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June 9, 2010

World Cup Chemistry: How heavy is the FIFA trophy?

Have you ever wondered how heavy all that Gold and Malachite is in the FIFA World Cup Trophy is?

Professor Martyn Poliakoff from the Chemistry department at the University of Nottingham and his partner in crime Brady Haran over at the fantastic Periodic Table of Videos explain:

Which just leaves one question, who will be lifting it this year? Lúcio? Cristiano Ronaldo? Philipp Lahm? Fabio Cannavaro?  Denis Caniza? Steven Gerrard? Giovanni van Bronckhorst? Iker Casillas? Diego Lugano? John Mensah? Javier Mascherano or A.N.Other?

January 8, 2009

Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2009), Manchester

Cristiano Ronaldo by vuhlserData Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2009) is the sixth in an international workshop series that aims at fostering discussion, exchange, and innovation in research and development in the areas of data integration and data management for the life sciences. DILS 2004 in Leipzig, DILS 2005 in San Diego, DILS 2006 in Cambridge, DILS 2007 in Philadelphia, and DILS 2008 near Paris each attracted around 100 researchers from all over the world [1]. This year, DILS 2009 is being held in the People’s Republic of Manchester, UK.

Although the workshop isn’t until the 20th July,  the deadline for paper abstracts is the 13th February, so if you’re planning on coming, better hurry up (see picture, top right) with those submissions. As with last year, the workshop proceedings will be published by Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) from Springer.

References

  1. Fifth International Workshop, DILS 2008, Evry, France, June 25-27, 2008. Proceedings 10.1007/978-3-540-69828-9

[Gratuitous creative commons licensed picture of Manchester United Football Club player Cristiano Ronaldo by vuhlser. Must be time to buy a new Ferrari.]

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