Meetings

The press schedule for ESC Congress 2017 is announced today. Journalists are invited to attend 6 hot line session press conferences including a Clinical Trial Update and a Late Breaking Registry Results and 3 press conferences with the themes: * Cardiac Interventions - Expanding Applications * Living Longer - Tips and Tricks * Cholesterol Lowering - Reality Check and New Directions

Registration is open for The Geological Society of America's Annual Meeting & Exposition, to be held Oct. 22-25 2017 at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle, Washington, USA.

Georgia State University will host the First International Triple Negative Breast Cancer Conference from Sept. 18 to 20.

The European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA) announced today that its scientific congress will become an annual event from 2018.

Leading figures addressing the many and varied challenges faced by developing countries will be attending Sustainable Earth 2017, a major conference at the University of Plymouth.

A European network has been created to find sudden cardiac arrest causes and compare treatments.

Acoustics '17 Boston, the third joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the European Acoustics Association, will be held this month in Boston. The meeting will cover acoustics across a diverse range of fields and applications including human health, technology, animal communication, education and more.

The World GI Congress is the premier global event in the field - encompassing malignancies affecting every component of the gastrointestinal tract and aspects related to the care of patients with gastrointestinal cancer, including screening, diagnosis and the latest management options for common and rare tumours.

Several critical periods over a human life span - including before birth -- determine when individuals are the most susceptible to environmental toxicants. Researchers will gather at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania to discuss these "Windows of Susceptibility"

Some 1,000 researchers expected at first international conference in Bologna beginning on Sunday -- University of Muenster's Cluster of Excellence 'Religion and Politics' involved in foundation of academy -- Presentation of research findings on increasing religious pluralism.

The MIT Portugal Program (MPP) is sending more than twenty Portuguese entrepreneurs to participate in this year´s edition of the 'International Workshop on Innovating - IWI 2017.' The event will take place from June 12th to 16th at the MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass., specifically at the famous Stata Center.

Prenatal cannabis, opioid, and alcohol use is a fast-growing global issue that can have lasting negative effects on fetal and maternal health. In addition, substance use disorders among women, their families, and their children are often left unaddressed, and women who use substances face greater stigmatization globally.

ESMO, the leading European professional organisation for medical oncology, has announced that the ESMO 2019 Annual Congress will take place in partnership with the European Association for Cancer Research (EACR) from Sept. 27 to Oct. 1, 2019, at the Fira Barcelona, Spain.

On June 16, MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research will present its 16th Annual Summer Symposium: Convergence of Science and Engineering in Cancer Research. Convergence -- the merging of historically distinct disciplines such as engineering, physics, chemistry, and the life sciences -- has created extraordinary opportunities for cancer research. Leaders in this emerging field will discuss innovative new approaches and technologies to better detect, monitor, treat, and prevent cancer.

Natural resource researchers at Oregon State University, Washington State University and the University of Idaho are gearing up for a late-summer summit aimed at addressing food, energy and water challenges as interconnected, regional issues.

In 2016, the ASA released an historic statement on statistical significance and p values in an effort to improve the conduct and interpretation of quantitative science and inform the growing emphasis on reproducibility of science research. That statement garnered vast attention, accumulating more than 190,000 page views, and generated discussion among statisticians in academia, government, and business worldwide. ASA continues to foster the dialogue and steer research and understanding at a new scientific conference this fall.

In honor of University of Illinois microbiologist Sol Spiegelman and his work in recombinant DNA technology, the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology is hosting the symposium 'The Enduring Legacy of Sol Spiegelman' from October 20-22, 2017. The symposium will feature a public lecture and a series of plenary talks.

74 scientists, among them Niels Abel Prize laureates and Fields Medal holders have already applied The Fields Medal and the Abel Prize have often been described as the mathematician's 'Nobel Prize'. In the frame of the conference young researchers will present their results in Mathematics and interdisciplinary studies at the international master-class 'Space-time dynamic systems'. The participants' plenary reports will be broadcast live on the Internet on RUDN official web-site and the conference web-site.

Graphene Week is the Flagship's largest annual event, showcasing state-of-the-art research from global leaders in graphene technologies. Conference chair Costas Galiotis tells us what he's looking forward to at Graphene Week 2017.

More than 200 participants, including influential higher education and industry leaders, entrepreneurs and policy-makers around the globe, gather in Hong Kong for the inaugural Times Higher Education (THE) Innovation & Impact Summit. Co-hosted by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and THE, the Summit inspires participants with a series of thought-provoking panel discussions on best practices and case studies to empower universities' economic and social impact through innovative research and teaching.

ESMO 2017 will take place 8 - 12 September in Madrid, Spain, in collaboration with EACR. It will be a truly integrated congress, bringing together researchers and clinicians to help bridge the gap between innovation and clinical implementation in cancer care.

Geoscientists in the North American Rocky Mountain region and beyond will convene on June 9-10 in Calgary, Ontario, Canada, to discuss new science, expand on existing science, and explore the unique geologic features of the region. Keynote talks will feature Jeff Freymueller (Director of EarthScope) and Dave Eaton (Director of Canadian Cordillera Array) in addition to local emergency management personnel telling stories of their experiences with the 2013 floods and 2016 Fort McMurray fires.

Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the American Chemical Society's 254th National Meeting & Exposition, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year. It will be held Aug. 20-24, 2017, in Washington, D.C.

Twenty Ohio high school students were selected to attend the Ohio Supercomputer Center's 28th annual Summer Institute, June 4-16 at The Ohio State University. These academically gifted students will investigate complex science and engineering problems while discovering the many career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.