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Conventions: Aug 25, 2008

IGCP 503 Closing Meeting - International Congress "Palaeozoic Climates"

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Lille, Nord Pas de Calais France

The Congress will serve as Closing Meeting of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) n° 503 ‘Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate’ and is co-sponsored by the IGCP n° 497 ‘The Rheic Ocean : its Origin, Evolution and Correlatives’ and n° 499 ‘Devonian land-sea interaction : evolution of ecosystems and climate’.

2nd International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 31, 2008,
Valencia, Valencia Spain

The goal of the International Conference on Advanced Engineering Computing and Applications in Sciences, ADVCOMP 2008, is to bring together researchers from the academia and practitioners from the industry in order to address fundamentals of advanced scientific computing and specific mechanisms and algorithms for particular sciences. The conference will provide a forum where researchers shall be able to present recent research results and new research problems and directions related to them. The conference seeks contributions presenting novel research in all aspects of new scientific methods for computing and hybrid methods for computing optimization, as well as advanced algorithms and computational procedures, software and hardware solutions dealing with specific domains of science.

IDRC International Disaster and Risk Conference

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Davos, Grisons, Switzerland

The conference will address a broad range of risks including those relating to pandemics and terrorism; climate change; and natural hazards. Risks of a technical, biological and chemical nature will also feature at this event.

International Congress "Palaeozoic Climates"

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Fédération universitaire et polytechnique de Lille, FUPL, Lille, Nord Pas de Calais France

Climate change is currently one of the most debated and discussed scientifical topics. Ancient climate changes are extremely useful to understand the global changes that we live today. The scientific meeting on Palaeozoic Climates is focused not only on ancient climate and sea-level changes (Ordovician glaciation, end-Devonian extinction, Late alaeozoic glaciation ; greenhouse-icehouse transitions),
but also on their modelisation , their understanding and their impact on the biodiversity.

The Congress will serve as Closing Meeting of the International Geoscience Programme (IGCP) n° 503 ‘Ordovician Palaeogeography and Palaeoclimate’ and is co-sponsored by the IGCP n° 497 ‘The Rheic Ocean : its Origin, Evolution and Correlatives’ and n° 499 ‘Devonian land-sea interaction : evolution of ecosystems and climate’.

Map Africa 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008,
Cape town, Western Cape, South Africa

Map Africa facilitates interaction, discussion, and collaboration amongst the participants and provides a platform to share the latest developments in the field and also promote the products and services. The profile of the participants include top decision makers from government and private sectors, existing as well as prospective users, academicians, vendors, policy makers and representatives of various international organizations working for promoting the cause of this technology.

16th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2008)

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Laussane, Switzerland

The 2008 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2008) is the sixteenth in a series of conferences promoted by EURASIP, the European Association for Signal Processing (www.eurasip.org). Formerly biannual, this conference is now a yearly event. This edition will take place in Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL).

EUSIPCO-2008 will focus on the key aspects of signal processing theory and applications. Exploration of new avenues and methodologies of signal processing will also be encouraged. Accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings of EUSIPCO-2008. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. Proposals for special sessions and tutorials are also invited.

EVA Vienna 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 28, 2008,
Vienna, Austria

Following the successful 1st EVA conference in Vienna in 2006, the Pattern Recognition and Image Processing (PRIP) Group of the Vienna University of Technology and the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) invites authors and guests to the 2nd EVA conference in Vienna. The conference is endorsed by the TC19 Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

The main aim of this EVA Event in Vienna is to create a forum for discussions between the cultural heritage research community, technology researchers and cultural institutions. Our mission is to establish new technical tools for experts in the cultural heritage field. The accompanying motto of this conference is "Digital Cultural Heritage - Essential for Tourism". The conference will focus on image analysis, cultural tourism, speech and communication in cultural heritage, archaeography, and museum and archaeological applications. The focus will be on both applied work as well as theoretical advances.

12th International Conference on Integrated Diffuse Pollution Management (IWA DIPCON 2008)

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Hotel Sofitel Raja Orchid, 9/9 Prachasumran Road, Khon Kaen, Thailand

On behalf of the organising committee we would like to invite you to join the 12th International Conference on Integrated Diffuse Pollution Management (IWA DIPCON 2008), which will be held on August 25-29, 2008 in Khon Kaen, Thailand.

