Virtual Medical Worlds Magazine - Calendar

August 23 - September 3, 2010
CERN School of Computing - CSC, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

• Do you know how to bridge Grids and Clouds using virtualization technology?
• Is it possible to simplify LHC physics analysis using virtual machine?
• Why I am the only one who can authenticate using my Grid certificate despite it contains only public available information?
• How can reliable storage services be built from unreliable hardware?
• Why are tapes still used in high energy physics data storage?
• How can I write code for tomorrow's hardware, today?
• Do you want to see your software with attacker's eyes?
• Can you hack your own code?
• Do you know what do 'code injection' and 'integer overflow' have in common?
• What's so special about High Energy Physic's data format?
• What are the key statistical methods used in physics data analysis?

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August 31 - September 3, 2010
Euro-Par 2010 Conference, Ischia, Italy

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing and distributing computing. The major themes can be divided into the broad categories of hardware, software, algorithms and applications for parallel and distributed computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum for the promotion of parallel and distributed computing both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice.

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September 1-3, 2010
6th International Conference on Semantic Systems - I-SEMANTICS 2010, Graz, Austria

With more than 400 participants every year I-SEMANTICS is one of the largest conferences in Europe in the field of semantic systems and the Semantic Web. It is held concurrently with the I-KNOW Conference on Knowledge Management and Knowledge Technologies. The combination represents a unique approach bridging the gap between highly affiliated communities and complementary research fields.

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September 2-3, 2010
Citizen Cyberscience Summit, London, United Kingdom

The London Citizen Cyberscience Summit is a great chance for scientists and citizens to learn about the latest breakthroughs in citizen cyberscience. It will be a unique opportunity to brainstorm about how new technologies can enhance citizen cyberscience. A bold ambition of the summit is to draft a citizen cyberscience manifesto, involving all the stakeholders in the field.

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September 4-7, 2010
EMBO Meeting: Advancing the Life Sciences, Barcelona, Spain

Fast-paced conceptual and technological advances are profoundly changing the landscape of molecular biology research in terms of the depth and nature of biological insights gained. Reflecting an emphasis on functional and system-level insights, three plenary lecture sessions will be devoted to modern evolutionary biology, to molecular developmental biology and to the rapidly developing fields related to systems biology, such as network biology, functional genomics and synthetic biology.

A rich selection of topics will be addressed in 21 workshops, juxtaposing classical with less classical fields of research. Thus, workshops focusing on central themes such as cell signalling and division, chromosomal organisation, genome stability, cell differentiation and pluripotency, epigenetics and mechanisms of gene regulation will be complemented by a series of sessions that will explore the new frontiers in molecular biology. These will present research devoted to the analysis on the global genetic makeup of entire bacterial communities (metagenomics), the application of molecular and computational techniques for the engineering of human-designed biological objects (synthetic biology), and the investigation of the inner working of complex genetic and metabolic networks.

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September 4-9, 2010
Bacterial Networks 2010 - ESF Research Conference, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

BacNet10 will cover the mechanisms and principles of information collection, integration and implementation in bacteria. In the past decades molecular studies have unveiled the metabolic and regulatory circuitry of bacterial cells in unprecedented detail. This provides an excellent opportunity to analyze the physiology of these organisms on a systems level using quantitative, model-driven approaches.

The meeting will actively involve world-leading scientists from different areas of molecular microbiology, computational modelling, and systems biology and will include sessions on global regulation, networks and switches, network modelling and engineering, microbial cell biology, microbial development, stress response, and cell-cell communication.

By bringing together cutting-edge research from related but often non-intersecting fields, the meeting will strive for cross-fertilization of different ideas and concepts of modern-day microbiology. Young scientists are encouraged to apply for a meeting and travel grant upon registration.

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September 5-7, 2010
Cellular Host-Pathogen Interactions Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

This conference is the first in a new and exciting series of conferences sponsored by the timely and popular Current Opinion journals, and will showcase research to the leading scientists in the field, including the influential Current Opinion editors. These conferences will provide a new level of direct interaction between the leaders in the scientific field and the attending delegates. Emphasis will be placed on the latest unpublished results, extended discussion periods and direct interactions with leaders in the field. Each conference is designed to facilitate extended discussion periods with dedicated networking sessions.

Keynote speakers drawn from the world's best scientists, will provide an opportunity for scientific researchers and clinicians in the fields of molecular and clinical research to meet and discuss new research in the field, including topics such as pathogen invasion, adaptation, host defense, pathogen life cycle and immune system response.

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September 5-10, 2010
ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference: Natural Products Chemistry, Biology and Medicine III, Acquafredda di Maratea, Italy

The unique architectures and biological activities associated with many of nature's small molecules are pushing the frontiers in diverse areas inspired by natural products, hence the focus of this ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference.

This year's outstanding group of speakers will address the latest developments related to the isolation of biologically active natural products, their role in the area of chemical biology and drug development, as well as the inspiration that they provide for the advancement of synthetic chemistry. Leaders in the field of novel methodology and reaction development will discuss progress in asymmetric catalysis, organocatalysis, C-H bond functionalisation, cascade reactions and applications in the context of natural product total synthesis and medicinally relevant small molecules. Other speakers will emphasise new aspects of isolation, total synthesis, chemical biology, and medicinal chemistry of biologically active natural products.

Afternoon poster sessions will be an integral part of the conference, providing an ideal forum for unpublished work and exchange of ideas in an informal setting - a format which has been highly successful in the past years. All conferees are encouraged to submit abstracts; a number of papers will be selected for a short talk presentation.

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September 6-8, 2010
International Conference on Agricultural Engineering - AgEng 2010, Clermont-Ferrand, France

The relations between agriculture and the environment are currently the topic of many debates and the AgEng 2010 conference will question the scientific community on the technological innovations required to enable agriculture to better reconcile competition and environmental protection.

AgEng 2010 is an excellent opportunity to discuss scientific and technical progress on the international level and in terms of environmental technologies for agriculture. Major points will include the ICTs (information and communication technologies), environmental assessment, use of livestock effluents, development of new sensors, new technological solutions offering greater safety for operators and developments in robotics for territorial applications.

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September 6-8, 2010
The Global Need for Effective Antibiotics, Uppsala, Sweden

Addressing the problem of antibiotic resistance will require co-ordinated efforts to reduce unnecessary antibiotic use and develop new medicines. Ensuring that people in low-income countries have access to effective medicines is a priority. During Sweden's EU Presidency in 2009, a conference was held in Stockholm with the aim of initiating an innovative approach to medicine-related issues. The September 2010 conference, will build upon the previous one, but feature an expanded perspective and with participants from around the world. Representatives from all relevant stakeholders, including international public health organisations, national agencies and governments, the international research community and companies within the fields of pharmaceutical development and diagnostics, will take part in the conference.

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September 6-9, 2010
Kavli Prize Science Forum, Oslo, Norway

The Kavli Prize Science Forum is a new biennial international forum meeting to facilitate high-level, global discussion of major topics on science and science policy. The Kavli Prize Science Form 2010 will address the promise and impediments of conducting science research across international borders, as well as provide a roundtable for discussing current and future opportunities for advancing science.

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September 6-10, 2010
GridKa School 2010, Karlsruhe, Germany

The school co-operates with the Helmholtz Alliance 'Physics on the Terascale'. In addition, it is associated with EGI/NGI. GridKa School offers a broad range of topics, which are chosen from the realm of these projects and beyond.

Because of its parallel hands-on sessions, GridKa School targets different groups of people involved in Grid computing:

• Grid novices, advanced users and administrators,
• scientists and other users of Grid,
• graduate students, PhD students and post-docs involved in Grid computing.

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September 6-16, 2010
Asia 1 2010 - EPIKH School for Application Porting, Beijing, China

To fulfill the goal of this Grid School, the programme, based both on lectures and hands-on practices, will cover in-depth the main topics of Grid technology as well as the gLite middleware technicalities. Good previous knowledge about Linux, for Linux applications, or Windows, for Windows applications, is mandatory, and knowledge about the gLite middleware is highly desirable.

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September 8, 2010
24th Annual Joseph C., Sr. & Selenia E. Valley Conference on Aging, Houston, Texas, USA

The conference will include panel discussions, a keynote address by Robert Blancato, national co-ordinator of the Elder Justice Coalition, and nearly a dozen other guest speakers. The scope of abuse and exploitation among the elderly, the potential impact of the Elder Justice Act and local resources for preventing and reporting abuse and exploitation will be among the conference's topics. The conference is aimed at professionals who work with geriatric populations and the general public.

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September 8-9, 2010
2nd mHealth Networking Conference, San Diego, California, USA

The benefits of mHealth are clear to those practices, clinics, hospitals, and health plans that are experimenting with a variety of implementations. In response to the growing level of interest and the rapid pace of developments in mHealth, mHealth Initiative has scheduled this second mHealth Networking Conference.

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September 8-9, 2010
Virtual Physiological Human - Industry Meeting, Barcelona, Spain

The vision of the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) is a grand challenge. A key feature of the VPH initiative is the promise of some low-hanging fruits, applications where the power of multiscale simulation technology can be placed into clinical and industrial practices in the not-so-distant future. Viewed in this light, it is essential for all VPH projects to actively disseminate their research results towards the biomedical industry.

For the second year, the VPH Network of Excellence is organising a two-day meeting where the VPH community showcases its best results to the biomedical industry. This is not only to increase the exploitation potential of VPH research, but also to expand the take-on of VPH technologies in the health industry.

This year the programme revolves around three types of sessions:

• Research to Business (R2B), where research consortia present to industry delegates the best results they achieved;
• Business to Business (B2B), where small and large companies, as well as university spin-offs present products and services that other companies can use to develop other products and services for the final end-user.
• Regulatory to Business (G2B), where experts of regulatory affair will report on the position of simulation technologies with respect to regulatory affairs.

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September 8-10, 2010
E-Health Forum 2010, Shanghai, China

This event provides an overview of the whole spectrum of possibilities opened up by E-health clinical environment and mobile wireless integrated application with the more or less 300 attendance from health care industry decision makers such as CEO, CTO, CIO, CMO, VP for business development, General Manager, System Integration application experts, director, purchasing director etc. from China, Asia, Europe, North America and others.

Key topics include:

• Beyond the Integration in Health care Information
• A Seamless Integration Application in Clinical Environment
• Interoperable E-health: IT, Telecom, Electronic Integrated Application
• Intelligent Service Integration
• Mobile & wireless integration application
• Mobile & Wireless in Practice
• Policy & reform impacts on China health care industry - find a direction and solutions
• Integration application innovation trends in the large scale clinical information system
• The future of Cloud computing in Health care
• Integrated Network to Access Information from Any Site
• Seamless care integration solution: safe patient travelling from medical centre to hospital and to home
• Integrated disease management: optimize the complete work flow of diagnostics in hospital

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September 8-16, 2010
IBM's Summit at Start, London, United Kingdom

This will be a series of one day events running consecutively over nine days. Each of the days at the Summit will focus on a different theme and bring together daily around 120 business and public sector leaders with subject matter experts to discuss the issues and opportunities for working together to build a sustainable and smarter planet. The focus will be on dialogue and discussion across the influential audience with peer interaction being key to the success of the Summit.

Themes to be discussed include: The future of cities, energy, transport, skills, future business leaders, smarter supply chains, financing sustainability and the information revolution. The final day of the Summit will bring together the key issues and ideas coming out of the prior 8 days of discussion and debate. The audience on that day will be challenged to review and refine these outputs, and identify new ways to collaborate to turn these outputs into recommendations for British business.

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September 9-10, 2010
Health-e-Nation'10, Sydney, Australia

This year's event marks a new direction for CHIK Services' annual conference. The organizers are putting together an exciting programme, with a new format, that maintains their commitment to delivering the best value in education, executive networking and information sharing - including top drawer Australian and international speakers.

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September 9-10, 2010
Dwarf Galaxies: Keys to Galaxy Formation and Evolution - JENAM2010 Symposium, Lisbon, Portugal

While many lines of evidence highlight the role of dwarf galaxies in the cosmic scenery, as possible building blocks of Hubble-type galaxies and important contributors to the chemical enrichment of the Universe, the formation and evolution of these systems is only sketchily understood. The nearby Universe reveals a diversity of dwarf galaxies, spanning a wide range in their photometric, morphological and chemical properties. Does this sizeable galaxy population share a common evolutionary history or rather consist of physically and evolutionary distinct subclasses?

This symposium aims at providing a forum for observers and theoreticians to exchange ideas and new results on the many evolutionary aspects of dwarf galaxies near and far: what have we learned thus far and which are the main opportunities and challenges for the near future.

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September 10, 2010
The Baltic Roundtable on 112, Vilnius, Lithuania

The Baltic Roundtable on the 112 is organised by the Lithuanian Emergency Response Centre and the EENA, with the support of the Emergency Response Centre of Estonia and the State Fire and Rescue Service of Latvia. The debate will allow Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian stakeholders to discuss emergency calls handling issues and to benefit from European and international experience.

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September 11, 2010
European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology's European IVF Monitoring Group (EIM)'s 10 years' Celebration Meeting

During this meeting different aspects of Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART) monitoring in Europe and beyond will be discussed, with an overview of European data, the different registries experiences and possibilities and limitations of pooling data from different countries.

You will hear different aspects of ART monitoring:

• An overview of ART data in Europe
• Use of ART data from Europe and the world - what have we learned?
• Possibilities and limitations of pooling ART infant outcome data from different countries
• The validity of voluntary registers for cross border patients
• Different experiences from specific countries for example Turkey and Russia
• National developments such as the French public health register, digital recording in Germany and the data disclosure system in the UK
• Future vision of the EIM

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September 11-16, 2010
Submarine Paleoseismology: The Offshore Search of Large Holocene Earthquakes - ESF-FWF Conference in Partnership with LFUI, Obergurgl, Austria

The scope of the conference is to create a discussion platform and new synergic contacts among researchers that are already, or may become, involved in Sub-marine Paleoseismology. This new field of study merges and integrates two well-established disciplines: paleoseismology and marine geology. During the past years, scientists coming from both fields have underlined the need to broaden paleoseismology into the marine environment. Successful examples come from the Marmara Sea, Oregon Coast, New Zealand, Japan and South Iberian margins.

Submarine Paleoseismology represents a unique and powerful addition to the current knowledge on Holocene faulting and paleo-seismicity obtained from research on land. Despite that traditional onland paleoseismological techniques are not feasible in sub-aqueous environments, Submarine Paleoseismology has several advantages: (i) marine sedimentation is generally continuous in time and space, (ii) marine geological and geophysical instrumentation allow to explore extensive areas in a relatively short time, (iii) offshore regions are essentially free of human disturbance.

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September 11-17, 2010
Hydra VI: The European Summer School on Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine, Hydra, Greece

Now in its sixth year, this highly successful summer school will provide intensive training on fundamental concepts and contemporary issues in stem cell biology. Leading experts will provide an in-depth, week-long programme of lectures, workshops and discussion groups on:

• The biology of stem cells - embryonic, fetal and adult systems
• Plasticity, epigenetic regulation, signaling and nichei
• Clinical applications and clinical trials
• Ethics and patents in stem cell research

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September 12-15, 2010
13th International Congress on Medical and Health Informatics - Medinfo 2010, Cape Town, South Africa

This will be the first time Medinfo is held in Africa. It promises to boost exposure to grassroots health care delivery and the underpinning health information systems. This will open the door to new academic partnerships into the future and help to nurture a new breed of health informaticians.

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September 12-16, 2010
20th World Congress on Fertility & Sterility, Munich, Germany

The congress programme includes talks by international experts on a range of subjects, including:

• Contraception
• Ethical controversies in reproduction
• Menopause and Andropause
• Simplified IVF for developing countries
• Assisted reproduction and increasing age
• STDs and lifestyle factors and ART

Conference web site

September 12-17, 2010
ESF Mathematics Conference in Partnership with EMS and ERCOM/INI - Highly Oscillatory Problems: From Theory to Applications, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Highly oscillatory phenomena occur in a wide range of mathematical applications: from fluid to solid mechanics, electromagnetics, acoustics, combustion, computerised tomography and imaging, molecular dynamics, quantum chemistry, plasma transport and electrical engineering. Such phenomena have attracted a great deal of mathematical attention, mainly in harmonic analysis, asymptotic analysis, homogenisation, differential geometry, theory of Hamiltonian systems and theory of integrable systems. They have an oft-undeserved reputation of being hopelessly difficult to analyse and to compute: the truth of the matter is that, once they have been understood from the mathematical standpoint, effective computational algorithms are bound to follow.

The recent six-months' programme on "Highly oscillatory problems: Computation, theory and applications" at the Isaac Newton Institute of Mathematical Sciences (January-July 2007) represented an important paradigm shift. Historically research into high oscillation had been scattered across many subject areas of pure and applied mathematics, with little cross-disciplinary communication and interaction. The INI programme rendered high oscillation into an organising principle for concerted inter-disciplinary research effort.

An important purpose of the proposed conference is to follow up on the success of the INI programme and continue to foster the knowledge base of mathematical research into high oscillation across different disciplines and subject areas, with particular emphasis on computational issues. Cross disciplinarity of the proposed conference is not just a convenient optional extra, it is in the very nature of the underlying subject matter. As the INI programme demonstrated, it is absolutely essential to bring together the different threads of high oscillation research, from mathematical theory, computation and the varied application areas, forge common terminology and learn from each other. It is equally important to maintain constant flow of ideas between mathematical experts and workers in the many application areas where high oscillation is such an important phenomenon.

Among the many issues the organizers plan to address in the conference, they wish to single out the following:

1. Electromagnetic and acoustic scattering
2. Wave mechanics
3. Multiscale problems
4. Homogenisation
5. Symplectic algorithms
6. Computational asymptotics
7. Riemann-Hilbert techniques
8. Theory of highly oscillatory partial differential equations

The Conference format includes:

• lectures by invited high level speakers
• short talks by young and early stage researchers
• poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods
• forward look panel discussion about future developments

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September 13, 2010
BiG Grid User Event, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

BiG Grid will hold its User Event in the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam. This event will precede the large conference of the European Grid Initiative (EGI Technical Forum 2010), also held in the Beurs van Berlage, from 14 till 17 September. On this event key notes will be given by users of the BiG Grid facilities from a.o. astronomy, physics, life sciences, social sciences and humanities. Workshops are planned on large scale data management and cloud use on the Big Grid infrastructure.

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September 13-14, 2010
The Future of Bio-Based Chemicals: Inception to Marketplace, San Francisco, California, USA

This conference will provide the unique opportunity to hear from, and network with, the industry's best in bio-based chemicals and across the bio-sectors. Significant tools and insights will be provided in order for your company to make the most of its resources and technologies for success in the bio-based chemical industry and across the bio-sectors.

This conference will feature important sessions on:

• Emerging feedstocks including algae and woody-mass
• Lucrative partnerships between bio-based chemical endeavours and traditional petrol-based entities
• Educate consumers about the benefits of bio-based chemical products
• Effectively establishing new bio-based chemical endeavours
• What private equity firms look for in a potential bio-sector investment
• Lessons learned from the movement of the European Union, India, and China's bio-based chemicals industry toward global standardization and regulations

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September 13-14, 2010
11th MedTech Investing EuropeÊConference, London, United Kingdom

The MedTech Investing Europe Conference series uses a perfect mixture of pre-arranged one-to-one meetings, medtech company presentations, and valuable plenary sessions addressing the major issues facing medical technology today. It will provide important networking opportunities for delegates to dialogue in a private and relaxed setting. Medtech presentation sessions will give medical technology companies the chance to pitch their products, stage of business, investment requirements, expected growth and exit strategy to the investor market.

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September 13-15, 2010
7th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing - NPC 2010, Zhengzhou, China

IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing is a leading international forum for researchers and practitioners to present new idea, technology, and experience in the fields of network and parallel computing.

Topics of particular interests include the following tracks, but are not limited to:

• Virtualization techniques, tools, and applications
• Parallel programming models and languages and their compiler and run-time support
• Parallel and distributed systems
• Network architecture and protocol design
• Performance modelling, prediction, and tuning
• Multi-core and cluster computing
• Grid/Cloud/P2P/High-performance computing
• Embedded/pervasive/mobile computing

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September 13-16, 2010
8th International Conference on Business Process Management - BPM, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

BPM brings together researchers and practitioners focused on process analysis and design, work flow implementation, process mining, process innovation and other related topics. The conference attracts innovative research of the highest quality related to all aspects of business process management.

In addition to the main research track, BPM 2010 will include an industrial and an educational track, tutorials, panels, and demo sessions. The conference received a record number of submissions this year, which were subjected to a highly selective review process. Papers report on innovative implementations and applications of Business Process Management with a particular focus on their impact on information technology use and business practice.

