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Conventions: Sep 07, 2008

Chymia: International Conference on Science and Nature in Early Modern Europe (1450-1750)

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Sierra of Guadarrama, Madrid, Spain

The monastery/palace of El Escorial will serve as a backdrop and co-host of this international conference on science and nature in Early Modern Europe. The conference seeks to bring together Spanish and international scholars of science to discuss several topics, including the role of Alchemy from recent historical perspectives.

Intermediate Filaments 2008

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
Magdalen College, Oxford, England United Kingdom

The upcoming Gordon Research Conference on “Intermediate Filaments” will continue to highlight the translational research on human diseases caused by mutations in IF genes in parallel to the basic research on the properties and function of IF proteins. It will focus on the biology and disease conditions of two IF classes: the nuclear lamins and the neurofilament proteins.

The biology of keratins and desmin in relation to disease will be treated to complement insights gained for the former classes of IF proteins. More general topics such as the role of IF proteins in signaling, their role as biomechanical elements of cells, and their integration into the cytoskeleton via associated proteins are also covered.

In addition to the invited speakers, a considerable number of speakers will be selected from the submitted abstracts. Importantly, the program has been scheduled to leave ample time for discussion during the individual sessions.

Molecular & Ionic Clusters 2008

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
Centre Paul Langevin Maurienne, Rhone Alpes France

The 2008 Molecular and Ionic Clusters Gordon Research Conference will be one of the most exciting and important cluster science meetings of the year. The conference will be held at the Centre Paul Langevin in Aussois, in the French Alps, from September 7-12, 2008. This site is spectacular, with excellent opportunities for hiking and other outdoors activities.

The conference will cover the spectroscopy, dynamics, and reactivity of a wide range of cluster types and sizes, including helium nanodroplets, metal clusters, ionic clusters, hydrogen-bonded networks, and clusters involving biological molecules. Special sessions on cold-molecule collisions and aerosols are also planned. Both experimental and theoretical aspects of cluster science will be well-represented at the conference.

We expect to bring together an outstanding group of scientists at the forefront of cluster research. We are particularly keen to increase participation from post-docs and graduate students and will make every effort to raise funds to help them to participate.

The preliminary program listing chairs and invited speakers is given below. In addition, short "hot-topic" talks will be included in each session. The application procedure for those who wish to give such talks will be posted in early 2008.

Please feel free to contact the conference co-chairs, Daniel Neumark (dneumark@berkeley.edu) or Jeremy Hutson (J.M.Hutson@durham.ac.uk) for further information.

Salt & Water Stress In Plants 2008

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
Big Sky Resort Big Sky, Montana United States

The conference will explore the bases for plant tolerance to salt and water stress, relevant to the worldwide impact that salinity and water deficit stresses have on crop productivity. Bringing together conventional and biotechnological methodologies to understand and improve tolerance to these abiotic stresses, sessions include evolution, stress perception and signal transduction, transcriptional responses and networks, protein expression, modification and interaction, metabolic responses, ion and water homeostasis, oxidative stress, co-ordination of the whole plant response, and strategies for crop improvement.

Salt & Water Stress in Plants

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
Big Sky Resort, Big Sky, Montana United States

The conference will explore the bases for plant tolerance to salt and water stress, relevant to the worldwide impact that salinity and water deficit stresses have on crop productivity. Bringing together conventional and biotechnological methodologies to understand and improve tolerance to these abiotic stresses, sessions include evolution, stress perception and signal transduction, transcriptional responses and networks, protein expression, modification and interaction, metabolic responses, ion and water homeostasis, oxidative stress, co-ordination of the whole plant response, and strategies for crop improvement.

