Following 10 successful multidisciplinary conferences and the establishment of the International Stress and Behavior Society in 2007, the 11th International Conference of Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry "Stress and Behavior," 1st ISBS Congress, will take place in St. Petersburg in May 2008. An extensive scientific program with excellent plenary lectures, symposia, round-table discussions, and rich social program will make the meeting a unique opportunity for cross-disciplinary dialogue and networking.
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Power Conversion Intelligent Motion is Europe's leading meeting-point for experts out of the areas of power electronics and its applications in intelligent motion and power quality. From latest developments of power semiconductors, passive components, products for thermal management, new materials, sensors as well as servo-technology, and the wide area of power quality and energy-management, PCIM offers a comprehensive, focused, and compact presentation of products all under one roof! Profit from the success of such a well-established international exhibition with conference and tutorials. Take the date of PCIM 2008 into consideration!
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Mosharaka International Conference on Communications, Signals and Coding
(MIC-CSC 2008) is intended to represent a major forum for researchers,
engineers and students from all over the world to meet in Amman to present
their latest research results and to exchange new ideas and practical
experience in spread spectrum communications, signal, image and speech
processing, and information theory and coding.
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The World Cancer Congress is scheduled during June 12--17, 2008, at Everbright Convention and Exhibition Center in Shanghai, China. This meeting will be a dynamic forum for all scientists, oncologist, investigator, clinicians, Healthcare colleagues, executives, and leaders around the world who are actively involved in cancer research and therapeutics development, including basic, translational, clinical, epidemiologic prevention, diagnosis, and drug discovery and development. The conference will provide participants a face-to-face platform to exchange ideas, share update breakthroughs and promising solutions to most important issues in the area.
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CBMI'08 is the main international forum for the presentation and discussion of the latest technological advances, industrial needs, and product developments in multimedia indexing, search, retrieval, navigation, and browsing. Following the five successful previous events (Toulouse 1999, Brescia 2001, Rennes 2003, Riga 2005, and Bordeaux 2007), CBMI'08 will be hosted by Queen Mary, University of London in the vibrant city of London, UK. The focus of CBMI'08 is the integration of what could be regarded as unrelated disciplines including image processing, information retrieval, human-computer interaction, and semantic web technology with industrial trends, private users groups, and commercial product development.
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The 2nd annual Virtual Discovery Europe conference and exhibition will be held in the colourful city of Amsterdam. This meeting will focus on computer-aided drug design and screening. The conference will be colocated with Protein Crystallography Europe, and registered delegates will also have access to this meeting ensuring a very cost-effective trip. Agenda topics may include virtual screening, computational chemistry, lead identification and optimization, new algorithms and technologies, chemoinformatics. Visit the website for up-to-date information, including registration and agenda details.
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The NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (AHS-2008) will be held on 22–25 June, 2008, at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The purpose of the conference is to bring together leading researchers from the adaptive hardware and systems community to exchange experiences and share new ideas in the field. The conference expands the topics addressed by the precursor series of NASA/DoD Conference on Evolvable Hardware, held between 1999 and 2005.
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This conference will provide a unique forum for researchers, engineers, and educators interested in audio, language, and image processing to learn about recent progresses, to address related challenges, and to develop new methods, applications, and systems. The conference, to be held on July 7–9, 2008 in Shanghai, the largest city of China, is coorganized by IEEE Shanghai Section, IEEE Xi'an Section, IET Shanghai Section, Shanghai University, Tsinghua University, Fudan University, and Shanghai Embedded System and Software Alliance. The topics of interest to this conference include the following: audio and Music Processing, hearing and auditory systems, language and speech processing, image processing and virtual reality, and software and hardware implementation.
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CNN is a paradigm for nonlinear spatial-temporal dynamics and the core of the Cellular Active Wave Computer. Furthermore, in view of the emerging nanoscale technologies, a huge amount of transistors per chip are now feasible which put the cellular architectures and the array computing on the road toward nanogiga scale systems. CNNA 2008 will provide a forum for the presentation of the latest results and exploration of future directions in cellular neural/nonlinear networks (CNN) and their applications.
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It is our great pleasure to announce the first event of the international conference on Power Control and Optimization (PCO-08) organized by Department of Electrical Engineering, Chiang Mai University, Thailand and Curtin University of Technology, Malaysia. The vision of PCO-08 is to bring today’s highly inspiring and precision innovative research and resource development for tomorrow's industry in power and control. It has the mission to highlight innovative research and development of academics and industrial experts in the area of power control and its optimization techniques, and to provide a forum to disseminate the results to all industrial sectors in power quality, automation, business, finance, economics, and management. Also, it has the mission to bring all necessary information of the most recent and relevant innovations in regard to the theories and practices in industrial engineering and management, where constructive dialogues on theoretical concepts, practical ideas, and results of the state of the art will be developed.
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BIT Life Sciences' WSA-2008 is a focused event for updating the current advances in worldwide R and D of novel antiviral therapeutics. The anticipated attendees will represent top-level decision makers from leading biotech, pharmaceutical, and healthcare organizations. WSA-2008 is preparing to meet demands for expert views, up-to-the-minute industry intelligence, and professional presentation as well as poster sessions. WSA-2008 conference is also providing an ideal forum for the promotion of relevant companies, products, and services.
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The IET Visual Information Engineering brings together researchers, developers, creators, educators, and practitioners in networked media, image processing, machine vision, computer graphics, virtual and augmented environments, and visual communications to share their latest achievements and explore future directions and synergies in these exciting areas.
In 2008, the 5th VIE conference focuses on fostering links between Chinese and non-Chinese players from academia and industry. VIE 2008 is sure to provide the ideal opportunity to share results in a high quality, peer-reviewed environment.
