Skoltech-MIT will host their 1st Annual workshop entitled “Next Generation Research Partnerships: Current Progress and Future Opportunities”. This is a research collaboration between the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). This first workshop will feature scientists and researchers from these institutes to discuss key research advancements and next frontiers in Energy, Biomedicine, Quantum Materials, and Computational Science and Mathematics.
Please click here for additional information on the Skoltech/MIT Next Generation Program.
Workshop Program
TUESDAY, October 25, 2016WEDNESDAY, October 26, 2016
| 9:00 – 12:00 | Individual Co-PL Meetings |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00 – 17:00 | Skoltech/MIT Presentations |
| 17:00 – 19:00 | Reception / Light Dinner |
| Biomedicine | ||
| 13:00-13:10 | Konstantin Severinov (Skoltech) |
Introduction |
| 13:10-13:30 | CRISPR-Cas from bacterial adaptive immunity to human genomic editing | |
| 13:40-14:10 | Sergey Shmakov (Skoltech, NIH) |
Novel CRISPR-Cas systems |
| 14:20-14:50 | Aaron Andrew Smargon (MIT) |
CRISPR-Cas13b: A new RNA-programmable, RNA-targeting enzyme |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Konstantin Piatkov (Skoltech) |
Regulation of antitumor response via modulation of Ubr-ubiquitin ligases in vivo |
| 15:55-16:25 | Timofei Zatsepin (Skoltech) |
Lipid nanoparticle delivery for siRNA-based therapeutics in vivo |
| 16:30-17:00 | Yuri Kotelevtsev (Skoltech) |
Emerging targets for RNAi therapy of liver fibrosis |
| Energy | ||
| 13:00-13:1013:15-13:45 | Keith Stevenson (Skoltech) Artem Abakumov (Skoltech) |
Advanced Materials for Energy Conversion and Storage: Challenges and ProspectsExploring potassium-ion batteries |
| 13:50-14:20 | Yet-Ming Chiang (MIT) |
Low-cost sulfur-based batteries for grid storage |
| 14:25-14:55 | Stanislav Fedotov (MSU) | KTP-type cathode materials for metal-ion batteries |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Aldo Bischi (Skoltech) |
Integration and control of heat and power systems with variable loads: Project overview |
| 15:55-16:25 | Elena Gryazina (Skoltech/MIT) | Control of heat and power systems: from industry challenges to mathematical problems |
| 16:30-17:00 | Petr Vorobev (MIT) |
Smart HVAC systems for energy efficiency and load-side control for optimal power grid operation |
| Quantum Materials | ||
| 13:00-13:30 | Nikolay Gippius (Skoltech) | Photonic crystals and light-matter interaction |
| 13:40-14:10 | Nicholas Dee (MIT) |
Manufacturing of Carbon Nanotube Surfaces |
| 14:20-14:50 | Albert Nasibulin (Skoltech) | Single-walled carbon nanotubes for stretchable electronics |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Andrew Dane (MIT) |
Materials for Future Superconducting Nanowire-Based Devices |
| 16:00-16:30 | Mikhail Skvortsov (Skoltech) | Strongly disordered superconductors: from fundamental physics to application |
| Computational Science and Mathematics | ||
| 13:00-13:30 | Jacob White (MIT) |
Cubism in Computational Engineering |
| 13:40-14:10 | Ivan Oseledets (Skoltech) |
Tensor Factorization and their Applications |
| 14:20-14:50 | Simon Gordonov (MIT) | Profiling the Molecular Complexity and Heterogeneity of Neuronal Synapses with Multiplexed Fluorescence Imaging and Image Analysis |
| 15:00-15:20 | Coffee break | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Evgeny Burnaev (Skoltech) | Machine Learning for Industrial Engineering and Real Applications |
| 16:00-16:30 | Victor Lempitsky (Skoltech) | Image Synthesis Using Deep Convolutional Networks |
| 9:00 – 13:00 | Open Innovation 2016 (Technopark) |
