In the name of all members of LES Hungary let me invite you and extend a cordial welcome to both present and future LES members to attend the LES Pan-European Conference 2010 held in the magnificent capital of Hungary, 6-8 June 2010. Budapest is also the seat of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, EIT, that has a mission closely related to that of the Licensing Executives Society International such as: “…to grow and capitalise on the innovation capacity and capability of actors from higher education, research, business and entrepreneurship from the EU and beyond through the creation of highly integrated knowledge and innovation communities…”. Hopefully, the participants will get a closer insight to the operation of this Institute and get also acquainted with outstanding representatives of famous Hungarian inventors including Mr. Ernő Rubik and Mr. Aron Losonczi, and also with the achievements of several significant local innovation workshops. In addition to providing a local flavor, this conference will be highly international offering a highlight in all segments of technology transfer, intellectual property and various state-of-the-art uses of intellectual assets. We plan to invite key persons determining the European arena of the protection of intellectual property and organize both mini plenary sessions and workshops in different fields so that participants will obtain not only a general overview but also detailed knowledge and skills in their favorite fields. Therefore, Budapest will provide an ideal location to discuss how intellectual assets can be brought to business and why we can state that: Technology Transfer [is] – a Fuel for Innovation.

The date of the conference is ideal, and by about June 2010 it can be assumed that most developed and developing countries will have realized that the way out of the economic crisis should lead through creativity and innovation. The LES Pan-European Conference 2010 is a great event when practitioners from all parts of Europe and of the world will meet to exchange views and experiences how their activities can be fostered, and it will also offer an excellent platform for networking. The Organizing Committee will do its best to provide not only a broad and rich educational and business program but to make this event remarkable by showing the best side of our beautiful host city and participants and their guests can enjoy the wonderful panorama to the river Danube and the hills at the other side of the river provided by one of the nicest hotels of the city, Budapest Marriott Hotel. We also hope that the pleasant atmosphere of all LES events will prevail during this meeting, and ask you to make use of the benefits of the early registration.

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100 YEARS ANNIVERSARY OF THE ORGANISED HUNGARIAN SPELEOLOGY

On the basis of the success of the archaeological exploration in the Bükk Mountains in 1906 the Speleological Committee was set up by the Hungarian Geological Society on the 28th of January 1910. The Hungarian Speleological Society as the successor of the Speleological Committee wishes to commemorate the occasion and also the important persons and exploration successes of the last 100 years by organising an international conference.

Programme:

7th May (Friday)

Opening ceremony

Papers on the 100 years of Hungarian Cave Explorations

Welcome party and Speleo Movies

8–9th May (Saturday–Sunday)

Previously announced presentations with free chosen subjects

Afternoon-Evening – Visiting Szemlő-hegyi and Pál-völgyi show caves

Evening: Closing party at the Pál-völgyi Cave

During the conference trips into non-show caves of the Buda thermal karst ((Pál-völgyi Cave, Mátyás-hegyi Cave, Ferenc-hegyi Cave)will be possible.

The detailed program depends on the announced papers.

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The aim of the 8th annual Industrial Simulation Conference (ISC’2010) is to give a complete overview of this year’s industrial simulation related research and to provide an annual status report on present day industrial simulation research within the European Community and the rest of the world in line with European industrial research projects.

With the integration of artificial intelligence, agents and other modelling techniques, simulation has become an effective and appropriate decision support tool in industry. The exchange of techniques and ideas among universities and industry, which support the integration of simulation in the everyday workplace, is the basic premise at the heart of ISC’2010 conference.

The ISC’2010 conference consists of four major parts; the first part concerns itself with discrete event simulation methodology, the second and biggest part with industrial simulation applications, a third one with industrial themed workshops, and last but not least the fourth part, namely the poster sessions for students. The whole is then illustrated by an exhibition.

From this year onwards ISC will focus more on simulation applications for the factory of the future (e.g. transformable factories, networked factories, learning factories, digital factories) depending on different drivers such as high performance, high customisation, environmental friendliness, high efficiency of resources, human potential and knowledge creation as set out by the EU.