XVIIth ISPCAN International Congress on Child Abuse and Neglect

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hongkong, Special Administrative Region, China

ISPCAN Congresses provide a unique opportunity for professionals all over the world to meet, discuss their concerns, learn from each other and support each other. The scientific program will cater to colleagues ranging from those who just recently joined the field to those looking for refinements in professional practices. The many concurrent sessions will offer participants new advances and opportunities to present innovative approaches to the subject and share well-tried evidence-based best practices. The field is moving fast with increasing international collaboration. Invited experts will be highlighting latest developments and directions, be they practice or policy related.

53rd Annual Safety in Ammonia Plants and Related Facilities Symposium

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 11, 2008,
San Antonio, Texas United States

Join the experts who manufacture ammonia and related chemicals when they gather in San Antonio, TX, USA September 7th-11th, at the Hyatt Regency Riverwalk.. Whether your area of interest is ammonia, urea, nitric acid, ammonium nitrate, or methanol, this conference will provide you with the information you need to make your plant as safe as possible.

2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC-08)

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 11, 2008,
Stanford University Stanford, California United States

After the successful first meeting in Vienna, the second ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras will be held September 7-11, 2008 at Stanford University.

Distributed smart cameras combine techniques from computer vision, distributed processing, sensor networks, and embedded computing. Technological advances in the design of sensors and processors have facilitated the development of efficient embedded vision-based techniques. Design of scalable, network-based applications based on high-bandwidth data such as images requires a change of paradigm in the processing methodologies, thus creating opportunities for designing distributed and collaborative vision-based techniques. As a result, novel smart environment applications can be enabled that are interpretive, context aware, and user centric in nature.

Global Waste Management Symposium

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Copper Mountain Conference Center, Copper Mountain, Colorado United States

The 2008 Global Waste Management Symposium (GWMS) will serve as a forum for the presentation of both applied and fundamental research and case studies on waste management. We invite the entire community of designers, facility owners and operators, policy makers, and researchers to participate.The GWMS will be held in a setting in which all participants can share ideas and solve problems.The Symposium will include both oral presentations and posters, as well as social events to provide opportunities for technical interaction and discussion.The core of this event will be the submission of extended abstracts reviewed by a program committee with accepted abstracts published in a proceedings.

DEMOfall 08

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 9, 2008,
Sheraton Harbor Island 1380 Harbor Island Drive San Diego, California United States 92101

DEMO is *the* launch pad event for emerging technology products, where the best 70 new ideas in technology get their start and rocket to national – and international – attention. Count on DEMO to introduce you to revolutionary innovations from all sectors of the technology landscape—consumer, enterprise, hardware, software, Web 2.0, infrastructure, etc. – It is your a complete view of not only where technology comes from, but exactly where it’s going.

DEMO is a product conference showcasing innovations from companies old and new with working technologies for measurable market spaces. It’s the un-tradeshow. Unlike other industry events, this conference provides attendees enough time to see every product on an even playing field with little marketing spin.

It’s the event that launched technologies such as VMware, the Palm Pilot, Java 1.0, TiVo, IronPort Systems, WebEx, Half.com, salesforce.com, Ugobe's Pleo, Six Apart's Moveable Type, eJamming, and many more.

DEMO takes a global view of the tech industry and features technologies from around the world. The crux of the conference is the six-minute demonstration -- NOT a six-minute PowerPoint, discussion or promise. No vaporware allowed. All products must be shown live on stage and all features must be working.

It's not a mixer or a meetup. DEMO is about business acceleration. It's less about the who's who and more about the what's what. Companies attend DEMO for the business advantages that will push them into the next phase of company growth, acquiring customers and partners as well as funding.

5th International Conference on Fracture of Polymers, Composites and Adhesives: 5th ESIS TC4 Conference

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 11, 2008,
Maison de Congrès Les Diablerets, Switzerland

This will be the Fifth International Conference in the series organised by the European Structural Integrity Society - Technical Committee 4 on Fracture Mechanics related to Polymers, Polymeric Composites and Adhesives.