| 14:00 – 17:30 | Skoltech/MIT Presentations |
| 18:00 – 20:00 | Informal Dinner with Co-PLs |
| Biomedicine | ||
| 14:00-14:15 | Alexandra Strotskaya (Skoltech) | Effects of targeting by Esherichia coli I-E CRISPR-Cas system on infection by different phages |
| 14:20-14:35 | Ekaterina Savitskaya (Skoltech) | Dynamics of Escherichia coli type I-E CRISPR spacers over 42,000 years |
| 14:40-14:55 | Anna Shiriaeva (Skoltech) | An interplay between cellular DNA maintenance mechanisms and CRISPR-Cas machinery in Escherichia coli |
| 15:00-15:15 | Olga Musharova (Skoltech) | Non-double stranded spacer-length DNA intermediates are associated with Cas1 in cells undergoing primed CRISPR adaptation |
| 15:20-15:35 | Sofia Medvedeva (Skoltech) | The cleavage specificity of CRISPR executor nuclease Cas3 |
| 15:40-16:00 | Coffee break | |
| 16:00-16:15 | Vasily Sitnik (Skoltech) | Time dependent patterns of CRISPR interference in random PAM plasmid libraries |
| 16:20-16:35 | Darya Vorontsova (Skoltech) | DNA targeting during interference of III type CRISPR-Cas systems in Thermus thermophilus |
| 16:40-16:55 | Alexander Martynov (Skoltech) Yaroslav Ispolatov (University of Santiago de Chili) |
Modeling of optimal CRISPR array length |
| Energy | |||
| 14:00-14:30 | Evgeny Nikolaev (Skoltech) | 3D-printed, miniaturized Cassinian trap mass spectrometer for space research and general ambient analysis applications | |
| 14:40-15:10 | Luis F. Velásquez‐García (MIT) |
3D-printed, miniaturized Cassinian trap mass spectrometer for space research and general ambient analysis applications | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Pavel Troshin (Skoltech) | Probing intrinsic stability of complex lead halides: a transition from hybrid to all inorganic perovskite solar cells | |
| 16:00-16:20 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:20-16:50 | Sergey Adonin (Nikolaev Institute of Inorganic Chemistry SB RAS) | Halide and polyhalide complexes of 15 group elements: quest for controllable synthesis and enhanced optical properties | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Tonio Buonassisi (MIT) | TBD | |
| Quantum Materials | |||
| 14:00-14:30 | Anshul Kogar (MIT) |
Time resolved probing of high temperature superconductors | |
| 14:40-15:10 | Boris Fine (Skoltech) |
High temperature superconductors: status and promise | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Natalia Berloff (Skoltech) |
Shaping Quantum Matter with Light: exploiting pattern formation in exciton-polariton condensates | |
| 16:00-16:20 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:20-16:50 | Pavlos Lagoudakis (Skoltech) | Hybrid photonics | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Yoseob Yoon (MIT) |
Extremely nonlinear optoelectronic devices enabled by strongly interacting exciton-polaritons | |
| Computational Science and Mathematics | |||
| 14:00-14:30 | Dzmitry Tsetserukou (Skoltech) | RecyBot: Design of a Novel Robotic System with Artificial Intelligence for High-Speed Dismantling of Smartphones | |
| 14:40-15:10 | You Wu (MIT) |
High-Speed Intelligent Robotic System with Computer Vision for Electronics Recycling | |
| 15:20-15:50 | Andrei Chertkov (Skoltech) | Quantized Tensor Train Decomposition for Multiscale Modeling | |
| 16:00-16:20 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:20-16:50 | Luca Daniel (MIT) |
High-Dimensional Uncertainty Quantification: from Component to Systems Design | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Sergey Matveev (Skoltech) | Low-rank Methods for Aggregation-Fragmentation Kinetics: Application to Soil Modeling | |
