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Conventions: Oct 05, 2008

Materials Science & Technology 2008 Conference and Exhibition MS&T 08

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States

MS&T’08 addresses eight diverse themes to cover the breadth of materials science and engineering.
Symposia Topics:

* ELECTRONIC and MAGNETIC MATERIALS
* ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY ISSUES
* FUNDAMENTALS and CHARACTERIZATION
* IRON AND STEEL
* MATERIALS AND SYSTEMS
* NANOTECHNOLOGY
* PROCESSING and PRODUCT MANUFACTURING
* SPECIAL TOPICS

Geological Society of America Annual Meeting

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
Houston, Texas United States

Shared involvement in Energy, Water Resources, Education, and Earth Systems, to name a few, will foster a program comprised of thousands of scientific papers, hundreds of exhibits, and a myriad of distinguished lectures and special events, to engage students and professionals across the earth sciences and in every employment sector.

Joint Session Categories Include

* Climate Change through Time: Evidence in the Geologic Record
* The Impending Global Water Crisis: Geology, Soils, Agronomy, and International Security
* Energy Budgets and the Global Market
* Globalization of Biogeochemical Cycles
* Wetland and River Restoration: Environmental Saviors or Scientific Failure?
* Coastal Impacts: Can Massive Environmental Restoration and Coastal Engineering Protect the Gulf Coast from Future Hurricane Impacts and Rising Sea Levels?
* Geobiology and Biomineralization: From the Origins of Life to the Origins of Cities
* Emerging Trace Contaminants in Surface and Ground Water generated from Waste Water and Solid Waste Application
* Carbon Sequestration: Methods, Markets and Policy
* Human Influences on the Stratigraphic Record

2008 NAVA Annual Meeting

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States

NAVA addresses the need and importance of retirement income preparation and management for retirement-focused Americans, and within this mission, NAVA focuses on the growth, acceptance and understanding of annuity and variable life products to fulfill important objectives of retirement income planning. NAVA provides educational and informational resources to our members and the public; NAVA protects customers by encouraging adherence to the highest ethical standards by insurers, distributors and all other participants in our diverse industry; and NAVA protects and advances the interests of our members.

ACTE Global Education Conference (Italy)

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Rome Marriott Park Hotel, Rome, Lazio Italy

2008 marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of ACTE and the Association will celebrate this industry milestone in Italy. The 2008 ACTE Global Education Conference will be held in Rome, Italy, 5-7 October 2008 at the Rome Marriott Park Hotel.

This is the first time that ACTE is convening a global education conference in Italy. Italy was chosen in part due to its rich history, leadership in classic education, and based on requests by ACTE global members to celebrate the ACTE 20 year milestone in Rome.

ACTE held an educational event this past June in Rome, a first Executive Forum in Rome and the second education event in Italy this year. In 2007 ACTE will hold 66 events in 21 countries to ensure that its membership is equally served.

3rd International Platinum Conference

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
Main Conference Centre, Sun City, Rustenburg, North West, South Africa

Topics will include:

* Exploration and orebody delineation
* Project valuation and funding
* Current and future mine design and layout
* Current and future mining operations
* Mineral processing, smelting, and refining
* New technologies for mining and processing
* Mining Charter and legislation
* Platinum marketing, uses, and applications
* Environment and sustainability

The slogan 'Platinum in Transformation' was selected to describe the changing nature of all aspects of platinum mining, beneficiation, and marketing.

The conference is planned to begin on 5 October 2008, to allow for some introductory social activities (on the Sun City golf course, for example) on the Sunday preceding the three-day conference. Post-conference plant visits will be arranged for those interested on Thurday 9 October.

US Pensions Summit Fall 2008

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Hyatt Grand Champions, Indian Wells, California United States

The unique format of the U.S. Pensions Summit has been designed to provide an opportunity for institutional investors and asset managers to come together for private, senior-level discussions on innovative strategies to gain maximum returns on the diverse asset allocations within investment portfolios.

