Four Seasons Biltmore
Santa Barbara, California
June 7 – 9, 2010

Perspective from Across the Disciplines

The Science and Religious Conflict Project at the University of Oxford is hosting a major conference entitled, Does Religion Lead to Tolerance or Intolerance? Perspectives from Across the Disciplines. The conference runs from 17-19 May.

University of Oxford, Christ Church

Loss of control over some aspects of behavior is usually held to be a defining feature of addiction. But the loss of control envisaged is somewhat mysterious. The series of actions in which addicts engage in order to procure and consume their drug is not reflexive; should it nevertheless be properly seen as uncontrolled? What mechanisms are...

The New Science of Ageing

Research into ageing has been galvanized by the discovery of single-gene mutations that extend healthy lifespan of laboratory animals and that delay multiple, ageing-related diseases. Evolutionary conservation of these genetic effects allows the use of invertebrates to understand human ageing. This meeting will discuss the scientific challenges...

The Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) is a multi-institution group of scientists and educators focused on understanding the critical role of time and timing in learning. Their mission is to create a new science of the temporal dynamics of learning, to use this understanding to transform educational practice, and to create a new...

On Molecular and Cellular Biology

New Insights into Healthspan and Diseases of Aging: From Molecular to Functional Senescence. January 31-February 5, 2010 Tahoe City, California The Aging meeting was one of 52 in 2010 organized by Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology, a nonprofit that has been convening open, international conferences in the biomedical and life...

This is the fourth annual all-hands meeting of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), which investigates time as a crucial element in the learning process and integrates the study of learning dynamics across multiple time scales - from milliseconds, to life-long learning. This new science of the temporal dynamics of learning is meant...

Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture in partnership with UC San Diego, Salk Institute & NewSchool of Architecture & Design present ANFA INTERFACES: A series of discussions about emerging research at the intersection of Neuroscience and Architecture

Building the future with women's vision

The Harvard Stem Cell Institute marked its fifth anniversary in 2009. These conversations took place during the HSCI Stem Cell Symposium at the Harvard Club on November 6, 2009.

Presented by The Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine

The 4th Annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa was an exclusive, one-day symposium which drew together the pioneers responsible for advancing research towards discovering cures for debilitating diseases and injuries. This one-day event featured renowned researchers...

Project Presentations

Sponsored by the NIH Cognitive Neuroscience Training Program for the Institute for Neural Computation and the Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind at UC San Diego.

The Origins Symposium inaugurated the new Origins Initiative at ASU. In partnership with The Science Network, this unprecedented event, brought together 70 of the world's leading scientists and scholars, including 8 Nobel Laureates, and the world's pre-eminent scientific public intellectuals, for three days of panels directed at exploring...

This is the third annual all-hands meeting of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), which investigates time as a crucial element in the learning process and integrates the study of learning dynamics across multiple time scales - from milliseconds, to life-long learning.

This new science of the temporal dynamics of learning...

Presented by the Crick-Jacobs Center

The Crick-Jacobs Center for Theoretical and Computational Biology presents "Reading the Human Genome," a series of three lectures by Nobel Laureate Sydney Brenner.

Wednesday: "Much Ado About Nothing: Systems Biology and Inverse Problems"

Thursday: "Measure for Measure: The GC Shift and the Problem of Isochores"

Friday: "All's...

Visit the Stem Cells on the Mesa website

Taking advantage of the San Diego collaborative spirit, this year’s 3rd annual Stem Cell Meeting on the Mesa will assemble brilliant minds from the local region and beyond. Leading investigators from...

BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here.

Just 40 years after a famous TIME magazine cover asked "Is God Dead?" the answer appears to be a resounding "No!" According to a survey by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life in a recent issue of Foreign...

BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here.

As you watch the conversation in Beyond Belief: Enlightenment 2.0, it might help to know about one of the sources that was helpful to me in formulating the agenda, assembling the cast of characters, and setting...

BEYOND BELIEF DVDs are now available! Purchase them here. Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark DVDs will be available soon.

Beyond Belief: Candles in the Dark is the third in an annual series of conversations: an ongoing project to foster and promote the use of...

The Days of Molecular Medicine Forum, hosted by Roger Bingham, focuses on “Regulatory and Ethical Issues on the Use of Stem Cells: An International Perceptive”. The forum features keynote speaker Irving Weissman, from Stanford University, and a panel discussion of the regulatory and ethical issues posed by the promise of human stem cell bi...

The Science Network's first public event, this landmark symposium assembles the world's leading experts to explore the contentious issue of stem cell research. Held one month before California voted on Proposition 71, this timely event was - and remains - an essential resource for concerned citizens.

American Friends of the Hebrew University present this conference, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's Annus Mirabilis (Miracle Year).

Join hundreds of skeptics from all over the United States, Canada, and Europe for a lively and memorable tour through inner space at the 2005 Annual Skeptics Society Conference.

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Out of Africa I: Who, Where, and When

Did we all come Out of Africa? Join famed fossil hunter, Richard Leakey, for this meeting on the making of mankind.

This is the first scientific meeting of The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), established in early 2005 with the passage of Proposition 71, the California Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative.

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The San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SDCRM) presents this first annual symposium, drawing together San Diego's pioneers responsible for advancing stem cell research towards discovering cures for debilitating diseases and injuries.

Immigration Today: What is the status of our huddled masses, our tired and tempest-tost*? A presentation of The National Academies Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education.

*From Emma Lazarus' poem The New Colossus on the Statue of Liberty.

Can sleeping on a problem create overnight insights? Will naps make you smarter? Are you getting enough? How much IS enough? For the answers to these and other pillow problems, join a group of wide-awake researchers for a conversation on the science of sleep.

The Pancreatic Cancer Action Network hosts this first Summit on Pancreatic Cancer. Leading pancreatic cancer investigators and other luminaries of the biological sciences engage in an interactive discussion of opportunities and challenges facing pancreatic cancer research over the next five years.

In this second annual summit, presented by the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine (SDCRM), scientists, business executives, and government officials come together to share emerging innovations in stem cell research and discuss the various scientific, ethical, and business challenges facing the industry today.

Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton, Joe Lieberman, and Richard Burr, and former Representative Christopher Cox discuss the continuing threat of bioterrorism and its implications for society. This event was organized by former Ambassador Cynthia P. Schneider of the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute.

This morning, just like any other day in America, more than a quarter of the population of this nation is in classrooms of some kind, going about the business of educating. The business, perhaps – but is there yet a science of educating?

Brains R Us brings together researchers, educators, policymakers, parents, and students in a town...

This is the second annual all-hands meeting of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), which investigates time as a crucial element in the learning process and integrates the study of learning dynamics across multiple time scales - from milliseconds, to life-long learning.

This new science of the temporal dynamics of learning...