13th International Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference
5-8 MAY, 2014 Salvador, Brazil
The International Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Conference is coming to Latin America for the first time in 2014 and will be held in Salvador, Brazil, between 5 - 8 May. Previous conferences have been located in every other continent around the world. PCST 2014’s main theme is “Science communication for social inclusion and political engagement”.
2013 VIVO Conference
Aug. 14-16, 2013 St. Louis, Missouri
The VIVO conference is an excellent opportunity to meet with VIVO team members from participating institutions, and offers an open and collaborative environment to share ideas and discuss topics related to adoption and implementation of VIVO, VIVO-based tools and the opportunities created by advancing data sharing and team science.The Fourth Annual VIVO Conference will be held in St. Louis from Aug. 14-16, 2013
Who Should Attend?
If you are interested in scholarly collaboration and research discovery, than the VIVO 2013 Conference may be for you! This conference is designed for scholars, scientists, researchers, developers, publishers, funding agencies, research officers, students, institutional officials and those supporting the development of team science.
This year's VIVO conference provides a unique opportunity for people from across the country and around the world to come together in the spirit of promoting scholarly collaboration and research discovery.
Questions?
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GlobalSIP 2013 Symposium on: Advancing Neural Engineering Through Big Data
GlobalSIP 2013
1st IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing
December 3-5, 2013 Austin, Texas
Symposium Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2013
The past two decades have seen an explosion in Neural Engineering research dedicated to interfacing the nervous system to the external world. Research in this area has been motivated by the promise of treatments for elusive medical conditions ranging from blindness to chronic pain to spinal cord injury, and has been supported by a sustained campaign from a spectrum of federal funding agencies. Overall progress in the field has been limited by the lack of large, comprehensive data resources. The purpose of this symposium is to focus the attention of the research community on a progression of neural engineering research questions and to generate and curate massive data sets to be used in addressing those questions. The existence of massive common data corpora has proven to substantially accelerate research progress. In this symposium, we will explore the community needs for such massive data and discuss models for the funding, development and distribution of these resources.
Medicine 2.0 '13
September 23-24, 2013 London, United Kingdom
Medicine 2.0 '13, aka the 6th World Congress on Social Media, Mobile Apps, and Internet/Web2.0 in Health and Medicine, this year hosted in London, will once again be very international and contain a unique mix of traditional academic/research, practice and business presentations, keynote presentations, and panel discussions to discuss emerging technologies in health and medicine, with an emphasis on Internet-based, social media, and mobile technologies.
We strive for an interdisciplinary mix of presenters from different countries and disciplines (e.g. health care, social sciences, computer science, engineering, or business) and with a different angle (research, practice, and business).
Why attend?
While Medicine 2.0 (which we read as “next generation medicine”) has inspired and spun off regional, mostly non-academic meetings, the well-known Medicine 2.0 congress remains the annual main event, and is the top-rated conference in the field, with international participation and a peer-reviewed research stream, a practice stream, and a business stream.
Medicine 2.0 rotates each year to a new host ensuring that you don’t hear the same speakers and ideas over and over again. Past conferences have been in Canada, Europe, and the USA.
The Return of Biography: Reassessing Life Stories in Science Studies
Organiser: Dr Boris Jardine (Science Museum, Curator of History of Science)
Commentator: Prof. Ludmilla Jordanova (Chair in Modern History, King’s College London)
Date: 18 July 2013
Location: The Science Museum, London, United Kingdom
To coincide with the close of the biographical exhibition Codebreaker: Alan Turing's Life and Legacy, the Science Museum invites participation in a one-day workshop on the role of biography in science studies.
The lived life serves as an organising principle across disciplines. We talk of the biographies of things and places, and we use personal narratives to give shape to history. Biography is central to historians' work but often unacknowledged and untheorised: it is used to inspire and to set examples and to order our thinking about the world, but is a primarily a literary mode; biographies written for popular audiences provide material for the most abstruse work across disciplines; and the canon of well-known lives dictates fashions in research.
For historians of science, technology and medicine this is a particularly pressing issue: their discipline is founded on the 'great men' account of discovery and advance, and, though that has long since been discarded, the role of the individual in historical narratives has not diminished, and heroic tales have themselves become a legitimate subject of inquiry. For writers and researchers in other fields, the question remains: how do the lives of individuals intersect with cultural trends and collective enterprise?
Ethical Issues in Science Communication: A Theory-Based Approach
May 30 – June 1, 2013; Ames, Iowa
As science continues to become implicated in personal and collective decision-making, the stakes for communicating science to non-expert audiences intensify. In such an environment, a clear articulation of ethical issues arising from science communication is essential. Unfortunately, such an articulation does not yet exist. The purpose of this symposium is to bring together scholars from across disciplines whose research can contribute toward a theoretical articulation of the ethical issues surrounding the communication of science to non-expert audiences.
Organizing committee: Michael Dahlstrom and Jean Goodwin (Iowa State University), and Susanna Priest (University of Washington)
Association of Medical Illustrators 68th Annual Conference
July 17-20, 2013 Salt Lake City, Utah
General Program
The conference will offer workshops and sessions in its general program in four areas:
Medical, Biomedical and Scientific Visualization
current major projects, innovative techniques, etc.
Biomedical Science and Technology
innovations in medicine, science, technology applications, etc.
Business Practices
current effective practices relating to the business of medical illustration, legal issues, marketing concepts, and strategic planning.
General Artistic Techniques
digital techniques, current software, traditional techniques, etc.
Themed Program
After the success of the themed days at the 2012 meeting, in addition to the general program we will offer a subsection of three themed program sessions, one on each day of the conference:
Professionalism and Business Development
Biomedical Sciences
Mobile Media
