Category Archives: Seminars

Seminar: ‘Host-Pathogen Interaction: Understanding The Immune Surveillance To Harness The Therapeutic Potential’

When: 28-08-2014 13:30
Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management
MRSA antibiotics resistant 'superbug' bacteria. Image courtesy of mfablog.ca

MRSA antibiotics resistant ‘superbug’ bacteria. Image courtesy of mfablog.ca

The immune system is a complex, fascinating machine that keeps our bodies safe against external and internal enemies. Can we find new ways to harness the molecules it deploys to treat infectious diseases or autoimmune and inflammatory conditions? Prof. Srinivas Kaveri , our guest lecturer at the Skoltech seminar, has a few answers to this life and death question.

When: August 28, 2014 13.30 – 15.00

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster, Skolkovo School of Management

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:

Everyday, in our body, millions of cells take birth, communicate with each other, generate many substances and sometimes die. All this is done to ensure the maintenance of the homeostasis of the organism. Some of these cells have an important task – that of sentinels. The immune system through its cells and molecules protects the host against infectious pathogens (bacteria, virus, fungus, parasites) and unwanted internal invasion, such as emergence of cancers, at the same time ensuring that it does not attack the self tissues and organs.

Despite this powerful check, some pathogens can cause serious infections by escaping the immune surveillance. What strategies do these pathogens use to escape the immune surveillance?

The same system of sentinel sometimes is dysregulated and turns out to become aggressive against our own organs – leading to most dreadful autoimmune diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, hepatitis, multiple sclerosis. What are the causes for this dysregulation? How can one harness the very molecules of the immune system to treat infectious diseases or autoimmune and inflammatory conditions?

Prof. Srinivas Kaveri, our guest lecturer at the Skoltech seminar

Prof. Srinivas Kaveri, our guest lecturer at the Skoltech seminar

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION:

Srinivas Kaveri received his basic formation in Veterinary Medicine in Bangalore India, and Ph.D. at the Pasteur Institute, Paris. He carried out post-doctoral research training with Professor Heinz Kohler at IDEC pharmaceuticals and University of California, San Diego, USA

Currently, Srinivas Kaveri is leading a research team at the Centre de Recherche des Cordeliers University of Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. His team has been involved with the basic and applied aspects of research on immunopathology and immunotherapy. His research interests include: i) host-pathogen interactions, ii) exploiting the therapeutic potential of antibodies in the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory disease, and iii) immunogenicity of therapeutics molecules such as Factor VIII.

 

 

 

 

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

Seminar: Theoretical Studies of Emerging Electronic Materials – Graphene, Topological Insulators and More

When: 18-08-2014 13:30
Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management
Graphene. Image courtesy of Hinkle Group, Flickr

Graphene. Image courtesy of Hinkle Group, Flickr

Graphene has been all the rave for a decade now. But what more can be achieved? Join us and our guest lecturer Prof. Oleg Yazyev for a seminar on «THEORETICAL STUDIES OF EMERGING ELECTRONIC MATERIALS:  GRAPHENE, TOPOLOGICAL INSULATORS AND MORE»

When: August 18, 2014 13.30 – 15.00

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management

 

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:

The past decade was marked by several momentous discoveries of novel electronic materials such as graphene and topological insulators. In my talk I will highlight some of their remarkable properties and show how theoretical and computational physics can help guide us towards the future technological applications of these emerging materials. In particular, I will cover some of my past research on disorder-induced magnetism in graphene as well as on topological defects and electronic transport in this two-dimensional system. Future directions outlined in my presentation will include the search for novel topological electronic phases, platform materials for technologies beyond traditional electronics and economically viable systems for photocatalytic energy conversion.

