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Conventions: Jul 29, 2008

34th International Conference On High Energy Physics (ICHEP08)

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 5, 2008,
University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania United States

The organizers of the 34th International Conference On High Energy Physics (ICHEP08) is looking forward to results from around the world and especially the large data sets from the Tevatron, BaBar, Belle, RHIC, and most exciting, first results from the LHC.

2008 Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 1, 2008,
Cairns Convention Centre, Cairns, Queensland Australia

The Western Pacific Geophysics Meeting (WPGM) provides an opportunity for AGU members, and members of the sponsoring societies in the western Pacific region, to attend a meeting that serves the needs of geophysicists interested in studies in the western Pacific region.

The 2008 WPGM is being held at the Cairns Convention Centre, Queensland, Australia. Surrounded by the Great Barrier Reef and the World Heritage Rainforest, this tropical, yet sophisticated city offers a memorable time for all. Don’t miss this opportunity to participate!

38th Annual Conference of the Association of Black Sociologists

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 2, 2008,
Colonnade Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts United States

CALL FOR PAPERS

All interested individuals are invited to submit formal papers, informal discussion topics, open refereed roundtables, open informal discussion roundtables, poster topics, and proposals for an organized session (including: Regular Topical Sessions, Author Meets Critics, Regional Spotlight Sessions, Thematic Sessions, Workshops, etc.) for inclusion in the 2008 Annual Conference Program. Those interested in submitting papers and/or organizing a session should submit requests via email to Dr. Judith Rollins (JRollins@wellesley.edu), 2008 Program Chair, by March 1, 2008. Complete details about organizing program sessions and organizer responsibilities will be emailed to those whose requests have been granted. ALL Presenters and Session Organizers must be members of ABS and must register by the early registration deadline in order to be included in the final printed program.

Executive Assistant & Personal Assistant 2008

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 31, 2008,
Kings Park Function Centre, Perth, Western Australia Australia

IQPC is proud to present Australia’s premier EA & PA event for the first time in Perth. The Executive and Personal Assistant Conference promises to be even bigger and better than ever: the best learning, networking, inspirational and fun event on your calendar.

This must not miss event features some of the best speakers to inspire you and give you a wealth of practical take away skills to really boost your career.

Learn how to…

* Work smarter and stress less
* Take charge of your own professional development
* Build successful relationship with your managers
* Take advantage of networking and mentoring opportunities
* Become a polished professional and really boost your career

Alternative Contract Selection

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 1, 2008,
Crowne Plaza, Sydney, New South Wales Australia

Why selecting the right contract is critical to the success of your project

• Choosing the wrong contract can have disastrous financial consequences as well as delaying or even jeopardising project delivery. You must examine all contract options to make an informed decision for your project delivery
• Each project is different. There is no guarantee that what worked for your previous project or at a particular time will work now. You need to review your existing contracts against other models to ensure, and keep ensuring optimum project delivery.
• An under performing project team or incorrect management of risk can have costly repercussions. You have to maximise your project team performance and minimise conflict and risk to ensure a successful project.

Negotiation Techniques for Engineers

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 30, 2008,
Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London, England, United Kingdom

What do you do if the person you’re working with, negotiating with, or managing is as tactically well-trained in negotiation or management as you are? How do you excel when required to manage or negotiate when you don’t possess a comprehensive background or experience in these areas? Beyond Negotiation© goes a step beyond tactical interaction to help you begin to build truly win-win, long-term relationships through the art of influence, persuasion, and rapport.

Specifically tailored for engineers, scientists, technical professionals and executives in technology-driven corporations, Beyond Negotiation© is a perfect follow-up/complement to your fundamental negotiating and management training continuing to build upon those foundations to create dynamic and adaptable skills that will improve your negotiating and management capability, boost your productivity and increase your ability to achieve long lasting quantifiable results.

The course features comprehensive interactive exercises, state of the art PowerPoint, a customised interactive workbook, a 30 minute one on one follow up consultation and the hardcover book: Beyond Negotiating: Influence – Rapport – Results by Derrick Chevalier.

