Skoltech is an international graduate research-focused university that was founded by the group of world-renowned scientists in 2011. Skoltech's curriculum focuses on technology and innovation, offering Master's programs in 11 technological disciplines. Students receive rigorous theoretical and practical training, design their own research projects, participate in internships and gain entrepreneurial skills in English. The faculty is comprised of current researchers with international accreditation and achievements.
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Skoltech’s faculty strongly believe that students should be evaluated not only on what they know, but also what they can do
Several times per year, prospective students from across Russia and around the world converge in Skoltech for “Selection Weekend” and a chance to gain admission to one of the institute’s growing MSc programs in technology and science. During these “Selection Weekends”, participants go through two and a half days of interviews, rigorous written examinations, an English test, and – most important – problem-based engineering modules that are designed by Skoltech faculty and senior staff. The final event for 2014 will be held this weekend, July 11-13, at the Moscow School of Management.
Invitations to Selection Weekend are reserved for those students who submitted the strongest online applications to the program, but Skoltech’s faculty believe that students should be evaluated not only on what they know, but also what they can do. The Weekend thus emphasizes the application of knowledge in different settings, and is designed to simulate what it is like to be a Skoltech student. At the end of the Weekend, faculty are given a greater picture of which students are the best fit for the kind of education provided at Skoltech.
For a new university like Skoltech, the weekend is also an opportunity to provide prospective students with the latest developments in the research and innovation programs. Because of the unique experience, students who receive an offer of admission after Selection Weekend usually accept it (more than 90%, which is a better rate than at many top-ten ranked institutions).
* 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.
Where: Beijing-1 Auditorium, China cluster Skolkovo School of Management
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
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.
Innovation workshop culminates with innovation prototypes presentations by the students
Summer: It’s the hot, slow season. A time when droves of students focus mostly on zoning out. Nothing wrong with a bit of daydreaming, but this summer the new cohort of Skoltech MSc students will be busy directing their attention – on innovation. Postgrads will kick off their studies on July 23rd with an intensive Innovation Workshop. For the first time, the event will be hosted in Moscow.
Each academic year Skoltech welcomes its new group of Biomed, IT and Energy tracks’ postgrads with a four-week course, which aims to create a foundational experience in entrepreneurship and innovation, to empower participants to identify and solve real–world problems with technology, and to instill an entrepreneurial “can–do” attitude. Thus, the workshop teaches and reinforces the flexibility and creativity required for a successful innovator.
Dr. Ilia Dubinsky, Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Skoltech, the Workshop’s director and designer, will challenge more than 100 participants with multiple non-standard tasks. The workshop will feature lectures on technology and its impact, hands-on projects, leadership, negotiation and presentation experiences, company visits, and social events. It will culminate on August 15th with innovation prototypes presentations by the students.
* The Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CEI) aims to make Skoltech an engine of economic growth by rapidly implementing ideas to create impact, by engaging Skoltech students and faculty in E&I (entrepreneurship and innovation), and by accelerating research outcomes toward commercialization and broader social impact. Developed through the partnership between Skoltech and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the center establishes connections between students, researchers, and business; integrates E&I into Skoltech education and research pathways through the curriculum and entrepreneurial programs; conducts research into management style and practices of E&I in the Russian Federation; supports innovation through integrated commercialization services.
* 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.
As Skoltech continues to build a unique international team of research leaders, Skoltech announces that Professor Keith J. Stevenson joined us as Director of the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage CREI, starting today, June 30, 2014.
Lithium-ion battery testing. Photo courtesy Argonne National Laboratory, Flickr
The Electrochemical Energy Storage CREI (Center for Research, Education and Innovation) at Skoltech will address fundamental research that will support the energy industry in Russia and the world, and develop and demonstrate materials, devices and systems that will provide the basis for innovative opportunities for energy storage technologies. The research program concentrates around new metal-ion and metal-air battery technologies, and new fuel and electrolysis cell technologies. The CREI is generously funded to collaborate closely with MIT, Moscow State University, and other top universities around the world. Our ambition is to establish Skoltech as a world-class center for energy storage research. Important foci are devices and systems than can dramatically advance portable electronics and electric vehicle transportation sectors, in addition to grid-level energy use through load-leveling and power-shaping, which serve as energy buffers to increase the efficient use of alternative energy sources, such as solar, wind, and water, that are intermittent in nature.
