Measuring education beyond academic learning
With PISA, the OECD has a long history of establishing global metrics for academic schooling outcomes. But these are just part of the...
Advanced Supervised Learning: Deep Neural Networks
Many of the most impressive recent breakthroughs in machine learning have been made possible by the development of deep neural networks. We...
New organisational forms and the bodyless leadership
A trio of crises. A new framework. Year Zero. This is an historic moment with radical consequences just around the corner. How...
Combining neuroimaging and genetic information using imaging transcriptomics
Combining neuroimaging and genetics information for the study of brain disorders have always been challenging because of the complexity and high dimensionality...
Crisis: When finance no longer supports production
The Bible distinguishes between productive capital and uninvested wealth (mammon). Theorist Joseph Schumpeter distinguished between the ‘real economy’ (production of goods and...
Chromatin biophysics
This talk sheds light on how chromatin structure and dynamics impact gene regulation and cellular functions. Attendees will gain insights into the...
Introduction to Supervised Learning: Linear and Polynomial Regression
This lecture provides a first example of a machine learning algorithm: linear regression. It defines a linear model and its optimization objective...
Polymers with CO2, ROCOP
Ring-opening copolymerisation of CO2 with epoxides, bio-derived epoxides, ROCOP of epoxides with bio-derived acid anhydrides, catalysts, mechanisms
Strategic Optionality: Pathways Through Disruptive Uncertainty
This lecture focuses on how companies survive and thrive in VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) environments. Conventional strategy thinking does not work...
Recycling of (bio)polyesters
Different types of recycling, then focus on chemical recycling of the most important types of polyesters and bio-derived polyesters
How to turn a human into a fly
The genetic information of a human cell, its genome, is densely packed into 23 pairs of chromosomes taking two meters of DNA...
Docking-based Virtual Screening
Docking-based Virtual Screening is a pivotal technique in Computer-Aided Drug Design (CADD). Learn how this approach rapidly identifies potential hit compounds in...
Obsessive-compulsive Disorder: cortico-striatal alterations and beyond
Obsessive-compulsive disorder, or OCD, is a disabling condition affecting between 1.5-3% of the world population. Despite being a disorder comparatively less studied...
Introduction to Machine Learning: Overview of Supervised, Unsupervised, and Reinforcement Learning
Machine learning has emerged as a transformative technology in the last decade. This lecture explains what machine learning is via examples of...
Lessons Identified / Lessons (Not) Learned: Why Can’t we Get It Right?
Crises events are almost always unique (you should not have the same crises for a second time) but the reasons for the...
The European Union as a “Colonial Power”
The key economic policy for colonial powers was to prevent manufacturing activities in the colonies. Alexander Hamilton, the first US Minister of...