Legal Technology Exchange 2008

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Château Élan Winery & Resort, Braselton, Georgia United States

Building on the success of our 2007 Legal Technology Exchange, the 2008 Legal Technology Exchange at Château Élan will enable senior executives who oversee all aspects of legal technology from across the country to assess practical strategies and solutions that will help rein in legal spend and improve departmental efficiencies while providing sound guidance to their legal department in these times of economic uncertainty. This unique event presents an unrivalled opportunity for senior legal decision makers to spend concentrated time with their peers as well as legal technology solution providers in a private and structured setting.

International Banana Event 2008

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
Leisure Lodge Resort Mombasa, Kenya

This conference is urgently needed as banana and plantain are key staple crops in rural households in Africa. They are also being increasingly targeted for income generation through improved linkages with the private sector. The conference also intends to foster research and trade experiences from other commodities. The result of this meeting will be to fully realize the potential of this crucial crop for poverty alleviation and wealth generation.

This conference is being organized in partnership with Bioversity International, the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA), the International Society for Horticultural Science (ISHS) and the Kenyan Agricultural Research Institute (KARI). We invite you to join us towards a successful and fruitful conference.

Leadership & Management: Advanced Supervisory Skills ***Event Unavailable***

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai United Arab Emirates

Help clarify roles and responsibilities of the new job.

Adjust to the new role with confidence and an assurance they can handle the position.

Grasp the importance of setting goals, planning and prioritizing, in order to achieve organizational objectives.

Organize time, work and effectively use of delegation.

Inspire employees and align the team.

Use of appraising as a control method and managing employee performance.

Use different techniques in developing their people.

A bilingual (English/Arabic) consultant facilitates the program.

Advanced Supervisory Skills, Duba ***Event Unavailable***

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

* Help clarify roles and responsibilities of the new job.

* Adjust to the new role with confidence and an assurance they can handle the position.

* Grasp the importance of setting goals, planning and prioritizing, in order to achieve organizational objectives.

* Organize time, work and effectively use of delegation.

* Inspire employees and align the team.

* Use of appraising as a control method and managing employee performance.

* Use different techniques in developing their people.

Customer Relationship Management ****Event Unavailable***

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

* Understand why Customer Relationship Management CRM is essential for attracting, retaining and growing loyal customers.

* Determine the uses and objectives of a CRM system.

* Recognize best practices in implementing a CRM strategy.

* Use CRM for improving marketing, sales, customer service, and customer contact.

Certified Compensation and Benefits Professionals

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

* Define and clearly understand the importance of compensation to the overall aims of human resources management.

* Examine and comment on the benefits of job evaluation to an organization's compensation programs and choose an appropriate system.

* Understand regional compensation practice.

* List the principle steps in designing a compensation survey and answer the question, why is job matching critical to the success of any compensation survey?

Effective Budgeting and Cost Control, Dubai

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
JW Marriott Hotel, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

* See how the budget relates to the two key financial statements: balance sheet and income statement.

* Prepare a budget consistent with the organization's strategic plan.

* Use appropriate estimation techniques in the development of revenue and expense budgets.

* Identify all the appropriate costs to be included in a capital expenditure proposal.

* Analyze management cost reports and take corrective action.

Institute for New Senior Student Affairs Officers

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, Distr. Columbia United States

Your expertise and leadership is expected as soon as you assume office as the most senior student affairs officer. The Institute for New Senior Student Affairs Officers is the professional development opportunity designed to help you be successful in your new role.
The Institute will addresses the most relevant topics and issues you will face during this specific stage in your career, including:

* staff management
* campus culture and politics
* working relationships and cabinet fundamentals
* strategic planning
* legal issues
* financial management
* crisis management
* professional and personal balance

13th Nordic Symposium on Catalysis

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Göteborg, Västergötland, Sweden

The symposium is organised by the Competence Centre for Catalysis (KCK) and The Swedish National Committee for Chemistry.

