Meetings

The all-virtual OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in the Life Sciences, to be held 12 - 16 April 2021, will feature three dynamic plenary talks highlighting advancements in biomedical research spanning molecular and cellular investigations to clinical applications.

GSA's Northeastern Section will meet online on 14-15 March. The meeting's theme is "Lithosphere, Hydrosphere, Anthroposphere," which reflects interrelated components of planet Earth. In particular, over the past several decades, we have become more aware of the impact of humans on the planet. Organizers intend for this meeting to be a venue to communicate not only our recent advances in understanding our planet but also the role of humans in transforming it.

Members of the media are invited to register to attend the 2021 AERA Virtual Annual Meeting, April 8-12, for five days of cutting edge research, ideas, and engagement. The 2021 Annual Meeting theme is "Accepting Educational Responsibility."

Lehigh University College of Health faculty member, Fathima Wakeel, will present at the virtual Women in Data Science GM Multiregional Conference 2021 on International Women's Day, this Monday, March 8, 2021. The event is organized by General Motors as part of Stanford University's annual WiDS Worldwide conference involving an estimated 150+ locations worldwide and featuring "outstanding women doing outstanding work in the field of data science."

The Heidelberg Laureate Forum Foundation (HLFF) invites any interested guest to the Virtual Film Festival Mathematics - Computer Science, with four screenings from March 14-29. The films selected throw a spotlight either on the life and work of outstanding scientists or on social discourse surrounding current issues rooted in mathematics and computer science. Special guests and the films' directors will be available for questions following the screenings.

Complimentary press passes are now available for the year's biggest virtual nutrition meeting, NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE. Join us June 7-10, 2021 for a dynamic program featuring leading scientists, groundbreaking research and the hottest topics in nutrition science.

To mark International Open Data Day and reflect on how open data can build resilience in agriculture and food systems, the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT and the CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture will have a webinar featuring research leaders in big data and digital technologies in agriculture.

Due to the global pandemic we have re-scheduled the in person Advances in Cosmetic Formulation Design II Conference to Summer 2022. To keep the community up to date, this webinar will focus on an emerging area of high interest to the community-the utilization of automation, AI and Machine learning for fast and smart formulation development,

The in-person Cell Culture Engineering XVII Conference has been postponed until October 16 - October 22, 2021 in Tucson, Arizona. To highlight the key role that the CCE community plays to free people worldwide from the shackles of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are planning two webinars during the original dates of the conference.

On Wednesday, March 3, the University of Minnesota will host top national experts to debate how COVID-19 is changing the rules and conduct for research. This webinar on 'Conducting Research in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ethics in an Emergency' will tackle huge issues.

The pandemic has exacerbated pre-existing educational disparities. "'ducation: COVID-19 and social inequalities' will be the theme of the next FAPESP COVID-19 Webinar on March 3rd, 2021.

The public will have an opportunity to hear about research and experiences unique to Oceania at the 42nd Annual Research Conference of the University of Guam's College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, being held virtually from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday, March 5.

Researchers from the CGIAR conducted the first world-level assessment of the impacts of COVID-19 on food security. This is the first retrospective assessment of the pandemic impact completed at the global scale, covering the entire 12 months of 2020. Their analysis, which will be presented in a March 2 webinar, highlights points of vulnerability and resilience, identifies who suffered and who benefitted, and examines how lockdowns and other policies shaped outcomes.

Nader Motee, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University and a globally-recognized scholar in distributed control systems and real-time robot perception, will provide a technical keynote address to the 7th International Conference on Control, Instrumentation and Automation (ICCIA 2020). This academic event, hosted by the University of Tabriz in Tabriz, Iran, is incorporating virtual content this year due to complications brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, and will take place Feb 23-24, 2021.

The University of Tokyo and Springer Nature will hold a symposium on sustainability goals and research, bringing together experts in Japan and Springer Nature's editor-in-chief for an online event on March 26, 2021.

The ESMO Targeted Anticancer Therapies Congress 2021, designed for basic scientists, physicians and translational researchers belonging to academic settings, industry and regulatory agencies will be held as a virtual meeting.

The National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN), American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and the National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) presented new ideas for overcoming inequality in oncology. The recommendations address how medical systems often disproportionately fail minority patients.

This meeting is sponsored by the SIAM Activity Group on Data Science. This conference is held in cooperation with the American Statistical Association.

Global experts performing leading edge research in precision medicine, functional genomics, protein science, and variant interpretation and prediction will share their expertise and insights April 5-7 during the fourth annual "Mutational Scanning Symposium," a free-of-charge virtual conference.

This year's virtual SSA Annual Meeting will feature more than 750 technical presentations, including sessions co-sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Seismological Commission and the Seismological Society of China. 

No matter where you are in the world, the 2021 AAN Annual Meeting is one click away. Journalists can now register to attend the 73rd Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) being held virtually April 17-22, 2021. The AAN Annual Meeting is the world's largest gathering of neurologists who come together to share the latest advances in neurologic research.

Registration is now open for the first edition of Communities and Communication, an international interdisciplinary conference and festival hosted by Staffordshire University.

An OSA Industry Development Associates (OIDA) virtual workshop, to be held 30 - 31 March 2021, will review issues embedded photonics must overcome to be considered a viable mass market technology.

ESMO, the leading organisation for medical oncology, has launched an important new service for rapidly disseminating research to accelerate the transition of results into practice for the benefit of cancer patients.

Researchers and entrepreneurs developing sensor technologies for use in a variety of applications will share their expertise and experiences during a free event presented by UMass Lowell on Wednesday, March 3 at noon.