The 5th Annual Patenting Business Methods in the Financial Services Industry

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 30, 2008,
Millennium UN Plaza Hotel, New York, New York United States

World Research Group’s 5th Annual Patenting Business Methods in the Financial Services Industry Conference, taking place in New York City on July 29-30, 2008, will be the premier venue to get all of your questions answered and ensure that your intellectual property is protected during this time of unpredictable change. In addition to immersing yourself in the industry’s leading forum for networking and high-level information exchanges, the major players who constitute our distinguished faculty will address the most relevant and topical concerns that are directly affecting your business. Our experts will provide in-depth analysis of the most important recent decisions in patent and case law and evaluate the patent reform process. They will also explain how the upcoming changes in patent law will affect how you manage your IP portfolio, conduct freedom-to-operate due diligence, enforce patents and defend against infringement.

European Regulatory Affairs Summer School

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 31, 2008,
Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

You will learn about:

* The current regulatory system and efforts towards creating a harmonised European framework
* Understanding your role in the context of drug development and clinical affairs
* Ensuring that clinical trials meet with regulatory approval in Europe
* Routes to obtaining Scientific Advice in Europe
* Submission formats and building successful dossiers for Europe, including the eCTD
* Key benefits and drawbacks of the centralised, decentralised and mutual recognition procedures
* What the regulators look for in Readability Testing
* Regulatory requirements for orphan drugs and paediatric research
* The importance of on-going pharmacovigilance and risk management

14th Annual Aquaculture Drug Approval Coordination Workshop

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 31, 2008,
Holiday Inn, Bozeman, Montana United States

As in previous years, we will continue to discuss the approval status of priority aquaculture drugs and emerging biologics, focusing primarily on those drugs and biologics in which there has been active progress. We are fortunate that once again we will have representatives from both CVM and many drug companies in attendance. This Workshop is a tremendous opportunity for those of us in field-related aquaculture to be able to discuss with CVM, and each other, progress and strategies with respect to INAD/NADA activities.

eHEALTH India 2008

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 31, 2008,
Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, Delhi India

eHEALTH India is the premier annual event focusing on ICTs, technologies and applications for the healthcare industry in India. Presented by the industry acclaimed ‘eHEALTH’ magazine, and organised as part of the popular ‘eINDIA’ series of annual ICT Conference & Exhibition - the event was a resounding success in its very first year of inception last year.

This years event is poised to surpass the outcomes and value-returns of the previous year by creating a wider opportunity of engagement for stakeholders across the industry value-chain, comprising - service providers, technology vendors, insurers, investors, industry associations, academicians, regulators and the government. The conference will create an enabling opportunity for the industry to celebrate success stories, debate controversies, discuss strategies, deliberate business policies, echo innovations and investigate opportunities awaiting the healthcare industry in India.

RF and Mixed-Signal Testing

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 1, 2008,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Semiconductor and integrated circuit developments continue to proceed at an incredible pace. For example, today’s microprocessor chips have one thousand times the processing power of those a decade ago. These challenges have been accomplished because of the integrated circuit industry’s ability to track something known as Moore’s Law. Moore’s Law states that an integrated circuit’s processing power will double every two years. This has been accomplished by making devices smaller and smaller. The industry is also pushing to use semiconductor devices in an increasing array of applications. Many of these applications involve a combination of analog and digital signals that drive actuators, read sensors, and convert these signals into digital data. Many of these applications involve wireless signals that transfer data at RF frequencies. To accomplish this, the industry is using an ever-increasing array of mixed-signal components. This has created a number of challenges related to the testing of these components. RF and Mixed-Signal Testing is a 4-day course that offers detailed instruction on the testing of semiconductor components. We place special emphasis on fault models, test techniques, and signal generation. This course is a must for every manager, engineer, and technician working in mixed-signal semiconductor test, testing circuits in high performance and novel applications, or supplying test hardware and software tools to the industry.

By focusing on the fundamentals of mixed-signal testing, participants will learn how test programs are designed, written, and implemented. Our instructors work hard to explain semiconductor test without delving heavily into the complex algorithms and computer science that normally accompany this discipline.

Literacy Conferences

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 30, 2008,
Norfolk, Virginia United States

The Literacy Compass Conferences consist of a phenomenal team of educators, authors and illustrators eager to inspire and inform both developing and experienced teachers. Join accomplished educators presenting on all aspects of the best practices in reading and writing. Take home practical strategies that will dramatically improve your student's academic achievement. Get inside the pages of favorite books as authors and illustrators discuss writing and illustrating their latest work. Catch the enthusiasm from educators, authors, and illustrators as they join together to promote literacy so you can encourage children to read a zillion books!

