Discovery of New Nanomaterials – Tiny Flakes that Define the Future of Technology
Discovery of new materials provides moments of inspiration and enables new technologies. Two-dimensional nanosheets, such as graphene, boron nitride, and dozens more,...
Risk and Safety Concerns in Deep Networks
In recent years, deep networks have demonstrated their powerful capabilities, often outperforming human experts, such as AlphaGO. Many have been deployed to...
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...
Chromatin biophysics
This talk sheds light on how chromatin structure and dynamics impact gene regulation and cellular functions. Attendees will gain insights into the...
The U.S. Approach to Conquering Academic Writing
In this lecture, we’ll explore the best practices of academic writing in the United States, including structuring small and large writing projects,...
Introduction to Medievalism
This lecture will introduce a field that has seen much growth in the recent decades and is a very interesting example of...
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
Recycling of (bio)polyesters
Different types of recycling, then focus on chemical recycling of the most important types of polyesters and bio-derived polyesters
Content Moderation & Social Media Management
Digital media platforms often contain vast amounts of content, whether professionally produced or user-generated. What issues arise with user-generated reactions to this...
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...
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...
Introduction to Mergers & Acquisitions 2
This lecture is the second in a two-part series on mergers and acquisitions in the United States. In this lecture, we will...
Political and philosophical strategies of coping with earth-wide dangerous challenges
One of the most suprising and yet evident facts is the distinction between “the Empty World” and “the Full World”. The empty...