Coverage will include new developments, innovative application and experimental and analytical work in the field of:

• Composites
• Nano-composites
• Polymers
• Structural Adhesives
• Essential Work of Fracture
• Impact and High-speed Fracture
• Applications of Fracture Mechanics.

Food Engineering's Process Technology Exchange

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
The Lodges at Deer Valley, Park City, Utah United States

ProcessTechnologyXchange (PTX) is the food & beverage industry's revolutionary, strategic process and packaging technology event designed to create relationships between processors with capital equipment and service initiatives and manufacturers whose products can provide solutions to the challenges identified.

World Computer Congress 2008

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Milano Convention Centre, Milan, Lombardia Italy

It will be the most important congress dedicated to the Sciences, Information Technologies and Communications ever held in Italy. It will provide a unique opportunity to share with and listen to world-renowned experts in the academic and research fields.
During the four days of congress 2000 delegates, coming from 70 different countries, will debate the main questions and perspectives in ICT domain that is at the heart of the economy of knowledge in the 21st century and in the evolution of our society.

WCC 2008 will provide integration between two worlds: Business and Research. This new Italian approach will give the possibility to match the specific subjects of the TCs with cross subjects of the Italian reality, involving therefore the business and the industry sectors. As a structure there will be keynote lectures discussed by high level invited speakers.

14th Congress of the International Society for Burn Injuries

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 11, 2008,
Hilton Montréal Bonaventure Hotel Montreal, Quebec Canada

It is with great pleasure that the Executive Committee of The International Society for Burn Injuries (ISBI) requests your presence at the 14th Congress, which is to be held in Montreal, Canada, from September 7th through the 11th, 2008.

As in years past, at this conference, participants will have excellent opportunities to share their experiences with burn and fire related injury, to gain further knowledge in the field, and to be exposed to new techniques. It will be a wonderful chance to converse with and learn from colleagues, and to absorb new insights and information.

Distinguished faculty from the world over, hot topics on burn and fire related injury and meticulous work of the Local Organizing Committee will surely make this another exceptional meeting of the ISBI.

The Speciality and Fine Food Fair London

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 9, 2008,
GrandHall, Olympia, London, England, United Kingdom

The Speciality and Fine Food Fair London is dedicated to the world of high quality, first class food and drink. The event offers a diverse display of local, regional and innovative products of strictly specialist calibre for buyers to discover, touch and taste in the centre of London, making this a truly unique, must attend event.

Producers and suppliers are given an accessible environment in which to meet high quality buyers, resulting in new business opportunities and increased brand awareness.

IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
Austria Center, Vienna, Austria

The IWA World Water Congress and Exhibition will bring together 3,000 like-minded water professionals to advance their common goal of sustainable water management water management and exchange knowledge on all aspects of the water cycle.

In addition to the many international themes related to water supply and wastewater disposal, the Vienna congress will welcome papers related to the Danube region. Located in the heart of Europe and with a common European cultural and economic area triggered by EU enlargement, the Danube’s characteristic features have left their imprint on the region’s landscape, people and history. These factors combine to demand a considerable degree of trans-national cooperation in the interests of sustainable water management.

The format of the Vienna event will give delegates the opportunity to take in the technical sessions and the exhibition from Monday to Thursday and enjoy the friendly atmosphere of the opening and welcome reception late on Sunday and the gala dinner on Thursday evening.

Green Innovation Venture Capital Summit

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 8, 2008,
The Phoenician Scottsdale, Arizona United States

Opal Financial Group is proud to present the 2008 Green Innovation Venture Capital Summit, which will cover a variety of topics related to investing in the high growth areas of green technologies and environmentally-friendly enterprises.

The Summit will cater to venture capitalists, portfolio management executives and Global 1000 company executives who are looking for opportunities to invest in green innovation.

Venture capitalists will have the opportunity to gain valuable new insight into the emerging trends and challenges presented by green techonologies. They will also have the chance to showcase their own green portfolios and meet with other entrepreneurs and venture capitalists leading the way in new business opportunities.