4th International Conference on Webometrics, Informetrics and Scientometrics & 9th COLLNET Meeting

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 1, 2008,
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Berlin Germany

Quantitative aspects of science of science. Collaboration and communication in science and in technology. Science policy. Combination and integration of qualitative and quantitativeapproaches. Theoretical, methodological and applied aspects.

For example:
• emerging issues in scientometrics, informetrics & webometrics
• science policy and research collaboration
• collaboration & knowledge management
• collaborative bridge between academic research and industry
• techniques & visualization for collaboration studies
• quantitative analysis of S&T innovations
• informetric laws and distributions
• mathematical models of communication and of collaboration
• nature and growth of science and of collaboration in science
• indicators for research evaluation
• psychology of science & technology

Nortel Extends VMware Server Virtualization to the Network (Online)

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 29, 2008,

Simple, resilient network infrastructure is vital to ensure your business meets the rising demands of today's hyperconnected world. You can optimize your company's resource usage and minimize server and network downtime through virtualization in the data center.

It is imperative that both the server hardware and the networking topology eliminate single points of failure, provide instant failover capability for link or node failures, and imaximize the use of deployed switches, network interface cards (NICs) and cabling.

That's where Nortel comes in.

With switch clustering and horizontal stacking, industry-leading performance and resiliency, the Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 proves to be the superior solution for connecting VMware ESX Servers in the data center, creating a complete virtualization solution.

Listen to Nortel and VMware subect-matter experts discuss the compatability and benefits of combining Nortel Ethernet Routing Switch 5500 and VMware ESX Servers in your data center.

The 5th International Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2008)

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 1, 2008,
The Xi'an International Conference Center, Xian, Shaanxi China

The 5th IET Visual Information Engineering 2008 Conference (VIE'08) addresses the fundamental elements of image, video and graphics research and development.

This years event focuses on the key technical areas include the growing convergence of computer graphics and computer vision/image processing which is an increasingly important area in commercial multimedia applications development. Recent research in visual information engineering has focused on investigating several interactions of state-of-the-art visual information retrieval, image/video-based modelling and rendering, image/video analysis, graphics, visualisation, animation, and synthetic image generation and manipulation. New opportunities for medical imaging and healthcare, virtual environments, motion analysis and tracking and event detection for surveillance are emerging that exploit the visual aspects of multimedia. At the same time, the growing convergence of computer graphics and computer vision/image processing which is an increasingly important area in commercial multimedia applications development. Finally, ensuring security, privacy and rights management in multimedia communications over such distributed and reconfigurable environments is of increased importance.

iSummit 2008

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 1, 2008,
Second Life, Sapporo, Japan

Advancements in information and communication technology have, for the first time in human history, enabled a host of opportunities that have seen societies leapfrogging out of underdevelopment, artists and creators regaining control over their expressions and people around the world working on distributed projects that benefit all humankind.

The iSummit offers a picture of that promise - bringing together activists, change agents and new world social entrepreneurs to chart and reflect on a positive path for a more fair, more just, more creative world in the Information Age.

Application of Modern Tools in Organic Chemistry

Jul 29, 2008 - Jul 31, 2008,
Edinburgh University Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Join Mark Bradley and other recognized speakers for a 3-day program covering the latest discovery chemistry tools and technology from synthesis to work-up, purification and evaporation.

Leading academic and industrial experts will present a series of lectures on solid-supported reagents and scavengers in microwave synthesis, catalyst removal and reaction work-up solutions. The practical hands-on sessions focus on removing process bottlenecks and streamlining workflows with Biotage microwave and flash purification systems, scavengers, reagents and reaction work-up products.

The conference is for discovery chemists at all levels of experience looking to gain the latest practical approaches for rapid production of novel compounds.

23rd Annual Summer Conference on Topology and its Applications

Jul 29, 2008 - Aug 1, 2008,
Ciudad Universitaria (University City) Mexico City, Mexico

The First Summer Conference was held in 1982 in New York City and the last one took place in Castellon, Spain in 2007. The Conference will consist of 7 plenary talks, two workshops and contributed talks of 25 minutes in parallel special sessions.

All areas of topology-related mathematics, especially general/set theoretic topology, continuum theory, geometric topology, and applications of topology to other areas of mathematics and the sciences, especially in theoretical computer science, will be covered.