The organisers welcome university and industry researchers working in the broad field of catalysis to attend the symposium. Special focus will be put on environmental catalysis and catalysis for sustainable energy solutions.

The symposium will contain oral as well as poster sessions. A large number of oral presentations will be selected from contributed abstracts. The conference language is English.

Commonwealth Magidtrates' & Judges' Association Conference

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
Cape Sun Hotel Cape town, Western Cape, South Africa

We are pleased to welcome you all to the Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges Association conference here in beautiful Cape Town. We are delighted to be hosting the conference, in October 2008.

The theme of the conference is appropriate bearing in mind South Africa’s constitution is relatively new and we are a young democracy. The proposed programme will encourage thought-provoking and intense discussions by many acclaimed speakers.

Cape Town certainly has a lot to offer after hours and on sight-seeing outings. A trip to Robben Island will reveal much about our recent political history. The island was a political prison under apartheid - it is where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for nearly twenty years - and is a symbol of our struggle for freedom and democracy. Robben Island was recognized as a World Heritage site during 1999.

HighEdWeb 2008

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 8, 2008,
Missouri State University Springfield, Missouri United States

HighEdWeb strives to advance Web professionals, technologies and standards in higher education. Our members include professionals from across the United States and the the globe.

International Conference on Differential Equations, Function Spaces and Approximation Theory

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 12, 2008,
Sobolev Institute of Mathematics Novosibirsk, Novosibirskaya oblast Russia

October 6, 2008, will be the 100th anniversary of the birthday of Sergei L’vovich Sobolev (1908-1989), an outstanding mathematician of the 20th century. The Sobolev Institute of Mathematics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences jointly with Novosibirsk State University are organizing the International Conference “Differential Equations. Function Spaces. Approximation Theory” dedicated to this significant event.

Conference for the Recruitment and Retention of Women and Minorities into the STEM Disciplines (CRRWMSD)

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada United States

The question of participation of women and minority in Engineering and Sciences has received some attention in the past. Many federal agencies and universities in the nation have attempted to fill the giant gap between majority enrollees and the rest of the student population. Sporadically, quick fix packages are implemented either to meet state and federal guidelines. Once the audits have run their courses or changes have occurred in the central administration, programs designed to meet the needs of women and minority students are first to be eliminated.

These short sighted policies have devastating effects on the recruitment and the retention of not only women and minority graduate students, women and minority post-doctoral candidates but also, on the recruitment and the retention of women and minority tenure earning faculty. Henceforth, the workforce of the country has been deprived of the contributions of a significant segment of its population. As the educated workforce in Engineering and Sciences is graying, America is limping on this first decade of the 21st Century toward a more technologically separate and unequal society.

2008 Joint Annual Meeting Between The Geological Society of America (GSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
Houston, Texas United States

The Geological Society of America (GSA), Soil Science Society of America (SSSA), American Society of Agronomy (ASA), Crop Science Society of America (CSSA), and the Gulf Coast Association of Geological Societies with the Gulf Coast Section of SEPM (GCAGS), hosted by the Houston Geological Society (HGS). Our vision is to highlight and stimulate discussions in areas of common interest across the diversity of disciplines and organizations represented.

Shared involvement in Energy, Water Resources, Education, and Earth Systems, to name a few, will foster a program comprised of thousands of scientific papers, hundreds of exhibits, and a myriad of distinguished lectures and special events, to engage students and professionals across the earth sciences and in every employment sector.

The IUCN World Conservation Congress

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 12, 2008,
Barcelona, Catalonia Spain

The Forum is a grand public gathering hosted by the world’s conservation community, bringing together people from all over the world to discuss, share and learn.