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September 14-15, 2010
mHealth Conference and Expo, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Mobile Health is a recent term for medical and public health practice supported by mobile devices, such as mobile phones, patient monitoring devices, PDAs, and other wireless devices. mHealth applications include the use of mobile devices in collecting community and clinical health data, delivery of health care information to practitioners, researchers, and patients, real-time monitoring of patient vital signs, and direct provision of care (via mobile telemedicine).

Mobile eHealth or mHealth broadly encompasses the use of mobile telecommunication and multimedia technologies as they are integrated within increasingly mobile and wireless healthcare delivery systems and is part of a movement towards citizen-centred health service delivery. Mobile technologies by nature lend themselves to more decentralized health service delivery.

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September 14-17, 2010
European Grid Initiative Conference, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The European Grid Initiative (EGI) Design Study represents an effort to establish a sustainable Grid infrastructure in Europe. Driven by the needs and requirements of the research community, it is expected to enable the next leap in research infrastructures, thereby supporting collaborative scientific discoveries in the European Research Area (ERA).

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September 14-17, 2010
5th Meeting on the Internet Governance Forum, Vilnius, Lithuania

The main theme of the meeting will be IGF 2010 - Developing the Future Together. This theme reflects the open and inclusive nature of the IGF with its multilateral, multi-stakeholder, democratic and transparent approach to discussions of Internet-related public policy issues. The Vilnius meeting will help articulate a view of how we can use the Internet for the benefit of all humankind, and how we can further address the challenges and risks ahead.

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September 15, 2010
No more green screens. Fantasy? Reality? Necessity? - Webinar, USA

Is moving completely away from green screens and going to the web achievable or even necessary? Join industry expert, Bob Cozzi, who will answer that question and will also provide answers to these questions:

• Are green screens the main reason for loss of market share for IBM i?
• What should your development path be for new applications?
• What should you do about existing green screen applications?
• What skills do you need to transition to web development?

In the second half of this webcast Duncan Kenzie, CTO of BCD, will show you how you can move away from green screens by instantly giving all your 5250 screens a web GUI with Presto. You'll see how Presto helps you:

• Instantly transform all your green screen applications to web pages without changing the underlying RPG, COBOL or DDS.
• Further enhance screens with the Presto Visual Editor.
• Add new functionality with Web 2.0 technologies like Ajax and jQuery.
• Integrate your web enabled applications with your other web applications, PDFs and images.

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September 15-17, 2010
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) Forum, Odense, Denmark

The objective of the AAL Joint Programme is to enhance the quality of life of older people and strengthen the industrial base in Europe through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The motivation of the new funding activity is in the demographic change and ageing in Europe, which implies not only challenges but also opportunities for the citizens, the social and health care systems as well as industry and the European market.

The three day event will cover several streams including international co-operation, research for AAL purposes, politics and policy, changing the model of innovation through user engagement and technology, platforms, standards, interoperability. The event will also consist of a series of "Robo Days" as part of the robot technology festival around Odense town and Odence Congress Centre.

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September 15-17, 2010
International Conference on Visions of Sustainable Urban Energy Systems, Stuttgart, Germany

More than 50 percent of the world population live in cities and are responsible for about 70 percent of total emissions. To reduce the impact of climate change, we urgently need to develop new energy concepts and improve energy efficiency of urban areas, especially in the field of buildings.

International experts report on the state of art in sustainable building and urban design in the USA, Europe and Asia, among them the POLYCITY project quarters in Italy, Germany and Spain. Innovative energy supply concepts using solar thermal, biomass and photovoltaics are discussed together with energy management strategies on the two conference days.

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September 15-18, 2010
International conference of the Institute for Environment, Engineering, Economics and Applied Mathematics on Circuits, Systems and Signals - CSS 2010, Malta

Topics include:

• Systems on a Chip
• VLSI Circuits and Systems
• Analogue Circuits and Systems
• Digital Circuits and Systems
• Mixed-Mode Circuits and Data Converters
• Consumer Electronics
• Non-linear Circuits and Systems
• Opto-electronic Circuits
• Power Electronics
• Power Management
• MEMS, Sensors and Sensory Systems
• Nanotechnology
• Communication Circuits and Systems
• RF and High-Frequency Circuits
• Wireless Communication Circuits and Systems
• Circuit Level Implementation of RF-MEMS
• Data Communication Circuits and Systems
• Biomedical Circuits and Systems
• Biologically Inspired Circuits and Systems
• Cellular Neural Networks
• Education
• Neural Networks
• Computer-Aided Design
• System, Circuits, and Device Modelling
• System, Circuits, and Device Simulation
• Optimization
• Design Automation
• Digital Signal Processing
• Speech Processing
• Image Processing
• Pattern Recognition
• Visualization
• Multimedia Systems
• Computational Intelligence
• Artificial Intelligence
• Control Theory
• Control Systems
• Robotics
• Fuzzy Logic
• Identification
• Fractals and Chaos
• Applications

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September 15-18, 2010
International Conference of the Institute for Environment, Engineering, Economics and Applied Mathematics on Applied Computer Science - ACS 2010, Malta

Topics include amongst others: Broadband Access Network and Service, IP Service and Multimedia Service, Mobile Data Service, Network Planning and Optimization, Communication Network Interconnection Issues, Communication Pricing and Billing, Communication Regulation and Deregulation, Traffic Management, Traffic Control, Real-Time Traffic and Quality of Service, 3G and 4G Mobile Communication Services, Management & Services, Communication Network Topology & Planning, Digital Broadcasting Technologies and Services, Digital Home Network Technologies, Network Theory & Technologies, etc.

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September 15-18, 2010
International Conference of the Institute for Environment, Engineering, Economics and Applied Mathematics on Urban Sustainability, Cultural Sustainability, Green Development, Green Structures and Clean Cars - USCUDAR 2010, Malta

Topics include amongst others: Environmental design,Green infrastructure, Landscape urbanism, New Urbanism, Regional Planning, Smart City, Sustainable urban drainage systems, Transit-Oriented Development, Historic preservation, Architecture preservation, Anthropology-Archaeology-Sociology preservation, Conflict resolution, Public history, etc.

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September 16, 2010
Biomass from Forests and Other Wooded Lands - Production and Use, Dresden, Germany

The seminar will address the current state of wood production regarding bioenergy from forests, SRC and ASF in Europe. The first session, chaired by Professor Bo Larsen from the University of Copenhagen will focus on sustainable wood resources from forestry. The second session will be chaired by Mme Elisabeth Le Net from FCBA and it will focus on production and utilization aspects of SRC.

The need to reduce green house gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion and enhancing energy security has led to a significant increase of bio-energy utilization in most European countries. Among all biomass feedstock, wood is the most important source for heat production and has become more important in electricity production, as well. The European Union wants to increase the share of renewable energies to 20 percent by 2020 and biomass is supposed to play a major role. Consequently, the current trend of increased wood utilization for energy production is likely to continue.

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September 17, 2010
2nd IDGF Tutorial - Using Desktop Grids in an eScience environment, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The goal of the second IDGF tutorial is to provide an introduction into Desktop Grid computing; programming for Desktop Grids; and connecting Desktop Grids to standard scientific working environments, such as the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI).

Desktop Grids consist of otherwise unused computing resources, that are collected and made available for scientific applications. A Desktop Grid can, for instance, consist of office machines in a University or computers in lecture rooms. These are called local Desktop Grids. Desktop Grids can also consist of unused computing time donated by citizens. These are called Volunteer Desktop Grids.The Tutorial provides an introduction into Desktop Grids and shows how a Desktop Grid can be installed.

Scientific programmes need to be adapted or ported onto the Desktop Grid to make efficient use of the computationa power of the computers that are part of the Desktop Grids. The Tutorial shows how applications can be made to run on a Desktop Grid.

Desktop Grids can be connected to become part of Europe's main Grid infrastructure (EGI) by use of EDGeS Bridge technology. The tutorial will provide basic information on this technology.

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September 17-19, 2010
Aesthetics and Anti-Aging Asia, Singapore

The three-day gathering is the largest event in Asia for plastic surgeons, cosmetic surgeons, dermatologists, anti-aging physicians and aesthetic practitioners.

Aesthetics Asia 2010 is collaborating with WOSIAM - World Society of Interdisciplinary Anti-Aging Medicine - to jointly develop the multi-track congress: Plastic Surgery, Aesthetic Dermatology, Anti-Aging Medicine and Medical Spa. WOSIAM brings a wealth of advanced and international knowledge in anti-aging medicine. The WOSIAM Scientific Committee has invited the most distinguished international experts in anti-aging medicine, aesthetic surgery and dermatology to support Asia's largest multi-disciplinary congress of anti-aging medicine. With the scientific supervision of the WOSIAM, Aesthetics Asia will strengthen its position as the flagship event dedicated to this fast growing field with the world's leaders in aesthetic medicine sharing best practices and new techniques.

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September 19-21, 2010
International Training Course: 3 Day MBA for Marketing Professionals, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

This event is helping marketing and sales professional take the next step in there career:

• Day 1: Leadership for Marketing Professionals - Learn how to lead
• Day 2: Unleasing Innovation - Get it right the first time and get it to market
• Day 3: Social Media Marketing

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September 19-23, 2010
46th ISOCARP Congress, Nairobi, Kenya

The theme of this congress will be "Sustainable Cities in the Developing World". The congress will focus on the agenda of sustainable urbanization where the largest urban transformation process is taking place. The host city, Nairobi, is the capital city of Nairobi and a metropolis of Pan-African stature and emerging global significance. The Nairobi Metropolis is home to a national park, within the core city boundaries, and two game reserves within the metropolitan area. It is centrally located as an important business and economic hub and the headquarters of several international organisations including the UNEP and UN-Habitat.

The 46th ISOCARP Congress will affirm the capacity among planners in developing countries that planning exploits are possible realities. The congress will be an opportunity to share experiences from other cities in urban planning and development planning control. It will offer a platform to advance synergy among planning institutions globally and especially in developing countries.

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September 19-23, 2010
JavaOne 2010, San Francisco, California, USA

JavaOne is the premier event for the Java community and allows attendees to explore, share, and collaborate on the latest developments and practices related to Java technology. Speakers will include many of the world's most respected Java experts - both developers of the technology itself, and applications and systems users. JavaOne will include sessions organized into seven tracks, and individuals are encouraged to submit proposals targeted at one of the seven tracks: 1. Core Java Platform, 2. Java SE and Desktop Java, 3. Java EE and Java for Enterprise Applications, 4. JavaFX and Rich User Experience, 5. Java ME and Mobile, 6. Java for Devices, Card, and TV, 7.The Java Frontier.

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September 19-23, 2010
Oracle OpenWorld, San Francisco, California, USA

Oracle OpenWorld is the world's largest and most important conference for Oracle technologists, business users, and partners. This annual gathering is the best place to meet live and in person with experts, enthusiasts, business leaders, and innovators from every industry around the globe to network, learn, and celebrate your role in the technology that runs your business.

With more than 1800 sessions, 400 partner exhibits, almost 400 Oracle demos, keynotes from the world's technology leaders, hands-on labs, several special networking events, and more, Oracle OpenWorld San Francisco is best to find relevant, useful information about how to use technology to drive your business forward.

Oracle is transforming the industry with a complete technology stack, from applications to disk, engineered to work together. And Oracle OpenWorld is your chance not only to hear Oracle's strategy and roadmap from the experts who are engineering the products but to gain firsthand experience with the hardware and software built to optimize your business from end to end.

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September 19-24, 2010
3rd International Conference on Plasma Medicine - ICPM-3, Greifswald, Germany

Scientific topics include:

• plasma sources for medicine
• plasma based sterilization/decontamination
• plasma cell and plasma tissue interaction
• plasma surface modification for biomedical application
• medical aspects and results of plasma in use

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September 19-24, 2010
European Planetary Science Congress 2010, Rome, Italy

This is the major European meeting on planetary science and attracts scientists from Europe and around the world. The 2010 programme will cover a wide range of planetary topics, including new results from Mars, impact processes in the solar system, chemical evolution and early planetary life, probing the atmospheres of extrasolar worlds, comparative planetology beyond the solar system, exploring Martian moons and the Rosetta flybys of asteroids 2867 Steins and 21 Lutetia. More than 900 abstracts for oral presentations and posters have been submitted.

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September 20-22, 2010
3rd Future Internet Symposium 2010 - FIS 2010, Berlin, Germany

The Future Internet Symposium is now in its third year and will once again offer a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues in the Future Internet: networks, services, multimedia, Internet of Things, security and trust. This year we will offer a particular focus on the aspect of virtualisation of ICT resources and services.

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September 20-22, 2010
8th Emergency Services Workshop, Berlin, Germany

This meeting is intended to foster the development and deployment of standards-based systems for next-generation, IP-based emergency calling. Likely topics for discussion include the folowing:

• Current issues related to standards for emergency calling
• Difference between PSTN and IP-based emergency calling systems
• Architectures and deployment experiences from different jurisdictions around the world (including national, state, and local levels)
• Transition strategies for moving from circuits to packet-switched technologies

Another of the main goals of the emergency services workshop series is to build a community of emergency services experts - from multiple stakeholder organisations and from all around the world. In order to enable workshop attendees to interact in an informal setting, there will be a few social events in addition to the technical sessions.

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September 20-22, 2010
Battlefield Healthcare Series: Combatant Care from Pre to Post Deployment, San Diego, California, USA

Continuing to lead the way in one of the most critical military topics, the Institute for Defense and Goverment Advancement (IDGA) has designed a cutting-edge programme to focus on physical and psychological care techniques for wounded combatants. This forward-looking Summit will feature focused discussions on TBI and PTSD and next generation treatments such as Virtual Reality Exposure Therapy and telemedicine. Other session and discussion topics include comprehensive pre-deployment preparedness, lessons learned from recently deployed service members, in-theater wound care and infection control, continuum of care in the VA , rehabilitation for amputees, and much more.

The Summit features a Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Focus Day. The Focus Day ends with a Theater of War Production presentation of Sophocles Ajax and Philoctetesto. This presentation of ancient military writings is fully funded by the DCoE and helps to de-stigmatize psychological injuries and provide a safe and open space for dialogue between soldiers, family, caregivers and others involved in the treatment process.

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September 20-23, 2010
World Computer Congress 2010 - WCC 2010, Brisbane, Australia

The congress combines content from commercial, industry, associations, and research sectors and so offers an extraordinary opportunity for showcasing and discovering innovative and leading ideas and approaches. As well as the conferences and content, delegates at the World Computer Congress 2010 will be able to attend the Expo, enjoy technical tours of local research and commercial technology innovators and gain industry leading certifications. The WCC2010 in Brisbane will provide an unparalleled opportunity to network with international peers and experts.

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September 20-23, 2010
GPU Technology Conference 2010 - GTC 2010, San Jose, California, USA

Building on the successful format of last year's inaugural conference, GTC 2010 will offer an even broader and deeper selection of technical sessions, interactive tutorials, technology previews, and industry and academic presentations.

The conference will once again encompass three concurrent GPU-focused summits in one location:

• Emerging Companies Summit: A showcase for innovative startups to demonstrate their products and network with venture capitalists, GTC attendees, and other investors.
• GPU Developers Summit: A wide selection of content-rich sessions, tutorials, and presentations for developers, engineers, and scientists.
• NVIDIA Research Summit: A unique opportunity for students, professors, and researchers to present their findings and collaborate.

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September 20-24, 2010
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2010, Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Cluster2010 addresses innovative research in the field of cluster and high-performance computing. Topics of interest include Applications and Algorithms; Communication and Memory; Storage and Reliability; Tools, Systems Software, and Middleware.

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September 20-25, 2010
4th Edition of the Euro-Mediterranean Summer School of Telemedicine - EMSST 2010, Split, Croatia

The aim of the fourth edition of this Summer School is to provide knowledge, instruments and methodology to participants (researchers, ICT professionals, students, doctors and health operators) of the Mediterranean Area and Developing Countries. During the school, methodologies and techniques for medical database and health/hospital information system management and privacy, security and interoperability aspects (standard protocols and methods) will be treated. In particular, the course will focus on telemedicine systems and applications, such as teleconsulting and telediagnosis systems between hospitals and telemonitoring and telecare services between health structures and patients, even at home (telehomecare).

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September 21, 2010
University of Illinois at Chicago Midwest Conference on Diabetes and Obesity, Chicago, Illinois, USA

The UIC Midwest Conference on Diabetes and Obesity will bring together leading scientists, physicians and community health experts. Causes, treatment, preventive measures and policy issues will be discussed by participants from academia, industry and government. The conference's morning session will focus on biomedical advances and prevention of risk. Following a lunch talk about the Chicago Diabetes Project, the afternoon session will address health policy and interventions. The keynote address, by Dr. Jerrold M. Olefsky of the University of California, San Diego, is on genetic and basic studies of the metabolic syndrome in animal models.

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September 21-22, 2010
Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics Symposium - TCT 2010, Washington D.C., USA

TCT is the word's largest educational meeting specializing in interventional cardiovascular medicine. For more than 20 years, TCT has been the centre of new cutting-edge educational content. This symposium is designed for interventional cardiologists, radiologists, clinical cardiologists, basic scientists, vascular medicine specialists, surgeons, nurses, cath lab technicians, and other health care professionals with a special interest in the field of interventional and vascular medicine.

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September 21-22, 2010
19th Annual Nurse and Technologist Symposium, Washington D.C., USA

The Nurse and Technologist Symposium will cover a broad spectrum of issues including:

• Reducing Bleeding or Reducing Ischemia: Which takes Priority?
• Understanding the Differences between Clopidogrel and Prasugrel
• Transcatheter valve therapies
• Impact of tobacco products on endothelial health and treatment options for nicotine addiction
• Registered Cardiovascular Invasive Specialists Review Course including a "Hands on Hearts" session
• The challenges of treating Acute Myocardial Infarctions

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September 21-22, 2010
Second Annual Mobile Healthcare Industry Summit, London, United Kingdom

n 2010 the tone of global excellence and inspiration in mobile health care is continued with over 60 executive speakers and driving forces in wireless health care enablement and sports wellness innovation. Case studies will include those from, France Telecom, Telefonica, NHS Choices, Mayo Clinic, Harley Street Clinicians, Monica Healthcare, Royal National Institute of the Blind, New Economic Partnership for Africa's Development and the newly announced European Mobile Health Alliance.

The event is collaborative between the wireless and health/fitness sectors and therefore largely panel lead this year to encourage real fruitful cross-sector discussion. Expect multiple panel discussions, keynote 1:1 interviews, granular health care provider case studies, a regional round up of global mobile health care, a lightning strikes presentation and awards showcasing new start ups, the inaugural University (mobile health care) Challenge with R&D demonstrations and papers, and much more.

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September 21-25, 2010
22nd Annual Scientific Symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation on Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics - TCT 2010, Washington D.C., USA

TCT gathers leading medical researchers and clinicians from around the world who develop advances in techniques and clinical guidelines for interventional cardiology practices. Now in its 22nd year, TCT brings state-of-the-art techniques and training to interventional cardiologists around the world. Every year, the discoveries made through hundreds of studies and late breaking clinical trials presented at TCT lead to advancements in interventional cardiology practices and patient care. This has never been more important as cardiovascular disease is one of the most significant health risks for people around the world.

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September 23, 2010
USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium, Washington D.C., USA

The USU-HJF Military Medicine Symposium will gather prominent civilian and military researchers and clinicians from across the United States to discuss current research and identify opportunities to collaborate and share information that could speed treatments to wounded warriors. The symposium also will bring together a broad spectrum of participants from military health leadership, federal agencies and private research institutions to philanthropists and charitable foundations, representatives of industry, and policymakers. The 2010 symposium will be made up of three expert-discussion panels on regenerative medicine, suicide prevention and resilience, and civilian-military collaborations. The final panel will be comprised of a variety of prominent leaders in military medicine.

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September 23-25, 2010
18th International Conference on Software, Telecommunications and Computer Networks - SoftCOM 2010, Split, Croatia

Conference topics include:

• Communications Software
• Interfaces and Communication Protocols
• Telecommunications Services and QoS
• Network Operations and Management
• Internet and IP Based Environments
• Mobile and Wireless Communications
• Optical and Photonic Communications
• Multimedia and Virtual Reality Systems
• Information Infrastructure and Security
• Communication Theory
• Multiple Access Techniques
• Signal Processing and Coding
• Computer Methods in Biomedicine
• Consumer Communications Technologies
• Human-Computer Interaction
• QoS and Resource Management
• Enterprise Networking
• Access and Home Networks
• Next Generation Networks and Services
• Electromagnetic Compatibility in Communications
• Research/Education Methodology

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September 23-25, 2010
International Symposium "Signalling Meets Synthetic Biology", Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Biological signalling processes control the growth, differentiation and death of cells. Understanding these processes is a key to understanding physiology and pathology. In recent years, analytical research exploring signalling processes has increasingly been complemented by synthetic approaches. The engineering of the signal-transduction machinery has enabled not only the functional reconstruction and characterisation of isolated signalling pathways, but also the control of cell fate and function.

