THE PROGRAM

Toward an R&D Agenda for the New Administration and Congress:

Perspectives from Scientists and Economists

March 2, 2009

U.S. Capitol Visitor Center (on the Senate side) Room SVC 212/210, Washington, DC

8:30am		Registration, Continental Breakfast
8:45am-9:00am		Opening Remarks
9:00am-10:15am		Session 1 - Economics and Policy Perspectives on R&D
Chair:		David Goldston, Harvard University, Center for the Environment
Speakers:		David Mowery, UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business
		Richard Freeman, Harvard University, Department of Economics
		Catherine Koshland, UC Berkeley, Vice Provost for Academic Planning and Facilities
10:15 am		BREAK (15 minutes)
10:30am-11:45am		Session 2 - R&D for New Energy Technologies
Chair:		Richard Newell, Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment
Speakers:		Michelle Buchanan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
		Revis James, Electric Power Research Institute
		Andy Chu, A123Systems, Inc.
		Howard Berke, Konarka Technologies, Inc.
		William Bonvillian, MIT Washington Office
11:45 am-1:00 pm		LUNCH A lunch box will be provided to all registered attendees)
Lunch Panel – 20 minute discussion, The Next Generation of Scientists and Engineers
	Michael Teitelbaum, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
	Richard Freeman, Harvard University, Department of Economics
	Shiv Gaglani, Harvard Class of 2010
1:00pm-2:15pm	Session 3 - R&D for Green Buildings and Sustainable Environment
Chair:	Sarah Slaughter, MIT Sloan School of Management
Speakers:	Mark Shannon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering
	John Fernandez, MIT, Department of Architecture
	Drury Crawley, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
	Harold Mooney, Stanford University, Department of Biology
2:15 pm	BREAK (15 minutes)
2:30pm-3:45pm	Session 4 - R&D for Better Health
Chair:	Paula Stephan, Georgia State University, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies
Speakers:	Donald Ingber, Harvard Medical School
	Stephen Morse, Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health
	Mara Aspinall, Predictive Biosciences, Inc.
	Tracey Woodruff, UC San Francisco
3:45 pm	BREAK (15 minutes)
4:00pm-5:15pm	Session 5 - R&D for Better Security
Chair:	Penrose Albright, Civitas Group LLC
Speakers:	Shankar Sastry, UC Berkeley, College of Engineering
	Judith Kammeraad, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
	Margaret Kosal, Georgia Institute of Technology, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs
	Cynthia Dwork, Microsoft, Inc.
5:15pm-5:30pm	What Can Economics Do to Help?
	David Goldston, Harvard University, Center for the Environment
	Richard Freeman, Harvard University, Department of Economics