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION:

Prof. Oleg Yazyev

Prof. Oleg Yazyev

Prof. Oleg Yazyev was born in Simferopol, Crimean peninsula. He obtained his degree in chemistry from Moscow State University in 2003. He then joined Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) completing his PhD thesis in 2007. Next two years he has spent as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP) and the Institute for Numerical Research in the Physics of Materials (IRRMA) of the same institution. In 2009-2011 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Physics of the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In September 2011 he returned to EPFL starting an independent research group supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation professorship grant. In 2012 he was awarded an ERC Starting grant. His current research focuses on the theoretical and computational physics of the recently discovered Dirac fermion materials with strong emphasis on their prospective technological applications.

 

 

 

 

 

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

Seminar: Learning from Incomplete Data – A Bayesian Perspective

When: 13-08-2014 13:30
Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management
Probabilistic pattern classifiers can be used according to a frequentist or a Bayesian approach. Image courtesy of Wikipedia

Probabilistic pattern classifiers can be used according to a frequentist or a Bayesian approach. Image courtesy of Wikipedia

Obtaining labeled data is expensive and difficult. So how  can researchers use weakly labeled data? Join us for a seminar by guest speaker Dr. Dmitry Vetrov, titled: «LEARNING FROM INCOMPLETE DATA: A BAYESIAN PERSPECTIVE»

When: August 13, 2014 13.30 – 15.00

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:

In his talk Dr. Dmitry Vetrov will review several research projects that are carried out in the Bayesian methods research group at Moscow State University.

Although the projects cover various areas (text processing, computer vision, machine learning) they have much in common: all rely on probabilistic models that are built from incomplete (or weakly labeled) data. Such modelling becomes very important since more and more large data-sets with weak labeling are available.

Dmitry will describe several models that are being developed in his group: latent semantic model that combines probabilistic model with Bayesian non-parametrics and deep learning; multi-label deep shape model; multi-utility segmentation model. Also on the agenda: several theoretical directions of Dr. Vetrov’s work on applying tensor methods for working with multi-dimensional distributions.

Dr. Dmitry Vetrov

Dr. Dmitry Vetrov

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION:

Dmitry Vetrov has graduated from Moscow State University in 2003 and got his PhD in cybernetics in 2006. Currently he is leading Bayesian methods research group in Moscow State University. In 2014 he became the head of the department of big data and information retrieval on the newly created faculty of computer science in Moscow Higher School of Economics. The area of his research interests includes machine learning, graphical models, computer vision, Baysian modeling. He is (co)author of more than 120 papers including top-rank journals and conferences.

Using Patents in and for Research: An Expert’s View

When: 07-08-2014 13:30
Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management
Dr. Zeljko Tekic, guest speaker at the Skoltech seminar about patenting

Dr. Zeljko Tekic, guest speaker at the skoltech seminar about patenting

Ever thought how crucial it might be for researchers and entrepreneurs to base their assumptions about patents on complex data?

 

Whether you replied with a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’, join us as we host Dr. Zeljko Tekic for a seminar on «COMPLEX PHENOMENA IN INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY MANAGEMENT THROUGH THE LENS OF PATENT DATA».

When: August 7, 2014, 13.30 – 15.00

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster, Skolkovo School of Management

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:

Quantum Patents are legal instruments and powerful business tools. At the same time patents are a unique and valuable source of technical, legal, business and public policy relevant information. The availability of all this information inside patents offers a full spectrum of possibilities for using them in research and practice in key areas of competitive intelligence, innovation and technology management.

The starting point of Dr. Tekic in using patents in research is the study on patent value under the strategy of threatening with litigation. The contribution in this field relates to understanding which patent characteristics make the threat of litigation more acute. It is based on unique empirical evidence about the monetization of 623 US patents. By regressing this exclusive and rare data on different sets of patent value indicators, he was able to outline a profile of patents most likely to accumulate high value under the new strategy.