At this symposium the Centre for Biological Signalling Studies (BIOSS) in Freiburg will bring scientists from signalling science and synthetic biology together. In this interdisciplinary environment, we will discuss novel strategies of how synthetic approaches can deepen our insight into signalling processes and how pathologic signals can be detected and corrected in order to develop novel therapeutic strategies.

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September 23-25, 2010
16th Annual U.S. Frontiers of Engineering Symposium, Armonk, New York, USA

The symposium will examine Cloud computing, autonomous aerospace systems, engineering and music, and engineering inspired by biology. A featured speaker will be Dr. Bernard S. Meyerson, IBM Fellow and vice president of innovation.

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September 24, 2010
Glaucoma Endpoints Conference, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

This meeting will examine such non-IOP glaucoma endpoints. Participants will explore how to increase the precision of functional measures as well as better articulate the precision, resolution and rate of change for structural parameters of the optic nerve head and retinal nerve fiber layer. In addition, they will examine how best to compare and contrast such structural measures with functional outcomes in patients' vision.

Participants will also look at whether such functional and structural measures can be combined into new endpoints for glaucoma clinical trials to shorten the timeline for clinical trials/development of potential new therapies.

Faculty will include authorities in glaucoma and glaucoma diagnosis, including the newest structural and functional testing instruments and algorithms. FDA representatives will review current optic nerve endpoints used in glaucoma drug and device trials, while researchers will discuss in detail specific techniques and criteria as well as the relationships between structural events and functional outcomes.

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September 24-25, 2010
The determinants of a successful pregnancy, Dubrovnik, Croatia

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Special Interest Groups Reproductive Surgery, Early Pregnancy and Reproductive Endocrinology invite you to this campus course where scientists and clinicians will discuss how medical and surgical interventions may achieve a successful pregnancy outcome.

During the workshop fertility experts from in and outside of Europe will announce the following research findings:

• The problem of obesity and early pregnancy
• Surgical approaches to enhance fertility for congenital anomalies
• Natural conception and fertility treatment
• Medical and surgical approaches to managing obesity
• Ovarian reserve testing
• Evidence of early pregnancy, support and treatment intervention
• Embryoscopy

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September 26-28, 2010
Sixth International Conference on Euro-Mediterranean Medical Informatics and Telemedicine - EMMIT 2010, Split, Croatia

Topics include:

• Electronic health record/personal health record
• Clinical and epidemiological data bases
• Hospital Information Systems and hospital virtualization
• Health information systems and patient smart cards
• Standards and interoperability in Health Informatics
• Telemedicine (teleradiology, telepathology, telecardiology, teleophthalmology, ...)
• Telehomecare and ambient assisted living
• Bio-devices and sensors
• Multimedia database, images and bio-signal processing
• Guidelines and protocols
• Personalized medicine and quality of medical care
• Patient safety, privacy and security
• Distance learning in health care
• Decision support systems and expert systems in medicine
• Statistical software and neural networks in biomedicine
• Bioinformatics and genomic data banks
• Neuroinformatics, A.I. and cognitive brain processes
• Knowledge management, knowledge-based systems
• Internet in health care, medical web portals
• Semantic web and ontologies in medicine
• Web 2.0 applications
• Modelling and simulation
• National eHealth roadmaps
• Grid technology and global e-Health
• Euro-Mediterranean - cross border applications

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September 26-28, 2010
Fourth Annual American Telemedicine Association's Mid-Year Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Over two days, ATA will bring together telemedicine's most influential corporate executives, federal administrators and health association leaders to identify and discuss priority issues the industry is facing today. The Meeting will also host the 5th Annual Pediatric Telehealth Colloquium, dedicated to the presentation of original research related to paediatric telemedicine by investigators in clinical science. Topics of special interest include inpatient telemedicine, outpatient telemedicine, innovative paediatric telehealth applications, sustainability, quality of care, financial impact, novel technologies and telecommunications.

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September 26-28, 2010
5th Annual Employee Benefit Adviser Summit, Boca Raton, Florida, USA

The 2010 event is dedicated to helping you guide your clients to a brighter benefits horizon. This event aims to ready the community of advisers with news, commentary and analysis on a range of issues to ensure you are prepared to respond to the needs of your clients and individual employees. Insightful keynote presentations, concurrent tracks of sessions, peer-to-peer dialogues and the opportunity to earn continuing education credits make this the most relevant and valuable event you'll attend this year.

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September 26-29, 2010
7th Conference on Phytotechnologies in the 21st Century: Challenges after Copenhagen 2009. Remediation-Energy-Health-Sustainability, Parma, Italy

The University of Parma hosts the meeting to organise a multi-disciplinary forum for scientists, companies, regulators, practitioners, public administrators, stakeholders and site owners bound together by the interest in phytotechnologies and their future developments.

After the Copenhagen meeting of December 2009 open issues like Environmental Remediation, Energy, Health and Sustainability require the interest and the effort of entire social, scientific and technological communities to lead to solutions. Phytotechnologies - often referred to as green (plant) technologies - can bring about the much needed holistic approach.

Session topics will include: Phytoremediation Field Projects, Bioenergy and Next Energy, Passive Housing, Greenbuilding, Carbon Sequestration, Vegetative Covers, Constructed Wetlands, Nanoparticles and plants, Sustainability, Molecular Engineering Related to Phytotechnologies.

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September 26-29, 2010
2010 Annual Meeting & OTO EXPO of the American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery Foundation - AAO-HNSF, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Otolaryngologists are specialty physicians and surgeons dedicated to diagnosing and treating disorders of the ear, nose, throat, and related structures of the head and neck. As many as 9000 such specialists from North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia attend to learn the latest research findings in patient care.

The scientific programme and poster sessions will address medical disorders that are among the most common afflictions to all ages and both sexes. These include hearing loss, sleep disorders, allergies, ear infections, voice disorders, sinusitis, head and neck cancer, and paediatric ENT health issues. Additional sessions will focus on the role of HPV in otolaryngology, the state of the science in treating food allergies, and new guidelines for the treatment of hoarseness.

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September 27-29, 2010
ICT 2010, Brussels, Belgium

This biennial event has become a unique gathering point for researchers, business people, investors, and high level policy makers in the field of digital innovation. ICT 2010 will focus on policy priorities such as Europe's Digital Agenda and the next financial programme of the European Union for funding research and innovation in ICT.

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September 27-30, 2010
Fourth Molecular Diagnostics in Cancer Therapeutic Development: Challenges and Horizons Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA

This meeting regularly draws representatives from academia and industry to discuss the latest in diagnostic tools and emerging therapies. Findings presented at this year's meeting will include:

• new data on phase III kidney cancer drugs in development;
• emerging microRNA research on bladder cancer and lung cancer;
• new techniques for capturing and measuring circulating tumor cells;
• better measurements of prostate-specific antigen post-surgery in people with prostate cancer;
• more effective screening in the human papillomavirus era; and,
• nanotechnology techniques for haematologic malignancies.

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September 27 - October 1, 2010
5th World Cowpea Research Conference, Dakar, Senegal

For five days, participants will tackle research issues related to enhancing the profile of cowpea as a viable income generating and food security crop. Topics to be covered include: Genetic improvement, grain and seed storage, processing and enterprise development, plant health management, human nutrition and health, cropping systems and agronomy, molecular tools, economics and technology transfer, crop-livestock integration, and seed systems.

The conference will present the state of the art in cowpea research with the ultimate aim of identifying opportunities for cowpea growers to gain higher incomes, greater food security, and lead healthier lives. With the range of expertise expected to attend the conference and share knowledge and information, organizers believe that the event will also increase the public's awareness and appreciation of cowpea, hopefully leading to more support to scientists to carry out cutting-edge research to further develop the crop thereby realizing its potential.

The conference is organized by the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA) in co-operation with the Dry Grain Pulses Collaborative Research Support Programme (Pulse-CRSP), Purdue University, and the Institut Senegalais de Recherches Agricoles (ISRA).

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September 28, 2010
ACO Success: Actuarial, Medical & Operations Management

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) calls for the creation of accountable care organisations (ACOs) as a more cost-effective way of paying for health care. In order to succeed, ACOs will have to establish actuarial cost and utilization targets and use medical management to achieve those targets. This process of benchmarking and managing toward targets requires a delicate balance of actuarial and clinical know-how.

This session, led by national experts Kate Fitch, David Mirkin and Cathy Murphy-Barron from Milliman Inc., guides participants through a roadmap to Accountable Care Organization success with a detailed presentation addressing actuarial benchmarking, medical and operations management in an ACO setting.

Topics discussed include degrees of ACO risk sharing, ACO financial budgets and targets, medical management priorities, ACO utilization models, supply side medical management services, demand management services, benchmarking, global capititation, a case study, and more.

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September 29 - October 1, 2010
HIMSS Europe Health IT Leadership Summit, Rome, Italy

The HIMSS Europe Health IT Leadership Summit is a new, Pan-European executive level forum for education, collaboration and dialogue. Top leaders from health care, IT and government will convene to help advance the quality of health care delivery. The event will feature conference and education sessions as well as a leadership summit designed to foster intensive knowledge exchange and networking opportunities at the most senior level.

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September 29 - October 1, 2010
Mobile Value Added Services World Summit 2010, Singapore

Mobile VAS World Summit 2010 will draw together highly-regarded expert speakers from across the ecosystems of Mobile VAS to share their latest efforts in launching the projects and provide their vital business insights on how the business models can be developed for successful project implementations and the key challenges they have encountered. The highlights of the summit will be Case Studies to be presented by mobile operators in sharing their invaluable experience.

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September 30, 2010
International Conference on RIs, Rome, Italy

In close collaboration with the European Commission and the Italian Ministry of Research, EuroRIsNet project consortium is organizing an international conference on Research Infrastructures. The first session will aim to illustrate European and national strategies and actions on Research Infrastructures (RIs), therefore some representatives of the European Commission-DG Research, ESFRI, e-IRG, RIs Delegates and successful RIs proposers will take part. The second session will be dedicated to a round table entitled "A vision of the socio-economic benefits of research infrastructures at international level", in which, additionally to be mentioned representatives, speakers from the Third Countries such as Canada, USA, Australia, India, South Africa will also attend in order to provide their own experience.

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September 30, 2010
4th Companion Robotics Workshop, Brussels, Belgium

The theme of Companion Robotics Research was first proposed as a dedicated large scale Collaborative RTDI Programme by the CompanionAble Consortium, led by Atta Badii, in May 2007 and subsequent to the approval of the project as an Integrated Programme under the auspices of the EC ICT-FP7 eInclusion Directorate, the CompanionAble Consortium (www.companionable.net) organised the first international workshop on the Companion Robotics theme in November 2008 at the ICT 2008 in Lyon which attracted a large number of participants. This was followed by a second and third such workshop respectively in Bilbao, December 2008, and again in Salzburg at the AmI 2009.

This 4th research workshop in the series continues the focus on research challenges relating to the graceful adoption, integration and adaptation of Companion Robots as socially-aware assistive devices at home, or at work for enhanced life/work-style support, comfort and societal benefits.

Workshop themes include:

1. Human-Robot Communication, Robotic Dexterity and Spatio-Temporal Reasoning
2. Robot Cooperativity and Coordinative Capability to support Teamwork
3. Robot Sociability: Process Integration, Social Acceptability and Appropriation Patterns
4. Robot Learning Capability
5. Future Internet of People, Robots Things and Services Sociality
6. Companion Robotics Technological Convergence and Integration Requirements
7. Dynamic Usability Relationship Based evaluation of Assistive Technologies

Researchers are invited to submit their short (4 pages) or long papers (8 Pages) in LNCS format and addressing any of the above areas or their own research topic within the overall thematic framework of Companion Robotics Design and Integration research challenges.

Deadline for paper submission is September 11, 2010.

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September 30 - October 1, 2010
Virtual Physiological Human 2010 - VPH2010, Brussels, Belgium

The first of a series of international VPH Conferences (VPH2010) will be organised by the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence - VPH NoE. The Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence is an umbrella project representing the Virtual Physiological Human Initiative set up by the European Commission with a budget of 350 million euro for the Framework 7 Programme. The conference series is designed to be a key resource for the VPH NoE to produce a "VPH Vision and Strategy Document" to inform the next European Commission calls for the VPH field for FP7, FP8 and for European large infrastructural actions.

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September 30 - October 3, 2010
American Association for Cancer Research's Third Conference on the Science of Cancer Health Disparities in Racial/Ethnic Minorities and the Medically Underserved, Miami, Florida, USA

This international conference will highlight advances in science, communication and understanding of cancer disparities. Findings presented at this year's meeting will include:

• proven communication methods for reaching minority populations;
• strategies to increase enrollment in clinical trials;
• prognosis in lung cancer affected by race;
• breast cancer trends in Arab and Israeli Jewish women;
• the importance of social support and physical activity in survivors; and,
• socio-economics and access to health care.

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October 1-3, 2010
Health & Environment Technological Innovation Forum - HETIF and Fourth National Conference on TeleMediCare, Desio - Monza e Brianza, Italy

Topics include:

• Tele-assistance and telemonitoring
• Biomedical domestic devices
• Tele-rehabilitation, ICT and disability
• Biosensors
• Cognitive aspects of ICT and education
• Wearable systems and biomedical devices
• p-Health
• Assistive Technology
• TeleHomeCare
• Domotics and Home biosensors

Deadline for paper submission is September 10, 2010.

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October 3-5, 2010
International Conference on Physician Health, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Physicians are important role models for their patients and peers, which makes their own personal health an influential factor in health promotion and disease prevention. Recent studies have shown that physicians who practise healthy behaviours for themselves are more likely to talk to their patients about these topics. It is imperative to recognise and support personal health at each stage of professional development, as medical students, residents, and practitioners. Theme of the conference is "Physician health and resiliency in the 21st century".

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October 3-8, 2010
ESF-EMBO Symposium: Emergent Properties of the Cytoskeleton: Molecules to Cells, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

The cytoskeletal field is fast moving and changing very quickly. As well as new discoveries in how proteins are assembled, regulated and interact to contribute to cell behaviour and function, there are new developments in imaging technology, and in chemical biology that are pushing forward the frontiers of research into the cytoskeleton and cell behaviour. Indeed, cytoskeletal research often works as a paradigm for the development of new imaging techniques and experimental approaches, because of its well characterized cellular structure.

This conference will address the best and the newest developments in this research area. It brings together researchers from a broad range of scientific backgrounds, but with a common aim of understanding the basic properties of the cytoskeleton, and how it is organised and utilised by cells and tissues.

This meeting intends to capitalize on the cross-fertilization of ideas between researchers from different experimental backgrounds to generate new collaborations and ideas. The topics to be covered include subjects from passive mechanical properties of the cytoskeleton, to how the cytoskeleton acts as tracks for motors and the behaviour of single molecules that move along these tracks, and how the cytoskeleton and motors are regulated inside cells.

It will cover emerging and state-of-the-art techniques used to investigate the properties of these molecules in vitro ranging from biochemical approaches to optical trapping and AFM, and it will showcase how experimental work is increasingly integrating what we know from studies of isolated molecules to how macromolecular assemblies interact and function in cells, providing a molecular understanding for complex systems.

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October 3-10, 2010
Health Innovation Week, San Francisco, California, USA

The Health 2.0 Conference is the leading showcase of cutting-edge technologies in health care, including On-line communities, Search and lightweight Tools for consumers to manage their health and connect to providers on-line. Matthew Holt and Indu Subaiya collaborated to organize the first Health 2.0 conference in September 2007 in San Francisco. HCCA offers a number of health care conferences, executive education programmes, webinars and professional certification programmes as part of Health Innovation Week.

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October 4-6, 2010
Fourth HIPAA Summit West, San Francisco, California, USA

A variety of forces - the nation's economic crisis, costly and difficult air travel, the mandate for cost efficiency in health care, the proliferation of greater Internet bandwidth, the emergence of the popularity of on-line video via You Tube, and the explosion of on-line training in the health sector - has come together to create both a dramatic need and an extraordinary opportunity for innovative approaches to sharing new ideas and best practices. This Summit offers not only traditional conference attendance, but also the opportunity to attend the event live and archived on-line. How can we be expected to reform the nation's health system if we can not reform the way we do our own business?

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October 4-6, 2010
National Electronic Health Records Summit, San Francisco, California, USA

The EHR summit features the following special professional certification training and examinations preconference sessions:

• Certified Professional in Electronic Health Records (CPEHR)
• Certified Professional in Health Information Technology (CPHIT)
• Certified Professional in Health Information Exchange (CPHIE)

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October 4-6, 2010
Regional Extension Center (REC) & Health Information Exchange (HIE) Summit West, San Francisco, California, USA

The National Regional Extension Centers (REC) and Health Information Exchange (HIE) Summit is designed to support national, state and local leaders in effectively navigating the challenges related to building health information exchange capacity across physician practices, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, health plans, to support care delivery and improvements in population health.

Participants will learn about emerging trends and policies that will impact their programmes and will receive recommendations about how to respond, alternative strategies being employed across the field and their effectiveness, and best practices for deployment in the following key areas:

• Designing and employing good governance practices to drive success
• Building in a sustainable model to support efforts when the grant money runs out
• Developing and employing good policies and practices related to privacy and security to comply with new laws and rules, and build trust within your community
• Navigating the numerous technical options - and deciding which strategy is right for your community
• Aligning state and local efforts to maximize impact and success
• Successfully employing good procurement policies to achieve outcomes
• Designing communication and engagement policies and practices to facilitate transparency and trust across stakeholder groups and with the public

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October 4-6, 2010
10th International Conference on Applied Computer Science - ACS'10, Iwate, Japan

This conference includes:

• Plenary Lecture 1: Face Recognition Using Frequency Domain Feature Extraction Methods by Prof. Hector Perez-Meana, The National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico, Mexico.
• Plenary Lecture 2: Computations in Hyperbolic Spaces with Surprising Applications by Prof. Maurice Margenstern, University of Metz, France.
• Plenary Lecture 3: Pervasive Business Intelligence Architecture by Prof. Zeljko Panian, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
• Plenary Lecture 4: Black Holes Nonholonomic Thermodynamics by Prof. Constantin Udriste, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania.
• Plenary Lecture 5: Multiple Latticed Cellular Automata: HIV Dynamics in Coupled Lymph Node and Peripheral Blood Compartments by Prof. Yongwimon Lenbury, Mahidol University, Thailand.

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October 4-6, 2010
9th International Conference on System Science and Simulation in Engineering - ICOSSSE'10, Iwate, Japan

This conference includes:

• Plenary Lecture 1: On-line Assessment of the Manufacturing System Competitiveness by Assoc. Prof. Daniela Ghelase, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania.
• Plenary Lecture 2: The Role of Reinforcement Learning in Business Integrated Manufacturing by Assoc. Prof. Luiza Daschievici, "Dunarea de Jos" University of Galati, Romania.

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October 4-6, 2010
9th International Conference on Education and Educational Technology - EDU'10, Iwate, Japan

This conference includes:

• Plenary Lecture 1: Teaching Digital Citizenship by Prof. Lesley S.J. Farmer, California State University Long Beach, USA.
• Plenary Lecture 2: Mechatronic Education - An Important Way to Improve the Technological Education for Young People in Romania by Prof. Luciana Cristea, "Transilvania" University of Brasov, Romania.

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October 4-6, 2010
6th International Conference on Remote Sensing - REMOTE'10, Iwate, Japan

This conference includes:

• Plenary Lecture 1: Current Research Trends and Applications in Urban Remote Sensing by Dr. Sunil Bhaskaran, Lehman College, City University of New York, USA.

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October 4-7, 2010
Symposium on Authentication Technologies; Roundtable on Cloud and Grid Security Standards; 5th Anniversary IGTF Meeting and 12th TAGPMA Face-to-Face Meeting, Lubbock, Texas, USA

The symposium will be focused on working solutions in campus security infrastructures that can contribute to solutions for simple but effective provision of strong authentication in research, educational, government and industrial settings. Submissions are invited from members of the identity management and distributed computing security communities.

