The Caribbean Academy of Sciences
21st General Meeting and Conference
Mona Visitors' Lodge and Conference Centre, Kingston,
Jamaica
November 27 - 30, 2018
INITIAL CALL FOR PAPER AND POSTER TITLES
The 21st General Meeting and Conference of The
Caribbean Academy Sciences (CAS) was hosted by the Caribbean
Academy Sciences, Jamaica (CASJ) and held in collaboration with
The University of the West Indies, Mona, during the period
November 27-30, 2018 as part of the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of
The UWI and the 30th
anniversary of
CAS.
The theme of the conference was "Science, Technology and Innovation
- Vehicles for a Knowledge Based Economy". This conference was intended to be
the premiere forum to foster cross-pollination among different
research fields, and to expose and discuss innovative theories,
frameworks, methodologies, tools, and applications which may be
of use in enhancing the quality of human life and contribute effectively
to sustainable economic development. The programme featured
distinguished plenary speakers, oral and poster presentations
from participants including graduate and undergraduate students arranged
thematically under the following broad headings:
Medical, Natural or Social Science, including: Agriculture, Medicine,
Veterinary Medicine, Anatomy, Physiology, Chemistry, Biochemistry,
Biology, Biotechnology, Energy, Food Science, Geography, Computing,
Physics, Engineering, Education, Sociology, Psychology, Political
Science and Management Science, Economics and Health Economics.
These were grouped under the following themes:
(i) Science, Technology and Innovation;
(ii) Modeling and IT (iii) Energy, innovation and development
(iv) Agriculture, Food and Agro processing Food Security (v)
Environmental sustainability (vi) Materials Synthesis (vi)
Natural Hazards and Disasters (viii) Health Sciences (ix) STEM
education for economic growth.
The last Announcement is available at CASWI.org and
includes information on Registration and a variety of local hotels as well as accommodation on
campus.
Over 100 Abstracts were received for the CAS Conference.
More details including the Abstracts to all of the sessions are available
on the CAS website.