Conventions: Jun 28, 2009
- 2009 Operations & Technology Conference
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 1, 2009,
Westin Copley Place, Boston, Massachusetts United States - full details
- 3rd Congress of European Microbiologists - FEMS 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 2, 2009,
Göteborg Convention Centre, Gothenburg, Göteborg, SwedenThe 3rd Congress of European Microbiologists 2009, Held in Sweden - spans topics in microbial physiology, genetics and biology and their application in the areas of health, environment, food and industry. Key topics to be addressed include biodiversity, biofilms, clinical microbiology, eukaryotic microbes, marine microbiology, microbial stress reponse, microbes in alternative energy generation, molecular microbiology & genomics, and virology.
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- TCLEE 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 1, 2009,
Marriott Oakland City Center, Oakland, California United StatesThe TCLEE 2009 conference will be the seventh in a series of international lifeline earthquake engineering conferences held approximately every four years since 1977.
Over the years, major natural hazards (earthquakes, floods, extreme winds, tsunami) and man-made hazards have caused significant regional disruptions that have often had national and even international impacts. Furthermore, this experience has consistently shown that the disrupted region’s post-event resilience and sustainability will strongly depend on the performance of its lifelines during and after the event.
TCLEE 2009 will address this issue by providing a comprehensive array of technical papers pertinent to current practices, recent innovations, and future directions associated with performance requirements, design, analysis, and planning of lifelines subjected to natural and man-made hazards. In the TCLEE conference tradition, emphasis will be placed on technologies for reducing risks from earthquakes. However, TCLEE 2009 will address these technologies from a unique perspective that includes comparisons with lifeline risk-reduction technologies for other natural hazards and man-made hazards. In particular, the conference will include sessions that focus on:
• Differences and commonalities of technologies used to engineer lifelines to resist earthquakes vs. other natural and man-made hazards, and
• How engineering and risk-reduction technologies for each of these hazard types might benefit from exposure to technologies developed for other hazard types. - full details
- Summer School and Conference in Geometric Representation Theory and Extended Affine Lie Algebras
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario CanadaLie algebras and their representations form an extremely rich and important field of mathematics. Geometric representation theory is a relatively new field which has attracted much attention. The general idea is to use geometric methods to construct classically algebraic objects, such as representations of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Geometric techniques have proven to be particularly well suited to establishing positivity and integrality results, as these are often easy consequences of the geometric nature of the objects involved. One is also often able to use the representation theory of objects such as (affine) Kac-Moody algebras to organize and better understand the homology of various interesting spaces appearing in the constructions, like Hilbert schemes, flag varieties, Steinberg varieties, affine Grassmannians, and quiver varieties. In addition to its obvious connections to representation theory, geometric representation theory has been found to be intimately related to combinatorics (crystals, quivers), cluster algebras, mathematical physics, and many other subjects.
Within the theory of Kac-Moody algebras, it is the finite-dimensional and affine Kac-Moody algebras that are most important, not only for Lie theory itself, but also for applications to number theory, soliton equations and mathematical physics. Extended affine Lie algebras are a class of Lie algebras that encompasses these two important types of Kac-Moody algebras, as well as toroidal Lie algebras. Contrary to arbitrary (non-symmetrizable) Kac-Moody algebras, whose general structure is still somewhat mysterious despite three decades of intensive research, the structure theory of extended affine Lie algebras has just recently been worked out.
The summer school will consist of three mini-courses per week for two weeks. These courses will serve as an introduction to geometric representation theory, quantum groups and combinatorial representation theory (i.e. the theory of crystal bases), the structure theory of extended affine Lie algebras and the representation theory of affine and toroidal Lie algebras. They will be aimed at the graduate student / postdoctoral fellow level. Following the summer school there will be a one week conference featuring speakers presenting recent developments in areas related to the material of the summer school. - full details
- Three Dimensional Electron Microscopy 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Colby-Sawyer College New London, New Hampshire United States - full details
- Supramolecules & Assemblies, Chemistry Of 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Colby College Waterville, Maine United States - full details
- Stress Proteins In Growth, Development & Disease 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Proctor Academy Andover, New Hampshire United StatesAll organisms are exposed to harsh conditions. These harsh conditions include environmentally imposed stresses such as elevated temperature and irradiation, physiological stresses such as rapid cellular proliferation, oxidative stresses due to metabolic reactions, and pathophysiological stresses such as pharmacological agents, infection, and inflammation. Even normal developmental or nutritional changes exert stresses as systems temporarily depart from and try to re-establish homeostasis. If unmitigated, stress can lead to protein misfolding and aggregation, and cell death. Recent studies suggest that the ability to sense and respond to stress is critical for normal cell growth and development, and helps protect against diseases that include cancer, cardiovascular disease, metabolic disease (e.g., diabetes) and liver disease, and protein folding diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s and prion-based disease. Studies in model systems have helped establish these principles and suggest a correlation between longevity and the ability to mount stress responses. There is also an increasing appreciation that the stress response can be pharmacologically modulated, and thus diseases that arise from these phenomena might be selectively targeted.