Talks will be open to the public. Participants will be given adequate time to explain and expand on their idea or project. The audience will include participants familiar with this problem and knowledgeable about working solutions in concept or in practice that have a track record or substantial promise for near-term deployment progress. We expect active feedback from projects that have deployed some of these solutions in large-scale distributed computing settings.

The associated Roundtable on Cloud and Grid Security Standards will focus on authentication, authorization and access for emerging technology in applications that need high security, especially in ways that impact the academic and research communities and that bridge the gap between these and commercial activities. These sessions will also be open to the public.

This will be followed by the 5th Anniversary commemoration of the International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF) and The Americas Grid Policy Management Authority (TAGPMA). TAGPMA is the branch of the IGTF responsible for accreditation of Grid authentication systems and authorities in North, South and Central America, and was formed along with the IGTF in October 2005.

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October 5-7, 2010
Wireless Health 2010, San Diego, California, USA

Wireless Health 2010 is the first in an annual single-track conference series convening international vanguard research communities in Wireless Health technology and medical research with the rapidly expanding Wireless Health product and service industry, government leadership and policy makers.

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October 5-8, 2010
18th International Congress on Palliative Care, Montréal, Canada

Presented by the Palliative Care Division of the Departments of Medicine and Oncology of McGill University, this biennial Congress has grown to become one of the premier international events in palliative care. Health care professionals, therapists, volunteers and all those involved in palliative care come to renew themselves as providers of care and to obtain the inspiration that will help them shape the palliative care of the future.

This year's Congress will offer four Concurrent Seminars (October 5), a two-day Paediatric Seminar (October 5-6), as well as plenary sessions, workshops, research forums, and poster sessions on subsequent days of the Congress. The Congress is trilingual, with interpretation offered in all three languages (English, French and Spanish) for plenaries and selected workshops and seminars.

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October 6-8, 2010
Fall CTIA Enterprise and Applications 2010, San Francisco, California, USA

CTIA has rebranded its fall show to CTIA Enterprise & Applications to reflect the evolution of the industry and growing use of mobile technology in business. Building on the success of the show's legacy, the event will demonstrate the increasing benefits of wireless data in enterprise and the expanding market for applications and content.

CTIA launched its fall show fifteen years ago to drive wireless data deployment within the enterprise and consumer markets. Today, the mobile business evolution is well underway. Discover how the exhibit floor, educational sessions and partner events will equip you to learn, network and compete in this increasingly mobile marketplace.

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October 6-9, 2010
13th European Health Forum Gastein, Bad Hofgastein, Austria

The main objective of the EHFG is to facilitate the establishment of a framework for advising and developing European health policy while recognising the importance of national and regional authorities and decision-making bodies.

By focusing on key issues in the European health arena the Forum considers in particular the following areas, tasks and challenges:

• Discussion of the main short-term and long-term objectives of the working programme of the European Community, the member states, accession candidate countries and the regions as well as their implementation, and the further development of European health policy.
• Detailed discussion of opportunities for integration of health policy across different policy areas.
• Analysis and discussion of the impact of European integration, in particular the Common Market and Economic and Monetary Union on health systems, services and policies.
• Evaluation of current developments and their effects on society, health systems, and services, and in particular the changing role of citizens and patients.
• The exchange of national and regional experience in health policy development and implementation.

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October 7-8, 2010
Fourth Annual Health 2.0 Fall Conference, San Francisco, California, USA

This conference presents a sweeping overview of Health 2.0 at the landmark event of the year:

• Overview of Health 2.0 Industry Trends
• Web 2.0 meets Health 2.0
• Search, Content and Business Models
• Consumer Aggregators
• Data Utility Layers
• Next Generation Communities
• Patient-Centred Design
• Funding: VCs on Health 2.0
• Consumer Tools and Unplatforms: the extension of web/mobile/ubiquitous internet connected devices, applications & data
• In Conversation with 3 Health 2.0 CEO's
• Health 2.0 in the Doctor's Office
• Partnerships for Delivery Reform
• The best brand new Health 2.0 applications unveiled for the first time

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October 7-8, 2010
TeleHealth Services' User Conference - TIGRCon10, Nashville, Tennessee, USA

The conference, which will be focused on learning to deliver an optimal patient recovery process and improve clinical work flow, will enable hospital leadership and staff members to share best practices, discuss the role of technology in shaping the patient experience, gain new ideas and perspectives through a power user panel, and network with colleagues in the industry. The two day conference will be segmented into clinical and technical learning tracks to maximize TIGR's value within a healthcare facility.

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October 7-8, 2010
Basic training course for nurses and support personnel working in reproductive health, Valencia, Spain

This course is intended for nurses and other personnel new to the field wanting to improve their basic knowledge of underlying causes and treatment and psychological aspects of infertility. The course also aims to provide a platform for nurses and other related personnel to network and exchange information across Europe.

The course will cover anatomy and physiology, causes and diagnosis, life style factors affecting infertility, counselling and communication skills, fertility drugs, basic ultrasound scan, basic genetics and treatment options. There is accreditation via an optional multiple choice examination or attendance certificate for the number of lectures attended.

During the workshop the following topics will be presented and discussed:

• Male and female anatomy, physiology
• Causes and diagnosis of infertility including appropriately timed tests
• Life style factors and infertility
• Infertility counseling
• Communication and team work
• Introduction to andrology and embryology
• Basic genetics
• Assisted conception treatments
• Basic treatments / options including ovulation induction and intra uterine insemination

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October 7-9, 2010
Neurocritical Care 2010: Walk of Life, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Neurocritical Care 2010: Walk of Life is much expanded this year and includes four events. First, the organizers will host their 8th Annual Cleveland Neurocritical Care & Stroke Conference. For this two-day course, they have gathered a distinguished group of world leaders to review advances in the diagnosis and management of acute stroke. A special and timely session will take place on the second day focusing on health care reform and the ICU. As in the past, this conference will have an innovative, informal, Rock and Roll-themed format so as to create an experience that is both educational and enjoyable.

Second, the organizers will host their 3rd Annual CWRU Critical Care Bioinformatics Workshop designed to focus on advances in Health Information Technology and informatics. Third, they will host their 2nd Annual CWRU TCD Ultrasound Workshop designed to provide a complete review of ultrasound principles, techniques, and interpretation. And finally, this year, they are hosting their 1st Annual Cleveland Music and Medicine Symposium designed to explore the fascinating intersection of music and the brain and music and health.

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October 8-9, 2010
Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change, Berlin, Germany

What are the effects of climate change on the social and economic contexts of individual regions or states? This is one of the issues to be addressed at the conference. On the one hand, the North-South perspective will be considered: What effects, for example, do the severe environmental changes have on the economies of developing countries? The socio-economic aspects for the industrial countries will also be examined: Are certain income groups particularly strained by the environmental tax, and what effect does this have? What would the consequences mean for economic structural change, if renewable energy sources would benefit more than traditional sectors such as the automotive industry?

The conference is intended to serve as a platform where the latest research can be presented, possible strategies discussed, and networks formed between experts and decision makers. It is addressed to political scientists and experts of neighbouring disciplines such as economics, sociology, or law, as well as representatives from international research institutions, the economy, or politics.

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October 8-9, 2010
Female and male surgery in human reproductive medicine, Treviso, Italy

The European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology Special Interest Groups Reproductive Surgery and Andrology invite you to this campus course where scientists and clinicians will discuss reproductive surgery in female and male patients. This course is intended for specialist physicians and surgeons, nurse specialists and clinical scientists.

During the workshop fertility experts from in and outside of Europe will announce the following research findings:

• Female and male congenital tract anomalies and their implications for infertility
• Debate: Varicocele - to treat or not to treat?
• Surgery for post infection obstructions in women and for male genital obstructions
• Micro-TESE
• Birefringence - a tool for sperm selection in ICSI cycles
• The psychological impact of infertility on men
• Epidemiology of male/female sterilization and reversal
• Sterilisation and vasectomy reversal

Reproductive medicine is one of today's most exciting scientific and clinical areas. Every month brings announcements of research developments, medical 'firsts', new rulings by regulatory bodies, or ethical controversies - often sparking a heated debate among practitioners in the field, ethicists, legislators, the media and the public. You have the opportunity to hear the latest research during ESHRE's workshops.

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October 8-12, 2010
35th Congress of the European Society for Medical Ocology - ESMO, Milan, Italy

Cancer is a leading cause of mortality worldwide, accounting for more than one in ten deaths. By 2030, the global burden is expected to exceed 12 million. The ESMO Congress provides a major international forum for the presentation of new research on the treatment of cancer.

Congress programme highlights include:

• New findings from major Phase III trials, potentially practice changing
• Promising new drugs to treat ovarian, skin, colorectal and other cancers
• New hormonal agents in advanced prostate cancer
• Personalized medicine: do ethnic differences matter?
• Progress in the treatment of advanced colorectal cancer
• Prevention and management of toxicity and other side-effects in targeted therapies
• How proteomic profiling can guide therapy selection
• The importance of conducting well-designed clinical trials
• Combining chemotherapy and radiotherapy in small cell lung cancer
• New developments in targeted therapies for lung cancer
• MicroRNAs: the new genes involved in cancer
• European disparities in cancer control
• More than 200 presentations; more than 300 international experts
• Late-breaking abstracts: the latest studies with new findings
• Multi-disciplinary Interactive Sessions (MIS): experts will present treatment options from the perspective of different disciplines within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Controversy sessions: five lively discussions on particularly hot topics based on latest research results.
• Keynote Lectures: three important presentations in the field of basic science and translational research, the new frontier in cancer research.
• The seventh batch of ESMO Designated Centers of Integrated Oncology and Palliative Care will be announced as centres of excellence for patient care in Europe.
• A session on the newly released ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines: the best standards of cancer care with improved methodology.
• Oncology Highlights of the most important advances in cancer treatment in 2010.
• The 8th ESMO Patient Seminar where patients will have the chance to meet oncologists and hear about the conditions of cancer treatment in Europe, discuss and confront doctors about the consequences of cancer therapy, learn the approaches to long-term survivorship and the future perspective of cancer treatments.

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October 9-11, 2010
First International Conference of Latin-American Medical Informatics and Telemedicine - LAMIT 2010, Santo Domingo, Domenican Republic

Topics include:

• Medical record and electronic patient record
• Clinical and epidemiological data bases
• Multimedia database, images and signals processing
• Digital signature in health documents
• Security, privacy of medical data
• Hospital Information Systems and hospital virtualization
• Health information systems and patient smart cards
• Standards and interoperability in Health Informatics
• Regional and national information systems
• Grid technology and global e-Health
• Teleconsulting/telediagnosis/telemonitoring
• Teleradiology, telecardiology, telepathology, teleophtalmology, telediabetology, etc.
• Telehomecare and ambient assisting living Internet in health care and medical web portals
• Web 2.0 applications and social health networks
• Distance learning in health care
• Decision support system in medicine
• Statistical software and neural networks in biomedicine
• Bioinformatics and genomic data banks
• Neuroinformatics, A.I. and cognitive brain processes

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October 10-12, 2010
First FEES-European Conference on Ergonomics/Human Factors (EHF), Brugge, Belgium

This conference addresses the threats to the quality of life, and the associated problems, which the European Union society currently faces and will continue to face in the forthcoming decades. The conference objectives are intended to create a platform for developing decisions about risk management, growth and employment.

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October 10-13, 2010
Buckyball Discovery Conference, Houston, Texas, USA

The conference will incorporate the annual T.T. Chao Symposium on Innovation, which brings together established and emerging leaders in the technical, entrepreneurial and policy arenas to think about how Houston can address society's needs in the 21st century.

An interactive discussion about the discovery of the buckyball moderated by Tom Tritton, president of the Chemical Heritage Foundation, will kick off the event. Nobel laureates Robert Curl, Rice's University Professor Emeritus and Kenneth S. Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor Emeritus of Natural Sciences; Sir Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex at the time of the find and now at Florida State University; and former Rice graduate students James Heath and Sean O'Brien will reminisce about their groundbreaking discovery and the many years they spent defending it, what their work has meant for science and where they see nanotechnology headed. They will talk about working with their Rice colleague and fellow laureate, the late Rick Smalley, and answer audience questions.

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October 11-13, 2010
Cracow Grid Workshop - CGW10, Krakow, Poland

This year CGW celebrates its 10th anniversary. Topics include:

• e-Science, system-level science and collaborative applications
• models, methods and tools for collaborative applications
• virtual laboratories and problem solving environments
• distributed computing infrastructures, Grids and Clouds
• knowledge in e-Science and DCI systems
• virtual organisations and security aspects
• resource management and scheduling
• monitoring and information management
• software engineering aspects
• industrial and social implications

Keynote speakers include:

• Kyriakos Baxevanidis, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium
• Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
• Cees de Laat, Informatics Institute, Universiteit van Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA
• Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania
• technical presentations from HP and Intel

Deadline for paper submission is September 5, 2010.

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October 11-13, 2010
Beyond the Genome, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

This event is an international conference which brings together leading researchers and industry representatives from around the globe. The conference, organised by BioMed Central, marks Genome Biology's 10th anniversary and the recent launch of its sister journal Genome Medicine. Delegates will gather to review progress in key areas of post-genomic research in biology and medicine and to chart future developments, including the Human Microbiome Project and the resequencing of matched tumour and normal genomes from specific types of cancers.

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October 11-16, 2010
12th AHILA Congress, Burkina Faso

The 12th Association for Health Information and Libraries in Africa (AHILA) Congress will focus on Health Information in Africa. Sub-themes include: redefining the role of health information professionals; the use of ICTs to bridge the information divides in Africa; collecting and disseminating health research outcomes at institutions; patient and public access to and the dissemination of health information; chronic diseases and neglected diseases in Africa - research and the information needs of health personnel; and evidenced based health care in Africa.

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October 13-14, 2010
e-IRG Workshop, Brussels, Belgium

The e-Infrastructure Reflection Group organises workshops twice a year in collaboration with the country holding the European Union presidency. Workshops are open to all, and function as incubators for feeding new information and trends into the e-IRG plenum work.

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October 13-14, 2010
Fourth Annual Lab Quality Confab, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Lab Quality Confab is an annual gathering dedicated to advancing the knowledge, skills, and effectiveness of quality management practitioners in diagnostic medicine. Programmes, information, and training are designed for every level of manager and all levels of knowledge and experience. Diagnostic medicine, particularly the services of clinical laboratory, pathology, imaging, and radiology, make up the primary emphasis of the Lab Quality Confab.

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October 13-15, 2010
Tutorial on "Fast, Free Phylogenies: HPC for Phylogenetics", Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

The tutorial focuses on how to use TeraGrid, the CIPRES Portal, the iPlant Discovery environment, university clusters, and other typically free HPC resources for phylogenetic analysis. The tutorial is geared primarily toward biologists, including students, postdocs and faculty, who are at least moderately experienced with phylogenetic analysis and who have datasets to run but who are typically running analyses on their own desktops, but the material is also appropriate for researchers, such as statisticians or mathematicians working in phylogenetics, as well as researchers working as a team, such as a pairing of a biologist and a statistician who collaborate in their work.

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October 15-17, 2010
6th European Masters in Aesthetic and Anti-Aging Medicine - EMAA 2010, Paris, France

Physicians will obtain the answers they seek thanks to the very practical format proposed in this congress and the quality of the programme presented by European and international experts. This progressive multi-disciplinary meeting is designed to bring an update on Aesthetic and Anti-aging Treatments, products and new technologies in a very practical and interactive format that will provide an unparalleled weekend educational experience.

It includes hottest new procedures, training sessions, live demonstrations workshops, run by a world class faculty of opinion leaders in anti-aging medicine, aesthetic dermatology and surgery. The EMAA aims to be a very practical congress where each lecture effectively corresponds to an application in your daily practice.

Considering the increasing demand of the public, an important feature of the EMAA this year will reside in providing an important part to educationnal sessions for an effective and SAFE anti-aging medicine - healthy people medicine. This, in view to offer the right basis for the physician from Aesthetics, General Practice, and from other Specialties, to offer their patients therapies that will aim to prevent aging and pathologies and make people who are already healthy, healthier.

The same way anti-aging doctors will be able to gain aesthetic practice knowledge from the very complete programme of the EMAA.

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October 17-20, 2010
Esri's Electric & Gas Conference - EGUG 2010, Dearborn, Michigan, USA

Energy professionals from around the world will gather at the Electric & Gas User Group Conference, hosted by Esri. Attendees will glean new ideas, share proven solutions, and learn more about reliable applications of geographic information system (GIS) technology from Esri. This year's event will delve into solutions for the current challenges facing electric and gas utilities including smart grid, distribution integrity management, Cloud computing, renewable energy, and economic development.

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October 17-22, 2010
ESF-EMBO Symposium: Functional Neurobiology in Minibrains - From Flies to Robots and Back Again, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

Understanding the mechanisms allowing brains to collect sensory input and control adaptive behaviour represents one of the most challenging endeavours in science. The goal of this symposium is to review progress towards an integrated understanding of the genetic, molecular, and neuronal basis of behaviour in the fruit fly, Drosophila melanogaster. The participants will examine how our knowledge about biological neural processes can influence (and be influenced by) the design of robotic neural systems. The aim is to bring together researchers from the Drosophila and insect community with experts in computational neurobiology and robotics. The participants will promote discussion on how to quantitatively describe working hypotheses about brain functions and behavioural control, and how bio-inspired robots may be used to test the validity and limits of our current models.

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October 18-19, 2010
Mobile Healthcare 2010, Singapore

Get the industry's answers to these important questions:

• Where are the real opportunities for commercially viable m-Health opportunities? Applications & markets
• What are the value, role and obligations of the mobile health care provider?
• To what extent will mobile health assist in disease management and clinical trials?
• How do we successfully access mobile health outcomes before more investments go into it?
• What kind of technology platforms are especially suited to mobile health and what approach do we take to regulate m-Health technology?
• What are some of the outcomes from mobile health care projects done by hospitals & mobile operators? Reviewing these in the light of business issues, health care outcome delivery effectiveness, partnership models and more...
• If you are a health care provider/mobile operator, which part of mobile health will present you the greatest value?
• Who are the current players?

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October 18-20, 2010
6th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids and 1st Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems - LaSCoG-SCoDiS'10, Wisla, Poland

The LaSCoG-SCoDiS'10 pair of events shares a joint Programme Committee and is envisioned as a forum to promote an exchange of ideas and results aimed at addressing sophisticated issues that arise in developing large-scale applications running on heterogeneous distributed systems.

Covered topics include but are not limited to:

• Large-scale algorithms and applications
• Cloud computing
• Symbolic and numeric computations
• High performance computations for large scale simulations
• Large-scale distributed computations
• Agent-based computing
• Data models for large-scale applications
• Security issues for large-scale computations
• Science portals
• Data visualization
• Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction
• Programming models
• Peer-to-peer models and services for scalable Grids
• Collaborative science applications
• Business applications
• Data-intensive applications
• Operations on large-scale distributed databases
• On-demand computing
• Computation as a service
• Federation of compute capacity
• Virtualization supporting computations
• Self-adaptive computational / storage systems
• Volunteer computing

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October 18-22, 2010
International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics - CHEP'10, Taipei, Taiwan

The International Conferences on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP) are a major series of international conferences for physicists and computing professionals from the high energy and nuclear physics community, computer science, and information technology. CHEP provides an international forum to exchange the experiences and needs of the community, and to review recent, ongoing, and future activities.

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October 19-20, 2010
ETSI Workshop on Machine to Machine Communications, Sophia Antipolis, France

The goal of this workshop is to present the status of Machine to Machine standards work, both in ETSI and other standards bodies; identify additional needs from the impacted industrial and academic segments for the further standardization of Machine to Machine Communications; and examine how Machine to Machine capabilities will be one stepping stone amongst several toward the Internet of Things.

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October 19-20, 2010
How to Improve Patient Safety in Primary Care in Europe, Manchester, United Kingdom

This conference aims to provide help to people who work in primary care and who want to improve patient safety. There will be practical sessions which will show you how to establish reporting systems for adverse incidents in Primary Care and provide you with the necessary toolkits to do this. You will be shown how to measure safety culture in primary care organisations, and how to involve patients in improving safety. You will also be shown how you can learn from adverse events, helping you develop preventative strategies to improve safety.

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October 19-20, 2010
Integrative Medicine Conference, Jerusalem, Israel

What causes many physicians to re-examine their conservative stance? New researches? Public demand? Accumulation of proven medical data? Economical reasons? Does public pressure have an effect, or do the medical results speak for themselves?