Addressing the world’s most pressing sustainable development challenges, the Forum offers four days of debates, workshops, dialogues, art and film, roundtable discussions, training courses, music and exhibitions on the following three streams:

• A new climate for change
• Healthy environments - healthy people
* Safeguarding the diversity of life

5th Balkan Geophysical Society Congress and Technical Exhibition

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 11, 2008,
Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro

The 5th Congress of BGS will also include new concepts; in addition to the Technical program, an important side-event, Energy, Economy and Environment, is incorporated. The world energy experts will come face to face with the top representatives of WB, UNESCO, UNDP, UNEP, but also with ministers of energy and environment from the Balkan countries. Geological storage of CO2, an approach to mitigate climate changes, will be on the hot agenda. This is one of the Congress aims – to contribute towards achieving some of the UN Millennium Development Goals.

NCRI Cancer Conference

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 8, 2008,
Birmingham International Convention Centre, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

The NCRI Cancer Conference is the major forum in the UK for showcasing the best British and international cancer research. The Conference offers unique opportunities for networking and sharing knowledge by bringing together the leading experts from all cancer research disciplines.

3rd Annual International Creativity Conference for Educators

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Klein Kariba Resort, Bela-bela, Limpopo South Africa

Dear Creativity Colleague Wonderful creativity wishes to you, your family and colleagues for the year 2008. It is once again that time of the year when we start organising and planning our next Annual International Creativity Conference for Educators! We are offering you the same remarkable registration fee as last year – probably the lowest anywhere in the world for an international conference of this nature– R3100,00 plus R434.00 (VAT) = R3534,00 per person for the duration of the conference.

10th CNS International Conference on CANDU Fuel

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 8, 2008,
Delta Ottawa Hotel and Suites Ottawa, Ontario Canada

This conference provides the best forum for CANDU Fuel experts from around the world to share experience, present innovations, discus research, renew old acquaintances and network with their peers. Based on the success of its predecessors, the 10th conference will maintain a similar structure and format. The call for papers will be announced within the next few months. The disciplines will include, but are not limited to, fuel cycles, manufacturing, licensing, performance, modelling, and fuel properties.

7th International Meeting on Nuclear Reactor Thermal Hydraulics, Operation and Safety (NUTHOS-7)

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
Grand Intercontinental Hotel Seoul, South Korea

Nuclear energy continues to be faced with major challenges such as waste, economics, proliferation and last, but not least, safety. The Three Mile Island and Chernobyl accidents have underscored the importance of safety design and operation to the future use of nuclear power. With the preamble of evolutionary and revolutionary concepts around the globe including, but not limited to, the Generation IV Nuclear Systems and the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, multilateral R&D opportunities thrive in transdisciplinary fields. NUTHOS proves to be an imperative series of international topical meetings in the area of reactor engineering, thermal hydraulics, operation and safety of fission and fusion power and hydrogen production plants. NUTHOS has provided the global nuclear community with an open forum where premium state-of-the-art information is exchanged and the knowledgebase reinforced among the specialists and executives from industry, laboratories and academia. Now the seventh of the series, NUTHOS-7, calls for up-to-the-minute research plus the leading-edge engineering results from both hemispheres. It is our greatest pleasure to invite you all to this momentous congress leading to the information superhighway in the beautiful land of Morning Calm.

5th WMO Symposium on Data Assimilation

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
Melbourne Exhibition and Convention Centre Melbourne, Victoria Australia

The goals of the Fifth Symposium are:

* To assess recent progress in all aspects of atmospheric, oceanographic and hydrological data assimilation, in both research and operational environments; and
* To reach a common understanding of the main challenges and opportunities that lie ahead in atmospheric, oceanographic data assimilation.

3rd International Conference on Electrophoretic Deposition

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 9, 2008,
Awaji Yumebutai International Conference Center, Hyogo Japan

This conference follows from the success of the previous conferences of the series held in 2002 and 2005. These tri-annual Electrophoretic Deposition (EPD) conferences are a leading venue where experts from academia and industry working on EPD and its application as a materials processing technique get together to learn and discuss new results and findings.

