Additional information and the agenda will be posted at the PCAST Web site at:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/pcast .

This meeting will take place at the National Academy of Sciences building, 2100 C Street, NW, Washington, DC.

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Agenda:

• 8:30 am Welcome from PCAST Co-Chairs
  John Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology; Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP); Co-Chair, PCAST
  Harold Varmus, Co-Chair, PCAST
  Eric Lander, Co-Chair, PCAST
  
• 8:45 am International Food Security
  Speaker: Robert Paarlberg, Betty Freyhof Johnson Class of 1944 Professor of Political Science at Wellesley College and Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University (accepted)
  
• 9:45 am Food and Agriculture Research
  Speaker: Roger Beachy, Director, National Institute of Food and Agriculture, Research, Education and Economics, United States Department of Agriculture (accepted)
  
• 10:45 am Break
  
• 11:00 am Overview of National Science Board Activities Related to PCAST Activities
  Speakers:
  Steven C. Beering, NSB Chair, President Emeritus, Purdue University (accepted)
  Louis J. Lanzerotti, Distinguished Research Professor of Physics, Center for Solar-Terrestrial Research, New Jersey Institute of Technology (accepted)
  
• 12:00 pm Lunch
  
• 1:30 pm Public Comment
  
• 2:00 pm PCAST Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI) Program Report
  Maxine Savitz and Ed Penhoet, Co-Chairs
  
• 3:00 pm Adjourn