This year's DH Fair features a keynote speech from Zeynep Tufekci and a poster session with presentation opportunities for UC Berkeley students, staff, and faculty.
The event, attended by perhaps a few hundred people over the course of the day, was split into four sessions, with multiple presentations in each, and spread out over the first floor of the University of Chicago's Ida Noyes Hall.
These conferences are among the most important scientific meetings entirely dedicated to vaccine research for both humans and animals, and provide a mix of plenary sessions with invited presentations by acknowledged international experts, parallel sessions, poster sessions, and informal exchanges between experts and young researchers.
Frontiers of Science meetings are structured around a series of discipline-themed sessions, with three presentations setting out the state of the art in a given subject, and a strong emphasis on discussion among the multi-disciplinary audience.
(I couldn't attend the evening session, which — with presentations on the Baroque continuo and the 18th-century flute — may have had closer ties to the Met collection).
Each session began with presentations of relevant research, followed by whole group and breakout group discussions.
An example was the 'Advances in scleroderma' session, with several presentations of new material, both basic and clinical.
The annual session concludes tomorrow with presentations on harnessing knowledge to achieve results for children, the report of the Ethics Office, and the field visits by members of the Executive Board, as well as an address by the Chairperson of the UNICEF Global Staff Association.
After the scanning, subjects were asked to judge the figures as "meaningful" or "meaningless" in a 2-alternative forced-choice (2-AFC) task (see Results), the whole set of stimuli being presented over 2 sessions, with the same presentation and interstimulus time used during the scanning period.
Briefly, the experimental session consisted of a 5 min acclimatization period to a 70-dB background noise (continuous throughout the session), followed by a habituation session with the presentation of 10×40-ms 10×40-mshite noise stimuli at a 20-s inter-stimulus interval.
