Category Archives: Seminars
Online lecture: Joel Mokyr, Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University
Theme: The Great Enrichment: How Western Europe Became Global Economic Leader in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Moderator: Andrei Markevich, NES Professor
The process of modern economic growth, or as it is also called, the Great Enrichment, has begun in Western Europe in the 18th century. However, it was not an inevitable part of European history. How did an open market for ideas and political fragmentation lead Europe to wealth? And what was the role of culture, artisans, and practical science in this process?
About NES Public lectures
From September 8 to October 14, 2020 New Economic School (NES) will hold Guest Lecture Series with the world’s leading scientists. The lectures will be online in English and free with prior registration.
Speakers from top universities of the US and UK will cover a range of different topics. The series will open with economic history and a lecture about the process of economic growth in Europe of the 18-19th centuries and its major drivers. We will also learn about the challenges facing capitalism today and how it can evolve in the future. Two lectures will be dedicated to economic research and how it helps understand and manage current economic policy issues. Finally, the series will close with a lecture on addiction to modern technologies and ways to overcome it.
A detailed description of the lectures can be found here. NES Public Lectures are held with the support of the Charitable Foundation “SAFMAR”. Media partner: Publishing House «Kommersant», partners: project “BUDU”, “Econs.online“.
Falling Walls Lab Moscow is calling all talented researchers and professionals to showcase their most innovative ideas
Early-career researchers, entrepreneurs and professionals can now apply for the Falling Walls Lab Moscow on October 1, 2020 to present their research work – in 3 minutes each. Applications are due September 11.
The call for applications is now open for this year’s international Falling Walls Labs which will take place all over the world. Bachelor and Master students, postdocs, young professionals, entrepreneurs and junior professors are invited to apply. Ground-breaking research projects, initiatives, ideas and business models from all disciplines are welcome.
Selected participants will compete to win a virtual trip to the online Falling Walls Lab Finale in Berlin, Germany on 8 November 2020 and a virtual ticket to the Falling Walls Conference. In total, 100 applicants qualify for the Finale in Berlin. Each finalist will receive the opportunity to present their research work, initiative or business model within three minutes in front of a high-calibre jury from academia, research and business. The three winners receive a cash prize and the opportunity to present their idea on the grand stage of the online Falling Walls Conference the next day.
The aim of the Falling Walls Lab is to foster scientific and entrepreneurial innovations, and to promote the exchange between outstanding emerging scholars and professionals from various fields of expertise.
The Falling Walls Lab Moscow will take place on October 1 2020 at 2 pm. Applications can be submitted online via www.falling-walls.com/lab/apply until September 11. The Falling Walls Lab Moscow is hosted by Skoltech.
The Falling Walls Lab is organised by the Falling Walls Foundation and generously funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the Berlin-Senate, the Bayer Foundations, Huawei, and Sartorius. It is supported by the Federal Foreign Office of Germany and the German Academic Exchange (DAAD).
For further information, please visit www.falling-walls.com/lab
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Falling Walls Lab Moscow
Anna Semertzidi
Falling Walls Lab
Falling Walls Foundation
Kochstr. 6-7
10969 Berlin, Germany
Email: lab@falling-walls.com
Phone: + 49 30 609 88 39 71
About the Falling Walls Foundation
The Falling Walls Foundation is a non-profit organisation that fosters the discussion on research and innovation and promotes the latest scientific findings among a broad audience from all parts of society. It organises the Falling Walls Conference, an annual global gathering of forward-thinking individuals from over 75 countries. Each year on 9 November, 20 of the world’s leading scientists present their current breakthrough research in 15 minutes each. The Falling Walls Foundation is supported by the German Ministry for Education and Research, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Helmholtz Association and numerous other acclaimed academic institutions, foundations, and companies. More information at: www.falling-walls.com
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Skoltech Lecture Hub at ARHE presents: “Omics technologies: detecting illegal drug use by weighing the suspect”
Skoltech Lecture Hub at ARHE presents: “Omics technologies: detecting illegal drug use by weighing the suspect”
The emerging omics technologies with their intriguing name are sometimes hailed as a new paradigm that leverages the synergy of modern advances in physics, chemistry and computing. They are equally instrumental in genomic and post-genomic medicine and such a challenging task as doping and illegal drug detection.
The omics technologies rely heavily on mass spectrometry which helps identify tens of thousands of chemical compounds in a biological object and obtain molecular profiles of proteins, fats and small molecules, which are used for medical diagnostics that also benefits from other growth trends, such as 2D visualization and computer-aided histology.
Yury Kostyukevich, an assistant professor at Skoltech, will talk about omics technologies and methods, mass spectrometry devices, vendors and market trends, omics research, and Russian achievements in the field.
Yury Kostyukevich is a PhD in Physics and Mathematics and an assistant professor at the Skoltech Center for Computational and Data-Intensive Science and Engineering (CDISE).
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PhD Thesis Defense. Dominique Leboeuf. ” UBR-ubiquitin ligases of the ARG/N-degron pathway as new targets for therapy: implications in cancer and inflammation”
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PhD Thesis Defense. Yaroslav Menshenin. “Model-based framework for system concept”
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PhD Thesis Defense. Elena Egorova. “Signature codes for multiple access channels, digital fingerprinting codes and symmetric group testing”
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Skoltech Lecture Hub at polit.ru joint project invites you to a lecture by Professor Mikhail Gelfand
“Les Liaisons Dangereuses”, or the history of the human genome: Cro-Magnons, Neanderthals and Denisovans
Tens of thousands of years ago, Eurasia was populated by our distant ancestors, Cro-Magnons who came out of Africa 70 thousand years ago, Neanderthals, and Denisovans. All the three groups mingled, started families and, of course, had children.
Scientists puzzled out “les liaisons dangereuses” in the contemporary and ancient human genomes. Professor Mikhail Gelfand will share his version of the famous novel to help us figure out dangerous liaisons between our ancient relatives and find answers to some intriguing questions: What species did Homo sapiens evolve from? What happened to them in the course of biological evolution? How are they related to us humans living in the 21st century?
Professor Mikhail Gelfand is Doctor of Biology, Member of the Academia Europaea, Skoltech Vice President for Biomedical Research and Head of Laboratory at the Kharkevich Institute for Information Transmission Problems of RAS.
Registration: https://politru.timepad.ru/event/1402964/
More info: https://polit.ru/article/2020/08/14/gelfand/
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