Electrophoretic deposition exploits an electric surface charge on particles in suspension, which migrate in the presence of an appropriate electric field enabling the consolidation of particles into films onto any shaped substrate or forming bulk components. For its successful application, a basic understanding of the colloidal stability, the deposition kinetics, and the constrained drying and sintering issues of the deposit is necessary. Earlier applications of EPD have been in the shaping of ceramic articles and in coating technology. New areas of applications of EPD are the low-cost fabrication of composite and nanostructured materials, including metal-ceramic and polymer nanocomposites, composite laminates and functional gradient materials. Furthermore, the EPD of electroceramic particulate materials gives potential advances in a number of applications, including piezoelectric motors, biomedical ultrasound probes, chemical sensors as well as multifunctional and bioactive coatings

This 2008 meeting will continue the conference tradition of high quality contributions of relevance to both industrial and academic participants, with topics ranging from the fundamental science of EPD to the engineering and applications of the technique in materials processing.

NPRA Q&A and Technology Forum

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 8, 2008,
Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate Orlando, Florida United States

AspenTech is a sponsor at the 2008 NPRA Q&A and Technology Forum.

In 2008 the Q&A and Technology Forum program has three major components to give attendees one of the industry's most comprehensive meetings on refinery operations and process technology.

Monday, October 6 - Aspen Technology and Conoco Phillips will be presenting “Experiences from Roll-Out of a Refinery Operations Information System”

Coast Day

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 5, 2008,
University of Delaware Hugh R. Sharp Campus 700 Pilottown Road Lewes, Delaware United States

The University of Delaware’s Coast Day, held at the Hugh R. Sharp Campus in Lewes, introduces thousands of people each year to the wonders of the sea and the importance of Delaware’s marine and coastal resources.

Hosted by the UD College of Marine and Earth Studies and the Delaware Sea Grant College Program, Coast Day began 31 years ago as a small open house designed to introduce visitors to our research. Public interest was so great that Coast Day rapidly evolved into a major event. Now, Coast Day is a highly anticipated Delaware tradition.

Coast Day offers something for everyone. Visitors enjoy hands-on exhibits, lectures on popular science topics, ship and laboratory tours, crab races, a crab cake cook-off, seafood cooking demonstrations, a boat show, and much more.

Kids have special opportunities to speak with marine scientists and learn firsthand about their discoveries. They can also explore the many fascinating careers available in environmental science fields.

Over the years, more than 200,000 visitors—from nearly all 50 states and several foreign countries—have flocked to Coast Day to learn about cutting-edge coastal and marine research, explore the aquatic world, sample delicious coastal fare, and have a great time.

Admission is free!

For more information about this event, call the University of Delaware Marine Public Education Office at 302-831-8083, the Delaware Sea Grant Program at 302-645-4346 or e-mail us at MarineCom@udel.edu.

19th California Cup

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 5, 2008,
Oak Tree, Santa Anita,, California United States

Sunday, October 5, 2008 at Oak Tree at Santa Anita.

334 Early-Bird Noms for California Cup

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Hedge Funds World LatAm 2009

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Four Seasons Hotel, Miami, Florida United States

Opportunities for end-investor or asset allocator and hedge fund or fund of fund:

• The best line-up of LatAm speakers of any event in 2009
• The most comprehensive programme in the market designed specifically for the buy-side – ensuring all of your challenges and concerns are addressed
• Better networking opportunities, both pre-event and on-site, through unique ‘Contact’ system

Commodities Week Europe 2009

Oct 5, 2008 - Oct 7, 2008,
Victoria Park Plaza, London, England, United Kingdom

The commodity conference that delivers you access to commodity investors

Commodities Week Europe will again provide you with a comprehensive picture of today’s commodities markets: its components, players, risks and opportunities. Big issues include...

• Are alternative asset classes now a better investment than traditional asset classes?
• The case for and against – are commodity investments now ‘a must have’ allocation in an institutional fund?
• Why, and how to, include commodities within an investment portfolio?
• Analysing the range of financial instruments now offering commodity exposure
• Has structured alpha spelt the beginning of the end for indexes and passive investment?
• Can active commodities management really bring investors greater returns?
• Which commodity groups hold the greatest opportunities – gold, oil, base metals, softs and ags or exotics?