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Saturday, June 11th

• 6:30pm: Early Bird Dinner
  • Location: Lee How Fook
  • Hosted by: The Liberty Belles

Sunday, June 12th

• 11:30am-1:30pm: Newcomer’s Lunch
  • Location: Garces Trading Company
  • Hosted by: Emily Poworoznek
  • Sponsored by: Turpion
• 1:30-3:30pm: Division Board Meeting
  • Location: Convention Center 105A
  • Moderated by: Ruth Kneale
• 3:30-5:00 pm: INFO-EXPO Opening Reception
• 5:00-7:00pm: Opening General Session

Monday, June 13th

• Division Suite/Daily Retreat, sponsored by IOP Publishing: Philadelphia Marriott

• Transportation Tokens sponsored by Eastern Book Company

• 7:30-9:30am: Astronomy Roundtable
  • Location: Convention Center 108AB
  • Moderated by: Kathleen Robertson, Lisa Johnston
  • Sponsored by: SPIE
  • Speakers:
    • Lisa Johnston, University of Minnesota
    • Marsha Bishop, NRAO: “Everyone wants to Publish, but No one wants to Pay“
    • Uta Grothkopf, ESO: “LISA VII Update“
    • David Ruddy, arXiv
• 10:00-11:30am: PAMwide Roundtable
  • Location: Convention Center 107B
  • Moderated by: Donna Thompson, Jeff Bond
  • Sponsored by: AIP
• 12:00-1:30pm: INFO-EXPO Networking Lunch
• 2:00-3:30pm: Physics Roundtable
  • Location: Convention Center 106A
  • Moderated by: Michiko Tanaka, Karen Andrews
  • Sponsored by: INSPEC
  • Speakers:
    • Mark Cassar, AIP
    • Joseph Serene, APS
    • Olaf Ernst, IOP Publishing
    • Elizabeth Nolan, OSA
    • Thurston Miller, University of Notre Dame
    • Michael Peper, Duke University
    • James Taylor, APS
• 4:00-5:30pm: Ontologies & the Semantic Web
  • Co-sponsored session led by Taxonomy, with Government Information
  • Location: Convention Center 203A
  • Moderated by: Christine Connors
  • Sponsored by:
  • Speakers:
    • Denise Bedford, Kent State University
    • Donna Slawsky, Time Inc.
• 5:30-7:00pm: Book Group
  • Location: Division Suite
  • Book: “Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void,” by Mary Roach
  • Moderated by: Julie Arendt
• 7:00pm: Division Open House
  • Location: Marriott Salon L
  • Sponsored by: AIP

Tuesday, June 14th

• Division Suite/Daily Retreat, sponsored by IOP Publishing: Philadelphia Marriott
• Transportation Tokens sponsored by Eastern Book Company

• 8:00-9:30am: Vendor Update & Networking Breakfast
  • Location: Convention Center 113C
  • Moderated by: Jeffra Bussman
  • Sponsored by: SIAM
  • Speakers:
    • David Marshall, SIAM: “The Future of Scholarly Publishing“
    • James Taylor, APS: “Tier Pricing Update“
    • Steve Moss, IOP Publishing: “Scholarly Publishing (STM) Changes Over The Next 5 Years“
    • Darrell Gunter, AIP “Looking Towards the Future“
• 10:00-11:30am: ABCs of Informatics
  • Co-sponsored session led by Chemistry, with Sci-Tech
  • Location: Convention Center 109B
  • Moderated by: Bill Armstrong
  • Sponsored by: OSA
  • Speakers:
    • Alberto Accomazzi, ADS “When e-Science Meets Astronomy“
    • Diane Rein, Buffalo University
    • Steve Heller, InChI Trust “Why Librarians will love InChI“
• 12:00-1:30pm: Division Business Meeting & Networking Lunch
  • Location: Convention Center 107B
  • Moderated by: Ruth Kneale
  • Sponsored by: APS
• 2:00-3:30pm: The Science of Ice Cream
  • Co-sponsored session led by Sci-Tech, with FAN and Chemistry
  • Location: Convention Center 203B
  • Moderated by: Christine Whitaker
  • Sponsored by:
  • Speaker: Thomas Palchak, Pennsylvania State University Creamery
• 3:30-5:30pm: INFO-EXPO time
• 3:35-4:55pm: PAM Publisher Liaison Meeting
  • Location: Division Suite
  • Moderated by: Linda Yamamoto
• 5:30-7:30pm: All-Sciences Poster Session
  • Co-sponsored session led by FAN, with BIO, Chemistry, Engineering, and Sci-Tech
  • Location: Marriott Salon AB
  • Moderated by: Rebecca Godwin
  • Sponsored by: Annual Reviews

Wednesday, June 15th

• Division Suite/Daily Retreat, sponsored by IOP Publishing: Philadelphia Marriott

• Transportation Tokens sponsored by Eastern Book Company

• 8:00-9:30am: Science 2.1: New Forms of Scholarly Communication in the Sciences
  • Co-sponsored session led by Sci-Tech, with Academic
  • Location: Convention Center 203A
  • Moderated by: Khue Dong
  • Sponsored by:
  • Speakers:
    • Donald Hagen, NTIS
    • Dorothea Salo, UW-Madison
    • Jean-Claude Bradley, Drexel University
• 10:00-11:30am: Mathematics Roundtable
  • Location: Convention Center 108AB
  • Moderated by: Deborah Kegel, Khue Dong
  • Sponsored by: AMS
  • Speakers:
    • Kristine Fowler, University of Minnesota: “Mathematicians’ Views on Current Publishing Issues: Survey Results“
    • David Ruddy, arXiv
    • Lori Sprague, AMS
• 12:00-1:30pm: Computer Science Roundtable
  • Co-sponsored session, with Sci-Tech
  • Location: Convention Center 108AB
  • Moderated by: Robin Dasler
  • Sponsored by: IEEE, ACM
  • Speakers:
    • Dr. Lyle Ungar, University of Pennsylvania
    • Pradeep Teregowda, Pennsylvania State University
• 2:00-4:30pm: Closing General Session

Thursday, June 16th

• Division-Only Tour of the Franklin Institute