Our first meeting: The inaugural meeting of the Society (2013) was convened by founding president James W. Vaupel at the University of Southern Denmark (Odense, Denmark).
Our annual meeting: We are dedicated to hosting a multidisciplinary, brilliant, interactive, and inspiring annual scientific meeting where a creative exchange of ideas is facilitated and encouraged across diverse disciplines. We bring together early and late career researchers, including demographers, biologists, epidemiologists, gerontologists, and sociologists.
Sharing ideas across disciplines is our goal.
To maximize participation and interactions among researchers, we do not have concurrent sessions. Instead, we have a single session with two kinds of presentations: Invited Keynote Speakers (20 minute talks plus 5 minutes for questions) and Contributed Lightning Talks (5 minutes plus 3–5 minutes for questions). Keynote speakers and lightning talk speakers include scientists from all stages of their careers and show an appropriate gender balance. We aim to offer 2–3 parallel workshops at the end of the meeting which are suggested and led by attendants.
To further facilitate discussions, we aim to provide ample time for breaks, poster sessions, and facilitate poster presentations by hosting them in the break-out space.
We try to accept all reasonable requests for posters and lightning talks but we limit the number of delivered talks to one per person. We want to give ample speaking time to researchers in the early stages of their career and to provide a friendly and inclusive atmosphere. If possible, we recognize outstanding contributions of early career scientists with awards (e.g. Best student lightning talk, Best student poster, Best postdoc lightning talk).
We aim for a low registration fee, especially for attendants in early stages of their career.
Our annual meeting: We are dedicated to hosting a multidisciplinary, brilliant, interactive, and inspiring annual scientific meeting where a creative exchange of ideas is facilitated and encouraged across diverse disciplines. We bring together early and late career researchers, including demographers, biologists, epidemiologists, gerontologists, and sociologists.
Sharing ideas across disciplines is our goal.
To maximize participation and interactions among researchers, we do not have concurrent sessions. Instead, we have a single session with two kinds of presentations: Invited Keynote Speakers (20 minute talks plus 5 minutes for questions) and Contributed Lightning Talks (5 minutes plus 3–5 minutes for questions). Keynote speakers and lightning talk speakers include scientists from all stages of their careers and show an appropriate gender balance. We aim to offer 2–3 parallel workshops at the end of the meeting which are suggested and led by attendants.
To further facilitate discussions, we aim to provide ample time for breaks, poster sessions, and facilitate poster presentations by hosting them in the break-out space.
We try to accept all reasonable requests for posters and lightning talks but we limit the number of delivered talks to one per person. We want to give ample speaking time to researchers in the early stages of their career and to provide a friendly and inclusive atmosphere. If possible, we recognize outstanding contributions of early career scientists with awards (e.g. Best student lightning talk, Best student poster, Best postdoc lightning talk).
We aim for a low registration fee, especially for attendants in early stages of their career.