Past events
USIAS Fellows seminar - Can we predict the next major earthquake in the Marmara Sea?
By Hayrullah Karabulut and Jean Schmittbuhl, USIAS Fellows 2015 The North Anatolian Fault (NAF) poses a significant hazard to the large cities surrounding the Marmara Sea region, and particularly to...[more]
Minisymposium - The Chemical Origin of Life: From Geochemistry to Cells
Organised by Peter Faller (USIAS Fellow 2015) and Joseph Moran, ISIS, Strasbourg, supported by the LabEx CSC and USIAS Life is the ultimate example of a complex chemical system, and the problem of...[more]
USIAS Fellows seminar: Cell secretion deregulation in neuroendocrine tumors
By Stéphane Gasman, USIAS Fellow 2015 Cancer is the second leading cause of death after heart disease. Neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) constitute a large family of neoplasms arising from...[more]
Annual Symposium 2017 - Immunotherapy: New developments in the battle against cancer
This year's symposium will present two of the leading pioneers in the field of cancer immunotherapy, who have fundamentally changed the way cancer and its treatment are perceived:...[more]
Workshop: Structure and Reactions for Nuclear Astrophysics
Nuclear astrophysics is an interdisciplinary branch of physics involving close collaboration among researchers in various subfields of nuclear physics and astrophysics, with the aim to understand the...[more]
USIAS Distinguished Lecture: Aire and immunological tolerance to self-proteins
Aire, a transcription factor that controls immunological tolerance to self-proteins Immunological tolerance is the main way the immune system learns to discriminate self from non-self, and is key to...[more]
USIAS public lecture: Finding truth when most people are wrong
By Drazen Prelec, MIT Sloan School of Management The question whether to trust the judgments of a few experts or the wisdom-of-the-crowd is not just of scientific but also of political and...[more]
Public conference: New Perspectives on Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention Deficit Disorder with or without Hyperactivity (ADHD) is a disorder of brain development that affects 3% to 5% of children in France. 60% of them retain symptoms in adulthood. At this...[more]
