Continuing Medical Education (CME) & Certificate of Attendance:

 Dear Colleagues,

As it happened in previous congress, by sticking its principle on assignment of the congress president out of the Board of Directors of Turkish Surgical Association, presidency honor of 18th National Surgery Congress has given to me. With my colleagues in executive board of congress whom were assigned by me, we have assumed the responsibility of the forthcoming congress. The 18th National Surgery Congress will be hold in Kaya Congress Center in Izmir between May 23-27th, 2012 with joint decision of the Board of Directors of Turkish Surgical Association and executive board of congress.

Nowadays, digital technology expedited the access to information, but intensive inflow in information carries with disinformation. Biennial National Surgery Congresses will provide considerable contribution to surgeons in access to accurate information and sharing the experience. Furthermore, large family of surgical association will find a chance for social merging in those congresses.

We will pay careful attention to whole sessions which will be hold in four days congress to be covered by entire subjects in general surgery. The main aim of congress will be the discussion of problems in actual practice, post graduate education and courses in the light of evidence based medicine. Targeted to those aims; there will be panels, conferences, courses, case discussion panels, video presentations, oral and poster presentations, and satellite symposiums supported by industry. Topics will be presented and discussed by national and international colleagues dedicated in their era.

As usual, dear nurses with whom we share our study fields in our professional life will arrange parallel sessions.

Dear colleagues, as executive board members, we will be working hard during the year 2011 for the organization of above mentioned activities. You are most welcome with your proposals and contributions on this process by our web site. The 18th National Surgery Congress will be more beneficial and will only achieve its aims by your supports and large participations.

With my best regards on behalf of scientific board of congress.

Prof. Dr. Sadettin ÇETINER
President of the Congress

 Congress Date 

16th AFRO ASIAN CONGRESS OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

JUNE 13 - 16, 2012
HARBIYE MILITARY MUSEUM ISTANBUL - TURKEY

5^th Eurasphalt & Eurobitume Congress June 2012 Istanbul

Asphalt, the sustainable road to success

On behalf of the Eurasphalt and Eurobitume Foundation we are pleased to invite you to participate in the 5^th E&E Congress to be held between 13-15 June 2012 at the Istanbul Lutfi Kirdar Congress Center and Exhibition Center-Rumeli Hall.

The location for this event is a city representing in itself a special international environment. Here you will find two continents East and West living together as one, joined by magnificent road bridges across the beautiful waters of the Bosphorus.

Istanbul has evolved from an exciting history. Originally called Byzantium it changed to Constantinople before finally bearing the name we know today. Each change of name brought with it new demands from society and therefore a continual need to be able to adapt to change. Currently Istanbul is playing a key role for Turkey in the emerging Europe of tomorrow. We are sure you will agree that it is a very worthy destination as a platform to bring people of all nationalities together in a celebration of our industry. An industry that was borne from one of the important human demands, a freedom to travel.

Following the success of the congress in 2008 and its theme of 'Roads for Life' we will continue the journey with a closer in-depth review of one of the key aspects to this original over-riding theme. The focus for 2012 will be on 'Sustainability'.

Roads have been part of the advancement of civilisation and with that they have also continued to develop with the demands that drive our social, environmental and economic needs. The common thread through these demands is a desire to be sustainable.

The E&E 2012 Congress will provide an excellent platform to investigate key issues such as adapting to climate change; durability & performance; energy & carbon; resource use and recycling; responsible sourcing and green procurement plus many more.

We invite you to contribute to this important event for our industry through the submission of a paper that reflects what you and/or your company are doing within the scope of Sustainability. The provisional sessions included in this invitation outline the main themes and examples of typical areas that we anticipate will be included.

Communications and updates of the congress will appear regularly on the website including online registration. We encourage you to start now by visiting and book-marking the congress website to ensure you capture all the latest news.

 

Dear Colleagues,

The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics will be in Istanbul from July 9 to 14, 2012. It is jointly organized by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Scheduled every four years, this meeting is a major worldwide event for statistics and probability, covering all its branches, including theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, and stochastic processes. It features the latest scientific developments in these fields.

The program will cover a wide range of topics in statistics and probability, presenting recent developments and the state of the art in a variety of modern research topics, with in-depth sessions on applications of these disciplines to other sciences, industrial innovation and society. It will feature several special plenary lectures presented by leading specialists. In addition, there will be many invited sessions highlighting topics of current research interests, as well as a large number of contributed sessions and posters.

The venue of the meeting is Grand Cevahir Hotel & Convention Center located in Istanbul which is a vibrant, multi-cultural and cosmopolitan city bridging Europe and Asia. Istanbul has a unique cultural conglomeration of east and west, offering many cultural and touristic attractions, such as Hagia Sophia, Sultanahmet, Topkapi Palace and Maiden's Tower.

On behalf of the Program Committee and the Local Organizing Committee, we invite you to join us in Istanbul for this exciting scientific event. Your participation will ensure that the 2012 World Congress will be a memorable meeting.


Elvan Ceyhan and Mine Caglar, Co-chairs of the Local Organizing Committee

Arnoldo Frigessi, Chair of the Program Committee

 The eighth World Congress in Probability and Statistics will be in Istanbul from July 9 to 14, 2012. It is jointly organized by the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Scheduled every four years, this meeting is a major worldwide event for statistics and probability, covering all its branches, including theoretical, methodological, applied and computational statistics and probability, and stochastic processes. It features the latest scientific developments in these fields.

 Bursa (historically also known as Prussa and later as Brusa) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the seat of Bursa Province. With a population of 2,562,828 (2007), it is Turkey's fourth largest city, as well as one of the most industrialized and culturally charged metropolitan centers in the country.

Carrying the atmosphere and architectural features of Byzantine and Ottoman from past to present, having a tremendous natural richness, thermal water resources and offering a variety of winter and summer tourism choices Bursa has a unique cultural and historical heritage.

Bursa, a capital city for hundred years during the Ottoman Empire, has always dreamed about the modern and used the experience of the past in order to create it. Today Bursa is not only referred as the leading city of millennium regarding the improvements in various fields like education, health, environment and urban development.

Taking place in the center of different settlements with its thousand years of cultural heritage, the city was named “Green Bursa” due to its rich nature and faced influx of historians and travelers in the past just like today.

Bursa is the city of water, as stated by “Evliya Celebi”. It houses all the values that belong to Turkish world. It is an exceptional city that protects and improves its own identity while embracing universal values. Bursa has a wonderful nature and the biggest share of its nature comes from the mountain “Uludag”. In the past, "Uludag” was preferred by the monks as a place for seclusion. Nowadays, it is one of the biggest winter sports centers in Turkey.

Located on the transportation network, Bursa has been a trade center in every period of history. Once the center of silk and satin fabric production, today it is the leading city in various industrial sectors like automotive, machinery, textile and food industry. Improving day by day, it has also a leading role in the economy of the country. Consequently, Bursa is a city that has tourism potential for each day of the year with its cultural, historical and natural richness in which everyone can find a trace of himself and history of humanity.