Conferences

The IAU General Assembly brings together the international astronomy community for symposia, focus meetings and broader scientific exchange. The preliminary programme includes computational astrophysics, CTAO, planet formation, stellar populations, low-surface-brightness astronomy and AI methods. Registration opened on 15 September 2026. Standard talk/poster abstracts and participation-grant applications close on 15 January 2027; early registration closes on 5 March. Session details remain subject to confirmation.

The 35th ISMB conference joined with the 26th annual ECCB, hosted by the International Society for Computational Biology at the Bella Center Copenhagen and virtually - the year's most important computational biology event.

IMCS 2027 convenes the international chemical- and biosensing community at Concordia University to exchange research on chemical sensors, sensing materials, devices, analytical methods, and biological applications.

OCNS has announced that its annual Computational Neuroscience meeting will take place in Gran Canaria on 10–14 July 2027. The meeting is a specialist forum for theoretical and computational approaches to nervous systems. This is an advance planning listing: the announcement does not yet provide a 2027 registration or abstract-submission window. Consult OCNS for the forthcoming programme and participation details.

IUPAC and the Canadian Society for Chemistry convene the 51st World Chemistry Congress alongside the 54th IUPAC General Assembly and the 110th Canadian Chemistry Conference and Exhibition under the theme Engaging Chemistry.

The FEMS congress brings together the international microbiology community under the theme Growing microbial futures. The meeting runs 5–8 July 2027 in Ljubljana. Abstracts and associated grant applications are open until 15 December 2026 at 23:59 CET; interactive-session proposals close on 30 September 2026. Attendance registration begins on 15 March 2027, so it is not yet open.

The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Human Genetics and Genomics will convene researchers for intensive discussion of current developments across human genetics and genomic science. The meeting uses the GRC application model, with attendance applications accepted through May 30, 2027 unless the conference becomes oversubscribed earlier.

Annual meeting of the Organization for Human Brain Mapping at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, bringing together researchers to share groundbreaking research, engage in educational forums, and foster collaboration across neuroimaging methods and applications.

The American Society for Microbiology's annual gathering in Chicago, uniting three specialized meetings under one umbrella - the ASM Health Meeting, ASM Applied & Environmental Microbiology Meeting, and ASM Mechanism Discovery Meeting - with one registration granting full access.

Annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research at the Moscone West Convention Center, San Francisco, recognizing 25 years of discovery, collaboration, and progress in stem cell science.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics brings together applied mathematicians, probabilists, statisticians, computer and data scientists, economists and industry practitioners to examine mathematical and computational methods in quantitative finance. Themes include algorithmic trading, agentic and generative AI, climate finance, digital assets, credit and cyber risk, financial data science, insurance mathematics, market microstructure, stochastic control, systemic risk and volatility modelling. Minisymposium proposals are due 17 November 2026, followed by contributed lecture, poster and minisymposium-presentation abstracts on 15 December 2026.

The 60th European Human Genetics Conference of the European Society of Human Genetics, held June 12-15, 2027 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands as a hybrid conference with in-person and virtual participation.

FENS Regional Meeting held 26-29 May 2027 in Istanbul, Turkey, jointly organised by the Neuroscience Society of Turkey, the Hellenic Society for Neuroscience, the Serbian Neuroscience Society and the Slovenian Neuroscience Association.

The flagship conference of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, held May 24-28, 2027 at Coex in Seoul, South Korea, bringing together the world's top researchers and industry leaders to advance the field of robotics.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics convenes its triennial conference on applied and numerical linear algebra. The programme covers matrix computations, machine learning, quantum simulation, inverse problems, high-performance computing, dynamical systems, model reduction, optimal transport, network science, tensor methods and related applications. Proposal submissions are currently open, with minitutorial and minisymposium proposals due 26 October 2026 and contributed presentation abstracts due 23 November 2026.

The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics convenes researchers developing and applying dynamical-systems methods across biology, chemistry, physics, climate science, social science, industry and data science. Themes include computational, experimental, theoretical and data-driven methods; AI-informed systems; fluid and climate dynamics; materials; networks; pattern formation; population dynamics; stochastic systems and tipping points. Minisymposium proposals are due 26 October 2026, followed by contributed lecture, poster and minisymposium-presentation abstracts on 23 November 2026.

The 2027 Annual Meeting of the Vision Sciences Society, held May 21-25, 2027 in Seattle, Washington, gathering the interdisciplinary vision science community spanning visual perception, psychophysics, and visual neuroscience.

EMBO | EMBL Symposium bringing machine-learning and life-science researchers together across sequencing, imaging and structural biology. Topics include foundation models, cross-modality learning, causal explanation, mechanistic interpretability, generative models and AI agents. Onsite workshops and tutorials take place on the first day; the following three days offer hybrid talks and posters. Registration is not yet open; the official page accepts expressions of interest.

AISTATS brings together machine learning, artificial intelligence and statistics, with an emphasis on methodological research. The 2027 conference is announced for 3–6 May in Montréal, Canada; the specific venue and registration details remain to be announced. The official schedule lists abstract submissions due 29 September 2026 and full papers due 6 October 2026, both at the end of the day Anywhere on Earth.

This EMBO Workshop integrates developmental biology, sensory neuroscience, central circuits, motor control, behavior, population genetics, genomics, and ecology to advance comparative insect neuroscience. Early-career researchers are prioritized for selected talks, and all accepted participants present their work.