Conference Logistics
Sococo Orientation
August 15 Update
Happy Sunday #SMB2020 participants! The 2020 SMB Annual Meeting (eSMB2020) begins tomorrow! Here is today’s installment of our daily countdown to #SMB2020 with important news and updates. Lost on Monday morning? Don’t miss the opening remarks (8am ET) and the Opening Plenary by Dr. Shayn Peirce-Cottler. The session will be linked in all mini-symposia and overflow rooms on all Subgroup floors. In case you have trouble connecting through Sococo, here is the direct Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/97466727056 for this session. Zoom links are for registered participants only – please do not share or post on social media. Official eSMB2020 Zoom background: For anyone interested, feel free to use our eSMB2020 Zoom background. Find it here in both mirrored & unmirrored settings. Help – judges needed! We still need a few volunteers to judge posters and contributed talks! POPD contributed talks judges: contact Christina.Cobbold@glasgow.ac.uk OTHE posters or contributed talks judges: contact torbjorn.lundh@chalmers.se All things eSMB2020: Schedule: All last-minute changes will be posted online and in Slack SMB Business Meeting(Wed): come learn about our Society and welcome our new President-elect and Board of Directors members Career Fair(Thurs): ‘SMB Social/Career Fair Floor’ – there’s still time to upload job announcements and CVs Conference t-shirt: Also linked from ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ Slack space: New to Slack? Check out our FAQ page Twitter: @ESmb2020 #SMB2020 Sponsors – Industry, Publishers, & Software: ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ 'Zoom-only’ participants: Zoom links have been sent! Tips & Tricks: Have your passwords handy for Zoom, Sococo, and Slack Initialize yourself in Sococo on the Subgroup Floor that most aligns with your research area Issues with Sococo? Try refreshing, then ask #help-desk or use ‘find’ feature in Sococo to locate ‘HELP’ All things SMB: Society Leadership and Committees Membership: ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ Subgroups: Not a member? Account -> ‘edit profile’ Bulletin of Mathematical Biology: Editors available on ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ Merchandise: ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ SMB Newsletter Academic Year Mentoring Program SMB Digest Community Forum Society Prizes Travel and Meeting Grants Looking forward to seeing all 1,732 of you at the best and largest SMB Annual Meeting yet! Sincerely, Amber Smith & Heiko Enderling eSMB2020 Co-Chairs On behalf of the eSMB2020 Organizing Committee, Sandy Anderson, Ruth Baker, Denise Kirschner, Torbjörn Lundh, John Nardini, Marissa Renardy, Santiago Schnell, Elissa Schwartz, Jeffrey West, Ping Ye And, all other Subgroup leaders and eSMB2020 track coordinators, Andreas Buttenschoen, Alex Fletcher, Linus Schumacher, Holly Gaff, Shelby Scott, Carrie Diaz Eaton, Angela Reynolds, Jonathan Forde, Stanca Ciupe, Jessica Conway, Jane Heffernan, John Glasser, Zhilan Feng, Cheng Ly, Wilten Nicola, Erica Rutter, John Nardini, Kevin Flores, Christina Cobbold, James Watmough, Torbjörn Lundh
August 15 Update
Happy Saturday #SMB2020 participants! The 2020 SMB Annual Meeting (eSMB2020) begins in just 2 days! Here is today’s installment of our daily countdown to #SMB2020 with important news and updates. Getting excited for our eSMB2020 scientific program? We know we are! And, we owe a BIG ‘thank you’ to our amazing Subgroup/track Chairs and organizers that put together a state-of-the-art scientific program:
- Cell and Developmental Biology (CDEV,@SMBdevBio ): Andreas Buttenschoen, Alex Fletcher, Linus Schumacher
- Education (EDUC, @Edu2Smb): Holly Gaff, Shelby Scott, Carrie Diaz Eaton
- Immunobiology and Infection (IMMU, @smb_imin): Angela Reynolds, Jonathan Forde, Stanca Ciupe, & Jessica Conway
- Mathematical Epidemiology (MEPI, #SMBMathEpi):Jane Heffernan, John Glasser, Zhilan Feng
- Mathematical Neuroscience (NEUR, @MathNeuro_): Cheng Ly, Wilten Nicola
- Mathematical Oncology (ONCO, @mathonco): Heiko Enderling, Sandy Anderson
- Methods for Biological Modeling (MFBM, @SMBmfbm): Erica Rutter, John Nardini, Kevin Flores
- Population Dynamics, Ecology & Evolution (POPD, @smbpdee): Christina Cobbold, James Watmough
- General/other track (OTHE): Torbjörn Lundh
August 14 Update
Happy Friday #SMB2020 participants! The 2020 SMB Annual Meeting (eSMB2020) begins in just 3 days! Here is today’s installment of our daily countdown to #SMB2020 with important news and updates. eSMB2020 Sponsors – Industry, Publishers, & Software: We are fortunate to have 9 companies that have graciously sponsored eSMB2020 and funded special poster and talk prizes. Representatives will be present and available on our ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ with information about their companies, available jobs, and options for publishing your manuscripts. Check out the PDF flyers linked at the bottom and their websites (hyperlinked) as a preview of the amazing things they have to offer. Amgen Applied BioMath Berkeley-Madonna DILIsym, a Simulations Plus Co. Elsevier Mathdept.org Merck Springer Nature Wiley ‘Zoom-only’ participants: If you selected ‘I only want to attend specific talks, and do not need access to the full conference’ upon registering, you will not receive a Sococo invitation. We will be sending you the Zoom links prior to the start of the conference. Zoom links are for registered participants only and should not be shared with friends and colleagues or on social media. Changed your mind and want