Sentences with phrase «global science gathering»

The AAAS Annual Meeting is a widely recognized global science gathering, bringing thousands of scientists, engineers, policymakers, educators, and journalists together to discuss the most recent developments in science and technology.

Held in Boston this year, the meeting is the largest and most widely recognized global science gathering where valuable learning, networking and crosspollination happen.

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Among the documents the committee has published today (with some redactions) is the data - licensing contract between Global Science Research (GSR)-- the company set up by the Cambridge University professor, Aleksandr Kogan, whose personality test app was used by CA as the vehicle for gathering Facebook users» data — and SCL Elections (an affiliate of CA), dated June 4, 2014.

Cambridge academic Aleksandr Kogan and his company Global Science Research created an app called «thisisyourdigitallife,» which used psychological tests to gather data on users.

Hours before the March for Science here kicked off, representatives from the Mexican Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine gathered for a roundtable to express their support for the global movement — though some tensions with the local march were clear.

Every year we try to gather to discuss how better to serve our readers and the global enterprise that is science.

When the world's governments gather in December 2009 in Copenhagen to negotiate a treaty to restrain global greenhouse gas emissions, the science on which they base their decision could be as much as four years out of date.

Speakers and participants discussed such issues as the preparation of young scientists with training suitable to global challenges, the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities to gather insights and innovations that might otherwise be missed, supporting scientists everywhere throughout the world, and ensuring that scientists can do science in a globally connected way without serious obstacles due to differences in standards or ethics.

The gathering was the second of three in the annual «Science and Society: Global Challenges» series sponsored by Georgetown University Science in the Public Interest, AAAS and the American Chemical Society.

Next week, at the Society for Neuroscience's annual meeting, the world's largest gathering of brain researchers, several of them will sit down together again to discuss science funding in an era of global brain projects.

CIUDAD OBREGÓN, Mexico (CIMMYT)-- As more than 200 wheat science and food specialists from 34 countries gathered in northwestern Mexico to address threats to global nutrition and food security, 9 outstanding young women wheat scientists among them showed that this effort will be strengthened by diversity.

Mathias Nielsen, an assistant professor of political science at Denmark's Aarhus University, led the research team, who analyzed records of medical studies on a variety of global diseases gathered from several online databases.

Global Gathering of all LIGHTWORKERS, INDIGO STAR SEEDS, HEALERS, SCIENCE RESEARCHERS & TRUTH SEEKERS, the 144,000 who will lead the Humanity into new age of Aquarius & the new Earth the Sentient Beings for celebration of New humanity.

It's an inspirational, action packed global gathering of like minded individuals looking to raise their knowledge and training with the latest in groundbreaking, science based, athletic training.

Over time, we gathered thousands of pages of internal Exxon documents that fleshed out the picture hinted at by Henry Shaw's participation in the 1979 climate conference: that Exxon was so interested in climate science that it had launched its own ambitious research into the critical global warming questions of the day.

Dr. Ghassem R. Asrar, NASA's associate administrator for earth science, said Aqua's data, combined with information gathered by the other satellites that are part of the agency's Earth Observing System, would help resolve scientific conflicts about global warming and how much of it could be attributed to human activity.

«This landmark conference beside the Pantanal will gather an overview of the status of global wetlands, identify knowledge gaps, create greater collaboration and consistency in wetland science worldwide, and offer a plain - spoken policy prescription for decision makers with an appeal to adopt it with urgency,» said Professsor Paulo Speller of Brazil's Federal University of Mato Grasso which is hosting the meeting, the 8th INTECOL International Wetlands Conference meeting, held July 21 - 25 in the city of Cuiaba on the edge of South America's Pantanal, the world's largest tropical wetland.

A 2003 invitation to speak at a prestigious lecture series prompted her to gather information to create a slide detailing the amount of scientific agreement about catastrophic man - caused global warming, and the reaction to the slide is what prompted her to write and submit her «Scientific Consensus on Climate Change» paper to the Science journal, which published it on December 3, 2004.

Senator James Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma, the most outspoken climate change skeptic in Congress, was scheduled to be the kickoff speaker at the nation's most prominent gathering of those who doubt or deny the science of global warming, which began on Thursday morning in Washington.

On top of its initial statement, Facebook on Sunday said it was conducting a «comprehensive internal and external review» into whether the data, gathered via an app created by Global Science Research (GSR), still existed.

But the reports say that a firm created by Kogan, called Global Science Research firm, reportedly worked with Cambridge Analytica, which is owned by SCL Group, to pay the test takers, and then gathered and used their data for non-academic purposes.

One such conference, specifically convened to encourage networking within the life sciences sector, is the DIA Annual Meeting, billed as «the largest global interdisciplinary gathering of life sciences professionals» where you can «network with peers and build new relationships across multiple disciplines».