Sixty-eight projects from 20 cities across the country will be presented online at the Seventh Scientific Session of the High School Student Institute of BAS on 10, 11, 12 November. For the first time this year, students with such diverse research projects, some of which are interdisciplinary, will take part in the scientific session. […]
On 8 October 2020, the Assembly of Academicians at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences elected Prof. Maxim Kontsevich, a Russian and French mathematician, born on 25.08.1964 in Khimki, Moscow Region, a foreign member of BAS. Maxim Kontsevich is a professor at the Institute of Advanced Research (IHES), Paris and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami. He is one of the leading mathematicians and theoretical physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries with outstanding contributions to algebraic geometry, algebraic topology and geometric aspects of mathematical physics, such as knot theory, quantization and mirror symmetry. Prof. Kontsevich is the author of a number of new ideas and theories with a huge influence on the development of modern mathematics and theoretical physics: Deformation quantization, Homological mirror [...]
The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences announces with deep sorrow that on 11 October 2020, after a short illness, Academician Iliya Georgiev Pashev died. Acad. Iliya Pashev is an iconic figure in Bulgarian molecular biology. He is the third academician (after Acad. Rumen Tsanev and Acad. Asen Hadjiolov Jr.) in this relatively young science for Bulgaria. He was born on 12 July 1938 in an intellectual Bulgarian family. His father Georgi Pashev was a member of the Union of Bulgarian Writers and is the author of dozens of books and short stories on historical topics. After graduating from high school in Plovdiv, Acad. Pashev enrolled in medicine at the Plovdiv Higher Medical Institute, graduating with honors in 1962. After a short period as a general practitioner, [...]
The eleventh scientific session “Young Scientists in the World of Polymers”, dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Institute of Polymers – BAS, was held on 10.09.2020. For the first time the forum was held in the open, in front of the building of IP-BAS, due to the imposed emergency safety measures in connection with the epidemic situation. The session is organized every year in June. Despite the three-month delay, 29 young scientists took part presenting a total of 27 poster messages. Most of the participants were students in the Student Internships-Phase 2 program as well as young scientists from institutes of BAS (IOCCPC, IPC, IGIC, IEES, etc.) and from various Universities (FCP-SU, UCTM, FP-MU and more). […]
Young scientists from the Institute of Electronics of BAS and the Technical University in Gabrovo are part of the team that will work with the innovative installation Evobeam cube 400 for electron beam welding and modification of materials. The installation is fully automated and allows performing technological activities in standard 4.0, related to the modernization and competitiveness of the Bulgarian economy. […]
The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (“Das Verdienstkreuz am Bande”) was awarded to Corr.-Mem. Prof. Ilza Pajeva who was also honorary member of the Humboldt Union in Bulgaria. The ceremony took place on 9 July at the residence of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, Mr. Christoph Eichhorn. The event was attended by the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of BAS, and the Vice-President, Corr.-Mem. Vassil Nikolov, the President of HUB Prof. Lora Taseva and other representatives of the leadership of HUB. The German side was also represented by Mr. Jörg Schenk, Head of the “Science” and “Translation” Departments and Ms. Mila Ilieva from the “Culture” Department. […]