This unique international meeting will deal with all these questions and more: the growth of integrative medicine, its achievements, its problems, and the interesting way in which it advances nowadays in the medical world. You will hear about researches, discuss professional innovations, examine processes, experience workshops, and especially: participate in a unique international interdisciplinary gathering - a meeting between different approaches, systems and cultures. It will be a fascinating meeting of physicians and therapists, an intellectual dialogue between those who practice integrative medicine around the world.

This convention is intended for physicians and professional therapists, and is not open to the general public.

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October 19-21, 2010
Mobile Health Expo, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Mobile Health Expo brings together all constituents interested in advancing the technology, business, policy and medical landscape of the entire mobile health ecosystem, including mhealth (cellular phones and applications), telemedicine, wireless and connected health. In addition to exhibits showcasing cutting-edge technology and applications, and expert analysis in the keynotes and sessions, Mobile Health Expo includes an innovative event feature called The Scenarios. Technology providers will demonstrate mobile health solutions in real-life situations tied to the eight market-driving themes that are influencing mobile health.

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October 19-22, 2010
The Jerusalem International Conference on Integrative Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel

In the last 100 years the world of medicine has seen a true historical revolution. The accomplishments of modern medicine surpass the imagination, from overcoming diseases and saving lives, to organ transplants and improving the quality of life. But modern medicine is based on the principal of "Evidence-Based Medicine" and anything that doesn't conform to this criterion is pushed aside. Thus all therapies not based on scientific proof have been expelled from the world of western medicine.

However, the public has continued using these therapies, which were given outside the formal medical system, and therefore referred to as "alternative medicine". In the meantime, many physicians discovered that patients who received "alternative" therapies simultaneous to conventional care improved their medical condition. It wasn't always scientifically clear why this happened, but in light of these results physicians have agreed that their patients receive "alternative" care, in addition to the conventional medical care.

And thus the phrase "complementary medicine" was born: medicine that complements the trained physician's work. In light of the positive results, more and more conventional physicians have begun treating their patients with methods of "alternative" medicine. This way a model was created that unites the scientific principals of modern medicine with the holistic principels of alternative medicine. This "integrative medicine" is the topic of this convention.

What causes many physicians to re-examine their conservative stance? New researches? Public demand? Accumulation of proven medical data? Economical reasons? Does public pressure have an effect, or do the medical results speak for themselves?

This unique international meeting will deal with all these questions and more: the growth of integrative medicine, its achievements, its problems, and the interesting way in which it advances nowadays in the medical world. You will hear about researches, discuss professional innovations, examine processes, experience workshops, and especially: participate in a unique international interdisciplinary gathering - a meeting between different approaches, systems and cultures. It will be a fascinating meeting of physicians and therapists, an intellectual dialogue between those who practice integrative medicine around the world.

This convention is intended for physicians and professional therapists, and is not open to the general public.

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October 20-22, 2010
Parasite to Prevention: Advances in the Understanding of Malaria, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

This international conference brings together leading researchers and industry representatives who will review important recent findings in parasite and vector biology, disease pathophysiology and immunology, disease treatment, prevention and control. Attendees will learn about the latest developments in key areas and initiatives that are at the forefront of malaria research.

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October 20-22, 2010
16th World Congress of the Senologic International Society, Valencia, Spain

The congress' members will evaluate the efficacy of breast cancer screening using mammography and they will check the results obtain by the hospital breast units in terms of survival and quality of life. These structures allow patients to receive a complete and multi-disciplinary management of their tumour.

Experts will also approach other interesting issues for patients' quality of life such as: the best time and best technique to undergo rebuilding surgery after a mastectomy; the chances for young patients to preserve the possibilities of getting pregnant in the future or the potential impact of pregnancy induction therapies. Other matters to study will be translational research in breast cancer - such as lymphatic gland self-transplant to treat lymphedema, one of the most common consequences of surgery - the assessment of new molecular targets to develop more efficient and personalized treatments.

Many well known worldwide experts will attend to this Congress such as Prof. Veronessi, from Milan, Prof. Cezap, from Buenos Aires, Prof. Masia, from Barcelona, Prof. Muggia and Cordón-Cardo, both from New York, among others.

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October 21-22, 2010
2010 Connected Health Symposium, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The theme of this symposium is "The Way Forward: Reform's New Focus on Health and Wellness, Independent Aging, Chronic Condition Self-Care and the Tools That Support Them".

At this year's Connected Health Symposium, the way forward is mapped. As gridlock threatens elsewhere, the responsibility for driving change falls directly to us - the patients, payers, physicians, hospital leaders, entrepreneurs and IT execs who experience health care every day. Together the means of moving care beyond the hospital and clinic and into the day-to-day lives of those who need our help will be discussed and debated.

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October 21-23, 2010
Applied Computing Conference 2010Ê- ACC'10, Timisoara, Romania

Topics include:

• Algorithms, Automata, Formal Languages
• Programming Languages, Software Engineering
• Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Robotics
• Computer Networks
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Intelligence
• Databases, Information Retrieval and Data Mining
• Hardware and Architecture
• Wireless Sensor Networks
• Security and Privacy, Cryptology
• Human Computer Interaction
• Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• Distributed and Parallel Computing
• Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
• Signal Processing, Image Processing, Multimedia, Video
• Operating, Networked and Storage Systems
• Quantum Computing, Molecular Computing
• Real Time and Embedded Systems
• Computer Design
• Scientific Computing, Grid Computing
• Semantic Web and Web Services, Internet Computing, Mobile Computing
• History of Computer Science, Educational Topics
• Multi-disciplinary Computer Science
• Circuits, Networks
• Electronics, Micro-electronics, Nano-electronics
• Power Systems
• Automation, Control, Robotics
• Instrumentation and Measurement
• Systems Theory, Dynamical Systems, Chaos
• Artificial Intelligence, Soft Computing (Neural, Fuzzy, Evolutionary Systems)
• Telecommunication Systems
• Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Image Processing
• Multimedia and Video Systems
• Others

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October 21-23, 2010
11th WSEAS International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Computational Techniques in Electrical Engineering - MMACTEE'10, Timisoara, Romania

This conference includes:

• Plenary Lecture 1: Assessment of Power-Frequency Based Algorithms for Fault Location in Power Grids by Prof. Marcel Istrate, Technical University "Gheorghe Asachi" of Iasi, Romania.
• Plenary Lecture 2: Heuristic and Metaheuristic Optimization Techniques with Application to Power Systems by Prof. Mihai Gavrilas, "Gh. Asachi" Technical University of Iasi, Romania.

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October 21-24, 2010
International Immunopharmacology Conference on Regulatory Myeloid Cells, Arlington, Virginia, USA

The conference will bring together scientists and clinicians from the diverse fields in which myeloid cells have a critical role, to discuss their expansion, bio-distribution, trafficking, differentiation, regulation, and function. This conference will engender productive discussions, novel hypotheses and will foster new collaborations, all of which are critical to the development of this exciting new field.

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October 23-28, 2010
Nanomedicine: Reality Now and Soon - ESF-UB Conference in Biomedicine, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

The application of nanotechnology will have a major influence in many fields of medicine. Novel nano-based materials appear in drug delivery systems, diagnostics, imaging, biosensing, and medical materials and devices. This conference aims to provide detailed understanding and discuss the clinical utility of those areas of nanomedicine which are close to application or already clinically applied/on the market. Invited international experts active in nanomedicine development from industry, clinic and academia will give in-depth lectures on the state-of-the-art including a critical analysis of the likely impact on human health care. Spotlights will also be put on new possibilities arising in the near future.

Sessions will include: Advanced Nanomaterials; Nanobioanalytics & Nanotoxicology; Nanopharmaceuticals on the Market; Interactions with the Biological Milieu; Nano-imaging; Ligand-Mediated Targeting; Nanopharmaceuticals in Clinical Development; Targeted Nanomedicine & EC; Intracellular Delivery of Macromolecules; Tissue Repair.

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October 25-27, 2010
Mobile Health Connectivity Conference, Chicago, Illinois, USA

The US health care industry is driven by regulation, costs, and the need to improve the quality of patient care. As a result leading health care executives understand the strategic importance of working toward a digital era. Now, as the population continues to age, chronic diseases are on the rise, and patients become empowered through new technologies, the healthcare landscape has to adapt as its workload increases. Mobile technologies are the next logical step to your eHealth plans.

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October 25-28, 2010
2nd International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management - IC3K 2010, Valencia, Spain

The purpose of the IC3K is to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners on the areas of Knowledge Discovery, Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management. IC3K is composed of three co-located conferences, each specialized in at least one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas:

• KDIR: International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval
• KEOD: International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
• KMIS: International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing

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October 25-28, 2010
2nd International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing - KMIS 2010, Valencia, Spain

Knowledge Management (KM) is a discipline concerned with the analysis and technical support of practices used in an organisation to identify, create, represent, distribute and enable the adoption and leveraging of good practices embedded in collaborative settings and, in particular, in organisational processes. Effective knowledge management is an increasingly important source of competitive advantage, and a key to the success of contemporary organisations, bolstering the collective expertise of its employees and partners.

There are several perspectives on KM, but all share the same core components, namely: People, Processes and Technology. Some take a techno-centric focus, in order to enhance knowledge integration and creation; some take an organisational focus, in order to optimize organisation design and workflows; some take an ecological focus, where the important aspects are related to people interaction, knowledge and environmental factors as a complex adaptive system similar to a natural ecosystem.

Information Sharing (IS) is a term used for a long time in the information technology (IT) lexicon, related to data exchange, communication protocols and technological infrastructures. Although standardization is indeed an essential element for sharing information, IS effectiveness requires going beyond the syntactic nature of IT and delve into the human functions involved in the semantic, pragmatic and social levels of organizational semiotics.

This meeting will take place yearly, bringing together top researchers and practitioners in knowledge technologies, especially those related to KMIS main topic areas:

• Metadata and structured documents
• Digital libraries
• Best practices & communities of practice
• Business intelligence & CRM
• Communication, collaboration and information sharing
• Interoperability
• Information security
• Impact measurement of knowledge management
• Tools and technology for knowledge management
• Knowledge management projects
• E-Learning, e-training and executive training
• Organisational memories
• Organisational semiotics
• Learning organisation & organisational learning
• Content management & digital rights management
• Intelligent information systems
• Social networks and the psychological dimension
• Intellectual capital
• K-Economy, k-community and k-enterprise
• Studies, metrics & benchmarks
• Innovation facilitation
• KM strategies and implementations

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October 25-28, 2010
2nd International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - KDIR 2010, Valencia, Spain

Knowledge Discovery is an interdisciplinary area focusing upon methodologies for identifying valid, novel, potentially useful and meaningful patterns from data, often based on underlying large data sets. A major aspect of Knowledge Discovery is data mining, i.e. applying data analysis and discovery algorithms that produce a particular enumeration of patterns (or models) over the data. Knowledge Discovery also includes the evaluation of patterns and identification of which add to knowledge. This has proven to be a promising approach for enhancing the intelligence of software systems and services.

The ongoing rapid growth of on-line data due to the Internet and the widespread use of large databases have created an important need for knowledge discovery methodologies. The challenge of extracting knowledge from data draws upon research in a large number of disciplines including statistics, databases, pattern recognition, machine learning, data visualization, optimization, and high-performance computing, to deliver advanced business intelligence and web discovery solutions.

Information retrieval (IR) is concerned with gathering relevant information from unstructured and semantically fuzzy data in texts and other media, searching for information within documents and for metadata about documents, as well as searching relational databases and the Web. Automation of information retrieval enables the reduction of what has been called "information overload". Information retrieval can be combined with knowledge discovery to create software tools that empower users of decision support systems to better understand and use the knowledge underlying large data sets.

The primary focus of KDIR is to provide a major forum for the scientific and technical advancement of knowledge discovery and information retrieval.

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October 25-28, 2010
2nd International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development - KEOD 2010, Valencia, Spain

Knowledge Engineering (KE) refers to all technical, scientific and social aspects involved in building, maintaining and using knowledge-based systems. KE is a multi-disciplinary field, bringing in concepts and methods from several computer science domains such as artificial intelligence, databases, expert systems, decision support systems and geographic information systems. From the software development point of view, KE uses principles that are strongly related to software engineering. KE is also related to mathematical logic, as well as strongly involved in cognitive science and socio-cognitive engineering where the knowledge is produced by socio-cognitive aggregates (mainly humans) and is structured according to our understanding of how human reasoning and logic works.

Currently, KE is strongly related to the construction of shared knowledge bases or conceptual frameworks, often designated as ontologies. Ontology Development aims at building reusable semantic structures that can be informal vocabularies, catalogs, glossaries as well as more complex finite formal structures representing the entities within a domain and the relationships between those entities. Ontologies, have been gaining interest and acceptance in computational audiences: formal ontologies are a form of software, thus software development methodologies can be adapted to serve ontology development. A wide range of applications is emerging, especially given the current web emphasis, including library science, ontology-enhanced search, e-commerce and configuration.

KEOD aims at becoming a major meeting point for researchers and practitioners interested in the study and development of methodologies and technologies for Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development.

Topics include:

• Knowledge representation
• Knowledge acquisition
• Context modelling and management
• Reflection and metadata approaches
• Decision support systems
• Expert systems
• Ontology engineering
• Networked ontologies
• Semantic web
• Process knowledge and semantic services
• Ontology sharing and reuse
• Ontology matching and alignment
• Knowledge re-engineering
• AI programming
• Intelligent problem solving
• Natural language processing
• Human-machine co-operation
• e-Business and interoperability issues
• Intelligent multi-agent systems
• Applications and case-studies
• Domain analysis and modelling
• Meta-modelling
• Mobile access to knowledge systems
• Knowledge engineering education

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October 25-28, 2010
Conference on Friction and Adhesion in Nanomechanical Systems - FANAS 2010, Saarbr¨cken, Germany

The focus of the conference is on revealing the relationships between adhesion and friction at the nano- and micro-scales as well as on mechanisms of energy dissipation in tribological systems. It will seek to bridge the gap between the nano-, micro- and macro-scales in friction, lubrication and adhesion, and will elaborate on new approaches towards control and modification of frictional properties.

Issues of nano-manipulation at interfaces, studies of biomimetic tribological systems and tribochemistry will also be addressed. Following the spirit of past meetings the conference will be organized as a single-session event including poster sessions and allowing for ample time for discussions.

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October 25-29, 2010
OGF 30 and 11th International Conference on Grid Computing - IEEE Grid2010, Brussels, Belgium

The 11th International Conference on Grid Computing is an annual international meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers, practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology and Distributed Computing Infrastructures (DCI), including Cloud computing and Green IT. The conference will feature invited keynotes, workshops, a poster session and refereed paper presentations. The event will take place in conjunction with OGF30. Building on the success of last year's OGF27 event in Banff, Canada, OGF30 will again co-locate with IEEE Grid2010. OGF will return to Europe for its final event of 2010.

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October 25-31, 2010
International Conference on Airborne Research for the Environment - ICARE, Toulouse, France

Scientists involved in airborne research are invited to share experiences at expert workshops and contribute to a forward-look on user requirements and operator development strategy. A special focus will be on open access to airborne research infrastructures, joint development of a heavy-payload/ long-endurance aircraft, and availability of a stratospheric aircraft in Europe and the development of UAS for environmental research.

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October 26-28, 2010
Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery Conference - GCDID, San Diego, California

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) will host a special conference as it prepares to deploy a unique data-intensive, high-performance computing (HPC) system called Gordon in mid-2011.

The goal of the GCDID conference is to provide an opportunity for attendees to share their expertise while exchanging ideas about the computational challenges and concerns common to data-intensive problems. Specifically, the conference is structured to facilitate discussion to help:

• Articulate and clarify "Grand Challenges" in data-intensive research across a broad range of disciplines, including arts, astronomy, biology, computer science, earth sciences, economics, engineering, humanities, medicine, neuroscience, social sciences, and data-related technologies
• Identify applications and disciplines that can benefit from Gordon's unique architecture and capabilities, including those that have not been part of the traditional HPC community
• Identify common technical needs across disciplines and relevant software solutions
• Recognize opportunities for leaders in data-intensive science to take advantage of SDSC's available expertise in this area

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October 26-29, 2010
HIMSS Asia'10 Health IT Congress, Daegu, Korea

The congress will feature conference and education sessions aimed at providing health care IT leaders an opportunity to network and exchange ideas in order to advance quality health care delivery. The HIMSS Asia'10 Health IT Congress will also feature an exhibition floor showcasing the latest solutions available today, promising to be a place for intensive knowledge exchange where the best minds gather, and a platform for unlimited networking opportunities as leaders from health care, government and IT converge.

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October 27-28, 2010
1st International Workshop on Heterogeneous Data Mining and KDD in Support of Earth Observation - KKDEO 2010, Valencia, Spain

The volume and diversity of data is a major challenge to the existing data exploitation and dissemination approaches used by the various national agencies (e.g., ESA, NASA, NOAA) charged with extracting information from these data. With plans to enlarge the application areas, the challenge is increasingly going to be how to enlarge the usability of the millions of images being stored in archives and being collected in real-time for a larger and larger group of end-user applications (e.g., climate change, security, land use, weather).

The Earth Observation (EO) Image analyst needs to identify image elements of interest, find a model-based correspondence to the semantics assumed, and explain the observed scene. The new methods are necessary to help the human operator, in a separate interaction loop, to generate functions for the aggregation of the obtained image elements and add desired semantics. Also, such methods should suggest to the operator the semantic annotation of the data, supporting bodies of knowledge, and position the domain ontology.

To deal with the challenge of recognition and understanding of the huge variability and diversity of land cover structures and objects, it is necessary to analyze all available sources of information including multi-temporal, multi-sensor EO imagery, in-situ information, maps, GIS or textual data. Thus, new specific techniques of Knowledge Bases, Image Information Mining, KDD and Visualization need to be integrated.

The workshop aims at soliciting contributions in the following or related topics:

• Heterogeneous data analysis
• Category discovery
• Efficient search based on dynamically generated data models
• Advanced DB techniques
• Image information integration with map or GIS-like information
• Bridging the semantic gap for EO applications
• "Spatialisation" of semantics, and ontologies for spatial data
• Fusion and enriching of EO images with, the image product metadata, Internet tagged resources, photography, text, maps, etc.
• Access (search engines) to large spatial data, distributed repositories
• Optimal IT system design (man-machine communication, information and knowledge share, optimal access to resources, etc.)
• Semantic catalogues for data bases indexing content

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October 27-28, 2010
1st International Workshop on Semantic Sensor Web - SSW 2010, Valencia, Spain

During last years, sensors have been increasingly adopted in the context of several disciplines and applications (military, industrial, medical, homeland security, etc.) collecting and distributing observations of our world in everyday life. Sensors progressively assumed the critical role of bridge between real world and information systems, through an always more consolidated and efficient sensor technology that enables advanced heterogeneous sensor grids. Current sensor networks are able to detect and identify simple phenomena or measurements as well as complex events and situations. As imaginable, these sensor networks disseminated everywhere around the world are not connected between them as well as associate information systems are not integrated. This scenario can be resumed as too much data and not enough knowledge.

Sensor Web is commonly defined as: "Web-accessible sensor networks and archived sensor data that can be discovered and accessed using standard protocols and application interfaces". Sensor Web is a progressive concept that, at the moment, is limited mainly by the lack of standardization.

Semantic Sensor Web would be an evolving extension of Sensor Web that introduces a semantic layer in which semantics, or meaning, of information are formally defined. Semantics should integrate webcentric standard information infrastructures improving the capabilities of collecting, retrieving, sharing, manipulating and analyzing sensor data (or associate phenomena) as well as potential interoperability between systems through semantic interactions.

The aim of Workshop is promoting an open international discussion between researchers from both academia and industry about Semantic Sensor Web (and related issues) as well as the selection of a restricted number of highquality selected papers about interest topics.

At the moment topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Modelling and Representation of Sensor Knowledge
• Analysis and Modelling of Sensor Domain
• Sensor/Sensor Network Ontology Engineering
• Semantic Sensor Web
• Data Models and Languages for Semantic Sensor Web
• Semantic Sensor Systems and Applications
• Architectures and Middleware for Semantic Sensor Web
• Special topic: Sensors and Semantics in the fabric of the future

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October 27-28, 2010
Command & Control Room Summit 2010 - CCR Summit, Kerkrade, The Netherlands

The CCR Summit 2010 will again provide a unique opportunity for professionals working in the field of Police, Fire, Ambulance and other emergency services to meet up and share information with colleagues from across Europe as well as policy-makers, developers, renowned manufacturers, network-operators and systems integrators.