To support this research,  researchers a software tool for competitive intelligence based on patent data, called PSALM. The established tool assembles patent data from publicly available databases, collects and analyses bibliographic parameters of patents but also does text mining. It enables visualizations of high as well as low-dimensional data. F

inally, as a part of his PhD research, Dr. Tekic has used patents and other primary sources of information to track patterns in the development of knowledge and related innovations in landline, mobile and smart phone industries over a long period of time. Based on recognized patterns he has developed a conceptual model – the House of Knowledge, which links concepts of knowledge creation and innovation into a meaningful system and advances our understanding about the knowledge – innovation interface.

In the seminar Dr. Tekic will briefly introduces the above mentioned research and results, offering a starting point for discussion about future plans in research, teaching and practice.

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION: Zeljko Tekic is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at University of Novi Sad. He teaches subjects related to entrepreneurship, creative problem solving, innovation and technology management at bachelor and master level. Zeljko earned his PhD in engineering management at the Faculty of Technical Sciences, University of Novi Sad. He also holds an M.Sc. in Entrepreneurship from the University of Nottingham and an M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from University of Novi Sad. Recently he was a postdoctoral scholar at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering in Stuttgart and at Freie Universität Berlin.

His current research interests include the knowledge-innovation interface, patent valuation and patent data analysis, business intelligence, and youth entrepreneurship. He has published over 30 papers in refereed journals and international conferences. Zeljko is a head of the Faculty’s Center for Youth Entrepreneurship and a member of the University’s Intellectual Property Center. He successfully coordinated FP7 and TEMPUS projects.

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

Guest Lecture by Nobel Laureate Harry Kroto: How Do You Goo – the Educational Revolution of Online Learning

When: 15-07-2014 12:00
Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management
Yes, they are actually curious about science. Image Couretsy of Margaret Kroto

Yes, they are actually curious about science. Image Couretsy of Margaret Kroto

It is not every day that you meet a Nobel laureate in chemistry who calls himself Harry, rather than Professor Kroto or Sir Harold. But this guest speaker, slated to give a Skoltech seminar on July 15, is different. Perhaps it’s because he focuses not on his own credentials but on future generations. Harry Kroto deals with new ways of tapping into young people’s creativity, in an ever-changing landscape of webinars, online courses, and seemingly endless knowledge. Harry Kroto cares about young people living in what he calls the GooYouWiki World – and their brains.

Seminar Title: “The Educational Revolution and the Goo-You-Wiki World”

When: July 15th, 12 PM

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management

Further details and info: buldina@skolkovotech.ru

Seminar Abstract

The aim of education is to uncap the creative potential of every child and we now have a new device which promises to help us do better than before. The Internet has initiated the second great revolution in education; the first was initiated by the printing press. The GooYouWiki World not only makes information almost instantaneously locatable and accessible today, but it also enables anyone with expertise and the passion to communicate to contribute to the amazing globally-accessible cache of knowledge.

On-line education is of course invaluable for students who are unable to attend a university physically but it is not clear that the simple repackaging of courses utilizes the new technology to its full potential. For instance the traditional teacher-student dynamics is basically no different on-line from what it was before and certainly the close personal teacher-student interaction, often so crucial in successful education relationships, is lost. We should thus also explore the new imaginative educational approaches which this technology offers for instance to conflate synergistically with, rather than replace, traditional ones.

A first initiative in the UK, www.vega.org.uk, is now a fantastic archive of recordings by outstanding scientists and its spin-off is the Global Educational Outreach for Science, Engineering and Technology (GEOSET) initiative (www.geoset.info) which is aimed at capturing the ingenuity of teachers to explain specific topics which can be used by other teachers elsewhere on the planet.

It also enables students to contribute creatively to the great humanitarian endeavor of building the “Global Cache of Knowledge” and at the same time improve greatly their career prospects. GEOSET turns the dynamics of the teaching process round by 180 degrees and focuses on the educator capturing what the teacher wants to teach.

Our new related initiative is assembling Teacher’s Tricks of The Trade, focused nuggets of teaching genius to be streamed from the new www.TToTTs.com website for other teachers to employ in their own lessons and lectures.

