as in seminar
a meeting featuring a group discussion
recently attended a daylong symposium on new methods of chromatography
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The first paper presented during the symposium extends the Phillips curve towards the vertical leg of the Phillips curve.
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Her work rarely has explicitly speculative elements, but here a symposium on genocide is interrupted by disembodied screams of pain—the sound of the victims of Dachau and Hiroshima.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
Networking events, leadership panels and a symposium showcased the variety of tech careers for college students, and younger girls participated in hands-on activities.
—Arika Herron, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
Given Fed Chair Powell’s announcement at the Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium that the Fed would begin to lower rates in September, perhaps potential homebuyers, or those trading up or down, are waiting for mortgage rates to fall even further.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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Vipin Bharathan, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2024
Her work rarely has explicitly speculative elements, but here a symposium on genocide is interrupted by disembodied screams of pain—the sound of the victims of Dachau and Hiroshima.
—Cressida Leyshon, The New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2024
Networking events, leadership panels and a symposium showcased the variety of tech careers for college students, and younger girls participated in hands-on activities.
—Arika Herron, Axios, 20 Sep. 2024
Given Fed Chair Powell’s announcement at the Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium that the Fed would begin to lower rates in September, perhaps potential homebuyers, or those trading up or down, are waiting for mortgage rates to fall even further.
—Robert Barone, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024
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