Documenting Convergence And Diversity: Mande And Atlantic Languages In Contact

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 9, 2008,
London, England, United Kingdom

Mande and Atlantic languages are spoken in a particularly multilingual area of West Africa characterised by many linguistic and cultural convergences. The workshop will unite specialists on the areas of Mande and Atlantic languages, contact and historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, anthropology, and multilingualism research in order to sketch an agenda for an emerging interdisciplinary field: the description and documentation of languages together with their contact situation and its linguistic conse-quences

The 19th International Pepper Conference

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Sheraton Hotel and Conference Center Atlantic City, New Jersey United States

The 19th International Pepper Conference, September 7 - 10th, 2008 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA. One of the highlights will be the Monday evening session “Phytophthora Blight: A Global Discussion” sponsored by the Interregional Project-4 (IR-4) and the New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station.

This biennial conference will include concurrent breakout sessions and an evening poster session, a full-day educational field tour, a germplasm session, a published proceedings and an opportunity to interact with colleagues new and old. Our keynote speaker this year will be Dr. Paul Bosland, a Regents Professor in Horticulture at New Mexico State University and Director of the Chile Pepper Institute, who is popularly known as the “Chileman.”

Private Equity Summit For Institutional Investment

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 8, 2008,
The Phoenician, Scottsdale, Arizona United States

Opal Financial Group's Private Equity Summit For Institutional Investors is an event designed for institutional investors to address current trends in private equity, venture capital and leveraged buyouts. Set to take place in September 2008, this event will investigate a variety of investment avenues and the most effective strategies for investing in each. We will discuss such issues as private equity portfolio theory, fund of funds as an investment vehicle, private equity buyouts in emerging markets, real estate opportunities and pitfalls, fixed income alternative investments, international investing, and more. In addition, we will investigate operation and taxation issues, as well as valuation guidelines in order to keep attendees ahead of the curve for 2008.

Private Equity Summit For Institutional Investors

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 8, 2008,
The Phoenician Scottsdale, Arizona United States

Opal Financial Group's Private Equity Summit For Institutional Investors is an event designed for institutional investors to address current trends in private equity, venture capital and leveraged buyouts. Set to take place in September 2008, this event will investigate a variety of investment avenues and the most effective strategies for investing in each. We will discuss such issues as private equity portfolio theory, fund of funds as an investment vehicle, private equity buyouts in emerging markets, real estate opportunities and pitfalls, fixed income alternative investments, international investing, and more. In addition, we will investigate operation and taxation issues, as well as valuation guidelines in order to keep attendees ahead of the curve for 2008.

30th Annual EOS/ESD Symposium

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
Westin La Paloma Tucson, Arizona United States

It's the international technical forum on electrical overstress and electrostatic discharge that features research, technology, and solutions to increase understanding, enhance quality and reliability, reduce and control costs, and improve yields and productivity. It's the one event where you will find technical papers that emphasize the latest research and technology; basic, intermediate, and advanced tutorials; exhibits of ESD control products and services; workshops; authors' corners; Program Manager Certification; Device/Design Certification; and more.

1st INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics: Databasing and Modeling the Brain

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 9, 2008,
Norra Latin Conference Center, Stockholm Sweden

Neuroinformatics 2008 will focus on dissemination of recent progress and community building in this emerging field. The congress is organized as a single track event, with keynote speakers, workshops, poster sessions, and live demos of neuroinformatics applications.