This conference is open to everyone who has an interest in diffuse pollution and management. Topics include, pollution sources, impacts and abatement, soil, surface water and groundwater contamination, integrated management and social aspects associated with diffuse pollution.

It should provide opportunities for technical exchange information, networking, experience sharing and much more.

13th Annual National Water 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008,
Sofitel Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria Australia

earn how major developments in Australia’s $90 billion water industry will directly affect your business. Your most immediate business questions are being tackled by an unrivaled line-up of speakers and panel members, including techniques to:

* Maximise opportunities for investment and growth
* Analyse how the water reforms will affect your business
* Tackle the risk of managing assets
* Steamline customer services
* Involve communities in conservation, recycling and reuse campaigns
* Make water management integral to urban and regional planning
* Improve water quality

Islamic Finance & Investment World Africa 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 28, 2008,
Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Islamic finance is already one of the fastest growing sectors in the global financial industry. Currently, there are nearly 300 Islamic banks and financial institutions worldwide whose assets are predicted to grow to $1 trillion by 2013. Industry leaders in many African countries are now actively turning their attention and preparing for this lucrative development for both muslim and non-muslim community.

2nd Annual Strategic Purchasing & Procurement Forum 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 28, 2008,
Stockholm Sweden

Make sure that you to choose the right way of optimizing your procurement strategy! IQPC' present the 2nd Annual Strategic Purchasing & Procurement Forum. At the 2007 event it was clear that more companies face higher pressure to lower costs to continuously bring home revenue from all products. Driving cost efficiency through smart consolidation will make you increase opportunities for higher margins, but no matter if you have a strategy of turning to low cost countries or put your efforts in supplier relations, this is of top priority for all companies concerned with sourcing.

The 2008 program will focus on top issues within procurement, a sample of next years event:

* Having a holistic business perspective to proactively adapt to global market trends that affect your business and procurement focus
* Securing the talent management to continuously have a high level of innovation and quality in your purchasing process
* The necessity of integrating financial, ethical and environmental issues in your procurement strategy
* Defining your costs and savings and knowing how to measure procurement
* Outlining the procurement KPI´s in line with your business goals

ISD 2008 - 17th International Conference on Information Systems Development

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008,
Annabelle Hotel Paphos, Cyprus

The Seventeenth International Conference on Information Systems Development (ISD2008) will be hosted by the University of Cyprus. The venue will be the Annabelle hotel, in Paphos. The theme of the conference is "Towards a Service-Provision Society". The conference features a number of tracks covering a wide spectrum of topics in the area of Information Systems Development.

Tracks

* Information Systems Engineering & Management
* Business Systems Analysis & Design
* Intelligent Information Systems
* Agile and High-Speed Systems Development Methods
* Enterprise Systems Development & Adoption
* Public Information Systems Development
* Information Systems Development Education
* Information Systems Development in Developing Nations
* Legal and Administrative Aspects of Information Systems Development
* Information Systems Research Methodologies
* Service-Oriented Analysis and Design of Information Systems
* IT Service Management
* Philosophical and Theoretical Issues in Information Systems Development
* Model-driven Engineering in Information Systems Development
* Human Computer Interaction (HCI) in Information Systems Development

4h International Symposium in GIS/ Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Universidade Santa Ursula ,, Rio de Janeiro Brazil

The Symposium aims at highlighting developments and applications of GIS/Spatial analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences, facilitate exchange of ideas and information and suggest further improvements, techniques and applications of GIS/Spatial analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences.

The general theme is the same as in the past three Symposia, i.e., to emphasize GIS as a tool for conducting spatial analyses in aquatic sciences, which encompasses the ecosystem approach to fisheries management and the interrelationships between inland and marine fisheries and aquaculture, and the aquatic and terrestrial environments in which the activities take place. We have Dr Phil Scott, from Universidade Santa Úrsula as the local co-organizer who is working hard with us to make the Symposium as fruitful and successful as in the past. We are looking forwards to see you in August.

14th Annual Pediatric Board Review Symposium

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
The InterContinental Hotel and Bank of America Conference Center Cleveland, Ohio United States

The primary objective of the symposium is to provide a comprehensive pediatric board review, which will prepare you for board certification or re-certification. The quality and breadth of the symposium is also attractive for individuals needing a comprehensive update of basic pediatric clinical information.

