2012 Annual Conference Agenda

updated December 29, 2011

Thursday, January 12, 2012
   
8:00 AM
Registration
   
8:30 - 9:00 AM TAMEST Membership Meeting
   
9:00 - 9:15 AM BREAK (Protégés and special guests are invited to join the meeting at this time.)
   
9:15 - 9:30 AM

Welcoming Remarks

   
9:30 - 10:55 AM

The Shale Gas Miracle: 
A Tribute to George P. Mitchell

 

     Featured Speakers: 
     Dan B. Steward
     Geologist | Republic Energy
     Mark D. Zoback, Ph.D.
(NAE)
     Benjamin M. Page Professor of Geophysics| Stanford University

   
11:00 - 12:10 PM

Panel 1: The Answer is Blowing in the Wind
     Moderator:
    
Kishor C. Mehta, Ph.D. (NAE)
     P.W. Horn Professor of Civil Engineering | Texas Tech University
     Program Director | National Science Foundation

     Panelists:
     Richard E. Williams
     President | Shell WindEnergy, Inc.
     Dan Woodfin
     Director of System Planning | Electric Reliability Council of Texas
     Luciano Castillo, Ph.D.
     Don-Kay-Clay Cash Distinguished Engineering Chair in Wind Energy and Executive   
     Director/President of the National Wind Resource Center | Texas Tech University

   
12:25 - 1:45 PM

Opening Luncheon
     Keynote:
    
Marvin E. Odum
     President | Shell Oil Company

   
2:00 - 3:00 PM

Panel 2: Energy, Medicine and Nanotechnology
     Moderator and Panelist:
     Michael B. Kastan, M.D., Ph.D.
(IOM)
     Executive Director | Duke Cancer Institute
     Professor, Pharmacology and Cancer Biology and Professor of Pediatrics | Duke
     University

     Panelists:
     Mauro Ferrari, Ph.D.,
     President and CEO, Ernest Cockrell Jr. Distinguished Endowed Chair | The Methodist
     Hospital Research Institute
     Mitchell A. Lazar, M.D., Ph.D.  (IOM)
     Director of the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism | University of
     Pennsylvania School of Medicine

   
3:15 - 5:30 PM
Presentations by the Recipients of the 2012 Edith and Peter O'Donnell Awards
   
6:00 - 7:00 PM
Networking and Reception
   
7:00 - 8:45 PM

O'Donnell Awards Dinner
     Special Address:
     The Honorable Kay Bailey Hutchison
     United States Senator

     Featured Speaker:
     Bruce A. Beutler, M.D. (Nobel Laureate, IOM, NAS)
     Director, Center for the Genetics of Host Defense | The University of Texas
     Southwestern Medical Center

   
8:45 - 10:00 PM After Dinner Reception
   
Friday, January 13, 2012
   
7:00 - 8:00 AM Buffet Breakfast
   
8:00 - 8:30 AM

The Obesity Epidemic
     Keynote:
     William H. Dietz, M.D., Ph.D.
(IOM)
     Director, Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity and Obesity | National Center for
     Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control
     and Prevention

   
8:35 - 10:40 AM

Panel 3: Mechanisms and Prevention of Obesity and Obesity-Related Diseases
     Moderator:
    
Lawrence C.B. Chan, M.D., D.Sc.
     Betty Rutherford Chair for Diabetes Research and Director of Diabetes &
     Endocrinology Research | Baylor College of Medicine

     Panelists:
     Joel K. Elmquist, D.V.M., Ph.D.
     Professor and Director of the Division of Hypothalamic Research | The University of
     Texas Southwestern Medical Center
     Jay D. Horton, M.D.
     Dr. Robert C. and Veronica Atkins Chair in Obesity and Diabetes Research | The
     University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center  
     Dennis M. Bier, M.D. (IOM)
     Professor of Pediatrics and Director of the Children's Nutrition Research Center |   
     Baylor College of Medicine
     Deanna M. Hoelscher, Ph.D., R.D., L.D., C.N.S.
     Director of the Michael & Susan Dell Center for Health Living and John P. McGovern
     Professorship in Health Promotion | The University of Texas School of Public Health 
     John P. Foreyt, Ph.D.
     Director of the Behavioral Medicine Research Center | Baylor College of Medicine
     Amelie G. Ramirez, Dr.P.H., M.P.H. (IOM)
     Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Director of the Institute for Health
     Promotion Research | The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

   

10:40 - 10:55 AM

BREAK
   
10:55 - 11:25 AM
2011 Texas Energy Summit Report
     Speaker:
     Stephen A. Holditch, Ph.D. (NAE) 
     Director | Texas A&M Energy Engineering Institute | 2011 TAMEST President


11:25 - 12:00 PM
The Scientific Importance and Competitive Advantage of Supercomputing to Texas
     Speaker:
     John R. (Jay) Boisseau
     Director | Texas Advanced Computing Center | The University of Texas at Austin
   
12:00 - 12:30 PM
Reasoning Mind: Rethinking the Future of Math Education 
     Speaker:
     Alexander R. Khachatryan, Ph.D.
     President and CEO | Reasoning Mind, Inc.
   
12:30 - 2:00 PM Closing Luncheon
     Featured Speaker:
     Samuel C.C. Ting, Ph.D., (Nobel Laureate, NAS)
     Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of Physics | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

     Closing Remarks:
     William R. Brinkley, Ph.D., (IOM)
     Emeritus Dean, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences; Distinguished Service
     Professor, Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology | Baylor College of
     Medicine | 2012 TAMEST President
   
   

 



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