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Dr. Karine Chemla, one of the plenary speakers during the 7ECM in Berlin, is a historian of mathematics from the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Scientific Research National Center, in France. Her main studies include…
Andrew Preston, CEO and Co-Founder of Publons had spoken to us about his company and the challenges in Science and Peer Review. Publons is an online platform dedicated to improving academic peer review. There are…
Meredith Morovati has been the Executive Director of Dryad, a curated resource that makes the data underlying scientific publications discoverable,freely reusable, and citable, since late 2014. Morovati has been working in Management, Marketing, and nonprofits for over…
Dr. Maryna Viazovska from Humboldt Universität Zu Berlin recently published two papers in which she puts an end to a nearly 400 year old mathematics conjecture. The Sphere Packing Problem in Dimensions 8 and 24 were released just two weeks…
The Comunes Convention 4-7 May, 2016 is dedicated to Sharing Economy and Free Culture. With the support of Goethe-Institut this year it takes place in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The conference aims to bring together researchers and entrepreneurs to discuss and…
Collaboration in research has been an essential element in developing new technologies throughout the entire human history. Passing on knowledge from generation to generation, each of which learning and improving it, is a never ending chain reaction of collaboration. In the 17th century,…
Ines Hasselberg is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Criminology (2013-2016) and project leader for “The Postcolonial Prison: Citizenship, Punishment and Mobility” at the Faculty of Law in Oxford University. Hasselberg is also a PhD in Anthropology and…
Professor Dr Gregory McLaughlin is a sociologist, an associate of the Glasgow Media Group at the University of Glasgow, researcher and writer. This year, his first book, The War Correspondent, got its second edition released with Pluto…
In March 2016, Ukrainian mathematician Maryna Viazovska provided the final solution for the Sphere Packing Problem in dimension 8 and later on – in collaboration – in dimension 24. Both papers Sphere Packing Problem in dimension 8,…
Actual circumstances compel new meanings to the word refugee. Conflict zones in countries close to the western world do not seem as far away as they did at the end of the 20th century. As the world becomes…