Unique features of the symposium include the use of an audience response system, which allows the attendee to gauge their knowledge base and become familiar with board-type questions while attending the symposium. This format also allows the lecturer to introduce topics in a question and answer format and to stress board examination-relevant information.

In addition, there are specialty-specific board simulation sessions, during which board-relevant questions/answers and rationale will be discussed.

Finally, all attendees will receive, as part of their syllabus material, the new 2nd edition of the 594-page textbook, The Cleveland Clinic Intensive Review of Pediatrics. This textbook is based on this symposium, and it is the first comprehensive textbook to specifically focus on pediatric board review certification and re-certification.

ChinaCom

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008,
ZheJiang University, 78 Beishan Road Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China 310007

The aim of CHINACOM is to bring together Chinese and international researchers and practitioners in networking and communications under one roof to showcase recent research advances in communications and networking. Following the great success of CHINACOM’06 and CHINACOM’07, CHINACOM’08 will be held in Hangzhou, China, one of the most beautiful cities in the world, on August 2008, right after the Beijing Olympic Games. The conference will be technically sponsored by Zhejiang University.

CHINACOM is being positioned as a premier international annual conference for the presentation of original and fundamental research advances in the field of communications and networking. The conference will consist of technical symposia, panels, and workshops. The technical sessions will present original and fundamental research advances while the panels and workshops will focus on development, application, and related business issues.

PGA 2008 Fall Expo

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008,
Mandalay Bay Las Vegas, Nevada United States

SOURCING • NETWORKING • EQUIPMENT TESTING • EDUCATION • PRODUCT DISCOVERY

As the country’s premier fall pre-book apparel, equipment and accessory buying event, the PGA Fall Expo provides the opportunity for thousands of PGA Professionals and golf retailers to preview the spring season’s hottest golf equipment, accessories and apparel, and personally demo products of more than 350 golf-related exhibitors.The PGA Fall Expo is the country’s premier fall marketplace and trade event for golf retailers.

Products and Services

Golf Equipment, Golf Products & Service, Golf and Resort Apparel, Travel, Teaching Aids, Course Signage and Fixtures, Turf and Course Maintenance, Golf Carts, and Club Management.

Driving Interoperability and Collaboration in eGovernment

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008,
Brisbane, Queensland Australia

Australia has been an early adopter of eGovernment with the political recognition of the potential benefits of electronic service delivery in the late 1990s. Over the past decade there has been a constant push to improve service delivery to citizens, businesses and other government bodies, to achieve internal cost efficiencies and to improve collaboration and engagement using the web and electronic solutions.

However, in the past couple of years Australia has been overtaken by other countries undertaking more rapid eGovernment developments. Australian agencies and departments face new challenges, such as the implementation of citizen-centric services, the development of integrated cross-governmental service delivery points and the adoption of various innovative technologies.

This conference will allow you to hear practical case studies from professionals who share your experience striving for eGovernment best practice and citizen-centric online service delivery. The conference presentations will arm you with techniques to:

* Develop and implement an eGovernment strategy effectively
* Build a services orientated architecture that supports online services
* Deliver citizen-centric services
* Accomplish cross-governmental interoperability and collaboration
* Manage the accessibility, privacy and security of information
* Utilise innovative technologies such as smart cards and Second Life enhance service delivery

18th IMEKO TC 2 Symposium on Photonics in Measurements 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008,
Olympik Hotel Prague Czech Republic

Photonics has dramatically expanded and progressed in recent years. Photonics technologies and solutions are widely implemented in measuring and testing because of their flexibility, reliability and contact-less nature. The 18th IMEKO TC 2 Symposium on Photonics in Measurements 2008 will summarise the impact and contribution of Photonics to the field of measurements.

Democratic National Convention

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 28, 2008,
Denver, Colorado United States

The Democratic National Convention, coming to Denver Aug. 25-28, 2008, is already shaping up to be one of the biggest events in the Mile High City’s 150-year history. How can you get involved? While the Convention itself will be closed to the general public, there will be a myriad of tie-ins that will allow Denverites to be a part of Mile High history. Here’s a look at a few Convention-related activities that are already underway.

* Cinemocracy
* America Live and In Person
* Denver 8.08

Liquidity Risk Management Masterclass

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008,
Singapore

Recent turmoil in global financial markets has exposed vulnerabilities in the valuation and distribution of risks within the global financial system. Banks have seen a great number of amounts of unexpected losses, but more importantly has damaged their market reputation and trust.

