The Boston Quantified Self Meetup is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self meetup and the Quantified Self blog. It's a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics. More specific topics include: * se …

Advanced Alpha is for those interested in financial markets. Special focus is on risk management through alternative instruments like derivatives (options and futures). The goal is to bring together great minds on a regular basis and develop a community of common interest. Many professionals in this area are sharp minded intellectuals interested in variety of things not just trading. Psychology is the key.  Sometimes we get together just for a social interaction purpose and sometimes we organi …

This group organizes networking and social events for attendees at the BIO International Convention. We first launched the group for the 2009 BIO International Convention in Atlanta, and this year we are planning even more events for the 2012 Convention in Boston, Massachusetts. If you have ideas about what this group should be doing in Boston and beyond, please don't hesitate to contact us. This year's Convention will host 15,000 to 17,000 biotech professionals in Boston at the Boston Conventio …