Prof. Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate (1996), Chemistry

Prof. Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Laureate (1996), Chemistry

Speaker Introduction

Professor Sir Harold Kroto FRS, was knighted in 1996 for contributions to chemistry and later that year, together with Robert Curl and Richard Smalley (of Rice University, Houston, Texas), received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of C60 Buckminsterfullerene – a new form of carbon. Fellow of the Royal Society (1990), Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences (US), President of the Royal Society of Chemistry (2002-2004). Longstaff Medal of the Royal Society of Chemistry (1993), Faraday Lecturer 2001 (Royal Society), Copley Medal of the Royal Society (2002), Erasmus Medal of Academia Europaea, Freeman of the City of Torino, 29 Hon Degrees.

 

 

 

 

 

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

Seminar June 20: Challenges in Advanced Computing: Multi-This and Multi-That

When: 20-06-2014
The "lungs" of a supercomputer. Image courtesy of Argonne National alboratory

The “lungs” of a supercomputer. Image courtesy of Argonne National alboratory

“Everything is interwoven” and Multi-X challenges are everywhere, claims Prof Hans-Joachim Bungartz.

His talk will focus on Multi-X problems in Computational Science and Engineering – multi-physics problems, multi-scale models, multi-level algorithms, or multi-core systems – and possible co-design strategies to tackle and solve these issues. The seminar lecture aims to present examples from recent research that show how a well-balanced approach can lead to significant improvements in application performance, and offer a perspective for Skoltech’s CDISE CREI – both as a hub of methodical Computational Science and Engineering research and as a cross-sectional unit with tight links to other CREI’s.

 

Title: «CHALLENGES IN ADVANCED COMPUTING: MULTI-THIS AND MULTI-THAT»

Speaker: Prof Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technische Universität München (TUM)

When: June 20, 2014 12.30 – 14.00

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster, Skolkovo School of Management

SEMINAR ABSTRACT: There are a lot of challenges Computational Science and Engineering and High-Performance Computing are confronted with, many of them being of “Multi-X” type: multi-physics problems, multi-scale models, multi-level algorithms, or multi-core systems are just some prominent representatives. Others are multi-modality or multi-dimensionality, that are especially related with the data involved – which underlines the fact that the computational paradigm currently sees another incarnation: after simulation and optimization now data exploration.

Each of these topics is demanding in itself. The big challenge, however, results from the fact that everything is interwoven, that progress on the road to exa-scale computing including large-scale data analysis requires the combination of the most advanced models, algorithms, and systems – i.e., there is need for a co-design perspective that goes beyond classical application or system tuning or algorithm development.

The talk will focus on the multi-X challenges and possible co-design strategies, it will give a couple of examples from our recent research that show how a well-balanced approach can lead to significant improvements in application performance, and it will provide a perspective for SkolTech’s CDISE CREI – both as a hub of methodical CSE research and as a cross-sectional unit with tight links to other CREI’s.

 

Prof Hans-Joachim Bugnartz. Image courtesy of Telefonica Deutschland, Flickr

Prof Hans-Joachim Bugnartz. Image courtesy of Telefonica Deutschland, Flickr

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION: Hans-Joachim Bungartz is a full professor of informatics and mathematics at Technische Universität München (TUM), where he holds the Scientific Computing chair in the informatics department. Dr. Bungartz obtained diploma (master’s) degrees in mathematics and informatics, his PhD and his habilitation in informatics from TUM. He was managing director of the Bavarian Consortium on HPC, associate professor of mathematics at Universität Augsburg, full professor of informatics at Universität Stuttgart, and returned to TUM in 2005.

Since 2008, he has also been affiliated with the Dept. of Mechanical Engineering of University of Belgrade, Serbia.

Since 2013, Dr. Bungartz has served as Dean of Informatics as well as TUM Graduate Dean, heading TUM Graduate School and being in charge of doctoral education TUM-wide, across all disciplines. In both functions, he is member of TUM’s Extended Board of Management.

