Meetings

The Center for Financial Studies in the Lally School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will host a one-day workshop titled Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Financial Services. The workshop will take place on April 27 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies Auditorium on campus.

Media registration is now open online for TCT 2018 (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics), the annual Scientific Symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). TCT is the world's premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine, attracting more than 10,000 attendees from 90 countries all over the world.

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) and the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis, Osteoarthritis and Musculoskeletal Diseases (ESCEO) will welcome more than 4,000 delegates to the WCO-IOF-ESCEO 2018, opening today in Kraków, Poland. The CME-accredited Congress is the world's largest gathering of clinicians and researchers working in the field of musculoskeletal disorders.

Retired NASA astronaut David Wolf, M.D., will provide insight into how space flight affects the eye on Thursday, April 19, when he gives the keynote address during a conference attended by many of the nation's leading eye physicians and surgeons, hosted by the American Academy of Ophthalmology in Washington, D.C.

The annual Plymouth International Dementia Conference takes place at Plymouth Guildhall, UK, on May 4 this year with a full program covering everything from scams to technology, and how dementia is being addressed in China, Japan, Ireland, Greece and the UK.

Kathleen Yaremchuk, M.D, MSA, Chair of the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery at Henry Ford Hospital, will serve as a panelist at an FDA public workshop regarding the regulation of medical devices for sleep disordered breathing (SDB) from 8 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. ET today at the FDA White Oak Campus in Silver Spring, Maryland.

The scientific program of ESC Congress 2018 is online now. The world's largest cardiovascular congress will be held 25 to 29 August at the Messe München, Munich, Germany.

Ferdinand-Braun-Institut presents its UV LED developments in talks and at the accompanying exhibition at ICULTA-2018 -- from chips to ready-to-use modules. The institute co-organizes the international conference hosted in Berlin.

On April 18-22, 2018, the UCI Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory will host 800 of the world's foremost brain scientists for the 2018 International Conference on Learning and Memory. Scientists at the conference will present late-breaking research on topics such as Alzheimer's disease, drug addiction, exercise and the brain, depression, stress and more.

Professor Alexander Zhavoronkov, Chief Science Officer of the Biogerontology Research Foundation, is expected to present and showcase the recent advances in AI for drug discovery and aging research at the annual cutting-edge technology conference Pioneers18 in Vienna this spring.

The Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC) 2018 will be held July 21-26 at McCormick Place in Chicago, Illinois. Each year, AAIC convenes the world's leading basic science and clinical researchers, next generation investigators, clinicians and the care research community to share data and discoveries.

Dr. Phil Halloran and his team at the Alberta Transplant Applied Genomics Centre (ATAGC) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, has developed a molecular system for reading heart transplant biopsies through the use of microarrays, commonly referred to as gene chips. The system promises greater accuracy in determining heart rejection and predicting future heart failure.

We invite you to the 28th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, which will take place in Madrid, Spain, from April 21 - 24, 2018. ECCMID is the most important congress in infectious diseases, infection control and clinical microbiology. It offers a comprehensive scientific program with keynote lectures, symposia, oral and poster sessions as well as educational formats on parallel tracks.

Renowned scientists and practitioners will address key topics in nutrition in the United States and around the globe at Nutrition 2018, the inaugural flagship meeting of the American Society for Nutrition.

What does the future entail for the US Navy? What new technology will alter tomorrow's maritime warfare? How do we quickly deliver new capabilities to the warfighter? These are some of the questions that will be addressed during multiple panels featuring Chief of Naval Research Rear Adm. David J. Hahn, and leadership from the Naval Research Enterprise (NRE), at the Navy League's Global Maritime Exposition Sea-Air-Space, April 9-11, at the Gaylord Convention Center in National Harbor, Maryland.

Insilico Medicine announces the presentation at the International Conference on Interventions to Extend Healthspan and Lifespan. The International Conference on Interventions to Extend Healthspan and Lifespan will bring together more than 40 leading scientists to present their research in genomics, epigenetics, proteomics, and metabolomics of longevity and aging. The conference will transpire on April 22-26, 2018.

Seismology of the Americas is a joint conference of the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission (LACSC) and the Seismological Society of America (SSA).

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (ACM SIGCHI) has announced that the premier international conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2018, will take place in Montreal, Canada from April 21-26, 2018. Widely recognized as the world's most important showcase for human-computer interaction (HCI), CHI gathers thousands of the top researchers, scientists, and designers in the world to present their latest research, solve their hardest problems, learn new material and build their networks.

Science promises to sound more exciting than ever at this year's Acoustical Society of America meeting. Presenters will reveal the latest in acoustics research with insight into topics like how new materials could control acoustic waves, improving audio in virtual reality, acoustic levitation, and how certain insects use acoustics to attract a mate, as well as much more.

Scientists will discuss latest research, new gene therapies at international sensory biology conference.

From April 23 to May 22, 2018, Insilico Taiwan will host MolHack II, an online hackathon on Deep Learning for Bioinformatics, Biochemistry and Biomedical Data.