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The 5th IET Visual Information Engineering 2008 Conference (VIE'08) addresses the fundamental elements of image, video, and graphics research and development.
This year’s event focuses on the key technical areas including the growing convergence of computer graphics and computer vision/image processing which is an increasingly important area in commercial multimedia applications development.
The IET has organised 5 international conferences addressing the converging areas that together make the field of visual information engineering.
These conferences bring together researchers, developers, creators, educators, and practitioners in image processing, machine vision, computer graphics, virtual and augmented environments, and visual communications to share their latest achievements and explore future directions and synergies in these exciting areas.
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ICCCN is a major international conference for the presentation of novel and fundamental advances in the field of computer communications and networks. It also serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners working in a wide variety of scientific areas with a common interest in improving computer communications and networks. The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks.
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This symposium is of interest to developers and users of reliable, versatile, and intelligent systems needed by a broad range of security applications. Examples of such applications are the detection and prevention of cyber-crimes and identity theft, internet security, security of financial systems, security of public transportation systems, emergency response systems (e.g., combining space-based systems with geographical information systems), and so forth. The symposium will bring together investigators of bio-inspired and intelligent techniques and their implementations on high-performance systems with real-world application developers, project managers, system integrators, and end-users of security applications.
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The ECSIS Symposium on Learning and Adaptive Behavior in Robotic Systems (LAB-RS 2008) will be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 6–8 August, 2008 during the festival period. This symposium will bring together researchers from academia and industry to report on new concepts, laboratory demonstrations, and fielded robotic systems that exhibit learning and adaptive behaviors. The goal of the symposium is to roadmap future directions for development of robotic systems with capabilities comparable to those of biological systems.
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We would like to invite you to Ostrava to attend 'Nano Ostrava 2008' an international conference, which will be the First Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology Meeting in Ostrava.
The objective of the conference is to provide a meeting place for open discussions between scientists, students and company representatives with an interest in nanomaterials and nanotechnology development. The Nano Ostrava 2008 will be organized in several sessions with lectures focusing on important areas of Nanomaterials and Nanotechnologies.
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CHEMPOR traditionally gathers academics, scientists, engineers, manufacturers, and end users to discuss recent developments in different areas of chemical and biological engineering. One of the major topics of the conference program is life quality, due to the importance that chemical and biological engineering plays in this area. This is complemented with additional topics including engineering sciences and fundamentals, industrial processes, and process systems engineering. A panel discussion on chemical and biological engineering education is also scheduled. CHEMPOR 2008 will provide an excellent opportunity for presenting new results and to discuss the latest research and developments in the field of chemical and biological engineering.
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We have the honor to invite you to participate in our 18th International Conference "Robotics and Mechatronics” which will be held in Varna, Bulgaria on 17–21 September, 2008. The conference main topics are robots, intelligence machine, mechatronics, CAD/CAM and mechanisms analysis, robot control, adaptive application of robotic and mechatronic systems, control of mechatronic systems, modelling and simulation of systems, scientific and special instrumentation, and applications of computer systems.
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Select Biosciences’ inaugural AgriGenomics World Congress will be held in the colourful city of Amsterdam. AgriGenomics is the detailed study of the genetic makeup of the plant and how all the genes work together to produce the crop. Recently, there has been a great interest in genetically engineering plants to optimize yields and their use in biofuels. So, now is a good time for scientists, business people, bioethists, and patent experts from around the globe to come together and catch up with state-of-the-art practice in this fast expanding field. Visit the website for up-to-date information.
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Select Biosciences’ 4th annual Advances in Metabolic Profiling conference and exhibition will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, and will be colocated with the European Biomarkers Summit and Proteomics Europe. Register for this meeting and have access to all three meetings, to ensure a very cost-effective trip! Keep up-to-date with the information on the agenda and registration details, by visiting the website. Agenda topics may include clinical applications of metabolomics, fluxomics and pathway discovery, drug discovery and development, plant metabolomics, nutrigenomics and metabolomics, microbial metabolomics, novel technologies for metabolomics, bioinformatics and data handling for metabolomics, data fusion—bringing together different OMIC technologies.
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Evolution and learning are two fundamental forms of adaptation. SEAL'08 is the seventh biennial conference in the highly successful series that aims at exploring these two forms of adaptation and their roles and interactions in adaptive systems. Cross-fertilisation between evolutionary learning and other machine learning approaches, such as neural network learning, reinforcement learning, decision tree learning, fuzzy system learning, and so forth, will be strongly encouraged by the conference. The other major theme of the conference is optimisation by evolutionary approaches or hybrid evolutionary approaches. The topics of interest to this conference include but are not limited to the following: evolutionary learning; evolutionary optimisation; hybrid learning; adaptive systems; theoretical issues in evolutionary computation; real-world applications of evolutionary computation techniques.
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The International MultiMedia Modeling (MMM) Conference
is a leading international conference for researchers
and industry practitioners to share their new ideas,
original research results, and practical development
experiences from all MMM-related areas. The conference
calls for original high-quality papers in, but not limited to,
the following areas related to multimedia modeling technologies
and applications: multimedia content analysis, multimedia signal
processing and communications, and multimedia applications and services.
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The World Congress of Internal Medicine will Join 4000 of the world’s leading internal medicine physicians in Melbourne in 2010 to discuss "World Medicine for the Next Decade." The Royal Australasian College of Physicians, in conjunction with the Internal Medicine Society of Australia and New Zealand (IMSANZ) and the International Society of Internal Medicine (ISIM), will offer a stimulating and educational program, allowing the opportunity to experience new technologies at the WCIM 2010 Trade Exhibition.
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