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WASHINGTON, Oct. 13, 2011 � A series of public forums, candid conversations with top science and medical researchers along with policy leaders covering topics of global concern, will be held at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) this fall.

The discussions will be held Monday evenings from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the AAAS Auditorium at 1200 New York Ave., NW, Washington, D.C. A reception at 5 p.m. precedes each event. RSVP is online for each of these free discussion events at: .

Experts:

Gregory Jaczko, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Jonathan Epstein, U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee

Host: Richard Harris

Experts to be announced

Host: Richard Harris

Experts:

Pedro Alvarez, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Rice University

Omid Farokhzad, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Debra Kaiser, Ceramics Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Host: David Kestenbaum

The Global Challenges Discussion Series is sponsored by the AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Congress, the American Chemical Öйú365betÖÐÎĹÙÍø (ACS) and the Georgetown University Program on Science in the Public Interest. This fall marks the third year of ACS’s participation in this discussion series, which has featured such topics as:

• Meeting Global Energy Demand
• Coming to the Table on Food Safety: Bisphenol A and Beyond
• Climate and Energy Policy in the 112^th Congress
• Acid Bath: The Impact of Increased Carbon on the Oceans

These events are archived on the ACS website at: .

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