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CODATA President's message

CODATA President, Geoffrey Boulton, has published his message to the CODATA community in which he sets out CODATA’s strategic vision and priorities over the next four years: http://www.codata.org/message-from-president-geoffrey-boulton

CODATA: Editorial Board nominations and applications for the Editorial Board of the Data Science Journal

The following message has been received from Dr. Sarah Callaghan, Editor -in- Chief of this journal: Dear Colleagues, CODATA International Scientific Union Members, The Data Science Journal http://datascience.codata.org is currently accepting nominations and applications for membership of its Editorial Board. The main role of a board member is to act as an advocate  of the […]

Royal Society Discussion Meeting, London, October 12-13, 2015

The topic of this meeting is SOFT INTERFACIAL MATERIALS: FROM FUNDAMENTALS TO FORMULATION. For more details, including session titles and confirmed speakers, and free registration, please visit https://royalsociety.org/events/2015/10/soft-interfacial-materials/. The deadline for poster abstracts is Friday, July 13.  Registration will remain open until capacity is reached, but to avoid disappointment early booking is suggested. The convenors […]

Funding applications for 2016 Schools and Workshops

Applications for IUPAB funding for 2016 Schools will be accepted from June 1 – July 31, 2015. All allocations will be in Euros, with the maximum 10,000 Euros. We plan to advise applicants of the funding results by end November, 2015. The following documents can be downloaded from the IUPAB website:  Funding Application;    Sponsorship Agreement. […]

EBSA 2015

The 10th European Biophysics Congress will be held from July 18 – 22, 2015 in Dresden, Germany (“Florence on the Elbe River”) Further details, such as the programme and lists of confirmed speakers, are online – www.EBSA2015.org Please note: Abstract submission deadline is March 15, 2015. Accepted abstracts will be published as proceedings in the […]

9th Asian Biophysics Association Symposium

The Symposium (ABA-2015) will be held in the beautiful city of Hangzhou, China from May 9-12, 2015. ABA-2015 is sponsored by the Asian Biophysics Association and organized by The Biophysical Society of China (BSC) and The Institute of Biophysics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IBP, CAS). The objective of ABA-2015 is to provide a platform for […]

Future Earth new Executive Director

In Paris on February 13, 2015 ICSU announced, on behalf of the Science & Technology Alliance for Global Sustainability, the appointment of Paul Shrivastava as Executive Director of Future Earth. Currently he is the David O’Brien Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Enterprise, and the Director of the David O’Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise, at the John […]

Grants for 2015 Biophysics Schools

Applications closed at the end of September 2014 for assistance in funding biophysics , the IUPAB provided funding for six advanced schools in biophysics to be held during 2015: Grenoble, France, February 2-5, 2015: Advanced isotopic labelling methods for integrated structural biology Dresden Germany, July 15-17, 2015: Spectroscopies in biology – Recent advances Singapore, July […]

Report on Task Force on Education & Capacity Building, from Professor M.A.K. (Bill) Williams, Convenor

Report on Activity to 2014 Much has gone on in the spirit of the education taskforce – workshops and support of conferences (See Reviews on Website and in IUPAB Updates). These events are coordinated and successfully run locally with IUPAB contributing financial support and the time of its members. Successful Schools and Workshops have been […]