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October 27-29, 2010
eChallenges e-2010 Conference, Warsaw, Poland

This is the twentieth in a series of Annual Conferences supported by the European Commission, which regularly attracts over 650 delegates from leading commercial, government and research organisations around the world to share knowledge and experience, lessons learnt and good practice in the areas of eInfrastructures, ICT for Networked Enterprise & RFID, eGovernment & eDemocracy, eHealth, Collaborative Working Environments, Living Labs, Digital Libraries and Cultural Heritage, Technology Enhanced Learning, Intelligent Content & Semantics, High Performance Computing Applications, Security and Identity Management and Mobility.

The goal of e-2010 is to stimulate rapid take-up of Research and Technology Development (RTD) results by industry and in particular SMEs, and help open up the European Research Area (ERA) to the rest of the world.

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October 27-29, 2010
X Jornadas de Bioinformática, Málaga, Spain

This event is organized by the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute in collaboration with the Portuguese Bioinformatics Network and hosted by the University of Málaga, Spain. The aim is to provide a forum to present and discuss the lines of research and development of national and international groups working on Bioinformatics. This year the conference will dedicate special attention to the area of "Bioinformatics for personalized medicine".

The Programme Committee seeks contributions in the following areas but not limited to:

• Analysis of high throughput data (NGS)
• Structural Bioinformatics
• Algorithms for computational biology and HPC
• Sequence analysis, phylogenetics and evolution
• Databases, tools and technologies for computational biology
• Bioinformatics in Transcriptomics and Proteomics
• System and Synthetic Biology

Together with a number of invited talks, this edition will also hold the "Highlights session" where selected papers published in the previous year will be presented. All communications will be in English.

Deadline for paper submission is September 5, 2010.

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October 27 - November 1, 2010
Immunological Mechanisms of Vaccination, Seattle, Washington, USA

The four-day conference will bring together more than 400 researchers from around the world confronting a range of different diseases that would benefit from vaccine development. Included among the attendees will be 58 researchers and students originating from 27 developing countries who have received Keystone Symposia Global Health Travel Awards to attend the conference.

The goal of the meeting is to bring together, and encourage crosstalk between, vaccinologists, immunologists, virologists and systems biologists. Since these groups do not always interact, such interaction, it is hoped, will encourage the rational design of future vaccines against pandemics such as HIV, malaria and tuberculosis, and against emerging infections such as swine influenza and dengue. Because of recent advances in immunology, human genetics and systems biology - particularly in our understanding of the role of innate immunity in shaping an adaptive immune response, the time is ripe for progress in this area.

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October 28-29, 2010
ISC Cloud'10, Frankfurt, Germany

The ISC Cloud conference will focus on computing and data-intensive applications, the resources they require in a computing Cloud, and strategies for implementing and deploying Cloud infrastructures. Finally, the conference will shed light on how Cloud computing will impact HPC.

Key topics include:

• Cloud computing models: private, public, hybrid
• Virtualization techniques
• Perspective of scientific Cloud computing
• Migrating large data sets into a Cloud
• Trust in Cloud computing: security and legal aspects
• Cloud computing success stories

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October 28-29, 2010
HIMSS Asia'10 Health IT Leadership Summit, Daegu, Korea

The HIMSS Asia'10 Health IT Leadership Summit is a new, exclusive, invitation-only executive level forum for education, collaboration and dialogue. Top leaders from health care, IT and government will convene to help advance the quality of healthcare delivery. The event will feature a leadership summit designed to foster intensive knowledge exchange and networking opportunities at the most senior level.

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October 29, 2010
e-Infrastructures for Cultural Heritage, Brussels, Belgium

This event of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union is organised by the Scientific and Technical Information Service (STIS) in the context of Belgian Science Policy's participation in the Digital Cultural Heritage ERANET Network (ERANET DC-NET), a project co-funded by the FP7 specific programme Capacities/Research Infrastructures of the European Union.

ERANET DC-NET aims to explore how e-infrastructures could contribute to the development of new cultural services, and to establish a joint programme of research priorities with all stakeholders, for the digital cultural heritage sector.

The conference aims to reach representatives from the cultural sector, ICT and research, and cultural and science policy. All presentations will be in English (simultaneous translation into Dutch and French will be available). Registration is free but obligatory.

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October 31 - November 3, 2010
Plant and Soil Science Conference, Long Beach, California, USA

This meeting presents the latest research in plant and soil science, emphasizing the security of food, energy and the environment in the next green revolution. More than 3000 international scientists, professionals, educators, and students will present new technologies and discuss emerging trends in food security, bioenergy, climate change, soil change, and related issues. The meeting theme "GreenRevolution 2.0: Food + Energy and Environmental Security", presents a programme that is built around daily plenary sessions, nine distinguished lectures, 2500+ oral and poster presentations, an exhibit hall, career center, and other events.

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October 31 - November 4, 2010
52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology - ASTRO, San Diego, California, USA

The theme at this year's Annual Meeting, "Gathering Evidence, Proving Value", invites you to examine the realities of practising medicine in 2010 and to take part in the world's largest education and scientific radiation oncology event. Now, more than ever, it's time for radiation oncology to show its efficacy and prove its worth. Join the conversation at this year's Annual Meeting and view first-hand the latest developments in radiation oncology.

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November 1-4, 2010
7th International Cloud Conference & Expo, Santa Clara, California, USA

The Cloud is certainly a compelling alternative to running all applications within a traditional corporate data centre. But moving from theory into practice is where things get complicated, and this is where attending a top industry event like Cloud Expo comes in.

No one can take full advantage of Cloud computing without first becoming familiar with the latest issues and trends. Through an intensive two-day schedule of keynotes, general and breakout sessions, and the bustling Expo Floor, attending delegates leave this conference with abundant resources, ideas and examples they can apply immediately to leveraging the Cloud, helping them to maximize performance, minimize cost and improve the scalability of their Enterprise IT endeavours. Delegates will leave Cloud Expo with dramatically increased understanding the entire scope of the entire Cloud computing spectrum from storage to security.

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November 2-4, 2010
Lab Quality Confab 2010, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Lab Quality Confab is an annual gathering dedicated to advancing the knowledge, skills, and effectiveness of quality management practitioners in diagnostic medicine. Programmes, information, and training are designed for every level of manager and all levels of knowledge and experience. Diagnostic medicine, particularly the services of clinical laboratory, pathology, imaging, and radiology, make up the primary emphasis of the Lab Quality Confab.

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November 2-4, 2010
9th Annual Health Informatics New Zealand Conference and Exhibition, Wellington, New Zealand

The theme of the conference is "Enabling Clinical Transformation", but papers, posters and workshop proposals on any aspect of health informatics will be welcome.

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November 4-5, 2010
8th e-Infrastruct ure Concertation Meeting, Geneva, Switzerland

The main aims of the meeting are to present the new e-Infrastructures projects that kick off in 2010, to take stock of progress in e-Infrastructures and to discuss impact assessment in the domain. The meeting is co-organised by the European Commission and the eScienceTalk project.

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November 5-6, 2010
Fifth Friedman School Symposium: Nutrition Security in the Developing World, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The programme will start with challenges in the developing world, the direction of agriculture policy and research, sustainability, the environment and ongoing challenges in nutrition.

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November 8, 2010
The 112 Awards Ceremony, Brussels, Belgium

The 4th edition of the 112 Awards Ceremony will be held under the patronage of the Belgian presidency of the European Union in the "Palais d'Egmont", Brussels. The 112 Awards Ceremony intends to recognise and congratulate individuals and organisations particularly engaged in improving and promoting the European emergency number 112. Every individual and organisation, which show evidence of extraordinary behaviour and/or results and/or achievements in categories such as Education on 112, Emergency Service Integration or PSAP Initiative can submit a testimony and apply for a 112 Award. The selection is ensured by members of EENA's Advisory Board and 112 Emergency Services Staff Network. The 112 Awards Ceremony will be attended by several high level political personalities, representatives of European Union Institutions, emergency services and solution providers.

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November 8-10, 2010
2010 mHealth Summit, Washington D.C., USA

The 2010 mHealth Summit, a partnership of the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health, the National Institutes of Health and the mHealth Alliance, will connect leaders in health, government, the private sector, academia and not-for-profit organisations to advance discussion and decision-making related to the intersection of mobile technology, health practice and research, and policy in the United States and abroad.

Building on the momentum from last year's event, the second annual mHealth Summit will feature an expanded format that includes:

• keynotes delivered by leading corporate executives, philanthropists, policy-makers and social entrepreneurs;
• super sessions with key stakeholders from policy, research and technology communities;
• concurrent sessions addressing a range of relevant topics such as the intersection of mHealth and mFinance, and opportunities for mHealth in the current policy and regulatory environments; and,
• networking events to drive collaboration.

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November 8-10, 2010
HealthAchieve 2010, Toronto, Canada

HealthAchieve2010 - one of North America's largest, most award-winning and most-respected health care conferences and exhibitions - is a must-attend event for the entire health care community. Register now to Engage, Recharge, Focus, Network and Expand with the best and brightest health care leaders, at the highest-quality educational sessions, and with the most exciting roster of thought-provoking speakers and keynotes.

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November 8-10, 2010
HIMSS Middle East'10, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

HIMSS brings three transformational programmes to the dynamic city of Dubai. The second annual HIMSS Middle East Conference, the Health IT Leadership Summit and the Health Insurers Innovation Forum will deliver best practices to health care professionals and provide for unlimited networking for the best minds in health care, health insurance, and technology. The event will feature conference and education sessions as well as networking opportunities to foster intensive knowledge exchange at the most senior level.

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November 8-10, 2010
NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Mathematical Modelling of Wildlife and Virus Zoonoses, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

The focus of the workshop is to define, discuss, and develop approaches to collaboratively address critical gaps that remain in mathematical modelling of the ecology and natural history of zoonotic viruses, how they are maintained in their reservoirs, the processes and mechanisms that lead to transmission, host switching, and molecular events that lead to transfer and adaptation to a new host and post-transfer adaptation. Importantly, modeling efforts are essential to the discovery of new ecological paradigms and true understanding of the nature of episodic zoonotic epidemics or outbreaks such as those caused by RNA viruses, Ebola virus, SARS CoV, Nipah virus, and Machupo virus.

By bringing together experts in mathematical models in conjunction with those engaged in experimental analyses of emerging viruses, the workshop will provide a venue to build collaborative efforts to integrate approaches that would result in the interpretation of ecological trends in the spread of zoonotic diseases, provide greater understanding of underlying causes of outbreaks, and provide guidelines for their control and prevention.

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November 8-10, 2010
2010 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security - HST 10, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA

This event will bring together global science and technology thought leaders to foster homeland security technology innovation. The conference features a technical advisory committee of leading S&T experts from academia, national laboratories, federally funded research and development centers, the federal government and industry.

The event will showcase selected technical papers highlighting emerging technologies in:

• Cybersecurity
• Land and maritime border security
• Counter-WMD techniques and critical infrastructure and key resources physical security
• Attack and disaster preparation, recovery and response

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November 8-12, 2010
Dynamic Interlinkages between Social and Ecosystem Changes: Towards a Europe Africa Partnership - Europe-Africa Frontier Research Conference, Hulshort, The Netherlands

The conference focus will be on comparing findings of research that studies social-ecological systems' interactions associated with specific landscapes, seascapes or coastal regions. There is remarkable geographic variability in policies, practices and outcomes for management of natural capital, flows of ecosystem services, and human outcomes. Invited speakers and presenters will be drawn from a range of disciplines, research approaches and findings based on diverse sources of information including narrative, qualitative and quantitative data and historical records in addition to more traditional technical monitoring tools and remote sensing.

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November 9-11, 2010
International Scientific Conference on Gastro-intestinal Microbial Ecology 2010 - GME2010, Kosice, Slovakia

The conference's goal is to provide a scientific forum for scientist and researchers who are committed to understand the complexity of the gastro-intestinal ecosystem and its interactions with the host in health or disease.

At GME2010 leading scientists will present and discuss current advances in the research of gut microbiota and gut microbial ecosystem. The scientific programme aims to advance the understanding of microbial diversity of the gastro-intestinal ecosystem by presenting new insights in its complex balance or imbalance, and discuss ways to modulate the gut microbiota to the benefit of the host by means of bioactive substances.

New research results and insights will be conferred by leading scientist from industry and academia within the fields of general microbiology, analytical methods, microbiomics, host-microbe interaction, biofilms and signalling. In addition novel approaches, methods and scientifically solid ideas, visions will be presented as well.

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November 10-12, 2010
Global Telehealth 2010 - GT 2010, Fremantle, Perth, Australia

As we move into the second decade of the 21st century, many health systems are struggling to find solutions to equitable delivery of quality health care. Telehealth is increasingly looked to as a means of facilitating health care delivery, and the telecommunications revolution of the last few years now makes it possible to consider health care delivery on many scales, from the home all the way to global initiatives.

In 2010, Australia will host Global Telehealth 2010, the 15th Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society for Telemedicine and eHealth (ISfTeH). This meeting has become well established as the major international telehealth conference and will come to Australia for the first time in 2010. Concurrently, the meeting will also be the first annual scientific meeting of the Australasian Telehealth Society, which was founded in 2008.

The conference is expected to attract delegates and speakers from many of the 30 national societies comprising ISfTeH, as well as a large delegation from Australia and New Zealand. Members of telehealth organisations from Asia-Pacific nations should find this meeting particularly attractive. The interdisciplinary nature of the telehealth community attending will ensure wide cross-section of viewpoints. Prominent international speakers will be invited to address the meeting. The meeting will feature the largest commercial exhibition of telehealth products ever held in Australasia.

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November 10-12, 2010
1st International Event "Business & Innovation Network@FEUP", Porto, Portugal

BIN@FEUP is an effort to bring together a wide range of national and international partners with different yet complementary interests on business and innovation themes. Our main goal is to contribute to FEUP internationalization by encouraging the creation of an international long-term sustainable network that may provide mutual understanding among all partners and promote their interaction as a way to create added-value and boost their activities.

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November 11-13, 2010
First Fine International Conference on Gigapixel Imaging for Science, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

The conference, sponsored by the Fine Foundation of Pittsburgh, will focus on new technologies for producing electronic images that contain billions of pixels and can be studied interactively in great detail. Keynote speakers Alan Eustace, Google senior vice president for engineering; Pete Worden, director of NASA's Ames Research Center, and Mark Bauman, executive vice president of National Geographic Television, will discuss how this new imagery can be leveraged to make scientific discoveries and to educate students and the general public about science.

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November 13-17, 2010
Society for Neuroscience's 40th Annual Meeting - Neuroscience 2010, San Diego, California, USA

This event is the world's largest source of emerging news on brain science and health, and offers unparalleled access to the latest research innovations and the field's brightest minds. This year's "Dialogues between Neuroscience and Society" event features Glenn Close, who will discuss how science and society can work together to change minds on mental illness. The award-winning actress and co-founder of BringChange2Mind.org - a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to combating the stigma associated with mental illness - will address the importance of reducing the misconceptions and bias confronting those with conditions like depression, bipolar disorder, and PTSD.

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November 13-19, 2010
Supercomputing Conference 2010 - SC10, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

SC10 is expanding the frontiers of HPC by creating a potent platform for demonstrating, debating and discovering innovative, cutting-edge advances in computation, networking, storage, and analysis through an exceptional technical programme, an expanded exhibits area, an exciting education programme and much more. SC10 will provide a forum of the highest quality for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in one of the most rapidly changing technical fields.

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November 14-18, 2010
American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) and the International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) Annual Meeting 2010, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The International Pharmaceutical Federation's PSWC and the AAPS Annual Meeting and Exposition will be combined for the first time ever to create a truly global event. More than 10.000 scientists from around the world will gather to share their perspectives, ideas, and cultural learnings in order to improve health through advances in pharmaceutical sciences. This year's congress will feature over 100 programming sessions, including over 40 symposia and roundtables.

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November 14-19, 2010
ESF-EMBO Symposium: Molecular Perspectives on Protein-Protein Interactions, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain

The conference aims to gather scientists from molecular cell biology, biochemistry, structural biology, biophysics and bioinformatics with the common interest to explore the immensely important field of protein-protein interactions. The particular focus of the conference will be on molecular aspects of protein-protein interactions. Topics will include theory and computation, thermodynamics & kinetics, intrinsically unstructured protein complexes, PPI in disease and drug development, protein interaction networks, signaling complexes, membrane protein complexes, emerging and single molecule techniques, evolution and design as well as large multi-protein complexes. Fundamental and applied problems in these fields will be discussed from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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November 15-19, 2010
16th Congress of International Federation of Health Records Organizations, Milan, Italy

Topics include:

• Health Information Management and Patient Safety
• Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, Patient Health Records
• Privacy and Security
• Health Information Management and Scientific Research
• Management and Integration of Care
• Monitoring and Evaluation of Health
• Classification systems, Clinical Coding and Data Quality
• Management and Quality of Medical Records

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November 16-19, 2010
22nd EORTC-NCI-AACR Symposium, Berlin, Germany

Understanding the pathways and mechanisms that cause cancer and regulate the biological behaviour of tumour cells has led to the development of numerous new agents, "designer" diagnostics, prognostic tests, "smart" drugs, innovative targets for clinical trials and other entirely new ways of tackling cancer. To bring these developments to patients as quickly and efficiently as possible requires international collaboration, early and optimal exchange of information, good quality translational research, efficient drug development and large prospective clinical trials.

At this Symposium, three of the world's leading cancer organisations will join forces to provide a platform for presenting the recent advances in the early development of promising new compounds in different stages of pre-clinical and clinical research to around 2200 international experts in the field, igniting a vast exchange of information whilst promoting and developing global partnerships in translational research.

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November 17-20, 2010
MEDICA 2010, Düsseldorf, Germany

MEDICA is the centre of attraction for all those involved in the health care industry. More than 138.000 visitors from well over 100 countries are expected to again obtain information on all the current and future trends in in-patient and out-patient care at this annual event. With its extensive ancillary programme, numerous special events, two major congresses and the largest product display in the industry, MEDICA is the hub of the medical trade.

MEDICA regularly features around 4300 exhibitors from around the world displaying their OEM products and services over an exhibit area consisting of 18 halls and spanning nearly 1,3 million net square feet of exhibit space. And what's more: with an expected 450+ exhibitors from the United States of America and Canada, North America will offer one of the leading foreign contingents of exhibitors represented at MEDICA 2010 - making it the strongest medical industry trade fair outside of the North American continent for U.S. and Canadian companies.

For the first time, the German Society for Computer and Robotic Assisted Surgery (CURAC) will hold its annual conference CURAC2010 as part of the MEDICA Congress. The main focus of this conference will be on topics such as surgical simulation, computer-aided interventional radiology, ergonomic optimization of operating rooms, multimodal operation planning and intra-operative measuring techniques. By holding its conference in connection with MEDICA, CURAC plans to expand interdisciplinary interaction between scientists, developers and users in this young and highly innovative field.

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November 19, 2010
8th BELNET Networking Conference, Brussels, Belgium

As is the annual custom, this user conference provides you with a forum for the latest developments in network technology and related applications and services for research, education and government. This year the BELNET Networking Conference will be presenting even more visions on and trends in ICT management in higher education and research. Of course, innovations in BELNET services will also be addressed. As was the case in the previous editions, BELNET is offering a number of its member institutions a platform to share their acquired expertise with other users of the research network.

Deadline for paper submission is September 15, 2010.

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November 19-23, 2010
63rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the Gerontological Society of America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

GSA's Annual Scientific Meeting brings together more than 3500 of the brightest minds in the field of aging. This meeting is the premier gathering of gerontologists from both the United States and around the world. They participate in over 500 scientific sessions including symposia, paper, and poster presentations.

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November 21-24, 2010
ESF-BU-CeBiTec Conference on Microbes and Industrial Biotechnology 2010, Bielefeld, Germany

Biotechnological processes are of increasing significance for industrial production, a trend that will likely take up more momentum in the light of decreasing oil availability. Production processes in Industrial Biotechnology make use of recent advances in microbial research. Microbial strains for the production of e.g. fine chemicals, biofuels, secondary metabolites and proteins can now be developed by a rational design strategy. Such a strategy relies on the characterization and optimization of the microbial production host based on omics technologies, systems biology or synthetic biology approaches. Microbial Biotechnology will play an important role on our way towards sustainable use and production of renewable bio-ressources.

The 2010 ESF Bielefeld conference, the first of a series of annual conferences on Advances in Industrial Biotechnology, will promote scientific excellence in microbial biotechnology by providing leading scientists and young researchers with a platform to present their work, to discuss current scientific understanding along with recent developments in key areas of industrial biotechnology, and to identify the priorities for further research.

Deadline for applications is September 10, 2010.

