Meetings

Time is a primordial human experience, and yet it remains a mystery. It is an inherent part of our daily lives and of almost every scientific discipline. This is why 'Time in Nature and Culture' was chosen as the topic of this year's Annual Assembly of the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, which opened today in Halle (Saale).

Most Latinx people who are LGBTQI+ reported being reluctant to share their gender identity and/or sexual orientation with a health care provider, and a majority have never received cancer information tailored for their community, according to City of Hope-led survey results that will be presented at an American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) meeting held from Sept. 20-23, 2019.

The Virtual Reality and Behavioral Healthcare Symposium will bring together thought leaders in technology and mental health under the shared goal of leveraging technology to better people's lives. The event is hosted by the University of Colorado's National Mental Health Innovation Center at the Anschutz Medical Campus.

Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo; complications in the global push for malaria eradication; emerging tick-borne disease; and artificial intelligence against infectious disease are among the highlights of the 68th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene that will bring disease fighters from around the world to National Harbor just outside Washington, DC in November.

Cleveland Clinic and LSU's Pennington Biomedical Research Center will host Cleveland Clinic's 14th Annual Diabetes, Obesity, and Cardiovascular Disease Summit (DOCS) on Sept. 26 and 27, 2019 in Cleveland and Baton Rouge.

The first-ever National Conference on Medical Student Mental Health and Well-Being will be is hosted by Weill Cornell Medicine, in partnership with the Association of American Medical Colleges, Associated Medical Schools of New York, and American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.

The primary goal of this conference is to bring together scientists and mathematicians working in partial differential equations and related fields. Contemporary challenges raised by recent advances in engineering, industry, and bio-technology, will be confronted with state-of-the-art mathematical and computational tools in PDE. Some of the topics covered in this meeting can be found in the list of themes below. Advanced graduate students and young researchers are encouraged to participate. Limited funding is available for graduate students and recent PhDs.

Cutting-edge research aimed at improving the patient experience and safety for millions of people undergoing surgeries and seeking acute and chronic pain relief will be showcased at ANESTHESIOLOGY® 2019, the annual meeting of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), Oct. 19-23, in Orlando. More than 14,000 internationally recognized researchers and global thought leaders driving the innovation behind the latest scientific and technological advances in anesthesiology will be in attendance.

The first ever cardiac conference in digital health -- ESC Digital Summit 2019 -- is set for 5 and 6 October at the Creative Hub in Tallinn, Estonia. The event brings together core groups that are at the forefront of the digital health transformation. Patient groups, healthcare professionals, technology developers, policymakers, regulators, and reimbursement officers will take a deep dive into pressing issues, such as cybersecurity and how to evaluate whether a technology is beneficial.

Neurofibromatosis (NF), a genetic disorder that causes tumors to grow on nerves throughout the body in over 2.5 million people worldwide has no cure. New research is offering novel insights into the disease and generating enthusiasm that effective therapeutics are on the horizon. The Children's Tumor Foundation, the nonprofit global leader in NF research, is harnessing this revitalized interest in rare disease research through a series of events in San Francisco called NF Innovation Week.

The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group will host the 2019 Allen Frontiers Symposium at The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School in Boston on October 16-17, 2019. This two-day event will feature the latest research on human brain evolution, neuroimmunology, aging and cognitive impairment, along with nuclear biophysics, epigenetics, cancer and cardiac disease.

Women from academia, industry and government will meet this week to collaboratively establish strategies to advance women's leadership across science, technology, engineering and entrepreneurship career ranks. WiSTEE Connect is collaborating with the Optical Society (OSA) Foundation to organize the fourth international symposium 'Global Women of Light' at the 2019 Frontiers in Optics from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 15, in Washington, D.C. The program will be hosted at the OSA Headquarters.

The nation's top thought-leaders in breast cancer innovation, treatment and research will come together for the third Annual Henry Ford Cancer Institute Multidisciplinary Breast Cancer Symposium from 7:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, 2019 at the Crowne Plaza Detroit Downtown Riverfront. The symposium includes 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credits available for attendees.

