Upcoming Conferences

Australian Geothermal Energy Conference: 20–22 August 2008, Melbourne; Contact: Impact Environmental Conferences; Email: ausgeothermal@impactenviro.com.au; Further information: www.impactenviro.com.au/ausgeothermal; This conference will bring together representatives of Australia’s multidisciplinary geothermal community to address key science, technology, policy and commercial issues facing the commercial development of the industry.

Medical Bionics: A New Paradigm for Human Health: 16–19 November 2008, Lorne, Victoria; Contact: Consec – Conference Management; Email: medicalbionics@consec.com.au; Further information: www.medicalbionics.consec.com.au; The international conference Medical Bionics – a new paradigm for human health will be an opportunity to bring together leading experts and our younger researchers from Australia and overseas for the first time to explore the exciting future of medical bionics and how it could be used to address some of our most important medical challenges.

Asia-Pacific Congress on Electron Tomography: 31 January–4 February 2009; Contact: Dr Brad Marsh, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland; Email: b.marsh@imb.uq.edu.au; Further information: homepage.mac.com/marshbj/APCET/; This meeting represents the first opportunity to bring together world leaders in the field of electron tomography of molecules and cells outside of Europe or North America, and will foster the exchange of ideas and technical information among biologists, biophysicists, computer scientists, mathematicians, materials scientists and electron optical instrumentation specialists in an open interdisciplinary environment.

Nanophotonics Down Under: Devices and Applications: 21–24 June 2009; Contact: Ms Johanna Lamborn, Centre for Micro-Photonics, Swinburne University of Technology; Email: jolamborn@swin.edu.au; Further information: www.smonp2009.com; The will be an interdisciplinary meeting devoted to lasers and lights interacting with nano-dimensional objects for photonics applications such as photovoltaics, plasmonics, photonic crystals, biomedicine and data storage. It will bring together leading international specialists with the primary aim to collectively identify key challenges in the emerging applications of nanophotonics.