Meetings

80 experts in research and health care in the field of Alzheimer's disease and other neurodegenerative conditions will meet in Lisbon at the Global Summit Alzheimer's Research & Care Lisbon 2017, which will be held at the Champalimaud Centre for the Unknown. The meeting will be presided by Her Majesty the Queen Sofia of Spain and by Leonor Beleza, president of the Champalimaud Foundation and former Minister of Health of Portugal.

The American Society of Human Genetics 2017 Annual Meeting will take place Oct. 17-21, 2017, in Orlando, Fla.

The Association for Computing Machinery's (ACM) Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (SIGKDD) today announced highlights of KDD 2017, the group's flagship annual conference. KDD 2017 will be held in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada on Aug. 13-17, 2017. Recognized as the longest-running and largest conference on knowledge discovery and data mining, KDD brings together leading researchers and practitioners in the fields of data science, data mining, knowledge discovery, large-scale data analytics, and big data.

Experts from around the world are coming to metro Detroit to collaborate and discuss their advances and challenges in the global pursuit of artificial vision.

At MIPT, the DeepHack.Turing sci-hack summer school has begun. This event is part of the effort to automate the Turing test, a classic way of telling if a machine can think. The participants will spend a week designing competing models that analyze text to differentiate between human and machine input in a dialogue. For those wishing to join in the fun: Anyone can help the researchers create better artificial intelligence by talking to chatbots.

The political landscape has become more challenging to navigate for scientists seeking to inform policy. In response to ecologists' increased motivation to effectively engage in the political scene, this year's Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America will feature a new event to examine the current national political landscape from the ecological science perspective. This Special Policy Forum will take place on Monday, August 7 at the Society's 102nd Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon.

More than 130 concurrent sessions will cover a variety of topics representing the wide-reaching impact of HF/E research and practice in areas affecting human performance and safety at home, work, and leisure. Work to be presented continues to advance HF/E scholarship and application in areas that have an impact on design, manufacturing, and legislation.

Art and Science in dialog: sessions at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America in Portland, Ore., feature 5-minute presentations on collaborative projects that fuse contemporary art and ecological science to make new work that's not possible within each discipline alone. Explore artwork created by the session speakers in the Art:Sci Gallery.

The Frontiers in Optics + Laser Science APS/DLS (FIO + LS) conference and exhibition provides a venue for leaders in the optics and photonics community to discuss the latest advances in the field. In 2017, the FIO + LS meeting has been thoughtfully redesigned and revised, offering attendees the best of past meetings while adding innovative elements to this year's meeting.

The program of the upcoming World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics will feature four exclusive sessions designed to aid reporters in their coverage of aging issues. The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) is hosting the World Congress on behalf of the International Association for Gerontology and Geriatrics from July 23-27 at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis hotel and Moscone West convention center.

The European Respiratory Society welcomes the interest of the press in respiratory issues and is happy to provide full assistance to journalists attending the 2017 ERS Congress, or using the Congress website as a resource in their coverage of respiratory issues. Over 4,000 abstracts will cover areas such as lung cancer, tuberculosis (TB), children's lung health, personalized medicine, e-cigarettes, antibiotic resistance and risk factors for lung disease.

An odor can trigger a memory, cause disgust, or even save our lives. Nonetheless olfaction still remains the most enigmatic of our senses. Its mysteries and marvels will be analyzed by Nobel Prize Linda Buck during the ICTP-SISSA Colloquium open to the public on Tuesday, July 25, at 5 p.m at ICTP, titled 'Unraveling the sense of smell.' Buck will be in Trieste (Italy) to participate in the 'Conference on Frontiers in Olfaction' from July 24-29.

TCT 2017 is the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). TCT, the world's premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine, features major medical research breakthroughs and gathers leading researchers and clinicians from around the world to present and discuss the latest evidence-based research in the field.

Lehigh University computer scientist Mooi Choo Chuah serves as a technical co-chair for this week's Second IEEE/ACM Conference on Connected Health: Applications, Systems and Engineering Technologies in Philadelphia. Chuah will also present new machine learning approach and novel hospital incentive model to lead to better disease prediction.

International experts on mercury will meet at the 13th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant (http://mercury2017.com/ ) (ICMGP 2017) in Providence, Rhode Island from July 16 to 21. The conference aims to share science and develop measures to decrease human and wildlife exposure to the poisonous metal. ICMGP 2017 is especially timely given that it takes place one month before the Minamata Convention on Mercury enters into force.

With the recent spate of attacks on official statistics and threats to the broader field of science, the statistical community is convening a panel of high-profile government and industry data analysis experts to address how manipulation, misrepresentation, and abuse of data leads to an ill-informed public, a polarizing political environment, and distrust in scientific research on July 31 at 8:30 a.m. during the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Baltimore, Md.

Journalists registering for the American Chemical Society's (ACS') 254th National Meeting & Exposition will have a wealth of new scientific information available for their news stories. Nearly 9,400 presentations are planned on a wide range of topics from health to the environment. The meeting, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year, will be held Aug. 20-24 in Washington, D.C.

350 top international scientists will gather to share latest discoveries on targeting p53, the most frequent mutated gene in all cancer types. p53 is a major tumour suppressor which defends cells in the body from any form of stress. The Conference will hear first-hand from A*STAR and NCCS researchers on their discovery of antibodies to detect mutant p53

Only weeks away, the world's largest annual gathering of statisticians and data scientists -- the 2017 Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) -- will feature some of the most highly regarded professionals in and beyond the field of statistics, addressing new research and providing thought-provoking insight into the economy, public policy, health care and other prolific issues of the day.

Media can register now to attend the Advanced Breast Cancer Fourth International Consensus Conference (ABC4) in Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday 2 to Saturday 4 November 2017. Registration for bona fide journalists is free.

Ecological researchers care deeply about the health of the systems they study, but do not always know how to put into practice the knowledge they acquire through experimentation. Speakers will share stories of triumph and challenge from the interface of discovery and application, on Tuesday, Aug. 8 in a symposium on 'Integrating Ecological Science into Policy and Management for Ecosystem Services: Challenges and Keys to Success' during the Ecological Society of America's 2017 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon.

Adm. John Richardson, chief of naval operations, and Gen. Paul Selva, vice chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, will be among the keynote speakers at the Office of Naval Research's (ONR) biennial 2017 Naval Future Force Science and Technology (S&T) Expo.

The International ERATO Itami Molecular Nanocarbon Symposium 2017 will be held on Aug. 3-4, 2017, at Nagoya University, Japan. This symposium will focus on recent achievements in the synthesis, utilization, and analysis of structurally well-defined nanocarbons and related materials.

From July 2-5, 2017, an unprecedented gathering of educators, religious leaders and students from around the world will take place in Jerusalem, in a summit co-organized by the Pontifical Scholas Occurrentes and the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Based on the NAE Grand Challenges for Engineering, the GGCS series aims to inspire the next generation of engineers, policymakers, and the public to address critically important engineering challenges and opportunities facing humanity. Highlighted topics include virtual reality and artificial intelligence, engineering and health care, climate change, and reverse engineering the brain.