to upgrade to use Sococo and have access to the full eSMB2020 experience? Contact us at membership@smb.org Poster presenters are highly encouraged to present their poster in Sococo for the most beneficial experience. Mandatory Sococo orientation (full conference participants only): All registrants who selected ‘full conference’ upon registering should have received their Sococo invitations! Please do not try to create your own account! Please attend one of the remaining 5 orientation sessions (https://zoom.us/j/94700659356) Friday, August 14th at 5pm ET (U.S. Eastern Time) Friday, August 14th at 9pm ET Saturday, August 15th at 9am ET Saturday, August 15th at 1pm ET Sunday, August 16th at 9am ET eSMB2020 virtual conference t-shirt: Yesterday, we unveiled our eSMB2020 t-shirt. Go get yours today: http://smb2020.org/store or visit our SMB merchandise store on the ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ in Sococo. We hope to see these …virtually everywhere… Slack: We’ll only post updates, changes, and be available for help over Slack. Join our Slack channel (smb2020.slack.com) by clicking here: https://bit.ly/31BG64m Twitter: Follow us at https://twitter.com/ESmb2020 and https://twitter.com/SMB_MathBiology. Use #SMB2020 as the hashtag SMB membership: Visit the SMB membership team on the ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ or join today! https://www.smb.org/application/ SMB Digest community forum: Visit https://www.smb.org/forums/ Sincerely, Amber Smith & Heiko Enderling eSMB2020 Co-Chairs On behalf of the eSMB2020 Organizing Committee, Sandy Anderson, Ruth Baker, Denise Kirschner, Torbjörn Lundh, John Nardini, Marissa Renardy, Santiago Schnell, Elissa Schwartz, Jeffrey West, Ping Ye AppliedBioMath_CareersFlyer_August2020.pdf BerkeleyMadonna_SMB2020.pdf Elsevier.pdf eSMB_DSS_Flyer.pdf Springer_MathBio.pdf Wiley_MeetingFlyer.pdf WMODatSMB2020.pdf
August 12 Update
Happy Wednesday #SMB2020 participants!
The 2020 SMB Annual Meeting (eSMB2020) begins in just 5 days! Here is today’s installment of our daily countdown to #SMB2020 with important news and updates.
eSMB2020 virtual conference t-shirt: …drumroll, please…
The 2020 eSMB2020 t-shirt features the conference logo on the front, and the map of all registered participants on the back. The Society for Mathematical Biology is …virtually everywhere…
The t-shirt is available as ladies trim or unisex in various sizes and colors. Visit our new online store to order your shirt today at http://smb2020.org/store. Members receive a 22% discount (!) so be sure to log into your SMB account first (located at the top of your screen). You can also order your shirt at the SMB merchandise store on the ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’.
SMB membership information at eSMB: Want to learn more about the many benefits of SMB membership? Visit the SMB membership team on the ‘SMB Welcome/Industry Floor’ during the conference coffee breaks and social gatherings to discuss in person with our awesome Membership Committee Chairs, Marissa Renardy and Sam Erwin, and SMB leadership. You can also join today! https://www.smb.org/application/
Mandatory Sococo orientation: All registrants will be receiving their Sococo invitations by email from MathDept.org tomorrow, Thursday, August 13th. The full Sococo experience is only available on a desktop or laptop using Google Chrome or the desktop app (https://app.sococo.com/a/download). Please attend one of the 6 orientation sessions (https://zoom.us/j/94700659356)
- Thursday, August 13th at 9pm ET (U.S. Eastern Time)
- Friday, August 14th at 5pm ET
- Friday, August 14th at 9pm ET
- Saturday, August 15th at 9am ET
- Saturday, August 15th at 1pm ET
- Sunday, August 16th at 9am ET
August 11 Update
Dear friends and colleagues, The 2020 SMB Annual Meeting (eSMB2020) begins in just 6 days! Here is today’s installment of our daily countdown to #SMB2020 with important news and updates. Sococo: Through our partnership with MathDept.org, we are creating an immersive conference experience. To get us prepped for the upcoming week: Orientations: Mathdept.org will host mandatory orientation sessions. All orientations will use the same Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/94700659356
- Thursday, August 13th at 9pm ET (U.S. Eastern Time)
- Friday, August 14th at 5pm ET
- Friday, August 14th at 9pm ET
- Saturday, August 15th at 9am ET
- Saturday, August 15th at 1pm ET
- Sunday, August 16th at 9am ET
A virtual tour of the Sococo platform
The Society has selected a third-party virtual meeting platform (Sococo and MathDept.org) that seamlessly supports live video presentations of sessions, recording of and technical support for those sessions, pre-recorded talks, poster sessions, networking and socializing. The site also will allow small groups of participants to interact in real-time directly with each other.
Supported Web Browsers
Always use the latest version of Google Chrome. Sococo supports the current version and the previous major release of Google Chrome. Other browsers are not supported.
Network Connection with Adequate Bandwidth
At a minimum, Sococo requires a download speed of 5 Mbps and an upload speed of 2 Mbps.
Supported Operating Systems
Sococo supports the current version and the two previous major releases for the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X
- Windows (administrator right required for the desktop app)
- Linux (any modern distribution that is supported by Google Chrome)
- Note: The desktop app for Linux is not supported.
Computer Hardware
- Any dual-core processor
- Integrated camera or USB web camera