Strong performers and successful reformers in education – lessons from PISA
The lecture will look at how the highest performing and most rapidly improving education systems in the world have achieved their success....
Startup 101: How Entrepreneurs Think
The lecture is designed to appeal to existing business professionals who are interested in learning the mindset and strategies of successful entrepreneurs....
Diagnostics and management of multifocal bilateral renal tumors
The lecture will review hereditary renal cell carcinoma syndromes and principle of testing and management
The Secret of Creative Places
Why some places are extraordinarily creative? Why it is difficult to sustain the intensity of creativity over a long duration? What is...
Waking education up to the digital world
Technology can help us not just to conserve educational practice, but to truly transform it. The most visible benefit of technology is...
Carbon Nanomaterials – from Fullerenes to Nanotubes, Nanodiamonds and Graphene
When one thinks of carbon, graphene is probably the first thing that comes to mind. However, carbon is the most versatile material...
Catching-up, Forging Ahead Or Falling Behind
During the lecture Professor Kartel will discuss the success and failures of Central and Eastern European economies in transitioning their economies, and...
The Ecology of Plague: A Disease Of Today That Changed Our History
This lecture describes the biology of the plague bacterium (the one which caused the Black Death in Europe in the middle of...
Equity Math and Venture Capital Business Model
How does a startup issue stock and raise funding. Equity Math goes through the path from startup to IPO, and then turn...
Malleable Light: How to make lead look like gold and make computer on a single atom
Alchemists are remembered for their ardent pursuit of transmutation of lead into gold. As 20th century physics showed, the feat is, in...
Introduction to Prototyping
In this lecture, students will learn about site maps, wire frames, and prototyping, as key parts of user experience design, and will...
Bringing Genetics, Ecology, Evolution and Sustainability Together into the Unified Biology
This lecture summarizes how Mendelian Genetic, Darwinian selection and Ecology are key components of the theory of evolution
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...
Free Trade: The key to prosperity
No country has ever become rich without trade. This is a description of why open economies perform better, utilising specialisation and competition...
How to Write Good Research Proposals
Reflections from a reviewer – “Content is most important, … but form also matters a lot”. During the lecture, attendees will receive...
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...