could be used to force large and unquantified emission cuts on them in the future. Governments in both Europe and America are now softening their call for a global target of halving emissions by 2050, in an attempt to build a consensus around a less ambitious deal. Todd Stern, the US special envoy for climate change, hinted of the softening stance at a meeting in London last month. " Our view a...

We depend on talks to communicate our work, and we spend much of our time as audience members in talks. However, few scientists are taught the well-established principles of giving good talks. Here, I describe how to prepare, present, and answer questions in a scientific talk. We will see how a talk prepared with a single premise and delivered with good eye contact is clear and enjoyable.

Here I summarize P5-WG (New/Alternative Physics Working Group) of LCWS2000@FNAL, held on Oct 24-28, 2000. There were 13 talks altogether, 7 talks on collider signals from new particles/interactions and 6 talks on extra dimensional physics. We had very active and hot discussions among participants for those new/alternative physics/ideas. In bottom table, I show those 13 speakers' names and titles.

Infections was a multidisciplinary forum for the presentation of recent advances in respiratory virus research with special emphasis on antiviral therapies and vaccine strategies. Topics covered in invited lectures included detection of novel respiratory viral pathogens and viral evolution, characterization of the 1918 pandemic virus, human metapneumovirus infections, human respiratory epitheli...

If you live from paper to paper, seminar to seminar, and conference to conference, it is easy to lose faith in scientific progress. The risk is perhaps most pronounced at job talks in areas outside our field of interest. “Isn’t this what they were arguing about last year?’’ Or, “last decade?’’ In any assessment of progress, as in any analysis of macroeconomic variables, a long-run perspective h...

A number of platforms are potentially suitable for live coverage of conferences. The most common ones are compared in Supplementary Table S1, and include dedicated services such as CoverItLive (http://www.coveritlive.com/) or ScribbleLive (http://www.scribblelive.com) as well as other more general platforms such as wikis, blogs, Twitter (http://www.twitter.com), FriendFeed (http://www.friendfee...

The VII International Symposium on Respiratory Viral Infections was a multidisciplinary forum for the presentation of recent advances in respiratory virus research with special emphasis on antiviral therapies and vaccine strategies. Topics covered in invited lectures included detection of novel respiratory viral pathogens and viral evolution, characterization of the 1918 pandemic virus, human m...