President Obama's Schedule Today (10/7/09)

In the morning, President Obama will receive his daily briefings and then meet with senior advisers at the White House.

In the afternoon, Mr. Obama will deliver remarks and award the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to the 2008 recipients. (The list of recipients is below)

Later, the president will meet with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan in the Situation Room. (the list of attendees to that meeting is also below)

In the evening, the president and first lady will host an event on the South Lawn for local middle school students to star gaze and conduct hands-on experiments with astronomers from across the country.

Here's the full schedule from the White House (all times Eastern):

9:30AM: President Obama receives the Presidential Daily Briefing

9:50AM: President Obama receives the Economic Daily Briefing

10:10AM: President Obama meets with senior advisers

10:45AM: President Obama meets with Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack

1:30PM: President Obama delivers remarks and awards the National Medal of Science and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to the 2008 recipients

3:30PM: President Obama meets with his national security team on Afghanistan and Pakistan

8:00PM: President Obama and Michelle Obama host an event for local middle school students to star gaze and conduct hands-on experiments with astronomers

Here is the list of attendees to the meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan:

Vice President Biden
Secretary of State Clinton
Secretary of Defense Gates
Ambassador Susan Rice, Permanent U.S. Representative to the United Nations
Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, U.S. Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
General David Petraeus, U.S. Central Command
General Stanley McChrystal, U.S. Commander in Afghanistan (via videoconference)
Lieutenant General Douglas Lute, Special Assistant to the President for Afghanistan and Pakistan
Admiral Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence
CIA Director Leon Panetta
Karl Eikenberry, U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (via videoconference)
Anne Patterson, U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan (via videoconference)
General James Jones, National Security Adviser
Tom Donilon, Deputy National Security Adviser
John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Counterterrorism and Homeland Security

Here are the list of recipients of the for the science and technology awards:

National Medal of Science

Dr. Berni Alder, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Calif.
Dr. Francis Collins, National Institutes of Health, Md.
Dr. Joanna Fowler, Brookhaven National Laboratory, N.Y.
Dr. Elaine Fuchs, The Rockefeller University, N.Y.
Dr. James Gunn, Princeton University, N.J.
Dr. Rudolf Kalman, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich
Dr. Michael Posner, University of Oregon, Ore.
Dr. JoAnne Stubbe, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mass.
Dr. J. Craig Venter, J. Craig Venter Institute, Md. & Calif.

National Medal of Technology and Innovation

Dr. Forrest M. Bird, Percussionaire Corp., Idaho
Dr. Esther Sans Takeuchi, University at Buffalo, SUNY, N.Y.
Team: Dr. John E. Warnock and Dr. Charles M. Geschke (Adobe Systems Inc., Calif.)
Company: IBM Corporation, N.Y.