Forthcoming Events
Listed below are 52 events that will take place over the next two months.
You can search for specific events within and beyond this time frame by location, keywords or date
[Event Date: 2012-02-06]
The 'In the long run: a personal strategic development workshop for life science managers in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)' will take place on 6 and 7 February 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The EU-funded Promoting participation of high-tech research-intensive SMEs in health' (FIT FOR HEALTH) project has been providing advice and support to SMEs, SME groupings and researchers and assist them in...
[Event Date: 2012-02-06]
A workshop entitled 'Water and wetlands in the Mediterranean' will take place from 6 to 8 February 2012 in Agadir, Morocco.
The Mediterranean region is unique due to its very specific climate and long history of human use. With the advent of industrialisation, intensive agriculture, urbanisation, population pressures and legitimate health considerations, many wetlands were destroyed. During the twentieth...
[Event Date: 2012-02-06]
A 'Thermal impact on the damage zone around a radioactive waste disposal in clay host rocks' (TIMODAZ) project workshop will take place from 6 to 7 February 2012 in Saint-Ursanne, Switzerland.
Over the past few years, the EU-funded TIMODAZ project has investigated the coupled thermal-hydro-mechanical (THM) effects in clay formations foreseen as potential host rocks for the geological disposal of radioactive...
[Event Date: 2012-02-06]
An event entitled 'Scientific preparations for lunar exploration' will take place from 6 to 7 February 2012 in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
Recent years have seen an increase in countries interested in Moon exploration, with new missions being planned by the USA, Japan, China and India, among others. Across the world there are plans for further exploration of the Moon both in national agencies and in the...
[Event Date: 2012-02-09]
The 'Chemistry, astronomy and physics of H3+' will take place from 9 to 10 February 2012 in Buckinghamshire, UK.
H3+, or protonated molecular hydrogen, trihydrogen cation, is one of the most abundant ions in the universe. It is stable due to the low temperature and low density of interstellar space and plays a pivotal role widely in astronomy, physics, and chemistry because of its fundamental nature....
[Event Date: 2012-02-09]
An event entitled 'The development of European identities: policy and research issues' will take place on 9 February 2012 in Brussels, Belgium.
National identity defines identity and sense of belonging to one state or to one nation. It can also mean a feeling that one shares with a group of people, regardless of citizenship status. Studies have shown that a person's national identity is a direct result...
[Event Date: 2012-02-09]
An event entitled 'Towards a global initiative on gene-environment interactions in diabetes/obesity in specific populations' will take place from 9 to 10 February 2012 in Brussels, Belgium.
Diabetes causes severe health complications and is the fifth leading cause of death worldwide. The number of persons suffering from the type 2 form of the disease is set to rise to some 900 million globally by 2030....
[Event Date: 2012-02-09]
The Eighth Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries will take place from 9 to 10 February 2012 in Bari, Italy.
A digital library is a library in which collections are stored in digital formats and may be accessed either locally or remotely. This type of library has a variety of uses. For example, academic entities may make institutional books, papers, theses, and other works available to a wide...
[Event Date: 2012-02-09]
The Fifth Tübingen Conference on Linguistic Evidence will take place from 9 to 12 February 2012 in Tübingen, Germany.
Historical linguistics, sometimes referred to as diachronic linguistics, is the study of language change. It seeks to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages, reconstruct the pre-history of languages, and develop general theories about the history of words and...
[Event Date: 2012-02-13]
An event entitled 'How new science is transforming the optical microscope' will take place on 13 February 2012 in London, UK.
Historically, lenses for optical microscopes have necessarily been small, but also having to capture light from the object over as wide an angle as possible to record fine detail. In recent times, though, lasers, computers and chemically-specific labels have produced significant...