December 14–18 The American Geophysical Union meets in San Francisco. See www.agu.org/meetings January 10–14 Researchers convene in Washington, D.C. to discuss threats posed by invasive species. Go to www.nisaw.org for agenda February 16 Deadline to submit videos about the personal impacts of neurological illnesses to the 2010 Neuro Film Festival. See www.neurofilmfestival.com (p. 4)

November 23–24 Global health experts and researchers meet in Toronto to discuss swine flu. Visit new-fields.com/isfc_canada December 5–9 The American Society for Cell Biology hosts its annual meeting in San Diego. See www.ascb.org/meetings December 7–18 World leaders and U.N. representatives meet in Copenhagen to hash out a global climate agreement. Visit en.cop15.dk (p. 4)

November 18 Last day entries for the 2010 Intel Science Talent Search will be accepted. Download forms at www.societyforscience.org November 24 Biologist E.O. Wilson and others lecture at Harvard on the 150th anniversary of Darwin’s Origin of Species. Sign up for viewings at darwinlecture4.eventbrite.com November 30 Meeting for scientists and policy makers on Antarctic research begins in Washington, D.C. See www.atsummit50.aq (p. 4)

November 4–8 Clinicians and researchers meet in San Diego to discuss advances in psychiatric genetics. Visit www.ispg2009.org Through November 21 Watch Gearing Up, a documentary about the FIRST robotics competition. For local listings, see www.gearingupproject.org December 15 Nominations deadline for the Kavli Prizes in nanoscience, neuroscience and astrophysics. Get form at www.kavliprize.no (p. 4)

October 18–22 The International Diabetes Federation hosts its 20th World Congress for researchers and clinicians in Montreal. Visit http://www.worlddiabetescongress.org November 11–14 National Association of Biology Teachers hosts a professional development conference in Denver. See http://www.nabt2009.org November 14 Scientists and humanities Scholars discuss the union of math and beauty at a roundtable forum in New York City. See http://philoctetes.org/Calendar (p. 4)

October 5–7 Nobel Committee announces medicine, physics and chemistry awards. Visit nobelprize.org November 1 Petitions for a chemistry-themed postage stamp are due to the American Chemical Society. See cenblog.org/2009/07/07 November 1–3 “Darwin in the 21st Century: Nature, Humanity and God” at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. Visit nd.edu/~reilly/darwinconference.html (p. 4)

September 23–26 The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology marks Darwin’s bicentennial in Bristol, England. See www.vertpaleo.org/meetings October 11–17 Celebrate Earth Science Week with the American Geological Institute. Find local events at  www.earthsciweek.org October 31 Deadline to enter the National Engineers Week Future City Competition for students. Visit www.futurecity.org (p. 4)

September 29 MESSENGER spacecraft expected to make its third and final flyby of Mercury. Learn more at messenger.jhuapl.edu October 4–10 Celebrate World Space Week. Find local events and activities at www.worldspaceweek.org October 18–21 The Geological Society of America hosts its annual meeting in Portland, Ore. Visit www.geosociety.org/meetings/2009 (p. 4)

August 31–September 4 Scientists and policy makers meet at the World Climate Conference-3 in Geneva. Visit www.wmo.int/wcc3 September 2–6 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society meeting in Minneapolis. See www.embc09.org September 12–16 Educators explore new teaching methods at the Astronomical Society of the Pacific meeting in Millbrae, Calif. See www.astrosociety.org/events/meeting.html (p. 4)

August 12–15 Scientists convene at the American Ornithologists’ Union meeting in Philadelphia. Visit www.birdmeetings.org/aou2009 August 31 Proposals to digitize scientist Wernher von Braun’s notes due to NASA. See www.nasa.gov/directorates/somd/home September 12 The Smithsonian Institution hosts a symposium on Darwin in Washington, D.C. See www.mnh.si.edu/calendar.asp (p. 4)

July 20 Follow as Nature Publishing Group reconstructs the first lunar landing via Twitter. Visit twitter.com/ApolloPlus40 July 23–24 AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition meeting to be held in Washington, D.C. See shr.aaas.org/coalition August 16–20 Chemists discuss advances at the American Chemical Society meeting in Washington, D.C. Register at www.acs.org (p. 4)

July 19-23 Get education training at the NEED National Energy Conference for Educators in Nashville. See www.need.org/training July 31 Deadline for submissions to the Imagine Science Film Festival in New York City. Get more info at www.imaginesciencefilms.com October 28-November 1 Society for Hispanic Professional Engineers conference in Washington, D.C. Visit www.shpe.org/shpe2009 (p. 4)

June 26 Attend or watch the webcast of “Iron Science Teacher” at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Visit www.exploratorium.edu/iron_science July 19–26 Plumb the depths of cave science at the 15th International Congress of Speleology in Kerrville, Texas. Find out more at www.ics2009.us August 10–13 Scientists discuss the largest U.S. waterway at the Visions of a Sustainable Mississippi River conference in Collinsville, Ill. See www.conferences.uiuc.edu/mississippiriver (p. 4)

June 7–19 High school students compete in the USA Biology Olympiad national finals in Fairfax, Va. See www.cee.org/programs/usabo July 11–15 American Society for Virology annual meeting in Vancouver, Canada. See www.asv2009.com  September 15 Deadline for the International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge. Visit www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports (p. 4)

June 4–6 Organization for the Study of Sex Differences annual meeting in Toronto. See www.ossdweb.org June 6 The annual Galaxy Ball held in Arlington, Va. See www.foge.org July 22 Get to eastern Asia to watch the total solar eclipse. 
Visit eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov (p. 4)