Conclusions of the SENC Expert Meeting-2015

ENDO 2015 – Meeting report

It wasmy pleasure to attend The Endocrine Society’s 97th Annual Meeting and Expo courtesy of the Elsevier/Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology andMetabolism Junior Research Prize for Basic Science in March of this year. Hosted at the San Diego Convention Centre, we were certainly privileged to enjoy such an invigorating scientific program with the idyllic backdrop of San Diego Bay. The she...

Single Expert Meeting On

Fall 2015 Meeting of the NVPHBV

Keynote Lecture 01: Amsterdam Computer Vision: from the lab to the real world Prof. dr. Theo Gevers Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam Email: [email protected] Today, the moment has come that computer vision technology is accurate and fast enough to be applied in an increasing number of applications such as image retrieval, face recognition and s...

Expert Meeting on the Ecosystem Approach

1. At the initial meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice (SBSTTA) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), it was recognised that “a holistic and not merely a conservation-oriented approach” was needed within the CBD. The second meeting of the Conference of Parties (COP) stated in decision II/8 that “...the conservation and sustainable use of bi...

SSRMP Annual Scientific Meeting 2015

Atomic magnetometers (AM)—also known as optical magnetometers—were introduced inthe late 1950’s. In the past 15 years AM R&D; has received a new boost owing to theimplementation of laser light for the AM operation. AM currently represent the mostsensitive magnetometers and typically allow the detection of magnetic field changes inthe one-digit femto-Tesla range (to note that ...