Organized conferences and workshops

1. Importance of Basic Research to Society - some examples 
   Organiser: Gunilla Borgefors 
   Address: Ångström, Uppsala 
   Date: 20150227 
   Comment: Organized by the Celsius-Linné committee the day after the Celsius-Linné lectures. Borgefors is its Chair. See http://teknat.uu.se/celsius-linne/.

2. Fest Seminar in Honour of Professor Ewert Bengtsson 
   Organisers: Carolina Wählby, Ingela Nyström, Lena Nordström 
   Address: Polhemsalen and Eklundshof 
   Date: 20150526 
   Comment: CBA arranged a fest seminar to honour Ewert as he was awarded the title Professor Emeritus. More than 60 participants celebrated his eventful career. Invited speakers were Bo Sundqvist, Tommy Lindell, Gunilla Borgefors, Mia Lindegren, Örjan Smedby, and Lennart Thurfjell.

3. womENcourage 2015 
   Co-organisers: Ida-Maria Sintorn 
   Address: Norrlands nation and Main University Building, Uppsala 
   Date: 20150924-20150926 
   Attendees: 200 
   Topic: Women in computing 
   Comment: This was the 2nd ACM-W celebration of women in computing. It gathered graduate students, researchers and industry representatives from (mainly) Europe for an industry exhibition, scientific presentations and workshops with focus on women in IT and computing. Sintorn was local arrangements chair.

4. 9th Workshop on Medical Image Analysis for Early Detection of Cervical Cancer 
   Organisers: Ewert Bengtsson 
   Address: Vi2, Uppsala 
   Date: 20151026-20151106 
   Comment: The workshop was part of a long joint collaboration project with two participants from India