Workshop topics include:

-Future hardware challenges to scientific computing
-Extraction of structural and functional information from brain images
-Challenges and benefits of multichannel electrophysiology
-Neurogenomics meets bioinformatics meets neuroinformatics in database research

15th International Conference on Pharmaceutical Medicine

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Hotel Okura, Amsterdam, Noord Holland Netherlands

Pharmaceutical R&D and medical affairs are the initial concepts behind pharmaceutical medicine. But how can we get a very efficient and accurate update of all the latest scientific developments in this fast moving field? Do we still need a blockbuster mindset? Where can we share with each other our best practices in fields such as risk assessment or pharmaceutical crisis management? Where can we learn from each other the latest trends in clinical development or the new scientific drivers behind our new pharmaceuticals? How can we meet our international medical business colleagues in a non-competitive atmosphere? We have selected for you a faculty of more than 40 industrial and academic executives discussing the real highlights on all the key topics of their and our daily work. You will get expert-to-expert briefings on the critical issues of our pharmaceutical business.

IGAC 10th International Conference

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
Congress Center L’Imperial Palace, Annecy, Rhone Alpes France

Welcome to the 10th Scientific Conference of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project. IGAC is a core project of the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP).

The conference is held under the auspices of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry (IGAC) Project and the Europen Network of Excellence ACCENT and CNRS.

IGAC’s 10th International Conference will be held at the beautiful Congress Center L’Imperial Palace on the lakeshore of Annecy, France. Annecy is located just 40km south of Geneva, in the beautiful French Alps. The conference venue is in easy walking access to the center of historic Annecy and offers many options for local travel and tours.

This conference aims at reducing its environmental impact by becoming low-carbon and preferably carbon neutral event through an implementation of specific green initiatives by the local organisation committee. All emissions generated by the conference and its participants will be compensated by voluntary offsets.

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4th International Conference on Open Source Systems

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Milano Convention Centre, Milan, Lombardia Italy

Over the past decade, the Open Source Software (OSS) phenomenon has had a global impact on the way organisations and individuals create, distribute, acquire and use software and software-based services. OSS has challenged the conventional wisdom of the software engineering and software business communities, has been instrumental for educators and researchers, and has become an important aspect of e-government and information society initiatives. OSS is a complex phenomenon and requires a interdisciplinary understanding of its engineering, technical, economic, legal and socio-cultural dynamics.

The goal of OSS 2008 is to provide an international forum where a diverse community of professionals from academia, industry and public administration can come together to share research findings and practical experiences. The conference is also meant to provide information and education to practitioners, identify directions for further research, and to be an ongoing platform for technology transfer

4th European Geosynthetics Conference (EuroGeo 4)

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Edinburgh Conference Centre,Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom

The conference is being organised by the UK Chapter of the International Geosynthetics Society under the auspices of the International Geosynthetics Society and is supported by the British Geotechnical Association, Scottish Geotechnical Group, Ground Forum and the Engineering Group of the Geological Society. The EuroGeo4 conference will debate the subject of Geosynthetics in Civil Engineering Applications within a three-day event comprising keynote lectures, paper presentations, discussions and poster sessions.

23rd ASHES Annual Conference and Healthcare Marketplace

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 11, 2008,
Grand Hyatt Hotel, Henry B. Gonzales Convention Center, San Antonio, Texas United States

This year’s theme is about branding excellence for healthcare environmental services, housekeeping professionals and other healthcare support services disciplines and focuses on the Institute for Medicine’s Six Aims for Improvement: Equity, Timeliness, Efficiency, Effectiveness, Patient Centeredness and Patient Safety. Attendance this year is especially important. Keeping in step with the AHA’s Health for Life and Pursuit of Excellence, we have designed a program for professionals with multiple departmental responsibilities who are looking to demonstrate to administration how your services are delivered with the Six Aims as drivers! Collaborate with other key healthcare colleagues whose organizations are co-locating their meetings with ASHES: The Veteran’s Administration (VA) Environmental Management Service, US Army Medical Command Environmental Management (MEDCOM), Sodexo Healthcare Environmental Services, the National Association for Healthcare Transport Management (NAHTM) among others.

