I am visiting the third Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence (SENS3) conference, which will be held from 6-10 September 2007 at Queens’ College, Cambridge. Briefly: It is a biogerontology conference (see the schedule) and the only scientific conference that includes many heavyweight life extension technology supporters.
So after SciFoo I have the chance to visit another unconventional science gathering. SciFoo was unconventional by definition as it was an unconference with no strict schedule defined earlier (remember Henry Gee: Someday, all conferences will be like this), while SENS3 is unconventional due to its mission statement. SciFoo, SENS: ideal meeting points for young scientists with strong drive for change and looking for the new.
SENS3 is not an average conference in any respect and I am really happy to participate for 5 reasons,
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