The lack of trust is spiked mainly due to unexpected market conditions (market risk), changes in the counterparty’s behaviour (credit risk), severe losses (i.e., due to operational risk) and inefficient management of financial portfolios and products (i.e., Islamic contracts). Any failure in understanding and managing the above risk issues may result in down-ratings of the bank’s reputation that further reduces the level of confidence and trust.

Globally, in the last couple of decades the market is facing liquidity risk crises almost once every year. Today, banks that are trading and operating in the globalised market are directly or indirectly affected by such crises. New financial products, coming for instance from the Islamic finance, that may have global expansion in Asian, European and USA markets may also cause liquidity risk due to lack of understanding of their unique financial and risk characteristics.

Banks are now at the tasked to fuel their financial system to ensure that they remain liquid for good. Attend SALVO’s LIQUIDITY RISK MANAGEMENT MASTERCLASS and gain tips on how to:

1. Understand the causes and then measure, evaluate and manage their liquidity risk.
2. Regulate as nowadays also paying high attention to liquidity risk although that in the Basel II accord it was only mentioned under Pillar II in a very general sense. Moreover, ICAAP refers to risks that are not taken into account by Pillar I and provides to the regulatory authorities guidance in regards to liquidity risk management.
3. Find out how banks have the tough tasks to be liquid, from their counterparties that own their liabilities, whereas on the other hand the overall market is facing the problem of illiquidity due to the lack of marketability and tradability for liquidating financial products.

Global Talent Management Summit

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2009,
Chicago, Illinois United States

IQPC's Global Talent Management Summit will provide multinational companies with strategies and best practices for developing their worldwide workforce.

Global Talent Management Summit brings together industry leaders to share case-studies and in-depth discussions about:

• Defining a value proposition for each target segment of talent by focusing on the needs of future employees

• Marketing your organization’s reputation, brand, and record of success to attract top employees

• Leverage modern talent sources to access the most talented employees

• Developing next-generation leadership skills by assessing competencies, targeting strengths and interests, and designing effective development plans

Heritage Canada Foundation and Canadian Land Trust Alliance Conference

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008,
Quebec, Quebec Canada

This milestone conference, bringing together for the first time the Canadian Land Trust Alliance and the Heritage Canada Foundation, is designed to make the ‘Heritage Workforce’ stronger with hands-on workshops, tours, panel discussions, seminars and roundtables. Heritage Canada Foundation conference attendees will be able to participate in activities and sessions organized by the CLTA.

Employee Performance Management Week 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 28, 2008,
The Performance Institute Arlington, Virginia United States

Employee Performance Management Week 2008 will be hosted at The Performance Institute in Arlington, Virginia, just one block east of the Courthouse Metro stop on the Orange Line. A public parking garage is located just inside of the building. Continental breakfast and a catered lunch will be provided for delegates on each day.

Effective Credit and Collection Strategies

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008,
Hotel Istana Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

All financial and non-financial industries are exposed to credit issues. Due to increasing competition, the recent credit crisis sweeping the global economy, fluctuating interest rates and growing uncertainty, managing credit and collections effectively is becoming more of a challenging. In light of these challenges, credit today carries a higher risk of bad debts, delays, uncertainty and even possibilities of spoiling business relations. Since credit management process is an on-going process, companies are continuously in search for better solutions and better strategies to manage their credit. While credit is an essential sales tool in today’s competitive environment for increased revenue and profit, good credit and collections management is equally an important process to ensure sound sales and maximize cash flow for operations.

This Effective Credit and Collections Strategies workshop will provide intensive learning to understand and appreciate the importance of effective credit and collection strategies, how to plan an effective proven techniques for credit management and debt collection without damaging your good customer relations with you clients.

African Mobile Payments and Transaction Summit

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 27, 2008,
Hyatt Regency Hotel, Johannesburg, Gauteng South Africa

Industry experts agree that by enabling the use of mobile devices as a platform and channel for payment for goods and services, sending and receiving remittances and engaging in banking transactions, network operators are able to substantially increase their profitability and deliver enhanced value to their customers.
The African Mobile Payments and Transactions Summit is a high profile conference and exhibition that will provide key updates on emerging business models, current technologies and practical strategies for implementing mobile payments and mobile transactions in Africa.
Hear leading experts and service providers give case-study presentations on how market players can successfully leverage the convergence of telecoms and financial services to deliver improved customer value and generate profitability

Attend this Summit and join top-level executives that are shaping and driving the mobile payment industry in Africa.

