Meetings

Why does pancreatic cancer develop, what new therapies might be effective against metastasis formation, and what is to be considered in palliative care? Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will address these questions at the virtual symposium of Class III Medicine.

This free event will highlight the experiences of four past Rappaport Fellowship awardees with very different backgrounds, ranging from clinical research to research involving postmortem human brains to research involving behavioral and molecular endpoints in animal models.

Mathematicians from the University of Bath's Institute for Mathematical Innovation (IMI) are using their modelling and statistical expertise to help festival and other events organisers deliver their events safely during the pandemic, offering a free virtual workshop on 13-15 July.

The world of science and the interested public are looking all the more intensively at Lindau today. At 1.30 p.m., Countess Bettina Bernadotte af Wisborg, as President of the Council, opened the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting from the island at Lake Constance.

The 2021 World Congress on Gastrointestinal Cancer will be held as a virtual meeting, on June 30-July 3.

Data collection and international exchange remain critical to contain the COVID-19 pandemic worldwide. In addition to case numbers, reproduction rates, and modeling, topics such as sensitivity and specificity of tests and vaccine efficacy have dominated public debate in recent months. Experts will discuss the importance of data in the current pandemic and how it can help to increase preparedness for international health emergencies in the future at this international virtual panel discussion organized by the Leopoldina.

The first edition of the ESMO Gynaecological Cancers Congress will be held as a virtual meeting on 25-26 June 2021 and will focus on ovarian cancer.

The international IT symposium 'Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies' (HEART) will be held online this year, from June 21-23. The forum will explore the latest research findings on computer systems and methods in the context of hardware-accelerated high-performance computing (HPC).

From June 22-23, the virtual Times Higher Education Young Universities Summit, jointly organized with HSE University, will take place. This marks the first time that the summit will be conducted with support from a Russian university. The choice of HSE is no coincidence: it is the only Russian university in the Top 50 of THE Young University Ranking.

How does human life begin, which processes influence the human gut microbiome, and what do researchers know about the collective intelligence of honeybees? Members of the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina will answer these and other questions at the virtual symposium of Class II - Life Sciences on Monday, June 21, 2021, 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. (Berlin/Germany).

Digitization is an integral part of democracy today. This is particularly evident in election campaigns, political initiatives, and societal debates that are increasingly being conducted via social media. On Tuesday, 22 June, and Wednesday, 23 June, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences are organizing the virtual symposium "Digitization and Democracy" in order to discuss associated risks, policy options, and trends from a scientific point of view.

This is wonderful opportunity to learn about international perspectives in missing person research. Sessions will be recorded and made available for 24 hours to all registers, so that people from different time zones can take part at decent hours of the day.