Meetings

The Zombie Apocalypse Medicine Meeting will happen online October 15-18, 2020. The meeting spans the sciences, the arts and the scary while bringing scientists, artists and journalists together with the general public. This year's meeting has been reanimated into a livestream broadcast on Channel Zed. Registrants will have access to programming on topics like how birth control, race relations, the pandemic, sex, literature and social media can all be thought of as zombification processes.

The ERC will take part in the European Research and Innovation Days, the European Commission's annual flagship event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.

The American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) will convene its 2021 Annual Meeting as an all-virtual event from April 18-22, 2021. The first imaging society to announce an all-virtual assembly for 2021, ARRS promises to deliver the same clinically relevant experience for which its Annual Meeting has long been heralded: world-class educational activities led by the field's foremost experts that span every subspecialty of radiology.

This year's groundbreaking allergy and asthma news from the ACAAI Annual Scientific Meeting will be delivered virtually, and for free.

This September, the Human Brain Project will launch 'Brain Matters', a new monthly webinar series which will explore the various issues being tackled by the HBP scientific community.

In May 2020, the United Nations warned that the COVID-19 pandemic has the seeds of a major mental health crisis if action is not taken. International experts will discuss this topic at an English-language virtual panel discussion jointly organized by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina and the Academy of Science of South Africa on Monday, September 28, 2020, 11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. CEST.

Vice Chief of Naval Research Brig. Gen. Benjamin Watson will be a panelist at the 2020 Modern Day Marine Virtual Experience, to be held Sept. 22-24 at Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia.

The American Educational Research Association (AERA) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will co-host a webinar on "Education Research Worldwide in a Covid and Post-Covid World" at 9:30-11:00 am EDT Wednesday, September 23.

The Endocrine Society will switch its annual meeting, ENDO 2021, to a fully virtual format, the Society announced today.

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing (SIGMOBILE) will hold its International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MobiCom 2020) September 21-25. MobiCom is a highly selective, premier international forum for addressing networks, systems, algorithms and applications that support the combination of mobile computers and mobile and wireless networks.

The Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) has announced over 30 late-breaking trial and science presentations that will be reported at TCT Connect. TCT, the annual scientific symposium of CRF and the world's premier educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine, will take place online October 14-18.

Renowned scientists will address topics as chronobiotics, circadian rhythms, the timing of societies, and well-being.

Entrepreneurs developing medical devices and technologies to improve health outcomes will pitch their innovations to a panel of expert judges for the chance to share in $200,000 in in-kind resources to advance their work during a virtual event to be held on Thursday, Sept. 17 at 5 p.m. ET

Cleveland Clinic's Medical Innovation Summit will be held virtually with complimentary registration on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, allowing participants from around the globe to join the annual event. With a focus on the adoption of virtual care and other digital health initiatives, the one-day summit brings together speakers and leaders from organizations that span the health spectrum to deliver content to individuals looking to innovate for healthcare's areas of opportunity.

This is an open Webinar exploring the state of food (in)security in India.

The scientific program schedule with abstracts is now online and searchable for The Geological Society of America's annual meeting, GSA Connects Online 2020, to be held online, 26-30 October, on Eastern Daylight Time. Thousands of researchers from top universities, institutions, and agencies will once again come together to share data, research results, and advance the current state of understanding in the earth sciences.

COVID-19 and the interlinkages to endocrine and metabolic diseases was an important programme topic for the 2020 edition of the European Congress of Endocrinology. With 4675 attendees from 112 countries this is the premier European endocrine meeting. Over 5 days, panel sessions covered the science behind COVID 19 and endocrine and metabolic disorders, as well as e-consulting and e-support to endocrine patients in times of COVID-19.

Deep Longevity scientists to present a new integrated system of multiple deep biomarkers of aging and longevity at Metabesity one of the industry's

The first-ever virtual American College of Surgeons (ACS) Clinical Congress 2020 will convene October 3-7, offering surgeons and guest clinicians both live and on-demand sessions.

Archana Kamal, UMass Lowell physics professor and internationally known expert on quantum information technologies, will co-present a free TEDx talk on the next quantum revolution as part of the TEDx "Breaking Barriers" webinar series.

This year's International Economics Olympiad for high school students started on September 7 with an opening ceremony that celebrated the biggest and most diverse group of students yet to compete in the Olympiad, now in its third year. 29 teams from 29 countries will compete this time. The event, which is being held online due to the pandemic, will last until September 13.

Since 2010, the Inclusion in Science Learning A New Direction (ISLAND) conference on disability and STEM has provided a forum to address how persons with disabilities can be integrated more fully into science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Due to COVID-19, the 11th annual ISLAND conference is going virtual on Saturday (Sept. 12). ISLAND is organized by Independence Science, a Purdue University-affiliated company, and is hosted at Princeton University.

The ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID) will take place online from Wednesday 23 to Friday 25 September 2020. This will be the first conference focussing exclusively on COVID-19 organised by the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID).

Presented at the all-virtual OSA Frontiers in Optics and Laser Science APS/DLS (FiO + LS) conference, researchers will present on the detection of protease activity with Raman spectroscopy.