The GRC meeting will highlight cutting-edge advances in these fields. As in the past, we will continue to emphasize vigorous discussions of recent exciting developments related to several areas of research. These include developments in stress sensing, signaling and gene expression. We will also focus on diseases of protein folding and conformation, the roles of stress genes in metabolism, growth and development, stress gene modulation of infection and pathophysiological states, the cell biology of stress, the chemical modulation of stress pathways, and the roles of stress in aging. Many opportunities will be provided for established and new investigators and for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to engage in detailed but informal discussions. We seek to enhance the dissemination of new information and the formation of new collaborations. In turn, this will lead to advances and broaden our understanding of the role of stress proteins in human health, aging, and disease. - full details
- Red Cells 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
University of New England Biddeford, Maine United StatesThe 2009 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Red Cells follows the series of meetings on this topic that have been held every other year since 1979. This conference assembles established and promising new investigators who are working on all aspects of erythroid cells, from the developmental/environmental control of its ontogeny, to cellular/morphogenic aspects related to its unique membrane structure, to transcriptional/epigenetic regulation of its gene expression, and to disorders that follow from variations in these normal processes. By focusing on these topics, the Red Cells GRC continues to be the primary venue for presentation of the latest cutting edge basic and methodological research that it has covered throughout its history and for which it has become famous.
The meeting attracts an international coterie of researchers and provides a lively forum for active participation and discussion within intimate surroundings that makes interactions easy between senior and junior investigators, and between investigators that normally may not readily interact. The conference aims to be inclusive; importantly, many of the participants will include postdoctoral fellows and graduate students in addition to investigators who are early in their academic careers. - full details
- Physical Organic Chemistry 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Holderness School Holderness, New Hampshire United StatesThis traditional yet vivid conference has continuously been broadening its perspective, and the title extension for the upcoming 2009 conference reflects this by including molecular design as well as synthetic aspects of physical organic chemistry. The constant development and renewal of mechanistic, structural, synthetic, and computational tools and their mutual interplay will be presented by a list of selected expert speakers and discussion leaders (see below) from diverse areas of organic chemistry. Topics include, but are not limited to (in alphabetical order): carbon materials, catalysis, computational chemistry, enzymatic reactivity, excited states, gas phase reactions, isotope effects, mechanisms and bonding, molecular machinery, reactive intermediates, and spectroscopy.
Attendees are encouraged to present their latest research results in the poster sessions. Abstracts are not required and every registrant who wishes to do so may present a poster. A selection of the best posters will be chosen for short oral presentations on the last evening of the conference. - full details
- Photosynthesis
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Bryant University Smithfield, Rhode Island United States - full details
- Nonlinear Science 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Mount Holyoke College South Hadley, Massachusetts United States - full details
- Microfluidics, Physics & Chemistry Of
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Il Ciocco Hotel and Resort Lucca, Barga ItalyThe 2009 meeting is the most recent in a series of conferences dedicated to advancing our understanding of the science of micro/nanofluidics. The 2009 meeting will continue this tradition, with sessions devoted to fundamental principles that underpin microfluidic and nanofluidic phenomena. Further, sessions focusing on important emerging applications of micro/nanofluidics in areas ranging from systems biology and nanobiotechnology to energy and clinical medicine are also planned. Emphasis is placed on the presentation of unpublished work, with the intent to promote active discussion among all participants. If you have not previously attended the Microfluidics GRC, we believe that you will find this to be a unique and stimulating forum.