Dr. Bungartz has served or serves on editorial boards such as SIAM’s Journal of Scientific Computing or Springer’s Numerische Mathematik, and he was a member of the scientific directorate of Leibniz Institute for Informatics Schloss Dagstuhl.

From 2006 to 2013, he chaired the Commission for IT Infrastructure of the German Research Foundation (DFG). He is involved in numerous national and international review and advisory board activities. In 2011, he was elected chairman of the German National Research and Educational Network (DFN).

Finally, Dr. Bungartz is a board member of Leibniz Supercomputing Centre, one of three national HPC centers. His research interests are where CSE, scientific computing, and HPC meet. He works on parallel numerical algorithms, hardware-aware numerics, high-dimensional problems, data analytics, and aspects of HPC software, with fields of application such as CFD, quantum chemistry, physics, or finance. Most of his projects have been collaborative and interdisciplinary ones. For example, he coordinates DFG’s new Priority Program Software for Exascale Computing as well as the computational projects of the KAUST-TUM partnership. Dr. Bungartz published a large number of peer-reviewed papers, co-authored several textbooks in German and English, and won the ISC PRACE Award in 2013.

 

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advances scientific knowledge, and fosters new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

Seminar June 16: Getting to the Heart of Math

When: 16-06-2014

How can mathematical optimization help cardiologists to better understand the heart’s operation and analyze scans and images? Join Professor Karl Kunisch’s seminar and learn all about «SELECTED OPTIMIZATION TOPICS IN THE LIFE SCIENCES»

June 16, 2014 13.30 – 15.00 Beijing-1 Auditorium,China cluster Skolkovo School of Management

SEMINAR ABSTRACT: Mathematical optimization has become an important tool to obtain improved insights into many areas of science where mathematical tools are not a-priori commonplace. The life sciences in general, and biomedical engineering in particular, are fields where novel optimization techniques combined with modern computing tools can contribute significantly to pushing the boundaries of the research field.

In this talk I address topics ranging from electro-cardiology to mathematical image analysis. The optimal control approach to cardiac arrhythmias allows to determine an electrical field in such a way that fibrillatory propagation cannot be maintained and at the same time negative side effects are minimized. Image analysis techniques based on calculus of variations foundations, and algorithms realized in a modern graphic card environment, can be highly efficient as will be shown for segmentation of cell populations, diffusive optical tomography and motion correction of magnetic resonance image sequences.

Professor Karl Kunisch. Image courtesy of Graz University

Professor Karl Kunisch. Image courtesy of Graz University

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION: Karl Kunisch is professor of and head of department of mathematics at the University of Graz and Deputy Director of the Radon Institute of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Linz.

He received his PhD and Habiliation at the Technical University of Graz in 1978 and 1980. His research interests include optimization and optimal control, inverse problems and mathematical imaging, numerical analysis and applications, currently focusing on topics in the life sciences. Prof. Kunisch spent three years at the Lefschetz Center for Dynamical Systems at Brown University, USA, held visiting positions at INRIA Rocquencourt and the Universite Paris Dauphine, and was a consultant at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering at NASA Langley, USA.

Before joining the faculty at the University in Graz he was professor of numerical mathematics at the University of Berlin. K. Kunisch is the author of two monographs and about 270 papers. He is editor of numerous journals, including SIAM Numerical Analysis and SIAM Optimization and Optimal Control, the Journal of the European Mathematical Society, Computing and Visualization in Science, and Calcolo. He is member of the senate of the Christian Doppler Science Foundation and recipient of the Alwin Walther Medal for achievements in Applied Mathematics and Informatics. Prof. Kunisch obtained several EU grants, and (joint) grants from the Austrian, German, French, American, Japanese and Czech science foundations.

 

* The Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) is a private graduate research university in Skolkovo, Russia, a suburb of Moscow. Established in 2011 in collaboration with MIT, Skoltech educates global leaders in innovation, advance scientific knowledge, and foster new technologies to address critical issues facing Russia and the world. Applying international research and educational models, the university integrates the best Russian scientific traditions with twenty-first century entrepreneurship and innovation.