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Dear Colleagues,

It is a great pleasure for us to invite you to Budapest for the 8th Biennial Conference of ALPHA Scientists in Reproductive Medicine. Budapest is the capital of Hungary, one of the most exciting cultural and touristic centres in the heart of the Middle-European region. You can enjoy the vibrant and exciting metropolis, which is also the City of Spas and become acquainted with traditional Hungarian cuisine along with live Gypsy music. In addition, the City’s almost 200 museums and galleries, 40 theatres, Opera House and 7 concert halls offer a wide variety of programmes you can choose from, or just roam the ancient streets of the historical quarter of Buda Castle, where the congress will be held. We feel privileged and honoured to host you in Budapest, the City of history, culture and entertainment.

Peter Fancsovits

Congress President

MAIN TOPICS

I. Basic Cryobiology and Cryopreservation Overview

1. Principles of cryobiology

2. The evolution of cryopreservation techniques: Slow-freeze, vitrification, freeze drying and beyond….

3. Cryopreservation for wildlife conservation: Lessons for human IVF

4. What can we learn from the livestock industry?

5. The future of cryopreservation in assisted reproduction

II. Oocyte Cryopreservation

1. What, when, and how to cryopreserve oocytes? Lessons from oocyte physiology

2. Cryopreservation of oocytes for social or medical reasons: Is there a difference?

3. The rise of the new banking system? Cryopreservation of donor oocytes

4. Recovery of high quality oocytes for cryopreservation: Optimising clinical protocols

5. To vitrify or not to vitrify? Molecular markers to assess cryopreservation techniques

6. Safety of oocyte cryopreservation: Outcomes and long-term follow-up

III. Sperm Cryopreservation

1. Principles of sperm cryopreservation: Cryopreservation methods and effectiveness

2. Frozen versus fresh sperm: Are the outcomes really any different?

3. Cryopreservation of testicular and epididymal sperm: Outcomes, safety and long term follow-up

4. Cryopreservation of sperm for oncology patients: Pre- and post-treatment quality, utilization, success and safety

5. Molecular assessment of frozen-thawed sperm: Cytogenetics, DNA fragmentation, methylation and more…

6. Safety of sperm cryopreservation: Outcomes and long-term follow-up?

IV. Embryo Cryopreservation

1. Assessing frozen embryo survival after thawing: Revisiting the 50% rule

2. Embryological criteria for successful cryopreservation: What stage and grade of embryos should be cryopreserved?

3. Slow-freezing versus vitrification: Are molecular markers or success rates driving cryopreservation techniques?

4. Optimizing frozen-thaw embryo cycles: Clinical aspects

5. A critical assessment of assisted hatching and lysed cell removal on frozen-thawed embryos

6. Safety of embryo cryopreservation: Outcomes and long-term follow-up

V. Cryopreservation of Ovarian Tissue

1. Cryopreservation of whole ovaries or ovarian tissue: Clinical indications and outcomes

2. Collection, processing and storage of ovarian tissue: A review of best practice

3. Ovarian tissue transplantation: What constitutes success?

4. In Vitro Maturation from cryopreserved ovarian tissue: As good as fresh?

VI. Regulation, Law and Ethics of Cryopreservation

1. Regulatory aspects of cryopreservation around the world: Global village or dystopia?

2. Posthumous collection and storage of gametes: Do the living have any rights?

3. Whose embryo is it anyway? Storage terms, future dispositions, effective consent, joint ownership and other dilemmas

4. An embryologist’s dream: The perfect consent form

VII. Training and Quality Management Aspects of Cryopreservation

1. Optimizing cryopreservation techniques – What’s critical, what’s not?

2. Keeping a lid on cryopreservation: Key performance indicators in the IVF lab

3. Open forum for delegates to share their experiences (with panel discussion)

VIII. Practical Workshops In Vitrification

IX. Free Communications (Poster and Oral Sessions)

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Join us in Budapest for 21st European Conference on Diamond, Diamond-like Materials, Carbon Nanotubes, and Nitrides!

Attendance at this meeting will enable to you to:

• Learn from internationally renowned researchers in a comprehensive programme covering the latest developments in fundamental science to industrial applications.


• Present your latest research in the contributed oral and poster sessions.


