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Committee on a New Government-University Partnership for Science and Security

The National Academies

Northeast Regional Meeting

Hosted By

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wong Auditorium, 70 Memorial Drive, Building E51 (Tang Center)

Monday, May 15, 2006

8:30 Introductions and Purpose of Meeting

Jacques S. Gansler and Alice P. Gast, Committee Co-chairs, confirmed

8:45 Welcome and Opening Remarks

Susan Hockfield, President, MIT, confirmed

9:15 Importance of Issues to Our National Research Enterprise

Moderator: Arthur I. Bienenstock, Office of the Dean of Research and

Graduate Policy, Stanford University, confirmed

Speaker: John H. Marburger, III, Director, Office of Science and

Technology Policy, The White House, confirmed

9:40 Discussion

10:00 Government Policy for Homeland Security

Speaker: Stewart A. Baker, Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of

Homeland Security, confirmed

10:25 Discussion

11:00 Energy, Security and the Long War of the 21st Century

Moderator: Richard A. Meserve, President, Carnegie Institution of Washington, confirmed

Speaker: R. James Woolsey, Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., confirmed

11:25 Discussion

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Conceptual Framework for Consideration of the Role of the Research University in U.S. Security (Both National Security and Economic Security) and the Need for Rational Government Policies

Speaker: Charles M. Vest, President Emeritus, MIT, confirmed

1:30 Discussion

2:00 Panel: Key Indicators/Sectors (Role of Academic Research)

Innovation Indicators

Richard K. Lester, Professor and Director Industrial Performance Center, MIT, confirmed

Energy

Ernest J. Moniz, Professor of Physics, MIT, confirmed

Nanotechnology

James Baker, Director of Michigan Nanotechnology Institute

for Medicine and the Biological Sciences, University of Michigan, confirmed

Social Sciences

Gary LaFree, Director, National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism

and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland, confirmed

4:00 Afternoon Wrap-up

4:30 Adjourn

Committee on a New Government-University Partnership for Science and Security

The National Academies

Northeast Regional Meeting

Hosted By

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Wong Auditorium, 70 Memorial Drive, Building E51 (Tang Center)

Tuesday, May 16

8:00 Welcome and Introductions

Jacques S. Gansler and Alice P. Gast, Committee Co-chairs, confirmed

8:15 Keynote Address: Export Control Policy in an Increasingly Competitive World

Beth M. McCormick, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Technology Security Policy and National Disclosure Policy (Acting) and Director, Defense Technology Security Administration, Department of Defense, invited

9:10 Discussion

9:30 Concerns of the Academic Community

Dual Use Research/Biosecurity

George Church, Professor of Genetics, Director, Center for Computational Genetics, Harvard Medical Center, confirmed

Regulatory Structure of G-U Partnership

Judith Reppy, Professor, Science and Technology Studies, Cornell University, confirmed

Export Controls

Sue E. Eckert, Visiting Scholar, Brown University, confirmed

International Collaborations

Suzanne Berger, Professor, Department of Political Science, MIT,

confirmed

Implications for Graduate Education and Teaching

Debra W. Stewart, President, Council of Graduate Schools, confirmed

11:00 Discussion


11:30 Creating a New Partnership

Timothy Bereznay, Assistant Director for Counterintelligence, Federal Bureau of Investigation, confirmed

12:00 Discussion

12:30 Adjourn

12:30-2:30 Committee in Closed Session

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