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

Eric Lander
Co-Chair, PCAST

PCAST Study Updates

Future of the U.S. Science and Technology Research Enterprise

Agriculture Preparedness and U.S. Agriculture Research

An Assessment and Outlook for Nuclear Physics

Speaker: Stuart Freedman
Professor, Experimental Atomic, Nuclear and Particle Physics
UC Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The White House Neuroscience Initiative and Advances in Neuroscience

Speakers:

Philip Rubin
Principal Assistant Director for Science and Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Science
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

R. Jacob Vogelstein
Program Manager for Applied Neuroscience, Research and Exploratory Development Department
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory

William Mobley
Professor and Chair
Department of Neurosciences
University of California, San Diego

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