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November 29-30, 2010
First European Medicine 2.0 Congress, Maastricht, The Netherlands

Medicine 2.0 is the annual open, international conference on Web 2.0 applications in health and medicine, also known as the World Congress on Social Networking and Web 2.0 Applications in Medicine, Health, Health Care, and Biomedical Research.

This conference distinguishes itself from "Health 2.0" tradeshows by having an academic form and focus, with an open call for presentations, published proceedings and peer-reviewed abstracts, and being the only conference in this field which has a global perspective and an international audience. An academic approach to the topic also means that the organizers aim to look "beyond the health 2.0 hype", trying to identify the evidence on what works and what doesn't, and have open and honest discussions.

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November 29 - December 1, 2010
Internet of Things 2010 Conference, Tokyo, Japan

The "Internet of Things (IoT)" disrupts with the today's Internet limitations of human-entered data: technologies like RFID, short-range wireless communications, real-time localization, and sensor networks empower computers to perceive the world for themselves. Standardized infrastructures capable of managing, sharing and processing this captured data will be necessary in order to bring the Internet of Things into commercial use.

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November 29 - December 1, 2010
4th International Workshop on Trustworthy Internet of People, Things & Services, Tokyo, Japan

The vision of the Future "Internet of People, Things and Services, IoPTS" is gaining momentum in the emergent academic, industrial and market innovation arenas. Many key enabling technologies are already emerging such as secure middleware and service-oriented architectures, virtualisation, RFID, and sensor networking. The vision of Cloud computing (eCloud) further motivates interest in research and innovation to underpin ubiquitous IoPTS integration.

However the promises of the Future Internet in empowering co-operativity support to underpin optimal eMobility, eHealth, eSecurity, eCloud and eMedia services delivery have to be realised in a societally safe, trustworthy, ethical and acceptable manner as well as in increasingly scalable, sustainable and affordable ways; so as to push forwards the frontiers of digital inclusivity amongst citizens.

This 4th IoPTS Workshop will discuss the above issues through theoretical and applied research presentations, prototypes demonstrations and discussion panels. Topics of interest include:

• Security under the Future Internet of People, Things & Services Architecture to underpin co-operativity support amongst all interconnected entities
• Context-awareness and Data Fusion within the Internet of People, Things & Services Architecture
• Architectural Issues and tools for the Internet of People, Things and Services
• Use-cases and exploitation of the Internet of People, Things and Services
• The Internet of People Things and Services (IoPTS) Future Web n* Architecting

Deadline for position paper submission is September 22, 2010.

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November 30 - December 2, 2010
International Conference of the Institute for Environment, Engineering, Economics and Applied Mathematics on Mathematical Models for Engineering Science - MMES 2010, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Topics include new mathematical methods and computational techniques or applications of known mathematical methods and computational techniques (i.e. differential equations, FEM, BEM, variotional calculus, stochastic systems, cellular automata, wavelets, integral equations, universal approximants, optimization and search, clustering and density estimation, filtering and state estimation, linear and non-linear time series, simulation techniques, neural networks, fuzzy logic, evolutionary computing, orthogonal transforms, wavelets, forecasting etc.) in: Electrical Engineering (Circuits, Systems, Electronics, Micro-electronics, Nano-electronics, Power Systems, Automation, Control, Robotics, Instrumentation and Measurement, Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Image Processing, Electromagnetic Fields, Microwaves, Antennas, Propagation etc.),in Mechanical Engineering (Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics, Heat and Mass Transfer, Applied Mechanics, Robotics, Turbomachines etc.), in Civil Engineering in Environmental Science and Engineering, in Naval Engineering, in Marine and Ocean Engineering, in Chemistry/Chemical Engineering, in Biology, Biophysics, Biomedical Physics and Engineering, in Material Science, in Physics, in Business and Economics and Social Sciences.

Deadline for paper submission is September 30, 2010.

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November 30 - December 2, 2010
International Conference of the Institute for Environment, Engineering, Economics and Applied Mathematics on Development, Energy, Environment, Economics - DEEE 2010, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Topics include, amongst others: Renewable Energy Sources and Technology, Power Generation, Power Plants, Distributed Generation, Co-generation, Energy Conversion and Conservation, Solar Power, Photovoltaic Energy, Solar Panels, Wind Energy, Ocean Energy, Tidal Power, Thermal Power, Bio-energy, Hydrogen Energy, Fuel Cells, Hybrid Systems and Vehicles, Power System Planning and Management, Reliability and security, Dynamic transient stability and voltage stability, Electromagnetic transient evaluations, Insulation co-ordination, Transmission & distribution equipment, Generator Protection and Control, Parallel Operation of Generators, Corporate planning and management, Alternative energy systems, Environmental issues, Electricity pricing and transactions.

Deadline for paper submission is September 30, 2010.

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November 30 - December 2, 2010
International Conference of the Institute for Environment, Engineering, Economics and Applied Mathematics on Communication and Management in Technological Innovation and Academic Globalization - COMATIA 2010, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain

Topics include, amongst others: Innovation - Distinguishing from invention and other concepts, Innovation in organisations, Economic conceptions of innovation, Transaction cost and network theory perspectives, Innovation and market outcome, Sources of innovation, Value of experimentation in innovation, Diffusion of innovations, Goals of innovation, Failure of innovation, Measures of innovation, Global Innovation Index, Cybernetics, Philosophy of Science.

Deadline for paper submission is September 30, 2010.

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November 30 - December 3, 2010
Second International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science - CloudCom 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

This conference and workshop series, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, aims to bring together researchers who work on Cloud computing and related technologies. Conference keynotes will be presented by Ian T. Foster, distinguished fellow and associate division director in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory and by Kai Hwang, professor of electrical engineering and computer science and director of the Internet and Grid Computing Laboratory at the University of California.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• Auditing, monitoring and scheduling
• Autonomic Computing
• Cloud /Grid architecture
• Cloud-based Services and Education
• Consistency models
• Data Grid & Semantic web
• Fault tolerance and reliability
• Hardware as a Service (HaaS)
• High-performance computing
• Integration of Mainframe and Large Systems
• Innovations in IP (esp. Open Source) Systems
• IT Service and Relationship Management
• Load balancing
• Middleware frameworks
• New and Innovative Paedagogical Approaches
• Novel Programming Models for Large Computing
• Optimal deployment configuration
• Peer to peer computing
• Power-aware Profiling, Modelling, and Optimizations
• Scalable Fault Resilience Techniques for Large Computing
• Scalable Scheduling on Heterogeneous Architectures
• Security and Risk
• Software as a Service (SaaS)
• Utility computing
• Virtualization technologies
• Web services

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November 30 - December 3, 2010
First International Workshop on Theory and Practice of MapReduce - MAPRED 2010, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

MapReduce is a programming model, introduced by Google in 2004, to simplify distributed processing of large datasets on clusters of commodity computers. Currently, there exist several open-source implementations including Hadoop. MapReduce became the model of choice for many web enterprises, very often being the enabler for cloud services. Recently, it also gained significant attention in scientific community for parallel data analysis e.g. Rhipe.

The purpose of the workshop is to discuss both theoretical and practical advances in MapReduce (or similar systems), identify open issues, present new related tools and report on scientific or industrial applications.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Implementation architecture of MapReduce programming model
• Improvements and extensions
• Optimizations e.g multi-core, GPU
• Fault-tolerance
• Security
• Job scheduling
• Environments and tools
• Real-time extensions and applications
• Data collection
• Data- and Compute-intensive problems
• MapReduce as a support for mobile services
• Algorithms based on MapReduce paradigm
• Applications and lessons learned
• Scientific and industrial data analysis including higher level languages based on MapReduce
• Cloud computing implementation and applications of MapReduce (e.g. on AWS)

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December 2-3, 2010
2nd International ICST Conference on Ambient Media and Systems, Phoenix, Arizona

Ambient media and systems culminate from the emergence of mobile communication, sensor-actuator technology, virtual environments, and interactive computing. They represent the vision of an all-encompassing multimedia networking environment with human interaction at its core. Advances in computer and communication technologies have the potential to offer people an unprecedented level of convenience and flexibility for living and working. Such technologies need to be closely integrated with human interactions and activity, allowing greater support for smart solutions that improve quality of life, productivity, understanding and intelligence within their situated environment. Ambi-sys focuses on emerging technologies, services and solutions for new, human-centric intelligent ambient environments.

The conference will consist of the following major areas or tracks:

• Media and Content Provision, which is defined to cover Integration of Multimedia within ambient systems, Multi-media processing, distribution and integration, Provision and acquisition of ambient information, Privacy, trust, accountability and dependability, Cognition, intelligence, ambience, adaptivity, self-organisation and evolution, Multimedia and intelligent agents.
• Communications and Networking, which will be covering Wireless communication, Ambient sensors, actuators and networking, Quality of service and system performance, Digital home and smart living, Evolve-able and adaptive pervasive systems, Scalability, integration, and ubiquity.
• Human Interface and Interaction, which covers topics including Haptic immersive environments, Vision and recognition, Visualization and display, Sensor perception technologies, Context awareness, System personalization, System and human collaboration, multimodal interaction, Brain-Computer Interfaces, Augmented Reality.
• Intelligence and Automation, which focuses on such topics as Ambient Intelligence, Services, delivery, applications and smart solutions, Multi-media knowledge management, acquisition and data fusion, Detection and knowledge elicitation, Prediction and self-learning, Middleware, Human-computer interaction in technology-rich environments, Intelligence and Automation, Automatic Behavioral Analysis.
• Applications of Ambient Systems including ambient assisted living, ambient media systems, domotics, intelligent spaces, mobile computing.

Ambi-sys 2010 will thus offer a unique forum for researchers to share ideas and disseminate new results in these important and emerging areas.

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December 2-4, 2010
Cell symposia meeting, Influenza: Translating Basic Insights, Washington D.C., USA

The meeting aims to bring basic scientists, clinicians, epidemiologists and applied biotechnology and pharmaceutical researchers together to build a translational bridge between basic influenza research and the development of drugs, vaccines and diagnostics for the flu.

Given the recent influenza pandemic, the last 12 months have seen a flurry of activity in the area of flu research. New insights are being gained about the biology of the virus, the host immune response, and the ability of the virus to overcome species barriers and host-immune defenses. The broader goal of influenza research is to extrapolate these basic insights for better control of disease, and to develop better vaccines and anti-viral therapeutics.

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December 2-4, 2010
Excellence in Paediatrics, London, United Kingdom

The event, first held in Florence in 2009, is organised by a Scientific Committee that comprises the editors of 24 of Wiley-Blackwell's internationally acclaimed paediatric journals and books. It aims to provide an up-to-date and authoritative overview of paediatrics and child health through a variety of innovative sessions, designed for general and specialist health professionals.

Deadline for paper submission is September 10, 2010.

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December 5-9, 2010
Environmental Degradation and Conflict: From Vulnerabilities to Capabilities - ESF-ZiF-Bielefeld Conference, Bielefeld, Germany

The conference aims to shed light on the complex dynamics of environmentally induced migration and the associated societal processes. Toward this end, the participants seek to further the interdisciplinary debate and exchange of knowledge from the fields of migration, climate change, disaster, development, and others. Connecting vulnerability, capability and transnational approaches will help to link existing research and open new research venues for the future.

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December 7-10, 2010
Second International Conference of Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition - SoCPaR 2010, Paris, France

SoCPaR 2010 is organized to bring together worldwide leading researchers and practitioners interested in advancing the state of the art in Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition, for exchanging knowledge that encompasses a broad range of disciplines among various distinct communities. It is hoped that researchers and practitioners will bring new prospects for collaboration across disciplines and gain inspiration to facilitate novel breakthroughs. The themes for this conference are thus focused on "Innovating and Inspiring Soft Computing and Intelligent Pattern Recognition".

The conference is expected to provide an opportunity for the researchers to meet and discuss the latest solutions, scientific results and methods in solving intriguing problems in the fields of soft Computing and Pattern Recognition. The conference programme will include workshops, special sessions and tutorials, along with prominent keynote speakers and regular paper presentations in parallel tracks.

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December 7-10, 2010
SoCPaR 2010 Second Workshop Intelligent Image Processing and Artificial Vision - IIPAV 2010, Paris, France

The 2nd Workshop Intelligent Image Processing and Artificial Vision aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in Image Processing and Artificial Vision.

The goal of the workshop is to serve as a forum for the exchange of ideas and discussion on recent and new trends for research in the field. For many real-world vision and imaging problems, the available information is imprecise, uncertain, and/or incomplete, making it difficult to solve these problems. Intelligent systems have demonstrated that they are capable to exploit the tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty, partial truth, and approximation to achieve tractability, robustness, lower cost and better fit with reality.

Consequently, the application of intelligent methodologies in image processing and artificial vision has increased over the last few years with many interesting approaches having been introduced. This special session aims to integrate state of the art approaches applying intelligent systems to tackle image processing and artificial vision problems.

Authors are encourage to submit original papers as well as preliminary and promising works in the topics of the special session. The topics for the special session include but are not limited to intelligent techniques such as:

• Fuzzy logic
• Evolutionary computation
• Swarm intelligence
• Bio-inspired computing
• Neural networks
• Probabilistic reasoning
• Machine learning
• Rough sets and near sets

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December 10-12, 2010
4th International conference on Computational and Financial Econometrics - CFE'10, London, United Kingdom

This conference invites presentations containing computational or financial econometric components. Computational and financial econometrics comprise a broad field that has clearly interested a wide variety of researchers in economics, finance, statistics, mathematics and computing. Examples include financial time series analyses that focus on efficient and robust portfolio allocations over time, asset valuations with emphases on option pricing, volatility measurements, models of market microstructure effects and credit risk.

While such studies are often theoretical, they can also have a strong empirical element measuring risk and return and often have a significant computational aspect dealing with issues like high-dimensionality and large numbers of observations. Algorithmic developments are also of interest since existing algorithms often do not utilize the best computational techniques for efficiency, stability, or conditioning. So also are developments of environments for conducting econometrics, which are inherently computer based. Integrated econometrics packages have grown well over the years, but still have much room for development.

Deadline for paper abstract submission is September 8, 2010.

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December 10-13, 2010
First Asia-Pacific Osteoporosis Meeting, Singapore

The International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) has adopted a long term plan for the development of Regional Programmes that aims to create strong regional structures based on collaboration among the CNS member associations. The overall Regional Programme includes the organisation of Regional Scientific Meetings. The meeting will be chaired by Cyrus Cooper, UK, Chair of IOF's Committee of Scientific Advisors and Ambrish Mithal, India. The Local Organizing Committee, Steering Committee and the invited speakers will be invited from among the Asia Pacific CNS Members.

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December 12-15, 2010
58th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, San Diego, California, USA

3000 scientists are expected to gather from around the world to exchange scientific information and ideas, enhance professional knowledge and skills, network with colleagues and re-acquaint with old friends, and conduct the business of the Society.

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December 12-17, 2010
Combinatorics and Analysis in Spatial Probability - ESF Mathematics Conference in partnership with EMS and ERCOM, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Random Spatial Processes, in particular Percolation, Interacting Particle Systems and Gibbs Measures, has become one of the most active subfields of modern Probability. Motivated by problems in Physics (phase transitions), Biology (epidemics) and, more recently, Computer Science (randomized algorithms, "co-operative" phenomena in large communication networks), it has led to deep, fundamental mathematical research. Much of the rapid and successful development in this area is due to a remarkable combination of probabilistic, combinatorial and (complex) analytic techniques.

A well-known example is the so-called weak-influence (or sharp threshold) technology which involves a surprisingly elegant mixture of probability (the notion of pivotal component, Russo's formula) and discrete Fourier analysis (Beckner's inequality). Another example is Markov-Chain Monte Carlo methods, where typical combinatorial-probabilistic as well as analytic techniques are used (sometimes as alternatives, sometimes intertwined). Further examples are the famous breakthroughs which took place in percolation and related fields during the last decade (Smirnov's complex-analytic/combinatorial-probabilistic proof of Cardy's formula, and the development of SLE by Schramm and his co-authors), and more recently the surprising use of complex analysis in the study of negative dependence.

Often one cannot fully distinguish the three types of arguments (combinatorial, probabilistic or analytic), and even it is not always clear which ingredient is the essential one, that really makes things work. Therefore some of the results, although in a formal sense fully understood, keep having some mysterious flavour.

Much of the rapid and successful development in this area is due to a remarkable combination of probabilistic, combinatorial, geometric and analytic techniques. Recently there has been considerable progress on some of the core questions in the field, because of a fruitful combination of ideas. It is therefore necessary to meet and to share ideas, so that a proper consolidation of efforts can be achieved. The interaction of junior and senior researchers is especially valuable since the area is developing fast.

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December 13-14, 2010
Expert Conference on "Open Access - Open Data", Cologne, Germany

This is an international expert conference that will look closely on how the Open Access movement has developed within the last five years and what is going to happen within the next five to ten years. Additionally, the "Open Data Movement" that is gaining more and more importance will be under consideration.

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December 13-15, 2010
eHealth 2010, Casablanca, Morocco

The aim of eHealth 2010 is to bring together experts from academia, industry and global health care institutions such as WHO and ECDC to stimulate cutting-edge research discussions, share experience with real-world health care service providers and policy makers as well as provide numerous business opportunities.

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December 13-17, 2010
ESF-COST High-Level Research Conference on Extreme Environmental Events, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Understanding the frequency and magnitude of extreme environmental events and their impacts is a critical aspect of climate prediction. This conference aims to bring together an inter-disciplinary group including statisticians, climate modellers, meteorologists, and other environmental scientists to focus on extreme events and the uncertainties inherent in their understanding.

Sessions will include:

• extreme events and statistical methodology;
• modelling of extreme environmental events;
• impacts of extreme events;
• socio-economic and societal modelling

Deadline for applications is September 28, 2010.

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December 13-17, 2010
2010 AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, California, USA

The Fall Meeting is expected to draw a crowd of over 16.000 geophysicists from around the world. The Fall Meeting provides an opportunity for researchers, teachers, students, and consultants to present and review the latest issues affecting the Earth, the planets, and their environments in space. This meeting will cover topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences.

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December 14-16, 2010
9th WSEAS International Conference on Information Security and Privacy - ISP'10, Merida, Venezuela

This conference includes:

• Plenary Lecture 1: Intrusion Detection Systems as Forensic Tool by Prof. Dragan Randjelovic, Crime Police Academy, Serbia.

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December 14-16, 2010
International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing - UCC 2010, Chennai, India

Computing is being transformed to a model consisting of services that are commoditized and delivered in a manner similar to traditional utilities such as water, electricity, gas, and telephony. In such a model, users access services based on their requirements without regard to where the services are hosted or how they are delivered. Several computing paradigms have promised to deliver this utility computing vision and these include Grid computing, and more recently Cloud computing.

Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer storage, application and computation hosting services, and provide coverage in several continents, offering Service-Level Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their services. While these "Clouds" are the natural evolution of traditional clusters and data centres, they are distinguished by following a "utility" pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and transfer of data. These emerging services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, however there is significant complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak loads.

To provide a dedicated forum for sharing recent R&D advances and industrial innovations in "Utility Computing" area, the organizers have initiated this new conference series "International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing". This conference series has emerged out of the past two successful Cloud computing symposiums (Cloud 2009 held in Shanghai, China; and Cloud 2010 held in Melbourne, Australia) and focuses on both principles of "Utility computing" and its practical realisation in industry in different forms including Cloud Computing.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Participle of Utility Computing
• Architectural Models for Utility Computing
• *aaS: Infrastructure, Platform, Software, Storage as a Service
• Novel architectural models for Cloud computing
• Novel applications of cloud computing, including games and social networks
• Novel Cloud programming models
• Innovative Cloud pricing models
• Innovative Cloud service models
• Support for scalable and elastic Cloud services
• New parallel/concurrent programming models for Cloud computing
• Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks
• Data Security, Privacy, and Jurisdiction in the Cloud
• Portability of applications and data between different Cloud providers
• Cloud-related virtualization issues
• Deployment, maintenance, and management of Cloud resources and services
• (Multi-)Cloud resource brokering and scheduling
• (Multi-)Cloud capacity planning
• Reliability of applications and services running on the Cloud
• Interoperability between different Utility Computing Platforms including Grids, and Clouds
• Performance monitoring for Cloud applications
• Cloud use case studies
• Scientific computing in the Cloud
• Business computing in the Cloud
• Social computing in the Cloud

Deadline for paper submission is September 30, 2010.

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January 9-13, 2011
Joint CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support/EPIKH School for Grid Site Administrators - Africa 5 2011, Tunis, Tunisia

The aim of this tutorial is to prepare system administrators on the installation of Grid sites and actually put together those facilities to increase the size of the CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support infrastructures. The first days will be dedicated to the gLite middleware, services installation and configuration. The second part will be dedicated to have the participants install sites, remotely (from the tutorial), at their home institutions.