Keith J. Stevenson received his Ph.D. in 1997 from the University of Utah. Subsequently, he held a postdoctoral appointment at Northwestern University (1997-2000); and a professorial appointment since 2000 at the University of Texas at Austin, US in a top ranked university (25th in world, 12th in US Chemistry Departments, and 5th in Analytical Chemistry specialization).
Keith Stevenson, Director of the Skoltech Center for Electrochemical Energy Storage
Recently, he has served as a scientific thrust leader in Electrochemical Energy Storage on a $15M Department of Energy Frontier Research Center, Director of the $38M Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology (CNM), and on the steering board for the Texas Materials Institute (TMI).
Stevenson has been extremely innovative in pursuing major research and educational initiatives in nanomaterials and nanotechnology areas. This includes serving as the faculty advisor for the CNM’s Doctoral Portfolio Program that has produced a successful cadre of more than 120 well-trained scientists and engineers from 14 different academic departments since its inception in 2002. He also managed several shared instrumentation facilities, which total over $20M in housing state-of-the-art equipment including $4M+ of resources acquired by US federal funds and private foundation grants.
On the educational side, he has been the State Director of the Welch Foundation Summer Scholar Program (2008-2014) which funds summer research activities for high school students across the state of Texas, with over 1600 students served. He is also one of three founding faculty members of UT-Austin’s federally funded Undergraduate Freshman Research Initiative. Now over 400 undergraduate students have performed research and published their work under his direction in the area of nanomaterials for catalysis. The FRI program currently involves over 25 research faculty and >800 undergraduate researchers per year; and is transforming the way undergraduate research is conducted at large tier one research universities.
Keith Stevenson’s research interests are aimed at elucidating and controlling chemistry at solid/liquid interfaces vital to many emerging energy storage and energy conversion technologies. To date he has published over 145 peer-reviewed publications, five patents, and six book chapters in this field. He is a recipient of a NSF CAREER award (2002), the Conference of Southern Graduate Schools New Scholar Award (2004), the Society of Electroanalytical Chemistry Young Investigator Award (2006), and Kavli Fellow (2012). Keith is a member of the American Chemical Society, Electrochemical Society, Society for Electroanalytical Chemistry, and the Materials Research Society.
* Skoltech currently operates 6 CREIs – Centers for Research, Innovation and Education – out of 15 that are planned to be established by 2020. These are the major components of the Skoltech concept – and its implementation. The CREIs are the institute’s major scientific growth engines as they pursue leading research in their fields, deliver world-class graduate education programs and generate results that can form the basis for innovation and entrepreneurship activities at Skoltech and in Russian industry. Importantly, CREIs will build capacity of all kinds at Skoltech, and will be designed to have broad impact on Russia. The centers address critical challenges in 5 major “Tracks”the institute focuses on: Information, Biomedicine, Energy, Space and Nuclear Science and Technology (as well as science cutting across these areas.) The establishment of CREIs is done in close cooperation with one (or more) international and Russian academic partner institutions. Skoltech believes this is the most efficient and fastest way to establish a new world-class graduate research university complementing the existing research and educational system in Russia and develop a gateway between Russia and the rest of the world.
* 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.
Where: Technopark Skolkovo. Business center «Ural» 100 Novaya str., Skolkovo village. Russian Quantum Center. 3d floor. Room 3.28
Graphene. Image courtesy of Hinkle Group, Flickr
The Skoltech Colloquium is back after a short pause. If you need a break from the summer break – feel free to join us for a lecture titled “Phonon Transport in Graphene: Applications in Thermal Management”
When: June 30; 4:00pm.
Where: Technopark Skolkovo. Business center «Ural» 100 Novaya str., Skolkovo village. Russian Quantum Center. 3d floor. Room 3.28
If you’d like to participate and for further information or questions, please e-mail –
Please confirm your attendance. A pass is needed so do make sure to drop us a line and ask for one. We are looking forward to seeing you.
Abstract by guest speaker Prof. Alexander A. Balandin:
Unique electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) graphene originate from its unusual linear Dirac-cone dispersion. Phonons – quanta of lattice vibrations – reveal features in 2D crystals, which are also substantially different from those in bulk materials. In 2008, we discovered that the phonon thermal conductivity of suspended graphene can be exceptionally high – above ~2000 W/mK at room temperature – exceeding that of the basal graphite planes [1].
