Meetings

Solar energy is globally one of the most important sustainable energy technologies at present with nearly 1.4 million solar installations in the United States alone. With such strong interest, it is our pleasure to publicly announce the international 2017 IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC-44) taking place in the capital of the United States, Washington DC from June 25 to June 30, 2017 at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel.

The world's largest annual gathering of statisticians and data scientists will head to Baltimore this July for the Joint Statistical Meetings, which will feature more than 3,000 presentations by statistical experts and researchers. Topics will include everything from new developments and advances in statistical methodology to thought-provoking analysis and discussion of hot topics like reproducibility in research, misleading use of statistics and the crossroads of statistics and politics.

Around 550 astronomers and space scientists will gather at the University of Hull, from July 2-6, for the 2017 Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting (NAM 2017). The conference is the largest regular professional astronomy event in the UK and will see leading researchers from around the world presenting the latest work in a variety of fields.

The 67th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting was today inaugurated in Lindau on the banks of Lake Constance in Germany. The guests, who hail from approximately 80 countries, were welcomed by the President of the Council, Countess Bettina Bernadotte af Wisborg. In total, 28 Nobel Laureates and 420 young scientists from around the world will participate in this year's meeting, which runs until Friday, June 30 and is dedicated to chemistry.

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.