International Seminar on Intelligence Led CCTV Surveillance Operations

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 25, 2008,
UTM,Citycampus Jalan Semarak Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

The intelligence led CCTV surveillance operations course is a one day course that focuses on the integration of intelligence and surveillance skills to fully exploit an
organisations surveillance capacity. This one day course introduces those elements that contribute to developing professional surveillance judgement. There are a multitude of inputs which effect operator performance both internal to the individual and external.

This course focuses on those inputs which management may influence or control and which when exploited effectively improve individual and organisational outputs.
Developed jointly by Dr Craig Donald and Jeff Corkill on the basis of needs identified in CCTV operations internationally, the course has a number of features that will assist managers to achieve optimal surveillance operator performance whilst more effectively integrating the CCTV surveillance function into the wider security intelligence capability.

8th Annual Mirror Technology Days in the Government

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Hyatt Regency Albuquerque Albuquerque, New Mexico United States

The purpose of Tech Days is to publicly summarize work being done by Government vendors under contract or SBIR/STTR in the area of mirror technology development. Tech Days serves several functions. First, it provides a public peer review of how each vendor is spending the taxpayer's money. Second, it informs other governmental organizations and contractors of what work is being supported by the taxpayer so that they might be able to take advantage of this work or avoid duplicate funding of similar activities. Third, it provides a networking opportunity for vendors, contractors and government.

DevWeek India 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 28, 2008,
NMHANS Auditorium NIMHANS Auditorium, Bangalore, India Bangalore, Karnataka India

After the runaway success of JAX India 2007, JAX India 2008 and SOA India 2007, S&S Media (India) has revealed its plan to take charge of yet another comprehensive in-depth event on Java, ASP.NET and Dynamic Languages, better known as DevWeek India 2008.

DevWeek India 2008 promises to be the right place for software developers, architects, testers, database administrators, and web developers who look to gather cutting-edge information on technology needed for their day-to-day work. Our panel of speakers, which includes Neal Ford, Ted Neward and Michael Li, take you through a broad range of half-day and full-day tutorial specially designed for your needs giving you the unique opportunity to delve into several technologies such as AJAX, .NET, Ruby and Rails, Agile, SQL Server and more.

DevWeek India 2008 is scheduled to get underway on the 25th of August till the 28th of August 2008 at the NIMHANS Auditorium, Bangalore, India.

Software developing is all about passion and we at S&S Media (India) offer you the passion for developing back! Learn how to increase your productivity dramatically and save cost, enhance the quality of your software applications, meet your peers in a productive and social environment and get passionate about Software programming. You surely can’t ask for more!

Things to look out for in DevWeek India 2008:

• World renowned IT gurus preaching informative tutorials on Java, ASP.NET, Dynamic Languages
• Half-day and full-day tutorials tailor-made for your needs
• Practical approach and hands-on code examples that fetch you valuable use for your everyday work
• Attend any tutorial for the day(s) registered
• No Marketing spiel, just real and relevant information

DevWeek India 2008

22nd General Conference of the Condensed Matter Division of the European Physical Society (EPS - CMD 22, 2008)

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Università di Roma La Sapienza Rome Italy

The conference provides a forum for presentations of research work across the full range of condensed matter physics to a wide international audience. It is held every two years since the very first one held in Antwerp in 1980. The format of the meeting will be similar to the most recent ones in the series, held in Prague 2004 and in Dresden 2006, each of which attracted more than 800 participants.
The conference will host also a special session for the 14th General Conference of the European Physical Society to be held on Wednesday afternoon, 27 August 2008.
The conference program will include plenary talks, focused sessions with invited speakers, oral sessions for up to ten parallel sessions, mini-colloquia and ample time for poster sessions. The mini-colloquia should offer space for discussing both novel and established topics, while the focused sessions will be devoted to selected important areas of condensed matter physics.

Dynamics Days Europe 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Aula Conference Centre, Delft University of Technology Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

Founded in 1980, Dynamics Days Europe has a long tradition of bringing together researchers from a wide range of backgrounds who share a common interest in the theory and applications of nonlinear dynamics.

