summit(MEETING)

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Official meetings
AGM
assizes
brainstorming session
breakout room
call for papers
caucus
closed session
conference
convoke
council of war
quorate
quorum
scrum
secretary
session
sit
sitting
skull session
speaking engagement
teleconferencing

symposium | Business English

symposium
noun[ C ]
 MEETINGSuk /sɪmˈpəʊziəm/uspluralsymposia | orsymposiums
a formal occasion when specialists in a particular area meet to discuss a subject of interest to them:
a symposium on sthExperts gathered for an international symposium on Internet addiction.

Examples of symposium

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Yet the political dimension of the popular has not really been much discussed in the symposium to date.
In a culture where the pressure is to provide evidence and solutions, this symposium offered the opportunity to review the questions.
The speakers at the symposium concentrated on alternative methods of thinking and doing rather than alternative modes of appearance.
Although the user and the architect can legitimately be defined as each other's counterparts, the symposium offered other ways of framing the issue.
At best, this is a nicely bound symposium proceedings written by some well-respected scientists.
The support received involving local arrangements, correspondence with participants, etc., was of great assistance to the symposium organizers.
This symposium was called to collect individuals together, who have made significant contributions to their field of study, to present and summarize their work.
Symposium of factors influencing the voluntary intake of herbage by ruminants: voluntary intake in relation to chemical composition and digestibility.
Based on a symposium in 1997 the authors were asked to update their material and more recent essays were included.
This award will be given to the best presenter of those abstracts selected for delivery in the main symposiums.
But these reflections did not constitute institutional or disciplinary influence, such as symposia, proceedings, and funding.
I was floored by the juxtaposition of the erudite symposium he had just attended with this disclosure.
I attended both symposia and found both those and the book extremely interesting.
Today's symposium is a prime example of social interplay, interaction and engagement.
It is most heartening that even the most theoretical of papers in this symposium are working with actual implementations.
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