The 2005 Bay Area Institute will be held at the Golden Gate Club in the San Francisco Presidio from Friday, August 19 - Sunday, August 21, 2005. A reception on Thursday, August 18 at the Exploratorium will kick off the conference.

The centerpiece of this year's BAI is the Roundtable sessions. These 2-day sessions will draw upon the impressive array of insights and experiences in the room to review the state of our knowledge and practice, and where further effort is needed, in certain key areas of CILS work. These sessions are intended to set the stage for the work that we, and others, will pursue after CILS. The proceedings from the Roundtable sessions will form the basis of summary papers that review, from a CILS perspective, key practices and questions related to the Roundtable topics.

In addition to roundtables, we have a slate of 18 workshop sessions; poster sessions featuring current CILS research projects and doctoral work; and three site-based workshops at the Lawrence Hall of Science, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Exploratorium.