== Summer Schools (weeks long) == Gotta add more and update links, short descriptions stuff like that * SFI Complexity Summer School thinger * Univ WA Statistical Genetics Summer School * [http://treethinkers.org/ Bodega Bay workshop in applied phylogenetics] * Held in spring in at UC Davis. * [http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/physio/khadralab//public_html/summer.html The Joint 2015 CAMBAM-MBI-NIMBioS Summer School] -- NONLINEAR DYNAMICS IN BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS -- * [http://www.medicine.mcgill.ca/physio/khadralab//public_html/website/programme.html 2015 Programme] - June 1-12 * [http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=5284 East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes for U.S. Graduate Students (EAPSI)] * More open ended, an NSF grant. Applicants must propose a location, host scientist, and research project that is appropriate for the host site and duration of the international visit. * Deadline is mid november == Workshops/Meetings == Normally smaller (<50 people), semi-annual or offered irregularly, 1-3 day events, more hands on * [http://meetings.cshl.edu/courses/2014/tgac14.shtml Cold Spring Harbor Workshops] * [http://meetings.cshl.edu/meetings.html Cold Spring Harbor Meetings] * [http://life.mcmaster.ca/cgi-bin/my_wrap/brian/evoldir/Conferences/ EvolDir Conferences page] * [http://life.mcmaster.ca/cgi-bin/my_wrap/brian/evoldir/WorkshopsCourses/ EvolDir Workshops page] * [http://www.nimbios.org/ National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis] * Sign up for their newsletter because they have cool workshops and opportunities all the time. * [http://www.samsi.info/ Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute] - Same here, often have cool workshops. == Annual conferences == * [http://www.sicb.org/meetings/2015/index.php Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology] * Lots of "wet" biology, morphology, functional anatomy, etc, etc, but they do have some phylogenetic/geographic/genomic stuff too. * [http://www.lirmm.fr/mceb2015/ Mathematical and Computational Evolutionary Biology] * Annual conference held in france. The website has links to previous years programs with lots of slides from presentations, good place to just go look around. * [http://www.biologie.ens.fr/mmee2015/ Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution] - Paris (France) * [http://protolang.org/ Protolang] - Looks insanely cool, not _exactly_ evolution (run by the philosophy dept) but still good stuff * Plus it's in Rome, in September The Protolang conference series creates an interdisciplinary platform for scholarly discussion on the origins of symbolic communication distinctive of human beings. The thematic focus of Protolang is on delineating the genetic, anatomical, neuro-cognitive, socio-cultural, semiotic, symbolic and ecological requirements for evolving (proto)language