What's the difference between conference and symposium?

Conference


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of comparing two or more things together; comparison.
  • (n.) The act of consulting together formally; serious conversation or discussion; interchange of views.
  • (n.) A meeting for consultation, discussion, or an interchange of opinions.
  • (n.) A meeting of the two branches of a legislature, by their committees, to adjust between them.
  • (n.) A stated meeting of preachers and others, invested with authority to take cognizance of ecclesiastical matters.
  • (n.) A voluntary association of Congregational churches of a district; the district in which such churches are.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A world conference in Edinburgh during August 1988 will have the theme.
  • (2) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (3) The PUP founder made the comments at a voters’ forum and press conference during an open day held at his Palmer Coolum Resort, where he invited the electorate to see his giant robotic dinosaur park, memorabilia including his car collection and a concert by Dean Vegas, an Elvis impersonator.
  • (4) The most important conclusion of both conferences was that oestrogen substitution can significantly reduce the incidence of fractures in postmenopausal women.
  • (5) To a supporter at the last election like me – someone who spoke alongside Nick Clegg at the curtain-raiser event for the party conference during the height of Labour's onslaught on civil liberties, and was assured privately by two leaders that the party was onside about civil liberties – this breach of trust and denial of principle is astonishing.
  • (6) The presence of a few key residues in the amino-terminal alpha-helix of each ligand is sufficient to confer specificity to the interaction.
  • (7) The data suggest that the presence of a bromoacetate group at the 12 position on cardiotonic steroids does not confer CS binding site directed alkylating properties on these drugs.
  • (8) It is possible that the formation of a mycetoma grain may limit a patient's exposure to antigens which confer specificity, an explanation which may also account for the variability in antibody responses seen.
  • (9) The vector is relatively small (6 kilobase pairs) and contains a portion of the L. seymouri alpha-tubulin gene positioned in-frame with a truncated neomycin phosphotransferase gene that confers resistance to the aminoglycoside G418.
  • (10) The conference was held from December 3 to 5, 1990 in the Washington, DC area and was sponsored by the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists, US Food and Drug Administration, Federation International Pharmaceutique, Health Protection Branch (Canada) and Association of Official Analytical Chemists.
  • (11) Substitution of a single amino acid residue, proline for glycine-9 in [pGlu6]SP6-11, a hexapeptide analogue of substance P, confers on the peptide selective agonist activity toward the SP-P receptor subtype.
  • (12) I have to do my best.” The Leeds sporting director Nicola Salerno told the news conference that it was unlikely there would be new permanent signings in the January transfer window, but that there would be the possibility for loan deals.
  • (13) The 5'-terminal methylated cap (m7G(5')ppp(5')Gm) in reovirus messenger RNA comprises part of the ribosomes binding site, since attachment of 40 S wheat germ ribosomal subunits to reovirus small (s), medium (m), and large (l) RNA classes conferred almost complete protection of the cap against RNase digestion.
  • (14) What about the "credit easing" George Osborne announced in his conference speech?
  • (15) Furthermore, immunization of mice with persistently infected cells conferred resistance to tumor growth after challenge with the highly malignant NS20Y cells.
  • (16) Moallem’s news conference came a day after jihadis captured a major military air base in north-eastern Syria, eliminating the last government-held outpost in a province otherwise dominated by the Islamic State group.
  • (17) "Some of the shrapnel went into the arm of the Australian soldier that was hit, another part went into the foot [of the New Zealand soldier]," he told a news conference .
  • (18) According to the resolution of the national coordinative conference, 1098 cases with extrahepatic biliary cancer, from 1977, January to 1989, April were collected by over 40 hospitals and coordinative groups throughout the country.
  • (19) Of CD patients, 92% (50% DR3 and 42% DR5,7) compared to 18% of the controls carry both DQA1*0501 and DQB1*0201 alleles, so that the combination confers an RR of 52, higher than both the risks of the single alleles (DQA1*0501 RR = 19, DQB1*0201 RR = 30), confirming the primary role of the dimer in determining genetic predisposition to CD both in DR3 and in DR5,7 subjects.
  • (20) "We will respect the principle of multi-year [funding] settlements," Hunt told a Voice of the Listener and Viewer conference in London.

Symposium


Definition:

  • (n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
  • (n.) A collection of short essays by different authors on a common topic; -- so called from the appellation given to the philosophical dialogue by the Greeks.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This article, a review of factors controlling vasopressin (AVP) release in pregnancy, extends our contribution to a symposium in this journal published in 1987 (vol X, pp 270-275).
  • (2) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
  • (3) This explains why this symposium is devoted to NSAIDs and elderly.
  • (4) A symposium entitled "Foetal and Neonatal Cell Transplantation and Retroviral Gene Therapy" recently organized under the aegis of the Mérieux Foundation in Annecy, France, brought together 100 scientists and clinicians from European countries and the United States.
  • (5) This paper reviews the most important issues discussed in a 2-day symposium on corporate exposure limits which was sponsored by the AIHA Workplace Environment Exposure Limits Committee (WEEL).
  • (6) The virtues of transvaginal scanning both in gynecology and obstetrics are well described in subsequent articles in this symposium.
  • (7) This sounds very much like the reaction of most participants of the Edinburgh symposium to the proposals of Gitelson.
  • (8) The intramuscular imipenem formulation has been proven to be effective for mild to moderate infections of many body sites, as demonstrated by other papers in this symposium.
  • (9) But a novel drug combination unveiled at the Aids 2014 symposium in Melbourne on Monday for the first time allows tuberculosis (TB) to be treated in patients while they are taking their HIV drugs, offering the potential to save millions of lives.
  • (10) We counted the symposiums published in 58 journals of clinical medicine and surveyed the journal editors regarding their policies for symposium issues.
  • (11) The benefits and risks of oral contraceptives, IUD and abortion are appraised at an international symposium in Montreal.
  • (12) Eight research protocols which had previously been approved by Ethical Research Committees (ERCs) were reviewed in simulated review committees set up during a symposium on medical ethics.
  • (13) Progress since the Pennsylvania Symposium has been considerable for questions of 'where' and 'when': localization of symptoms ('where') fields a double gradient (up-down and back-to-front) in monkeys, and a right-left difference in man; analysis of time factors ('when') distinguishes early and late lesions, single and serial removals, or succeeds in recording and stimulating at critical moments during performance.
  • (14) Included in the symposium are descriptions of the biochemistry of free radicals and evidence of their direct toxic effects on the heart, as well as discussions concerning the effect of oxygen free radical scavengers on myocardial infarct size, the stunned myocardium, and cardiac preservation during surgery.
  • (15) This symposium paper is a digest of three full-length manuscripts currently in press with J Membrane Biology (see reference list).
  • (16) Several contributions of this senna symposium bring complementary information of utmost interest.
  • (17) According to materials of the symposium at the XVI All-Union Congress of Microbiologists and Epidemiologists the author presents some trends in the improvement of teaching epidemiology, including renovation of the programs and teaching plans at the sanitary-hygienic faculty, development of practical habits and rationalization in the organization of practical work at the therapeutic and pediatric faculties.
  • (18) Many of these have been discussed elsewhere in this symposium.
  • (19) An attempt is made to lead into a more detailed discussion about the specific compromised hosts that are discussed in the rest of the symposium.
  • (20) The Oxford International Symposium on myocardial preservation provided an appropriate milestone and impetus to survey one aspect of operative myocardial preservation, namely blood cardioplegia, and to contrast it with the more popular crystalloid cardioplegia.