Deadline for registration is January 6, 2011.

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January 15-26, 2011
Joint CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support/EPIKH School for Application Porting - Africa 5 2011, Tunis, Tunisia

The Grid School aims at increasing the number of scientific/industrial applications running on the CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support production infrastructure. The School also aims at bringing new research groups to use the CHAIN/EUMEDGRID-Support resources as well as to diversity the application domains and scientific communities.

Deadline for application submission is December 19, 2010.

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January 19-21, 2011
NIMBioS Investigative Workshop: Solid Tumor Modelling, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA

The principal aim of this Investigative Workshop is to discuss current achievements and challenges in modelling solid tumours in the human body, and to identify areas in modeling, computing, laboratory experimentation, and clinical diagnosis that should be pursued to improve our understanding of tumour development and ultimately treatment. The focus will be on modelling tumour level cancer progression. However, all pertinent systems that influence such growth will be open for discussion and analysis, including ongoing genetic mutation and genetic feedback, stem cells, angiogenesis and vascular dynamics, lymph system interaction, metastasis, mechanical properties of and interaction with host tissue, and immune system response.

Specifically, the organizers wish to identify the relative advantages of certain models (or modelling principles) in specific host tissue environments; the current state-of-the-art in modelling, from the points of view of biophysical relevance, mathematical suitability, and computational and technical advances; the perceived future directions and important challenges in next-generation tumour models; and the near-term feasibility of modelling in a clinical, patient-specific setting. Topics of discussion may include hybrid and multi-scale modelling, multiphase modelling, parameter estimation and relevant experimental and clinical data collection, and high-performance computing and visualization.

Deadline for application is October 15, 2010.

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January 19-21, 2011
19th International Conference on Sustainable Health care Transformation, San Francisco, California, USA

The conference will highlight the innovations and substantial progress health care professionals are making in bridging evidence-based clinical content, partnerships and technology for a healthy integrated health care system.

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January 26-29, 2011
Fourth International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC 2011, Rome, Italy

The purpose of BIOSTEC is to bring together researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, interested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine. BIOSTEC is composed of four co-located conferences, each specialized in at least one of the aforementioned main knowledge areas.

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January 26-29, 2011
International Conference on Health Informatics - HEALTHINF 2011, Rome, Italy

The purpose of the International Conference on Health Informatics is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of information and communication technologies (ICT) to healthcare and medicine in general and to the specialized support to persons with special needs in particular.

Databases, networking, graphical interfaces, intelligent decision support systems and specialized programming languages are just a few of the technologies currently used in medical informatics. Mobility and ubiquity in health care systems, standardization of technologies and procedures, certification, privacy are some of the issues that medical informatics professionals and the ICT industry in general need to address in order to further promote ICT in health care. In the case of medical rehabilitation and assistive technology the use of ICT has had important results in the enhancement of the quality of life, contributing to a full integration of all citizens in the societies they are also part of.

Conference topics include:

• e-Health
• Telemedicine
• Medical and Nursing Informatics
• Design and Development Methodologies for Health Care IT
• Interoperability
• Semantic Interoperability
• Confidentiality and Data Security
• Knowledge Management
• Databases and Datawarehousing
• Datamining
• Decision Support Systems
• Wearable Health Informatics
• Mobile Technologies for Health Care Applications
• Evaluation and Use of Health Care IT
• Physiological Modelling
• Cognitive Informatics
• Affective Computing
• Therapeutic Systems and Technologies
• Health Care Management Systems
• Human-Machine Interfaces for Disabled Persons
• Development of Assistive Technology
• ICT, Ageing and Disability
• Practice-based Research Methods for Health Care IT
• Electronic Health Records and Standards
• Software Systems in Medicine
• Pervasive Health Systems and Services
• e-Health for Public Health
• Clinical Problems and Applications
• Data Visualization
• Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning

Deadline for position paper submission is September 27, 2010.

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January 26-29, 2011
International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms - Bioinformatics 2011, Rome, Italy

The purpose of the International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in the application of computational systems and information technologies to the field of molecular biology, including for example the use of statistics and algorithms to understanding biological processes and systems, with a focus on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology. Areas of interest for this community include sequence analysis, biostatistics, image analysis, scientific data management and data mining, machine learning, pattern recognition, computational evolutionary biology, computational genomics and other related fields.

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January 26-29, 2011
International Conference on Bio-Inpired Systems and Signal Processing - Biosignals 2011, Rome, Italy

The purpose of the International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing is to bring together researchers and practitioners from multiple areas of knowledge, including biology, medicine, engineering and other physical sciences, interested in studying and using models and techniques inspired from or applied to biological systems. A diversity of signal types can be found in this area, including image, audio and other biological sources of information. The analysis and use of these signals is a multidisciplinary area including signal processing, pattern recognition and computational intelligence techniques, amongst others.

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January 26-29, 2011
International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - Biodevices 2011, Rome, Italy

The purpose of the International Conference on Biomedical Electronics and Devices is to bring together researchers and practitioners from electronics and mechanical engineering, interested in studying and using models, equipments and materials inspired from biological systems and/or addressing biological requirements. Monitoring devices, instrumentation sensors and systems, biorobotics, micro-nanotechnologies and biomaterials are some of the technologies addressed at this conference.

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January 28-29, 2011
2nd International Workshop on Medical Image Analysis and Description for Diagnosis Systems - MIAD 2011, Rome, Italy

The 2nd International Workshop on Medical Image Analysis and Description for Diagnosis Systems aims to bring together researchers and practitioners working in medical and biomedical images processing domain. The workshop will also offer the opportunity to fill the gap between academic researchers, practitioners and industrial parts. MIAD encourages authors to submit papers to one of the main topics indicated below, describing original work, including methods, techniques, advanced prototypes, recent advances in acquisition devices (CT-Scan, MRI, 3D Ultrasound, molecular imaging), applications, diagnosis systems and tools.

Conference topics include:

• Medical and biological imaging
• Multi-dimensional microscopy imaging
• Image processing for biological systems
• Medical images filtering, restoration and segmentation
• Image representation and analysis
• Feature extraction and image description
• Artificial intelligence and evolutionary based image processing
• Classification tools for image-based diagnosis
• Tracking Algorithms in live cell imaging
• Methods in diagnosis optimization
• Medical imaging systems technology
• Medical C.B.I.R systems
• Computer aided diagnosis systems
• Biological Data Visualization

Deadline for paper submission is September 30, 2010.

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February 7-10, 2011
Third International Conference on Drug Discovery and Therapy - ICDDT 2011, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

The 3rd ICDDT 2011 will highlight cutting-edge advances in all major disciplines of Drug Discovery and Drug Therapy. This four-day event will feature recent findings from leading industrial,Êclinical and academic experts in the field, in the form of lectures and posters. The 3rdÊICDDT 2011 will be unique in promoting the translational nature of modernÊbiomedical research, withÊboth basicÊscientists in drug discovery andÊclinicians associatedÊwithÊpatient care and research.ÊA number of Nobel Laureates will deliver keynote lectures at the conference.

The 3rd ICDDT 2011 willÊprovide a forum for in-depth assessment of the challenges involved in the dynamic andÊfast moving fields of drug discovery and therapy.ÊIt will bring together leadingÊclinicians, medicinal chemists, pharmacologists, biotechnologists, andÊother allied professionals to discuss and present the latest importantÊdevelopments in drug discovery and therapeutics.

Deadline for paper abstract submission is December 31, 2010.

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February 9-11, 2011
19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-based Processing - PDP 2011, Ayia Napa, Cyprus

Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing has undergone impressive change over recent years. New architectures and applications have rapidly become the central focus of the discipline. These changes are often a result of cross-fertilisation of parallel and distributed technologies with other rapidly evolving technologies such as telecommunications and multimedia. It is of paramount importance to review and assess these new developments in comparison with recent research achievements in the well-established areas of parallel and distributed computing, from industry and the scientific community.

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February 9-12, 2011
18th Annual Medicine Meets Virtual Reality Conference - MMVR18, Newport Beach, California, USA

Since 1992, when it debuted as the "Medicine Meets Virtual Reality" conference, MMVR has served as a forum for tools and methods emerging at the juncture of information technology and medicine. Its curriculum has evolved, over the years, beyond virtual reality; it now covers a wide range of biomedical topics. Pioneers in computer-enabled applications for clinical care and medical education have found the conference to be an encouraging, collaborative environment for sharing novel ideas and research breakthroughs. It welcomes scientists, physicians, engineers, educators, students, military, industry, futurists, and others who are interested in medicine's future.

MMVR is valued for provoking singular interactions among developers and end-users. MMVR takes pride in encouraging unorthodox problem-solving as the complement to rigorous scientific methodology.

Topics include:

• Biomedical simulation, modelling, and rendering
• Imaging devices and methods
• Data visualization and fusion
• Robotics
• Haptics
• Sensors and sensor Grids
• Human-computer interfaces
• Medical intelligence networks
• Projection systems
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Learning and technology
• Simulator design and validation
• Surgical registration and navigation
• Psychotherapy tools
• Physical rehabilitation tools
• Remote and battlefield care
• Serious games
• Wearable and implantable electronics
• Patient and Public health education and monitoring

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February 17-18, 2011
12th MedTech Investing EuropeÊConference, Lausanne, Switzerland

The MedTech Investing Europe Conference series uses a perfect mixture of pre-arranged one-to-one meetings, medtech company presentations, and valuable plenary sessions addressing the major issues facing medical technology today. It will provide important networking opportunities for delegates to dialogue in a private and relaxed setting. Medtech presentation sessions will give medical technology companies the chance to pitch their products, stage of business, investment requirements, expected growth and exit strategy to the investor market.

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February 24-27, 2011
Health Informatics, International Perspectives - ITCH 2011, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Health Informatics: International Perspectives is the working theme for the 2011 international conference. Health informatics is now a global phenomenon, supporting the organization and delivery of healthcare across the globe, both in developing and developed countries. With the establishment of the Middle East Association of Health Informatics (MEAHI), the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) now provides regional coverage of all parts of the world. This is reflected in international conference activity in both developed and developing countries with strong IMIA involvement.

Recent successful examples include Helina 2009 in Grand Bassam (Ivory Coast), Nursing Informatics 2009 in Helsinki (Finland) and the Collaborative Meetings in Health Informatics 2009 in Hiroshima (Japan). This year Medinfo 2010 takes place in Cape Town, South Africa, and will, as usual, offer a forum in which to report a wide range of developments across the spectrum of health informatics. Health Informatics: International Perspectives will provide a unique opportunity to focus on international comparisons. Major lessons will be there to be learnt by both developed and developing communities as health informatics becomes ever more central to the organization and delivery of health care across the globe.

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March 1-5, 2011
CeBIT 2011, Hannover, Germany

CeBIT Global Conferences will be staged under the slogan of "The power of creativity and innovation". This is an indication that in the future, the focus is going to be increasingly on ways of making creative use of the numerous options offered by the ITC sector's capacity to innovate. The event will be devoted to exploring the impact of the rapid digitalization of work, mobility, leisure and communication, as well as the new phenomenon of the integrated home, on people's daily lives.

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March 21-25, 2011
International Symposium on Grid Computing 2011 - ISGC 2011, Taipei, Taiwan

In the past 3 years, ISGC has been attracting more than 200-220 participants from more than 20-24 countries from worldwide and more than 12-14 Asian countries. ISGC also hosted Asia@home workshops in 2009 and 2010.

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March 22-23, 2011
1st IOF-ESCEO Pre-Clinical Symposium, Valencia, Spain

The inaugural IOF-ESCEO Pre-Clinical Symposium is a new forum for the best pre-clinical and translational science in bone biology, immediately preceding the European Congress on Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis. The Symposium will be chaired by Gerard Karsenty, Professor and Chair, Genetics & Development, Columbia University MC - one of the world's leading scientists from the bone biology arena.

The Symposium will feature four hours of lectures by invited key opinion leaders, held in an informal setting to encourage discussion and stimulating interaction. Most importantly, the Symposium will provide an outstanding opportunity for young investigators to showcase their latest research in over eight hours of oral presentations, selected from the highest ranked abstracts.

Scientists engaged in pre-clinical research in osteoporosis, osteoarthritis and related metabolic bone diseases are invited to take this opportunity to present and discuss their latest research findings with other investigators and key opinion leaders. The organizers intend to create a uniquely intimate, stimulating environment focused purely on science - with no exhibitions or other distractions.

Deadline for paper abstract submission is January 14, 2011.

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March 23-26, 2011
European Congress on Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis - ECCEO11-IOF, Valencia, Spain

The European Congress on Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis is a unique opportunity for clinicians and researchers from around the world to participate in the premiere meeting of 2011 in the field of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis. The Congress will offer an overview of the most recent developments and cutting-edge research in the pathophysiology, diagnosis, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, as well as policy-related issues such as health economics. The Congress also provides a forum for stimulating interaction, not just for research specialists, but also for practitioners and other health professionals who can profit from the exchange of information provided in numerous Meet-The-Expert sessions.

Deadline for paper abstract submission is January 14, 2011.

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March 27-30, 2011
2nd International Multi-Conference on Complexity, Informatics and Cybernetics - IMCIC 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA

IMCIC 2011 is an international forum for scientists and engineers, researchers and consultants, theoreticians and practitioners in the fields of Complexity, Informatics, and Cybernetics. The IMCIC 2011 Organizing Committee will consider disciplinary research articles for their possible acceptance as well as multi-, inter-, and trans-disciplinary research, studies, reflections, programmes, and projects.

Besides the regular formal sessions, where papers will be presented, the IMCIC 2011 Organizing Committee is planning to include in the conference programme informal conversational sessions, where conceptual and theoretical commonalities and differences among Complex Science, Cybernetics and Informatics will be discussed.

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April 6-7, 2011
DEISA PRACE Symposium 2011, Helsinki, Finland

DEISA, the Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications, and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, for the third time will merge their annual science symposia into one big European HPC event. The event is of major interest to a broad audience: computational scientists, HPC technology experts, government representatives, vendors, and industry partners.

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April 6-8, 2011
9th Annual Med-e-Tel International Telemedicine and eHealth Conference - Med-e-Tel 2011, Luxembourg, Grand Duché de Luxembourg

Med-e-Tel will again be host to key telemedicine/ehealth stakeholders from around Europe and the world, who will share experiences, best practices and research results. The Med-e-Tel conference programme and expo will feature presentations, discussions, products and technologies in the following areas:

• biomedical technologies
• chronic disease management
• cybertherapy/telerehabilitation
• eHealth integration into routine medical practice
• eLearning
• electronic health records
• environmental conditions and telehealth
• home telehealth and independent living solutions
• how to implement eHealth solutions
• mobile health solutions
• open source solutions in health care
• regional activities in telemedicine/eHealth
• space technologies for health care
• telecardiology
• telenursing
• telepsychology, mental health
• venture capital/investment opportunities
• and more...

Deadline for paper abstract submission is December 10, 2010.

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April 11-15, 2011
3rd International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging - CIMI 2011, Paris, France

Nowadays medical imaging provides major aid in many branches of medicine and enables and facilitates the capture, transmission and analysis of medical images as well as provides assistance towards medical diagnoses. Medical imaging is still on the rise with new imaging modalities being added and continuous improvements of devices' capabilities. Recently, computational intelligence techniques (such as neural networks or evolutionary algorithms) have been employed in various applications in the area of medical imaging.

Approaches based on computational intelligence have been shown to be advantageous compared to classical approaches, in particular when classical solutions are hard or impossible to formulate and analyse. The International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging, held as part of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence 2011, is envisaged as a compilation of the latest trends and developments in the field of computational intelligence in medical imaging. CIMI 2011 is the 3rd installment of the workshop which was previously held in Paris in 2008 and in Cyprus in 2009.

High quality contributions dealing with the use of computational intelligence techniques in medical imaging are sought, such as:

• Neural networks
• Fuzzy logic
• Evolutionary computing
• Expert systems
• Symbolic AI
• Swarm intelligence
• Rough and near sets
• Probabilistic reasoning
• Machine learning
• etc.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• Intelligent medical imaging systems
• Medical image capture
• Computational anatomical atlases
• Surface and volume registration
• Medical image analysis
• Medical image motion analysis
• Multi-modal image analysis
• Image segmentation
• Multidimensional data visualisation
• Feature extraction and pattern recognition
• Statistical methods / population-based analysis
• Image guided surgery/therapy
• Medical image databases
• Functional/molecular/metabolic image analysis
• etc.

Deadline of paper abstract submission is October 31, 2010.

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April 12-15, 2011
Second International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, Grid and Cloud Comouting for Engineering - PARENG 2011, Ajaccio, Corsica, France

The conference will consider mathematical, computer science and engineering developments that impact on the use of HPC in engineering analysis, design, and simulation. Engineering is interpreted in its widest sense to include aeronautical, civil, mechanical, electrical, materials, bio-engineering, geotechnical, structural and environmental fields.

A special session will be organized on Desktop Grid Systems. Scope of the special session includes any subjects related to desktop Grid (DG) systems. For example:

• volunteer DG systems
• institutional DG systems
• application porting for DG systems
• incorporation of DG systems with Grid infrastructures
• DG programming environments and models
• modelling, simulation, and emulation of large-scale, volatile environments
• resource management and scheduling
• resource measurement and characterization
• DG applications
• data management (strategies, protocols, storage)
• security of DG systems (reputation systems, result verification)
• peer-to-peer (P2P) algorithms or systems applied to DGs

Deadline of paper abstract submission is September 10, 2010.

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May 3-4, 2010
16th Annual Executive War College, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

The Executive War College is your timely first opportunity to get the inside scoop on how legislation will affect clinical laboratory testing and anatomic pathology professional services. You'll also experience more than 80 speakers, topics, and sessions that cover the A-to-Z of laboratory strategy, operations, and management.

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May 16-20, 2011
25th Annual IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium - IPDPS 2011, Anchorage, Alaska, USA

IPDPS is an international forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. In addition to technical sessions of submitted paper presentations, the meeting offers workshops, tutorials, and commercial presentations and exhibits.

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies is especially welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on issues such as: stability, scalability, and fault-tolerance of algorithms and data structures for parallel and distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols, network algorithms, scheduling, and load balancing.
• Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, Cloud and Grid computing, scientific applications, and mobile computing. Papers focusing on applications using novel commercial or research architectures, or discussing scalability toward the exascale level are encouraged.
• Parallel and distributed architectures, including architectures for instruction-level and thread-level parallelism; petascale and exascale systems designs; special-purpose architectures, including graphics processors, signal processors, network processors, media accelerators, and other special purpose processors and accelerators; impact of technology on architecture; network and interconnect architectures; parallel I/O and storage systems; architecture of the memory hierarchy; power-efficient architectures; dependable architectures; and performance modelling and evaluation.
• Parallel and distributed software, including parallel and multicore programming languages and compilers, runtime systems, operating systems, resource management, middleware for Grids and Clouds, libraries, performance modelling and evaluation, parallel programming paradigms, and programming environments and tools.

Deadline for paper submission is September 24, 2010.

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June 9-12, 2011
The Neurosciences and Music - IV: Learning and Memory, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

The central theme of "The Neurosciences and Music - IV" will be Learning and Memory. The conference programme will also be divided into 4 subthemes: "Infants and Children", "Adults: musicians and non musicians", "Disabilities and aging-related issues" and "Therapy and Rehabilitation". The conference will include Keynote Lectures, Symposia, Poster Sessions and a Workshop on child-oriented research design and new data acquisition and analysis techniques, to be held in the afternoon on 9th June. The conference will be of interest not only to neuroscientists, psychologists and students but also to clinical neurologists, clinical psychologists, therapists, music performers and educators, as well as musicologists.

Deadline for paper submission is October 15, 2010.

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June 19-23, 2011
26th International Supercomputing Conference - ISC'11, Hamburg, Germany

The International Supercomputer Conference, the leading supercomputing event in Europe, will combine a strong line-up of technical experts in the field of HPC with exhibits from leading supercomputing centres, as well as hardware and software vendors. ISC presents state-of-the-art applications, architectures and trends in supercomputing. As a result, this HPC event has created a unique atmosphere of collaboration and co-operation.

Submission of high quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development in the following areas is encouraged:

• Advances in very large-scale applications of science and engineering modelling, simulation and design (Capability Computing)
• Successful implementation and deployment of large-scale Grid-enabled systems
• Computation pipelines and work flows for life-sciences, especially computational biology and biological data integration
• High performance computer architectures
• Data-intensive and I/O computing
• Measurement and modelling of Grid middleware and applications

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