The Dynamics Days Europe 2008 conference will consist of 11 topical sessions and two specialised sessions. Each theme will have an associated plenary lecture, one or more invited speakers and in some cases a few contributed talks. The latter will be selected by the theme organizers from submitted abstracts.

The conference will cover the multidisciplinary spectrum of nonlinear sciences, including:

* Climate Dynamics
* Coastal Morphodynamics
* Dynamics of Biosystems
* Fluid Dynamics and Turbulence
* Formation and Dynamics of Patterns
* Hamiltonian Systems
* Optoelectronic and Laser Dynamics
* Soft Condensed and Granular Matter
* Stochastic Dynamics
* Synchronization under Control
* Wave Dynamics
* DNA Translocation Dynamics
* Separatrix Chaos: New Features, Approaches and Applications
* Live experiments: Pattern Dynamics in Exotic Gas Discharges

24rd Summer School and International Symposium on the Physics of Ionized Gases

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 29, 2008,
Master Conference Center Novi Sad, Vojvodina Serbia and Montenegro

SPIG was initiated 46 years ago as an international conference in the fields of:

* Atomic Collision Processes - Electron and Photon Interactions with Atomic Particles, Heavy Particle Collisions, Swarms and Transport Phenomena;
* Particle and Laser Beam Interactions with Solids - Atomic Collisions in Solids, Sputtering and Deposition, Laser and Plasma Interaction with Surfaces;
* Low Temperature Plasmas - Plasma Spectroscopy and other Diagnostics Methods, Gas Discharges, Plasma Applications and Devices;
* General Plasmas - Fusion Plasmas, Astrophysical Plasmas and Collective Phenomena.

These four disciplines have strong interactions in numerous applications, however, due to the development of specialized international conferences, it has become increasingly rare that such a wide range of topics is covered at a single conference. As the four fields often overlap and merge in numerous fundamental studies and more importantly applications, SPIG serves as a venue for exchanging ideas in the four related fields. Besides the typical proceedings of contributed papers with abstracts of invited lectures and progress reports, the complete invited lectures and progress reports are published in book form under the title "Physics of Ionized Gases". The published papers are selected after peer review of the submitted manuscripts. These books have become not only a significant source of scientific information but also important textbooks for postgraduate students worldwide.

Effective Warehouse and Inventory Management

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008,
Legend Hotel Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The way we handle inventory today is more important than ever. Too many times inventory is seen as a liability and not an asset. Properly handling this important asset is a crucial part of our ability to plan and execute effectively. Many often find themselves with too little or too much inventory or worse yet, not having the RIGHT inventory. Therefore, every personnel involved must furnish with the latest tools and techniques to ensure their role is carry out effectively.

This 2-day workshop is specially designed for personnel who are involved in inventory management, to equip them with the skill and knowledge on how to maximize the profitability and productivity of their inventory investment. At the conclusion of the workshop, participants will be able to practically apply the strategies and techniques they learned within their own workplace.

Get Fully Equipped With the Skills and Knowledges to:

* Understand the role of warehouse and inventory to the organization.
* Learn the skills and knowledge to manage and handle warehouse and inventory
more efficiently.
* Make sure various operation material and storage procedures run effectively.
* Discover the system on how to receive, check, store and send stock efficiently.
* Find out how to keep stock quantity at the minimum.

2nd Annual Meting in Section for Theoretical Chemistry

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 28, 2008,
Vålådalen Sweden

The organizer - The Division for Theoretical Chemistry of the Swedish Chemical Society - wishes you very welcome to the conference in Vålådalen, 25-28 August 2008.

Vålådalen is a special place for quantum chemists. The international meeting held there in 1958 marked the beginning of a long series of summer and winter schools in their subject. These schools - organized and led by late Prof. Per-Olov Löwdin - collected many thousands of students worldwide and played an important role for the careers of many young researchers. The meeting is also commonly regarded to mark the very start of Quantum Chemistry in Sweden.

We also acknowledge the fact that by 2008 twenty-five years have passed since Björn Roos was installed as Professor in Theoretical Chemistry in Lund, often regarded as the start of Theoretical Chemistry in Sweden.

