Rolla
Creating Health & Wealth from University
Research on Bioceramics
Dr.
Erik Erbe, Chief Science Officer, Orthovita
Inc., Malvern, PA
Applications of Novel Ceramic Materials in
Modern Orthopaedics
Dr. Michael Hawkins, Vice President,
Warsaw Research, Zimmer Corp. Warsaw, IN
Ceramics, Clinical Applications and the Future
April 6, 2006: "Changes in Global Science,
Engineering and Technology Competition: Findings
from the National Science Board Report,
Science & Engineering Indicators 2006."
Welcome
MARC GOLDSMITH
Vice President, ASME Center for Public
Awareness
Speakers
Dr. Steven Beering, Ph.D.
Member, National Science Board, President
Emeritus, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
India
Jo Anne
Vasquez, Ph.D.,
Member, National Science Board, and Past
President, National Science Teachers Association
Sponsored by
United
Engineering Foundation
ASME
AAAS
IEEE-USA
National
Science Teachers Association (NTSA
American
Chemical Society
Johns
Hopkins University, Center for Educational
Outreach
National
Center for Technological Literacy
Society
of Women Engineers
Triangle
Coalition for Science and Technology Education
November 2, 2005: "“Rising Above the Gathering
Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future”
A Report by
the National Academies
Welcome
Robert N. Pangborn, Ph.D.
Vice President, ASME Board on Government
Relations
Opening Remarks
The Hon. Judy Biggert (R-IL)
Co-Chair, Research and Development Caucus,
U.S. House of Representatives
The Hon. Rush Holt (D-NJ)
Co-Chair, Research and Development Caucus,
U.S. House of Representatives
Speakers
"Rising Above The Gathering Storm"
Gail Cassell, Ph.D.
Committee on Science, Engineering and Public
Policy, National Academies and
Vice president of Scientific Affairs and
Distinguished Lilly Research Scholar for
Infectious Diseases of Eli Lilly and Company
"Tapping America’s
Potential"
Susan Traiman
Director, Public Policy
Business Roundtable
October 6, 2005: Optics & Photonics: New
Technology for Homeland Security
Presented by the Optical Society
of America (OSA) and
SPIE – The
International Society for Optical Engineering,
in conjunction with the Congressional R & D
Caucus
Dr. Dennis Killinger,
Professor of Physics,
University of South Florida
Optics
and Photonics: Keystone Technologies for Sensors in
Homeland Security
Roy Walters, Vice President, Research and
Development Ocean Optics
Unknown
Material Analysis in Less Than a Second
Elka E. Koehler, Ph.D,
Low
Cost Infrared Countermeasures (IRCM) Aircraft Protection Systems
September 15, Forum About the R&D Tax Credit
Sponsored by
The R&D Credit Coalition
July 26, Forum on Cybersecurity: A Crisis of
Prioritization, A Report by the President’s
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)
(view
report)
Dr. Tom Leighton,
Chief Scientist,
Akamai
Technologies and Professor of Applied
Mathematics, MIT
Dr. Eugene Spafford, Professor
of Computer Sciences and a Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue
University, and the Executive Director of the
Purdue Center for Education and Research in
Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS).
"The
Cybersecurity Challenge"
Sponsored by
IEEE-USA and the IEEE
Computer Society Task Force on
Information Assurance (TFIA)
May
12, Nanomaterials: Making it Real by Materials
Science and Engineering
Mark Kryder,
Chief Technical Officer, Seagate Corporation
Giant
Magneto-Resistance and Its Impact Upon Data
Storage
Keith Blakely,
Chief Executive Officer, NanoDynamics, Inc.
Nanomaterials
Science to Products: Payoff for the US Economy
and National Security
Carl Koch, Professor, North Carolina State
University
Structural
Nanomaterials: Super Strong, Super Tough, and
Super Important
Technology Today Article:
Lawmakers Lament Lack of Funding for Science
Agency, 12 May 2005.
Sponsored by
Federation of Materials Societies
www.materialsocieties.org
Supported by
The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society
www.tms.org
March 10, 2005: Overview of the FY 2006 Research & Development
Budget
R&D in the FY 2006 Budget
Kei Koizumi,
Director
American
Association for the Advancement of Science
(AAAS)
R&D Budget and Policy Program
February 17, 2005 Briefing Presentations: The
Knowledge Economy: Is the U.S. Losing its
Competitive Edge
Marvin L.
Cohen, President, American Physical Society
The Knowledge Economy: Is the US Losing its
Competitive Edge
Diana
Hicks,
Professor and Chair of the School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of
Technology
Knowledge
Creation and New Ideas
Charles C. Evans.
Vice President, National Innovation
Initiative
Thriving in a World of Challenge
and Change
Benchmarks
of our
Innovation Future
NII Report Innovate America: Thriving in a World of
Challenge and Change
January 27, 2005 Alternative Technology for
Fuels and Engines.
Charles L. Gray, Jr.
Advanced Technology
Division, Office of Transportation and Air Quality
Future
Automotive Fuel Options/Implications
Robert Williams,
Princeton Environmental Institute
Princeton University
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