Meetings

UK-Russia Genome Workshop 2019 is scheduled for 16th - 18th September, 2019. Kazan Federal University and University of Nottingham won a grant from the British Council and will disburse funding to participants, including competitive spots for 24 individuals, 12 from each of the two countries, to visit the workshop.

Columbia University is co-organizing and hosting the 2019 New York Scientific Data Summit, a two-and-a-half day symposium to explore data-driven discovery and innovation in science and industry. The summit, scheduled for June 12-14, 2019 in Columbia's Davis Auditorium.

Vadim Gladyshev, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, to present at the 6th Aging Research for Drug Discovery Forum in Basel, Switzerland.

Get a sneak peek of the future when design students from all over the world show off their graduation projects in the shape of products, services and systems. Umeå Institute of Design at Umeå University is ranked No. 1 in the world among design educations. This year's degree show offers a series of innovations ranging from sea rescue, footwear, apps, robots in hospitals to flying cars.

Jin Shang, CEO of GAC's R&D center in Silicon Valley, U.S.A., will share his views on LIDAR and other optical sensors in autonomous driving as keynote speaker at the OIDA Forum on Optics in Autonomy, June 27, 2019 in San Jose, Calif., U.S.A.

Journalists may now apply for press credentials for the American Chemical Society (ACS) Fall 2019 National Meeting & Exposition, one of the largest scientific conferences of the year. The meeting will be held Aug. 25-29, 2019, in San Diego.

Identification and management of patients at high bleeding risk (HBR) undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is of major importance, but a lack of standardisation in defining this population limits trial design, data interpretation, and clinical decision-making.

Insilico to present at the 2019 Africa Health Conference.

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) have organized the ACM-IMS Interdisciplinary Summit on the Foundations of Data Science to be held June 15, 2019, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. This one-day event will bring together distinguished speakers and panelists to address topics such as deep learning, reinforcement learning, fairness, ethics, and the future of data science.

Elsevier and the Glasgow Caledonian University Centre for Climate Justice are pleased to announce a partnership that will provide the platform to discuss the impacts of climate change on weather forecasting, people trafficking and growing spread of mosquito-borne malaria, among other topics, at the first World Forum on Climate Justice, June 19-21, 2019 at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU).

Don't miss the world's largest meeting devoted entirely to clinical sleep medicine and sleep and circadian research. SLEEP 2019, the 33rd annual meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies, LLC (APSS), will be held in San Antonio from June 9 through June 12, 2019. Leading sleep clinicians and scientists will attend this meeting in historic downtown San Antonio at the Henry B. González Convention Center.

Around 500 astronomers and space scientists will gather at Lancaster University, from 30 June - 4 July, for the Royal Astronomical Society National Astronomy Meeting 2019 (NAM 2019). The conference is the largest annual astronomy and space science event in the UK and will see leading scientists from the UK and around the world present the latest cutting-edge research. Media representatives are cordially invited to attend the meeting and can register at no cost.

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute researchers are presenting more than 70 research studies at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago, May 31- June 4. ASCO is the world's largest clinical cancer research meeting, attracting more than 30,000 oncology professionals from around the world.

An annual meeting focussing on demonstrable science, policy and industry trends, benefiting in its 2019 edition from an all-time record of 1,105 abstracts received from 75 countries, 281 keynote, plenary and oral presentations juried in, and over 1,500 delegates and 43 exhibitors pre-registered.

Scientists conducting cutting-edge research in computational astrophysics will converge at Rochester Institute of Technology for two workshops in June. Experts from RIT, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Berkeley and other prestigious institutions will speak at the events hosted by RIT's Center for Computational Relativity and Gravitation.

Plenary talks on the latest optical-based sensor advances are among the highlights of the OSA Optical Sensors and Sensing Congress 25-27 June in San Jose, Calif., U.S.A.

The American College of Cardiology will host the ACC Latin America Conference in partnership with the Colombian Society of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery in Cartagena, Colombia, from July 25-27, 2019, bringing together top experts to discuss and review new, relevant cardiovascular science pertinent to the region.

Journalists and bloggers are invited to join top scientists and practitioners as they discuss new nutrition research findings during Nutrition 2019, the flagship meeting of the American Society for Nutrition. The meeting will be held June 8-11, 2019 at the Baltimore Convention Center.

EuroPCR is the place to be to hear the latest news about cardiovascular interventions. This year also marks the 30th anniversary of the Course. EuroPCR is expecting 10,000+ participants for its patient-oriented four-day Course built by and for the community. Interventional cardiologists, surgeons, imaging specialists, nurses, allied professionals and other practitioners will be joined by researchers, innovators and industry representatives to address interventions for coronary and peripheral vessels, for structural heart disease including valves, for hypertension, heart failure and stroke.

Media registration is now open for The Geological Society of America's 131st Annual Meeting & Exposition, to be held 22-25 September 2019 at the Phoenix Convention Center, 100 N. 3rd Street, Phoenix, Arizona, 85004, USA. The meeting is earlier than usual, so plan now to attend for one of the best opportunities of the year to meet geoscience experts face-to-face and cover the scientific findings that are enlarging our understanding of Earth and defining the future.

Media registration is now open online for TCT 2019 (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.

On May 15-17, 2019 more than 600 geoscientists from western North America and beyond will gather at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon, USA. They meet to present new discoveries, expand on existing science, and explore geologic features of the Cordilleran region extending from the US and Canadian west coast, north to Alaska and the Arctic, south to western Mexico, and even out to Hawai'i and the Pacific.