Upcoming Events by DatePast EventsBy Title | A-ZU.S. EventsInternational

December 2010

ServiceWave 2010

Dates: Dec 13 – 15, 2010
Location: Ghent, Belgium

ServiceWave 2010 will take place in the city of Ghent in Belgium, from the 13th to the 15th of December 2010. Hosted by IBBt, the conference will build on the editions of ServiceWave in 2008 in Madrid and 2009 in Stockholm. The ServiceWave conference series is an opportunity for academic researchers and industry practitioners to report on research work, and present industrial trends in service… read more

Venture Summit Silicon Valley 2010

Dates: Dec 13 – 15, 2010
Location: Half Moon Bay, California

Venture Summit Silicon Valley

Over 100 speakers, including institutional investors, venture capitalists, corporate buyers, investment bankers, and research analysts will participate in the Venture Summit; the topics for this year are “IPO & M&A Outlook for 2011″, “Where is the Green in Green”, “Watch out for the Super Angels”, “Private Equity to the Rescue”, “The Mobile Platform War Begins”, “Monetizing Internet Video”, “Cloud Computing: Competition”, and “Top VC Picks for 2011″.

Advancements in Synthetic Biology & BIOFAB Workshop

Dates: Dec 12, 2010
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii

biofab

Biotechnology Industry Organization | The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today announced a specialized workshop on advancements in synthetic biology that will highlight a new effort called the BIOFAB: International Open Facility Advancing Biotechnology, which aims to produce thousands of free, standardized DNA parts.

Speakers at the Advancements in Synthetic Biology & BIOFAB workshop will include:

  • Dr. Drew Endy, Stanford Professor of Bioengineering &

read more

Apocalypse and its Discontents Conference

Dates: Dec 11, 2010
Location: London, United Kingdom

Apocalypse-now_01

Today, we are surrounded by scenarios of imminent destruction and annihilation, by politicians, scientists, religious groups, and writers, among others. This conference aims to explore and question the widespread appeal of the apocalypse. There will be a particular focus on scenarios that either challenge or offer alternative responses to apocalypse. The organisers will concentrate on interdisciplinary papers exploring cultural responses to apocalypse, its discourses and… read more

International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering

Dates: Dec 10 – 12, 2010
Location: Wuhan, China

CiSE banner

The 2010 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Software Engineering (CiSE 2010) will be held on December 10~12, 2010 in Wuhan, China. This conference will bring together the top researchers from Asian Pacific nations, North America, Europe and around the world to exchange their research results and address open issues in algorithm, database, information security, multimedia and graphics technologies, computational intelligence and software engineering.

McGovern Institute Special Seminar on Analyzing Coherent Brain Networks with Granger Causality

Dates: Dec 10, 2010
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts

MITILP

MIT | Multielectrode neurophysiological recording and functional brain imaging produce massive quantities of data. Multivariate time series analysis provides the basic framework for analyzing the patterns of neural interactions in these data. Neural interactions are directional. Being able to assess the directionality of neuronal interactions is thus a highly desired capability for understanding the cooperative nature of neural computation. Research over the last few years… read more

8th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference

Dates: Dec 9 – 11, 2010
Location: Aspen, Colorado

rocky2010-flyer (1)

The eighth annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference, a meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), will be held in Aspen, Colorado from December 9th to December 11th. The organizers aim for the conference to be a productive opportunity to meet researchers, students and industrial users of bioinformatics technology.

The Rocky series began eight years ago as a regional conference, and has grown… read more

Singularity University Executive 4-Day Program (December)

Dates: Dec 9 – 12, 2010
Location: Mountain View, California

Singularity University

The Executive Program focuses on six topics: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Biotechnology and Bioinformatics, Energy and Environmental Systems, Medicine and Neuroscience, Nanotechnology, and Networks and Computing Systems.  The program consists of core briefings and discussions on these topics, with investigation into top-level critical concepts, key projected breakthroughs, metrics, legal/regulatory/ethical implications, leading researchers and companies, and industrial implications.  Workshops, site visits to such locations as Google and NASA… read more

LeWeb’10

Dates: Dec 8 – 9, 2010
Location: Paris, France

LeWeb

LeWeb is a technology and Internet conference which began in 2004.  The theme for LeWeb 2010, which will take place in the Le Docks venue, is “Platforms”.  More than three dozen speakers will be present.  LeWeb 2010 will feature sponsor workshops, a startup competition, and a “Demo Zone”.

World Energy Engineering Conference

Dates: Dec 8 – 10, 2010
Location: Washington, D.C.

World Energy Engineering Congress

The Association of Energy Engineers will hold the 33rd World Energy Engineering Conference in Washington, D.C. from December 8th to December 10th.  Speakers including Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Gardner will weigh in on topics including:

Energy efficiency and energy management
Renewable, green and alternative energy
Integrated building automation & energy management
Thermal storage and load management
Geoexchange technologies
Solar and fuel cell technologies

The… read more

24th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems

Dates: Dec 6 – 9, 2010
Location: Vancouver, Canada

NIPS Foundation logo

The Twenty-Fourth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, which is the premier scientific meeting on Neural Computation, will be held from December 6-9 at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, Canada. The NIPS Conference features a single track program, with contributions from a large number of intellectual communities.

Presentation topics include: Algorithms and Architectures; Applications; Brain Imaging; Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence; Control and Reinforcement Learning;… read more

19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress

Dates: Dec 5 – 9, 2010
Location: Melbourne, Australia

Australian Institute of Physics

The 19th Australian Institute of Physics Congress is expected to attract hundreds of attendees from education, government, medical, and industry backgrounds, convening to discuss a broad range of physics topics.  The congress will incorporate the 35th Australian Conference on Optical Fiber Technology, and the Australian Optical Society will also hold an associated event.  Invited speakers for the AIPC include Chris Dainty, Martin Green, and Katarina Svanberg.

SRA 2010 Annual Meeting

Dates: Dec 5 – 8, 2010
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah

SRA

The 30th annual meeting of the Society for Risk Analysis in Salt Lake City will be held at the Salt Palace Convention Center, with the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown as the headquarters hotel. The annual meeting brings together nearly 1,000 scientists and practitioners from a range of disciplines who share an interest in risk analysis. Risk analysis, including risk perception, risk assessment, risk management,… read more

CACS – 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science

Dates: Dec 4 – 6, 2010
Location: Singapore, Singapore

CACS - 2010 International Congress on Computer Applications and Computational Science

CACS 2010 will take place from December 4th to December 6th in Singapore.  It aims to bring together researchers and scientists from academia, industry, and government laboratories to present new results and identify future research directions in computer applications and computational science.

Topics of interest include:

  • Agent and Autonomous Systems
  • Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
  • Computer-Aided Design and Manufacturing
  • Computer Architecture and

read more

Humanity+ @ Caltech

Dates: Dec 4 – 5, 2010
Location: Los Angeles, CA

humanityplus_logo

Humanity+ @ Caltech: Redefining Humanity in the Era of Radical Technological Change will be held at the Beckman Institute at Caltech in Los Angeles, California. Speakers will include many of the leaders of the transhumanist community, as well as people from the worlds of science, art, media and business.

The Humanity+ @ Caltech program will be divided into four main sessions, each one of which will… read more

close and return to Home