Suburban Bead Encounter

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 7, 2008,
Holiday Inn Select Naperville 1801 North Naper Blvd. Naperville, Illinois United States 60563

Show Hours: 10am to 5pm. A bead show bringing together qualilty bead vendors and beaders from around the midwest. Featuring products such as: semi-precious stones, pearls, sterling silver, vermeil, findings, lampwork beads, beading supplies, chain, books, tools, finished jewelry and more! Plently of free parking.

International Topical Meeting on Probabilistic Safety Assessment and Analysis (PSA 2008)

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 11, 2008,
Hilton Knoxville Knoxville, Tennessee United States

International Conference on Highly Frustrated Magnetism (HFM2008)

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 12, 2008,
Technische Universität Braunschweig Germany

Conference covering all aspects of frustrated magnetism, spin liquids,ordering of geometrically frustrated magnets,itinerant frustrated systems and novel superconductivity,exotic phenomena due to macroscopic degeneracy.

11th International Conference on Multiphase Flow in Industrial Plant (MFIP'08)

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Splendid Hotel "La Torre" Palermo Italy

Multiphase flow phenomena are frequently encountered in the design of process and industrial plant in the traditional fields of the chemical, nuclear and oil industry as well as in other activities such as food and material handling. Multiphase flow encompasses a number of subjects, from nearly homogeneous flow, as developed in long transport lines of gas-liquid-solid mixtures or in short in-plant circuits, to completely separated flows, as in the case of nuclear or gas fluidised reactors. The scientific background of multiphase flow technology is composite and includes fluid mechanics, transport phenomena, equipment design and other fundamentals, such as surface thermodynamics and aerosols.

The “11th Conference on Multiphase Flows”, organised by the Multiphase Flow Engineering Section of ANIMP (Italian Association of Industrial Plant Engineering) together with Università degli Studi di Palermo (Department of Chemical, Process and Materials Engineering) and AIDIC (Italian Association of Chemical Engineering), wishes to be a forum of discussion on multiphase flow technology for researchers and engineers working in different scientific and industrial fields.

International Hydrogen Conference 2008

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Jackson Lake Lodge Moran, Wyoming United States

These conferences have been the premier topical meetings on hydrogen effects in materials, as demonstrated by past attendance and extensive citations of the conference proceedings in technical literature. The continuation of this conference series is proving to be quite timely, since interest in developing hydrogen as a fuel is casting more attention on hydrogen-materials interactions. This conference will continue the trend of past meetings, where hydrogen effects on mechanical properties of materials is a primary topic.

23rd Annual WaterReuse Symposium

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 10, 2008,
Hilton Anatole Dallas, Texas United States

The WateReuse Association, the American Water Works Association, and the Water Environment Federation invite you to attend the 23rd Annual WateReuse Symposium — the world’s preeminent conference devoted to water reuse and desalination.

13th International Symposium on Luminescence Spectrometry (ISLS 2008)

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 11, 2008,
Aula Absidale S. Lucia (Via de'Chiari, 23) and the Complex of San Giovanni in Monte Bologna Italy

ISLS has become a traditional scientific appointment for scientists involved in all the aspects of luminescence spectrometry, from photoluminescence and electrogenerated luminescence to bio- and chemiluminescence, regarding both basic science and applications in biosciences, pharmaceutical, environmental and food analysis. In the previous Symposium editions, which have been held in different prestigious European Universities, recently even in China, all the major highlight topics in the field have been presented.

5th International Conference on Exotic Nuclei and Atomic Massess (ENAM '08)

Sep 7, 2008 - Sep 13, 2008,
Castle Ryn Ryn, Poland

Following the tradition, the conference will cover a broad range of topics consisting of talks highlighting recent achievements in the following fields:
* Atomic masses and fundamental constants
* Fundamental symmetries and interactions
* Nuclear astrophysics
* Nuclear moments, radii, and transition rates
* Forms of radioactivity
* Nuclear structure, nuclei at the drip lines
* Heaviest elements and fission
* Radioactive ion beam production
* Reactions with radioactive ion beams
* Experimental developments and applications