• Interact and network with interdisciplinary colleagues to exchange ideas and experiences

Important dates and deadlines

• 5 March 2010: Deadline for submission of oral and poster abstracts


• 13 May 2010: Authors notified of paper acceptance


• 18 June 2010: Author registration deadline


• 23 July 2010: Early booking deadline

Scope and Topics

The programme will cover all aspects of vapour growth diamond, natural and synthetic diamond, nano-diamond, and related materials such as carbon nanotubes, diamond-like carbon and wide gap nitrides particularly cubic boron nitride. There will be an increased emphasis on carbon nanotubes. Contributions with the latest scientific and technological results will be supplemented by high level invited presentations and reviews by world experts in these and neighbouring fields.

Characterisation

Techniques such as electron microscopy, Raman, UV-vis spectroscopy. Cathodo-luminescence, electron spin resonance, optical spectroscopy, photoconductivity. Characterisation of gems.

Electronic and Optoelectronic Properties, Applications and Devices

Doping and defect studies. Applications of defects in quantum computing, luminescence. Photoconductivity. High mobility. Superconductivity. Surface properties. Effect of hydrogen. Field effect transistors. Power electronics. Negative electron affinity. Field emission and devices. Detectors.

Mechanical, Thermal Properties and Applications

Hardness, friction. Tools, protective coatings. Surface acoustic wave devices. Applications to microsystems for mechanical, electrochemical and sensor devices. Heat sinks, heat spreaders, polishing. Metallisation.

Electrochemistry and Biological Activity

Electrodes. Electrochemistry, Functionalization. Biological activity of surfaces. Nanodiamond surfaces.

Carbon Nanotubes

Growth methods including plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition, growth mechanisms. Electronic properties, composites, mechanical properties. Applications in field emission, transistors, devices, conducting composites, membranes, electrochemistry and sensors. Fullerenes.

Diamond-like Carbon

Plasma deposition. Optical, IR, Raman and TEM characterisation. Electronic properties and applications. Protective coatings. Wear resistant coatings. Tribology. Low friction coatings. MEMs. Stress. Amorphous carbon nitride.

III-nitrides

Growth. Characterisation. Wide band gap opto-electronics and power electronics. Doping. Detectors. FETs.

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13th Annual ECRF (European Commerce Register’s Forum) Conference

The Budapest Metropolitan Court as Registry Court – as the presiding European Commerce Registers’ Forum (ECRF) register for the period: June 2009/June 2010 – has the privilege of organizing and hosting the 13th Annual ECRF Conference, in Budapest, on 14th-15th June 2009.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you all to participate in this conference.

More information coming soon.

About ECRF

Official company registration offices have a key role to play for registration (start-ups) and maintenance of reliable company information. As business in Europe has become more and more integrated and previous boundaries have disappeared, this has increased the need for international cooperation also between authorities responsible for registering business enterprises.

The first initiative to establish a wider contact and a deeper co-operation among the European Registration Authorities was taken by the Register of Enterprises of the Republic of Latvia, which in 1998 invited to the First Annual Conference for the Commerce register of Europe. This initiative was followed in 1999 by the Second Annual Conference for the Commerce Registers of Europe, held in Sweden and hosted by the Swedish Companies and Patents Office: delegates from 21 European countries (including some representatives of emergent Central and Eastern European economies) attended that conference, which offered registrars a chance to explore common issues and to exchange idea and expertise. At that time, the idea was expressed by a number of participants that the foundations laid by this conference should be built upon by establishing more formalised mechanisms for cooperation between registries. Thus, some people prepared proposals that have been presented to the Third Annual Conference in Cardiff (October 2000).

The organisation for the Commerce Registers of Europe, the European Commerce Register’s Forum (ECRF), has been established in Cardiff (with the participation of 21 countries), for the first year, with a Steering Committee that consists of representatives from the Registers of Italy, United Kingdom, Norway and Sweden.

The European Commerce Register’s Forum was born with the purpose to improve the Commerce Registers services to the trade and industry and to the business life in general. Main goals of the Forum are:

• Creating an efficient environment for starting-up and developing innovative businesses, especially SMEs


• Preparing the associated Countries of Central & Eastern Europe for integration into the internal market of the Union


• Creating an open and transparent environment for business throughout Europe


• Simplification of regulatory environment in order to reduce the administrative burdens on businesses.

