ACM conferences are often very popular publishing venues and are therefore very competitive.

Simultaneously, Bonn is establishing itself as a national and international centre of meetings, conventions and conferences, many of which are directly related to the work of the United Nations.

They are elected for life from among the ordained elders ( presbyters ) by vote of the delegates in regional ( called jurisdictional ) conferences, and are consecrated by the other bishops present at the conference through the laying on of hands.

Regular conferences on cycling as transport are held under the auspices of Velo City ; global conferences are coordinated by Velo Mondial.

Teams in each of these four divisions are further divided into various regional conferences.

Finally there are those archaeologists and evolutionary anthropologists – among them Ian Watts, Camilla Power and Chris Knight ( co-founder with James Hurford of the EVOLANG series of conferences ) — who argue that ' the origin of language ' is probably an insoluble problem.

Churches having episcopal polity are governed by bishops, who have authority over dioceses, conferences, or synods ( in general referred to as a judicatory ).

These conferences, though they propose and pass resolutions, are strictly consultative, and the intent of the resolutions are to provide guideposts for Anglican jurisdictions-not direction.

These attract around 1500-3000 speakers, and the best-attended conferences are regularly those held in Central or Eastern Europe, close to the birthplace of Esperanto ( see statistics at World Congress of Esperanto ).

In the United States Senate, they are elected by their respective party conferences to serve as the chief Senate spokesmen for their parties and to manage and schedule the legislative and executive business of the Senate.

They are also used for non-artistic purposes, such as conferences, charity galas and political meetings.

He or she travels widely throughout Australia to open conferences, attend services and commemorations and generally provide encouragement to individuals and groups who are contributing to their communities.

The Commission for Developing Countries supports research travel of mathematicians based in developing countries as well as mathematics research conferences in the developing world through its Grants Program which is open to mathematicians throughout the developing world, including countries that are not ( yet ) members of the IMU.

Lectures, receptions, conferences, university classes, panel discussions, gallery walks, and gallery talks are presented to assist with further interpretation of objects.

Many official meetings and conferences are held ( more than 300 have been devoted to the problem of the Aral Sea alone ), but few practical programs have gone into operation.

The activities of the MS NL are focused on outreach through conferences ( national ans European ), exhibits, events, and media campaigns.

The main activities of Association Planète Mars are devoted to public communication, through conferences, exhibits, events, media appearances ( TV, radio, magazines ...).

Historical musicology, ethnomusicology, and systematic musicology are approximately equal in size-if numbers of active participants at international conferences is any guide.

There are now numerous national organizations and an International Oral History Association, which hold workshops and conferences and publish newsletters and journals devoted to oral history theory and practices.

The city is known for hosting the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as world-class conferences and expositions and also many international sport tournaments.

The accident caused the Missouri Valley Conference to ban its member schools from allowing cheerleaders to be " launched or tossed and from taking part in formations higher than two levels " for one week during a women's basketball conference tournament, and also resulted in a recommendation by the NCAA that conferences and tournaments do not allow pyramids two and one half levels high or higher, and a stunt known as basket tosses, during the rest of the men's and women's basketball season.

This development was further strengthened by the establishment ( in 1996 ) of a series of conferences on the Evolution of Language ( now known as " Evolang "), promoting a scientific, multidisciplinary approach to the issue, and interest from major academic publishers ( e. g., the Studies in the Evolution of Language series has been appearing with Oxford University Press since 2001 ) and scientific journals.

The Mountain West Conference ( formally abbreviated MW since July 2011 ; informally MWC ), popularly known as the Mountain West, is the youngest of the college athletic conferences affiliated with the NCAA ’ s Division I FBS ( formerly I-A ).

The RCI, as it is known, promotes understanding of environmental issues through conferences, lectures, discussion panels, and other methods.

Its notable that Lars Magnus Ericsson that founded the LM Ericsson company, now known as Ericsson also had properties in Botkyrka, including Hagelby Gard that today is used for conferences and as an excursion place with gardens, animals, stone age village and more.

Between 1921 and 1925 a series of unofficial conferences, known as the Malines Conversations, presided over by Cardinal Mercier and attended by Anglican divines and laymen, including Lord Halifax, was the most significant of early attempts at the reconciliation between the Anglican and Roman Catholic Churches.

The most important feudal princes ( known later as the twelve vassals ), met during regular conferences where important matters, such as military expeditions against foreign groups or offending nobles, were decided.

In 1867, following a series of discussions and conferences ( at Charlottetown and Quebec ), the alliance known as the Grand Coalition succeeded in forging the agreement which gave birth to the Confederation.

Much of the confusion between these two research communities ( which do often have separate conferences and separate journals, ECML PKDD being a major exception ) comes from the basic assumptions they work with: in machine learning, performance is usually evaluated with respect to the ability to reproduce known knowledge, while in KDD the key task is the discovery of previously unknown knowledge.

WPATH is most known for publishing the Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People, but also provides information for professionals and consumers, sponsors scientific conferences and offers ethical guidelines for professionals.

Because there are no public exchanges listing their securities, private companies meet venture capital firms and other private equity investors in several ways, including warm referrals from the investors ' trusted sources and other business contacts ; investor conferences and symposia ; and summits where companies pitch directly to investor groups in face-to-face meetings, including a variant known as " Speed Venturing ", which is akin to speed-dating for capital, where the investor decides within 10 minutes whether he wants a follow-up meeting.

At the outset of the administration, Tumulty convinced Wilson, who was known for his distaste of the press, to hold news conferences on a regularized schedule, sometimes as much as twice every week.

However mathematics education research, known on the continent of Europe as the didactics or pedagogy of mathematics, has developed into an extensive field of study, with its own concepts, theories, methods, national and international organisations, conferences and literature.

In 1911, he began a series of important conferences in physics, known as the Solvay Conferences, whose participants included luminaries such as Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Henri Poincaré, and ( then only 32 years old ) Albert Einstein.

Both conferences also had exclusive agreements with the Rose Bowl game, so that teams from the Pac-8 ( as it was known at the time ) and Big Ten could not play in any other bowl games.

The League was a pressure group against the increasing dissolution of the British Empire, and was known at the time for stunts at Conservative Party meetings and conferences.

As the chief of MITI, Hashimoto made himself known at meetings of APEC and at summit conferences.

This resulted in five conferences between 2000 and 2001, where a Latin-derived alphabet was devised, known as Uyghur Latin Yëziqi.

The building has served as a home to many well known conferences and continues to make contributions to the world of science.

They were well known for various stunts at Conservative Party meetings and conferences ( acting as a constant irritant to the party ).

Because of its proximity to the capital, Beidaihe has been the location of many important official conferences, and has become well known as the Communist Party of China's summer retreat.

Though known as " First Ministers ' conferences " only since the 1960s, they ultimately trace their origin to the initial constitutional convention held in the mid-1860s at Charlottetown, PEI, then-capital of the British Province of Prince Edward Island.

The desire for agreement on this and other maritime issues led to three conferences on the Law of the Sea, and ultimately to the treaty known as the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ).

Although on occasions he will happilly give in depth interviews he has also been known to act with hostility towards the press, avoiding questions, starting press conferences early and at times simply refusing to answer.