Seminar June 9 – The How and What of Creating a Nuclear Research Center: An Expert’s Perspective

When: 09-06-2014

The Skoltech Center for Nuclear Systems and Materials is work-in-progress. In the run-up to its launch, Dr. Leslie Jardine, an independent consultant and expert on nuclear fuel cycle, will present his perspective on how to establish and run this CREI (Center for Research and Education).

Image courtesy Mooshuu, Flickr

Image courtesy Mooshuu, Flickr

Seminar Title: «AN INITIAL PERSPECTIVE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A CREI FOR NUCLEAR SYSTEMS AND MATERIALS TECHNOLOGIES BASED ON FOUR DECADES OF NUCLEAR FUEL CYCLE TECHNOLOGY EXPERIENCE»

 Speaker: Dr. Leslie J Jardine

When: June 9, 2014, 13.30 – 15.00

Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster, Skolkovo School of Management

SEMINAR ABSTRACT:

The implementation of the proposed CREI (Center for Research, Education and Innovation) for Nuclear Systems and Materials Technologies at Skoltech offers both common as well as unique challenges and issues compared to other Skoltech CREI’s that do not involve nuclear materials or radioactive materials. These main challenges and issues need as first step to be identified, defined, organized and incorporated into an implementation strategy and vision for the CREI.

Dr. Jardine has over four decades of work experience in nuclear technologies and the nuclear fuel cycle involving science, R&D and applied nuclear projects. Some of this experience will be summarized and used to illustrate several examples of challenges and issues that the CREI for Nuclear Technologies must address in its startup, implementation and integration into, and with, Skoltech’s nuclear systems and materials education and innovation activities.

In addition, he will highlight some Russian (Rosatom) nuclear fuel cycle activities and multiple Rosatom organization’s with whom he has worked for the past 18 years on Rosatom’s applied nuclear projects and Federal Targeted Programs with further examples. Rosatom and their nuclear power and nuclear fuel cycle strategy and its implementation into the global world markets is a primary customer and market respectively that the CREI for Nuclear Systems and Materials Technologies, as well as Skoltech itself, must address in their implementation activities over the next decade and beyond.

 

Dr. Leslie L. Jardine

Dr. Leslie L. Jardine

SPEAKER INTRODUCTION:

Dr. Leslie Jardine is an independent consultant for technical, scientific and management activities for the nuclear fuel cycle. He retired from the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in 2006 and worked previously at two other DOE National Laboratories and one private engineering company.

Dr. Jardine received his PhD and MS in nuclear engineering from the University of California at Berkeley. He spent four postdoctoral years at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, seven years at Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago, seven years at Bechtel National in San Francisco, a private engineering company and seventeen years at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. After retirement Dr. Jardine performed independent technical, scientific and management consulting for multiple clients including the US Department of Energy-Nuclear Energy, US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Carnegie Endowment Foundation Moscow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Bechtel National Inc. He is an expert on the Russian (Rosatom) nuclear fuel cycle.

Dr. Jardine is an author or co-author of 3 books, over 140 journal or proceedings articles and over 110 reports on radioactive decay, nuclear fuel cycle facilities, fissile materials disposition, nuclear weapons component manufacturing, radioactive waste management, spent fuel storage, plutonium packaging and storage, non aqueous fuel reprocessing, geologic disposal, nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear measurement instrument calibration.

He is a former Chairman of the Atomic Industrial Forum’s High‑Level Radioactive Waste Subcommittee and Spent Fuel Subcommittee member, and the recipient of the 1971 American Nuclear Society (ANS) Northern California Edward Teller Award. He was an Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship recipient from 1967 to 1969.

Dr Jardine is member of the American Nuclear Society, a Waste Management Symposium Fellow and member of the National Ski Patrol.