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October 2010

SMi’s Military Engineering Conference

Dates: Oct 18 – 19, 2010
Location: London, United Kingdom

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SMi’s Military Engineering: Combat Sustainment and Reconstruction conference will examine the changing role of the military engineer and discuss the extent to which the private sector has a role in sustainment and reconstruction. The ongoing nature of operations among ISAF nations in Afghanistan shows that close combat and sustainment necessarily remain at the heart of NATO armed forces’ engineering corps. Nonetheless, recent natural disasters have… read more

Symposium on High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravity

Dates: Oct 18 – 23, 2010
Location: Kyiv, Ukraine

Symposium on High Energy Physics, Cosmology and Gravity

The Symposium is dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the outstanding theoretician in the gravity theory and mathematician Alexei Zinovievich Petrov (1910-1972).  Topics of this year’s symposium include dark matter and dark energy, matter/antimatter asymmetry, early universe and particle cosmology, nonstandard cosmology, neutrino physics and astrophysics, ultra high energy cosmic rays and gamma ray bursts, large and small scale structure formation, CMB, supernovae, weak lensing, large scale… read more

Updating Quantum Cryptography and Communications 2010

Dates: Oct 18 – 20, 2010
Location: Tokyo, Japan

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The third international conference on “Updating Quantum Cryptography and Communications”, organized by NICT, IPA and AIST, will be held on October 18-20, 2010, at the ANA InterContinental Hotel in Tokyo. The purpose of the conference is to present the latest advances in quantum cryptography and communications, and to discuss fundamental and practical issues in realizing quantum networking. The participants will be able to witness a… read more

Longplayer – Long Conversation

Dates: Oct 16, 2010
Location: San Francisco, CA

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Jem Finer’s Longplayer is a thousand-year-long composition that’s been playing continually at listening posts around the world since the beginning of the millennium. On October 16th, it will be performed live by 18 musicians on an 60 foot-wide, custom-built instrument, integrating both its score and instrumentation – an orchestra of singing bowls – in YBCA’s Forum. Longplayer will be presented with the Long Conversation, a series of… read more

2010 American Society for Nanomedicine Conference

Dates: Oct 14 – 16, 2010
Location: Potomac, Maryland

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The American Society for Nanomedicine’s (ASNM) second annual conference will be held at the Bolger Center in Potomac, Maryland, USA on October 14-16, 2010. For this conference, ASNM has worked with the HIV/AIDS Research Program at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the result of which is a joint conference with a focus on exploring the use of nanotechnology to address HIV/AIDS-specific… read more

7th Annual Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium | BIOT 2010

Dates: Oct 14 – 15, 2010
Location: Lafayette, Louisiana

Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium

The objective of the Biotechnology and Bioinformatics Symposium (BIOT) is to showcase the research and development activities in the area of genome sequencing and annotation, functional and computational genomics, and transcriptomics. Other areas of bioinformatics and biotechnology are also included. The Symposium brings together scientists in multiple disciplines, such as computer scientists, engineers, and researchers from biotechnology, bioinformatics, and the medical research community, to promote future interdisciplinary… read more

Singularity University Executive 4-Day Program (October)

Dates: Oct 14 – 17, 2010
Location: Mountain View, California

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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

International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality 2010

Dates: Oct 13 – 16, 2010
Location: Seoul, Korea

ISMAR2010 | Mixed Reality (MR) and Augmented Reality (AR) allow the creation of fascinating new types of user interfaces, and are beginning to show significant impact on industry and society. The field is highly interdisciplinary, bringing together signal processing, computer vision, computer graphics, user interfaces, human factors, wearable computing, mobile computing, computer networks, displays, sensors, to name just some of the most important influences. MR/AR concepts

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Singularity University Executive 9-Day Program

Dates: Oct 13 – 22, 2010
Location: Mountain View, California

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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

IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference

Dates: Oct 12 – 15, 2010
Location: Monterey, California

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The 2010 IEEE Nanotechnology Materials and Devices Conference (NMDC) will be held at the InterContinental hotel (the Clement Monterey).

IEEE NMDC aims to develop critical assessment of existing work and future directions in nanotechnology research, including nanomaterials and fabrications, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics, devices, and integration. The conference will bring together researchers from different sectors of academy and industry in the nanotechnology research field, with a… read more

NANOCON 2010

Dates: Oct 12 – 14, 2010
Location: Olomouc, Czech Republic

NANOCON

Taking place in Olomouc, Czech Republic, from October 12th through October 14th, NANOCON 2010 will be held in five sessions, which will be divided into sub-sessions, depending on the focus of registered papers. The conference will start with a plenary session with the appearance of significant foreign and Czech names such as Detlef Bahnemann, Michael Giersig, Jiří Homola, Martin Nikl, and Kiminori Sato.

“Future of Medicine” Bahamas Cruise and Conference

Dates: Oct 10 – 17, 2010
Location: New York, NY

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The Appignani Bioethics Center and Institute for Science and Human Values will host a cruise conference to the Bahamas, leaving from and returning to Manhattan, New York, aboard the cruise ship Norwegian Jewel. Daily programs will consist of a 9:30 to 11:30 am session and a 1:00 to 3:00 pm session in the Azura Restaurant. Speakers will include Michael West on “Extending Healthy Lifespans: Is… read more

Immortality Institute Conference 2010

Dates: Oct 9 – 10, 2010
Location: Brussels, Belgium

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The Immortality Institute Conference 2010 will take place on October 9th and 10th, in the International Auditorium in Brussels.  Speakers include Aubrey de Grey, Bart Braeckman, Chitty Chen, Danila Medvedev, David Styles, Leonid Gavrilov, Michael Rose, Natalie Coles, Paul McGlothin, Stephen Coles, Stephen Spindler, Sven Bulterijs, and Valerija Pride.  The topics will range from calorie restriction to cryonics and transhumanism.

Immortality Institute International Conference 2010

Dates: Oct 9 – 10, 2010
Location: Brussels, Belgium

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The Immortality Institute’s mission is “to conquer the blight of involuntary death.” To advance this mission, the Institute aims to provide a repository of high-quality information, an open public forum for the free exchange of information and views, an infrastructure to support community projects and initiatives, and the facilities for supporting an international community of those with an interest in life extension. The organization hosts… read more

Personalized Life Extension Conference

Dates: Oct 9 – 10, 2010
Location: San Francisco, California

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The Personalized Life Extension conference brings together those who are most knowledgeable to discuss best practices in delaying and preventing the diseases of aging. Advances are being made daily on what individuals can do to slow the aging process to a minimum, and life extension news comes out faster than any one person can evaluate on their own. To solve this problem, the conference will… read more

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