We explained it by quenching of the Umklapp processes in 2D systems and resulting anomalously long mean free path (MFP) of the low-frequency acoustic phonons in graphene [2-4]. In the first part of my talk, I will review the results of our optothermal Raman measurements of thermal conductivity of graphene and explain the basic theory of heat conduction in 2D crystals [4].
In the second part of my talk, I will describe practical applications of graphene in thermal management of electronics. Specific examples of applications include graphene enhanced thermal interface materials (TIMs) [5], thermal phase change materials (PCMs) for Li-ion battery packs [6] and few-layer graphene heat spreaders [7]. I will also outline our most recent results that show a possibility of increasing the thermal conductivity of copper films via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of graphene [8].
[1] A.A. Balandin, et al., Nano Lett., 8, 902 (2008); [2] D.L. Nika, et al., Phys. Rev. B, 79, 155413 (2009); [3] S. Ghosh, et al., Nature Mat., 9, 555 (2010); [4] A.A. Balandin, Nature Mat., 10, 569 (2011); [5] K.F. Shahil and A.A. Balandin, Nano Lett., 12, 861 (2012); [6] P. Goli, et al., J. Power Sources, 248, 37 (2014); [7] Z. Yan, et al., Nature Comm., 3, 827 (2012); [8] P. Goli et al., Nano Lett., 14, 1497 (2014).
Prof. Alexander A. Balandin
Guest Speaker Introduction:
ALEXANDER A. BALANDIN is the University of California Presidential Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering and Founding Chair of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of California – Riverside (UCR).
He received his MS (1991) degree Summa Cum Laude in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Russia, and PhD (1997) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, USA. Prior to joining UCR, he worked as a Research Engineer at UCLA. In 2005, he spent his sabbatical as a Visiting Professor at the University of Cambridge, U.K. His research interests are in the area of advanced materials, nanostructures and devices for electronic and energy applications. He conducts both experimental and theoretical research. His work resulted in over 200 journal publications, which were cited ~17,000 times (h index >60).
Professor Balandin is a recipient of the MRS Medal for 2013 and IEEE Pioneer Award in Nanotechnology for 2011. He was recognized by the NSF CAREER Award, ONR Young Investigator Award and Merrill Lynch Innovation Award. He is a Fellow of APS, MRS, IEEE, SPIE, OSA, IOP and AAAS. He is an Associate Editor of Applied Physics Letters. He supervised more than 25 PhD students who presently carry out R&D work in industry, government laboratories and academia. The work of his Nano-Device Laboratory (NDL) has been supported by NSF, DARPA, ONR, AFOSR, SRC, NASA and semiconductor industry.
* 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.
If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova We look forward to seeing you.
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
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.
If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova We look forward to seeing you.
ImageAiry at Russian Internet Entrepreneurship Forum
Ekaterina Kotenko-Lengold’s day at the Russian Internet Entrepreneurship Forum was fraught with expectation, tension – and hope. The Skoltech student was slated to present her startup, ImageAiry, to the President of Russia. But Vladimir Putin arrived at the Moscow event only after the young entrepreneur was done pitching to potential investors. And still, the pressure was on. She had to secure the vital fuel without which her satellite imaging service cannot get off the ground: money. An hour later Kotenko-Lengold was up in the air. ImageAiry landed 1.4 million RUB in funding.
The seed funding, equivalent to $40,000 USD, was secured through the Russian Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF), with a total valuation of 20 million RUB ($580,000 USD.) Image Airy, founded by Kotenko-Lengold and Alexandra Kudryashova in 2013, touts itself as the “world’s first marketplace for satellite imaging services”. Based on the user’s industry or specific task the search algorithm finds and suggests suitable satellite pictures, imagery resellers or consulting companies which are suitable to business owners’ specific needs. The service might, for example, help tour operators to avoid selling packages to flooded regions or assist agricultural companies seeking high crop yielding areas.
“This is all very, very exciting”, reflected Kotenko-Lengold on her roller-coaster day, “my presentation also resulted in interest for our project from a few senior VCs representing, among others, the Rostelekom Venture Fund, Microsoft Seed Fund and Inventure Partners. Big day, lots of challenges ahead.”
* 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.
If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova We look forward to seeing you.
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
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.
If you like to participate and for further information or questions, please Liliya Abaimova We look forward to seeing you.
