Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden presented the paper at the O'Reilly Where 2.0 conference, a gathering of experts on location technology.
For its fiftieth anniversary, the F.P.A. scheduled a three-day gathering of experts, asking them to gaze fifty years ahead.
Dr. Campbell was attending an unusual conference here, "Preventing Heroin Overdose: Pragmatic Approaches," which was billed by its sponsors as the first international gathering of experts to center on the question of how deaths among heroin users can be stopped.
As Nancy Dorsinville, a policy adviser in the United Nations Office of thee Special Envoy to Haiti, recently told a gathering of experts in New York, there is an urgent need for training peacekeepers, humanitarian aid staff, local law enforcement and social workers to prevent gender-based violence in refugee camps and other vulnerable areas.
Mrs. Clinton's distance from the health care initiative, figuratively and literally — she will be in Brussels on Thursday when Mr. Obama begins his effort to overhaul the system with a high-profile gathering of experts — underscores how the Obama White House is grappling with the cloud that still lingers over the Clinton plan 15 years after it imploded.
All presenters want to describe their findings to an audience of influential luminaries in their fields, and they certainly would be disappointed if a conference billed as a gathering of experts were nothing of the sort (see the News story by Cohen on p. 76).
The conventions this year include a celebration of comic books and movies, a gathering of experts on allergies and a conference of builders of environmentally friendly structures.
A recent gathering of experts recommended initially working toward at least two hours of walking/standing during the work day, eventually progressing to 4 hours/day.
Characterization begins with a broad understanding of natural resources and their drivers, and can be accomplished through summaries of the literature, guided research, gatherings of experts, and workshops where scientists, managers, and the public discuss risks to resources.