Quantum Chemistry and Theoretical Chemistry are closely linked subjects, and as a first major initiative of our section, formed this year, we wish to celebrate 2008 with a special conference, giving it the same title and venue as the original meeting in Vålådalen 1958. We will look back but, more importantly, we look ahead on the challenges for our research and our section to come in the future.

CoreGRID Symposium 2008

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008,
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria Spain

Grids are revolutionising computing as profoundly as e-mail and the Web revolutionised communications and publishing in the last 15 years. Grids are a crucial enabling technology for Scientific and Industrial development in the decade. Grid, Peer-to-Peer and other types of networked distributed computing and storage technologies, as well as emerging web technologies, have provided new paradigms exploiting distributed resources.

The CoreGRID Network of Excellence (NoE) is funded by the European Commission's 6th Framework Program. It aims at strengthening and advancing scientific and technological excellence in the area of Grid and Peer-to-Peer technologies. The Network is operated as a European Research Laboratory and brings together a critical mass of well-established researchers from 46 institutions.

The CoreGRID Symposium aims at being the premiere European event on Grid Computing for the dissemination of the results from European and member states initiatives as well as other international projects in Grid research and technologies. It is organized jointly with the Euro-Par 2008 conference. The CoreGRID Symposium will focus on all aspects of Grid computing including service infrastructures and as such will bring together participants from Research and Industry.

GECON 2008: The 5th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008,
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria Spain

Although many companies and academic institutions have already developed Grid infrastructures, a global commercial Grid has not been created yet. The missing component for such a commercial Grid is a market, which allows trading of goods such as data, software, processing power, storage, and bandwidth. This market for Grid services would not only be the first step towards a global commercial Grid but would also turn the Grid into an environment where all users (i.e. the general public, academic institutions, SMEs, and large companies) can access Grid services in the same way. These Grid services are expected to range from simple services for mass usage, to complex services encapsulating e-Science or high-performance-computing (HPC) methods.

The purpose of this workshop is also to suggest future directions of research and amendments to existing technologies, aiming at the successful deployment of a global, commercial service-oriented Grid system. In addition to this, the workshop will feature an industry session in order to increase the knowledge transfer between academia and industry. Speakers of major utility computing providers are expected, describing the state-of-the-art of the commercial Grid and the customer acceptance of the shift from “buying computing resources” to “computing on demand”

SGS 08: Workshop on Secure, Trusted, Manageable and Controllable Grid Services

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 26, 2008,
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria Spain

Grid systems are expected to connect large number of heterogeneous resources (PC, Databases, HPC clusters, instruments, sensors, visualization tools, etc.), to be used by many users and to execute a large variety of applications (number crunching, data access, multimedia, etc) and may deal with many scientific fields (health, economy, computing etc).

This workshop aims at gathering papers in the fields of Grid / Distributed systems and it extends the recent STPG workshop and the JOS special issue that have serve to federate a community of reserchers and practitioners. The workshop is also open for contributions in connected fields: P2P systems, Sensors Networks, Networking, Large Scale Heterogeneous Distributed databases.

PROPER 2008:Workshop on Productivity and Performance

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 25, 2008,
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria Spain

The current and future increase of computer performance is driven by raising the number of cores on a single chip and within a supercomputer. As a consequence, applications need to harness much higher degrees of parallelism in order to satisfy their growing demands for computing power. Writing code that runs correctly and efficiently on large numbers of processors and cores is extraordinarily challenging. The increased concurrency levels also place higher demands on the development process and thus require adequate and scalable tool support for debugging and performance analysis. This workshop will serve as a forum for discussing methods and experiences related to scalability and usability of HPC programming tools, including integration with compilers and the overall development environment.
Workshop Topics:

* tools and tool approaches for parallel program development and analysis

* correctness checking
* performance measurement and evaluation
* success stories about optimization or parallel scalability achieved using tools

Abstraction for Distributed Systems

Aug 25, 2008 - Aug 25, 2008,
University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria Spain

Specifically, an important choice in opting for Europar 2008 is the hope that this will provide an opportunity for exchange of ideas, synergy and potential collaboration between researchers in CoreGrid and those involved with the eSI theme on Distributed Programming Abstractions.

This workshop aims to determine where programming abstractions are important and where non-programmatic abstractions are likely to make greater impact in enabling applications to effectively utilise distributed infrastructure. This workshop will have a balance of applications and topical infrastructure developments (such as abstractions for Clouds).