An international scientific conference entitled 'Advances and Applications in Plasma Physics' guided by the world's famous publisher Nature Research for the first time in Russia will take place during September 18-20, 2019. The main organizer is Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University in collaboration with editors of Nature Physics, Nature Communications and Nature Reviews Physics. The meeting will bring together experts and young scientists from various plasma subfields, including nuclear fusion; low-temperature plasmas; astrophysical plasmas; laser-plasma interactions.

Parent Project Muscular Dystrophy, I-ACT for Children and the Critical Path Institute announced they will co-host the first Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Platform Trial Community Meeting, on Monday, September 9, 2019 in Silver Spring, MD. This meeting will be an opportunity for stakeholders to provide input into the design of the platform trial and gain consensus on critical design elements. The meeting will also be available to view via live stream.

Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit will bring more than 100 speakers and leaders from over 500 organizations and 20 countries to downtown Cleveland from Oct. 21 to 23, 2019, to focus on the task of 'Caring for Every Life through Innovation.' Now in its 17th year, the Medical Innovation Summit is organized by Cleveland Clinic Innovations, the development and commercialization arm of Cleveland Clinic.

Thursday, September 5, 2019 - Today the Biogerontology Research Foundation, Insilico Medicine and the Scheibye-Knudsen Lab, University of Copenhagen, announce the presentation of Michael A.Petr, PhD Candidate, The University of Copenhagen, at the 6th Aging Research, Drug Discovery, and AI Forum during the Basel Life Congress, September 10-12, 2019 in Basel, Switzerland.

At a moment when society feels dangerously polarized and unstable, the symposium 'Our Tribal Nature: Tribalism, Politics, and Evolution' offers a forum for understanding our human urge to form alliances. On September 19, 2019, leading scientists including Mahzarin Banaji, Alison Brooks, Francis Fukuyama, and Richard Wrangham will gather at the Morgan Library in New York to examine the evolutionary origins and function of tribalism and the role tribal identity plays in our increasingly divided world.

At the invitation of Graz University of Technology, internet giants, digital world market leaders and the AI research elite will be holding a conference on new developments in digital speech communication in Graz, Austria from 15 to 19 September.

Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs), such as heart disease and diabetes, are the leading cause of death around the world. NCDs already account for over 70 percent of deaths, with this percentage only expected to increase in the coming years. As part of the American College of Cardiology's efforts to work with national and global health stakeholders to reduce the prevalence of NCDs and their impacts, ACC will join with fellow experts at the NCD Café at ESC Congress together with the World Congress of Cardiology.

The latest research and advancements in recommender systems?those useful but somewhat mysterious software systems that suggest what books, songs, and products consumers might like?will be presented at RecSys 2019, the most important annual conference for this growing area of computing.

Discover the latest Earth and space science news at Fall Meeting 2019 this December, when more than 25,000 attendees from around the globe are expected to assemble for the largest worldwide conference in the Earth and space sciences. This year, the meeting runs from Monday through Friday, December 9-13, at the Moscone Center, 747 Howard St., San Francisco, California.

ACM, the Association for Computing Machinery, will hold the annual ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2019) from September 11-13, 2019 in London, UK. UbiComp is the premier venue for presenting research in the design, development, and deployment of ubiquitous computing systems.

International conference 'Modeling and Measuring Competencies in Higher Education -- Validation and Methodological Innovations' of the KoKoHs initiative funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) on September 12-13, 2019 in Mainz.

Lehigh University's Institute for Data, Intelligent Systems, and Computation (I-DISC) will host 'Robot Learning Workshop,' October 14-15, 2019, in Bethlehem, Pa. The workshop, the second in a series of events funded by an NSF TRIPODS-X grant, will offer a number of presentations on emerging directions at the intersection of robotics, deep and reinforcement learning, control systems, and operational research.