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The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science (HOPOS) will hold its eighth international congress in Budapest, Hungary, June 24-27, 2010. The conference is open to scholarly work on the history of philosophy of science from any disciplinary perspective.

HOPOS, The International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, is devoted to promoting serious, scholarly research on the history of the philosophy of science. We construe this subject broadly, to include topics in the history of related disciplines and in all historical periods, studied through diverse methodologies. We aim to promote historical work in a variety of ways, but especially through encouraging exchange among scholars through meetings, publications, and electronic media.

The preliminary program will be posted in spring 2010.

Registration will begin at mid-day on Friday, June 24, in the Octagon area adjacent to the main entrance to the CEU campus.

Local Organizing Committee

Karl Hall (CEU)

Gábor Á. Zemplén (BME)

István Bodnár (ELTE BTK/CEU)

Gábor Betegh (CEU)

Hanoch Ben-Yami (CEU)

Friedrich Stadler (University of Vienna)

Gábor Forrai (Miskolc University)

András Máté (ELTE BTK)

György Kampis (ELTE TTK)

Tihamér Margitay (BME)

Márta Fehér (BME)

László Ropolyi (ELTE TTK)

Péter Szegedi (ELTE TTK)

Tamás Demeter (Miskolc University)

Csaba Pléh (BME)

János Tanács (BME)

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Scope of HCBM 2010

The quest for the Quark Gluon Plasma, QGP has been started already decades ago. Now we are at a point where three large facilities start to investigate the very properties of this extreme form of matter.

We organize Hot and Cold Baryonic Matter 2010, to bring together high energy nulcear phisicists from all over the world. We dedicate this international workshop in particular to the upcoming particle accelelerator facility, FAIR under construction at GSI, Germany.

We would also welcome an overview of the latest data from other experimental collaborations.

Further information

On the other hand, please don’t forget our city, Budapest is one of the most beautiful place. Especially Normafa where our workshop going to be placed. Here You can see an online webcam picture of the Buda castle from close to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)

Please, remain in Budapest one more day after the scientific programme finished on 19 August 2009. We going to organize for You one of the biggest and one of the most expensive fireworks of Europe on the evening of the 20 August, 2010. Normafa is also a nice place to wacth, but at the crowded riverside You may find a better view.

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A Magyar CIB Student Chapter 2010. szeptember 30. – október 2. között háromnapos nemzetközi CIB Student Chapter Konferenciát rendez Budapesten. A konferencián az építési szakterületet érintő egyetemek és főiskolák ifjú kiválóságai, kiemelkedő TDK hallgatói, PhD hallgatói, fiatal oktatói tartanak előadást angol nyelven a kutatási témájukról. A konferenciára a világ többi országában működő Student Chapter-eket is meghívjuk.

International CIB Student Chapter Conference 2010

We are pleased to invite you to take part in the International CIB Student

Chapter Conference 2010, which takes place in Budapest, Hungary on 30 September – 2 October 2010. The Conference opens the doors for discussing the common issues of several professional fields, sharing experiences and research results. Conference themes include Liveable city, Environmentally conscious, energy efficient building, Architectural culture – Architectural renewal and preservation and every other topic.

Students, Ph.D. students and young teachers of construction higher education are welcome to present their research topics at the conference.

Conference Themes

 Liveable cities

 Environmentally conscious, energy efficient buildings

 Architectural innovation – renewal and preservation of existing buildings

 Other related topics

Conference language: English

Participants: students, Ph.D. students, young teachers in architectural, civil & environmental engineering, construction engineering and related fields.

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The Energy Regulation and Investment Conference, organized by ERRA annually, has earned significant international success and reputation among participants of the energy market and it attracts more than 200 participants.

By to date the Conference has become the prime international industry event of the of the Central Eastern European and Commonwealth of Independent States region. It provides a unique chance for representatives of utility companies, financial and strategic investors, consultants and bankers to meet face-to-face with the key regulatory decision makers in the region and to gain unprecedented exposure to top decision-makers in the field of energy regulation and the power industry.

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