Meetings

A panel of industry and research leaders will discuss how new technologies being pioneered in the UK city-region of Greater Manchester could play a role in building greener and more equal cities of the future. 'Material Gains: Building cities that are better for people and the planet' will take place online on Monday, 19 April (2pm to 3pm).

Press conferences will be held Monday, April 5, through Friday, April 16, 2021. Below is the schedule, which will be updated as needed.

This is the meeting of the SIAM Activity Group on Financial Mathematics and Engineering.

What can you expect at the ATS 2021 International Conference, taking place May 14-19? We've gone ahead and identified some "hot topics" for your consideration.

James P. Allison, PhD, Carl H. June, MD and Siddhartha Mukherjee, MD Keynote April 29 Summit on Advancing Solid Tumor Breakthroughs: Eight additional panels on developing the next generation cancer cell and gene therapies.

This week, more than 200 researchers from around the world are coming together virtually to identify critical needs for the field and brainstorm collaborative solutions in the next evolution of this project, the PRIMatE Data and Resource Exchange (PRIME-DRE) Global Collaboration Workshop. The workshop aims to accelerate brain mapping for the purposes of advancing mental health research through global collaboration focused on nonhuman primate brain imaging.

UMass Lowell experts on the COVID-19 virus, NASA's research on Mars and efforts to bring a more diverse workforce to science-related fields will share their insights on these topics as part of a free event series open to the public this week.

Presented at the 2021 Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC), researchers will present the results generated from a record-breaking transatlantic transmission across MAREA.

What's on the horizon in cardiac imaging? Find out at ICNC-CT 2021 Virtual, the online meeting where clinicians and scientists from around the world gather for the latest updates on state-of-the-art nuclear cardiology and cardiac computed tomography (CT). The congress will be held 9 to 11 May online. Explore the scientific programme.

Want to find out the latest insights into COVID-19, explore new medicines for fighting substance abuse or delve into cultural challenges facing the scientific community? The Experimental Biology (EB) 2021 meeting is your source for the latest research and discussion on today's hot topics in science and medicine. Program is now available.

At the 2021 OSA Biophotonics Congress: Optics in Life Sciences, researchers will present their newly developed head-mounted miniature microscope that can be used to image activity from the entire outer part of the brain, or cortex, in freely behaving mice.

In this webinar, we will discuss the outlook of preprints in plant sciences and agriculture, explore what can be learned from fields with a longer tradition of preprint use and hear from researchers who have successfully used preprints for the communication of their research.

Find out how magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the heart is helping physicians to pinpoint diagnoses and tailor treatment at EuroCMR 2021, an online scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC). EuroCMR is the annual cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) congress of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), a branch of the ESC. It takes place 6 to 8 May online. Explore the scientific programme.

Researchers and healthcare professionals specializing in healthcare epidemiology, infectious diseases, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection prevention will meet online on April 12 for Decennial Day to focus on global solutions for preventing healthcare-associated infections and addressing emerging pathogens and antibiotic resistance in healthcare. The event precedes Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America's Spring 2021 virtual conference.

The Geological Society of America's North-Central Section and South-Central Section will each hold their 55th Annual Meetings together in an online event on 18-20 April this year. The meeting will have a diverse range of technical sessions, field trips, and student mentoring opportunities. The platform will emphasize creating as much interaction and communication among attendees as possible in an online environment.

The International Society for Autism Research (INSAR) 2021 Annual Meeting - the organization's 20th - will virtually bring together a global, multidisciplinary group of researchers, clinicians and students presenting their latest research. Anyone interested in autism research is welcome to attend. The meeting will be held Monday, May 3 through Friday, May 7, 2021 with registrants having access to on- demand content until June 7.

At the all-virtual 2021 OSA Biophotonics Congress, researchers will demonstrate that tiny lasers integrated into heart muscle cells or tissue can be used to acquire high-resolution measurements of contractility in heart muscle cells, live zebrafish and living heart tissue at locations several times deeper than other light-based techniques.

NUTRITION 2021 LIVE ONLINE is your source for the latest in nutrition science. Join us June 7-10, 2021 for a dynamic virtual program featuring research announcements, expert discussions and plenty of opportunities to network with top nutrition scientists and practitioners.

Registration is now open! This is the meeting of the SIAM Activity Group on Dynamical Systems.

Insights into molecular changes in the brains of Alzheimer's patients, a new model for predicting the life expectancy of older adults with multiple chronic diseases and age-related vulnerability, and older adults' and healthcare professionals' perspectives on gun retirement are the subjects of top-line presentations at the American Geriatrics Society (AGS) 2021 Virtual Annual Scientific Meeting (#AGS21) (May 13-15, with pre-conference May 12).

This seminar is especially addressed to non-economists, with the aim of demonstrating how potent and illuminating the economic perspective may be, but also warning about the possible misuse of economic concepts. The objective of this seminar is to discuss the rationale of economic valuation techniques and to discuss their grounding principles, in order to test the validity of the approach.

Thousands of ecologists, educators, and practitioners will gather this August 2-6 for ESA's 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting. Members of the media are invited to attend at no charge.

Scheduled for May 18-19, the conference will be presented online. More information about scheduled sessions, including speaker biographies and abstracts, is available at vetmed.tennessee.edu/ce/hemp. More than twenty experts from the fields of veterinary medicine, animal feeds, food science, toxicology, clinical nutrition and hemp use are slated to lead sessions.