Past events

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]

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]

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]

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]

Chirality plays a key role in molecular recognition phenomena and is an important field of study for chemists and physicists. The aim of this symposium is to bring together experts in the field who...[more]

By Susumu Kitagawa Distinguished Professor and Deputy Director-General at the Kyoto University Institute for Advanced Study (KUIAS); Director of the Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences...[more]

By Ophir Klein, University of California, San Francisco An important next step for regenerative medicine is to understand the mechanisms by which mammals naturally use stem cells to regenerate and...[more]

By Fabrice Jossinet, USIAS Fellow 2015 The incidence of fungal infections has increased significantly over the last decades, leading to high rates of morbidity and mortality. A recent study...[more]