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- Heterocyclic Compounds 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Salve Regina University Newport, Rhode Island United States - full details
- Cell Contact & Adhesion 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Waterville Valley Resort Waterville Valley, New Hampshire United StatesCell-cell contacts exert profound biological effects during both health and disease. Mechanisms promoting or modulating cell-cell contact promote sessile versus motile cell phenotypes, physically integrate cells into tissues, transduce forces that shape tissues and organisms, and pass signals across the plasma membrane. Many of the molecules involved are tumor suppressors or oncogenes, and further include host cell targets that allow for the entry of bacteria, viruses and parasites. Major challenges include increasing our understanding of the processes involved at the molecular level, and determining how such protein complexes or signaling pathways are integrated at the cell, tissue and organismal levels.
The 2009 Gordon Research Conference on Cell Contact & Adhesion will examine conceptual and experimental advances in our field, including relationships with emerging research areas. Focus areas will include cell polarity and morphogenesis. We seek to complement mechanistic analysis with the full spectrum of invertebrate, vertebrate and cellular systems necessary for functional analysis. We will continue to advance long-standing interests in cadherin and catenin based adherens junctions, as well as the biology of desmosomes, and tight and gap junctions. - full details
- Atomic Physics 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Tilton School Tilton, New Hampshire United States - full details
- Apoptotic Cell Recognition & Clearance 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
Colby-Sawyer College New London, New Hampshire United StatesApoptosis plays a key role in the morphogenesis during development and in the maintenance of tissue homeostasis in adults. Its mechanisms have been intensely studied, and early stages of apoptosis are about to be fully understood. The fate of later stage apoptotic cells remain to be characterized.
The 2009 GRC on Apoptotic Cell Recognition & Clearance will present up-to-date research on the molecular, cellular and immunological aspects of the clearance of dying cells. It will feature a wide range of topics, like tissue homeostasis, stress-response, inflammation, and immunology and will focus on the importance of the clearance of apoptotic cells when investigating development, morphogenesis, tolerance, autoimmunity, and immune privilege. The invited speakers represent a variety of scientific disciplines, including developmental research, genetics, signaling, immunology, medicine, and cell biology. Data on various multicellular organisms from worm to human will be presented. The conference will provide a platform for investigators who are at the forefront of their field, and will welcome junior scientists and graduate students presenting their work in poster format to exchange ideas and hypotheses with leaders in the field. - full details
- 11th Anniversary International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks (ICTON 2009)
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 2, 2009,
Island of São Miguel, Azores, The PortugalThe scope of the Conference is concentrated on the applications of transparent and all-optical technologies in broadband telecommunication networks, systems, and components.
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- IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 3, 2009,
COEX (Convention & Exhibition) Seoul, South Korea - full details
- 6th IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI 2009)
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 1, 2009,
Boston, Massachusetts United StatesISBI is a joint initiative of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS) and the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS). The 2009 meeting will feature an opening morning of tutorials and short courses, followed by a strong scientific program of plenary talks and special sessions as well as oral and poster presentations of peer-reviewed contributed papers.
The 2009 meeting will continue the tradition of fostering cross-fertilization between different imaging communities and contributing to an integrative imaging approach across all scales of observation. - full details
- PowerTech 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 2, 2009,
Bucharest, RomaniaPowerTech is the anchor conference of the IEEE Power & Energy Society in Europe It is intended to provide a forum for scientists and engineers interested in electric power engineering to share ideas, results of their scientific work, to learn from each other as well as to establish new friendships and rekindle existing ones.
The PowerTech Conference provides a bridge between generations. The interest from enthusiastic young practicing engineers and PhD students wishing to publish their work increased from event to event. The most valuable IEEE student work is recompensated with the Basil Papadias award, which has been also an important ingredient toward the event’s success. - full details
- Robotics: Science & SystemsConference 2009
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 1, 2009,
University of Washington Seattle, Washington United StatesThe 2009 Robotics: Science and Systems Conference will bring together researchers working on algorithmic or mathematical foundations of robotics, robotics applications, and analysis of robotic systems. High quality, original papers are solicited in all areas of robotics. The final program will be the result of a highly selective review process designed to include the best work of its kind in every category. The conference will be single track to allow attendees an opportunity to experience the best research in all areas of robotics. The program will include invited talks as well as oral and poster presentations of refereed papers.
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- 17th IEEE International Pulsed Power Conference
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Jun 28, 2009 - Jul 2, 2009,
Renaissance Mayflower Hotel Washington DC, United StatesThis biennial meeting is the principal medium for communicating advances in pulsed power science, technology and applications. Topics include high voltage components, dielectric breakdown, closing / opening switches, plasma processes and various applications. The Conference Proceedings constitute the most complete record of the accomplishments of the community.
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