Scientific Conference INFRAMAT 2022

Scientific Conference INFRAMAT 2022 under the title “Modern Scientific Equipment in support of Science, Technology and Culture” was held from 12 to 14 September in Plovdiv. INFRAMAT is a distributed infrastructure of centers for synthesis and characterization of new materials and their applications, as well as for the conservation, access and e-preservation of archaeological and ethnographic artefacts, part of the National Roadmap for Scientific Infrastructure funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. The conference showcased current research by INFRAMAT partners and other scientific organisations using the infrastructure and demonstrated some of the advanced instrumentational and methodological capabilities of the distributed infrastructure. The conference programme included 20 papers, 38 posters in a wide range of research areas and a discussion on the future development of [...]

2022-09-23T17:22:19+03:00Thursday, 15 September 2022|Categories: Nanosciences, New Materials and Technologies, Selected|
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Scientists from the Institute of Astronomy with NAO take part in a publication in “Nature”

An artistic interpretation of the blazar phenomenon and the jet of high-energy particles it emits The study of BL Lac blazar is by an international team with Bulgarian participation An international team involving Bulgarian astronomers has detected cycles of oscillating brightness in a jet of high-energy particles emitted by the blazar BL Lac. The results of this research were published in one of the most prestigious scientific journals in the world - "Nature", no. 7926, Volume 609, 8 September 2022. Observations from 37 different telescopes in 13 countries were used to realize this study. Our results were obtained with the 2-m RCC telescope and the 50/70 cm Schmidt telescope at the National Astronomical Observatory Rozhen, as well as with the 60-cm telescope at the [...]

2022-09-14T17:17:10+03:00Thursday, 8 September 2022|Categories: Astronomy, Space Research and Technologies, Selected|
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First report with evidence that pandas lived in our country millions of years ago

Prehistoric Panda In the article „A late Turolian giant panda from Bulgaria and the early evolution and dispersal of the panda lineage“ published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Prof. Nikolai Spassov from the National Museum of Natural History of BAS and his Chinese colleague Qigao Jiangzuo describe a new species of fossil giant panda (Agriarctos nikolovi) that inhabited Bulgaria about 6 million years ago, at the end of the Miocene. The description of the species is based on the finding of fossil teeth stored in the collection of NMNHS - BAS. The evolution of the panda is poorly known due to very limited fossil remains. It is assumed that the direct ancestor of today's panda is the fossil Chinese genus Ailuraerctos which lived 8-6 [...]

2022-08-12T10:21:01+03:00Friday, 5 August 2022|Categories: Biodiversity, Bioresources and Ecology, Selected|
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BAS and the Medical University of Plovdiv signed a cooperation agreement

The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Medical University of Plovdiv (MU) signed a framework agreement for cooperation. The event was part of the programme of the Academic Council of the University and was preceded by a tour and familiarization with the research infrastructure and staff capacity of MU-Plovdiv. The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, and the Vice-President, Corr. Mem. Evdokia Pasheva, visited MU-Plovdiv on 14 July where they got acquainted with the capabilities and achievements of the teams of the Department of Medical Biology, the Department of Medical Physics and Biophysics and the Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology "Prof. Dr. Elisey Yanev". The guests also visited the high-tech Medical Simulation Training Center. The leaders of BAS expressed [...]

2022-07-15T11:05:10+03:00Thursday, 14 July 2022|Categories: General Academic News, Selected|
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Diploma for Foreign Member of BAS was awarded to Prof. Maxim Kontsevich

The International Centre for Mathematical Sciences is gathering world-renowned mathematicians at a forum in Sofia The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, awarded a diploma for Foreign Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences to the world-famous mathematician Maxim Kontsevich. The ceremony took place during the inaugural conference of the International Center for Mathematical Sciences at Grand Hotel Sofia. Maxim Kontsevich was elected a foreign member of the Academy in 2020. He is a professor at the Institute of Higher Education Studies (IHES), Paris and a distinguished professor at the University of Miami, one of the leading mathematicians and theoretical physicists of the 20th and 21st centuries. The works of Prof. Kontsevich are highly regarded by the world mathematical community. [...]

2022-07-14T09:51:20+03:00Monday, 11 July 2022|Categories: Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Selected|
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Innovations in Bulgarian speech synthesis and recognition

Innovations in the field of Bulgarian speech synthesis and recognition - a speaking programme, a medical dictaphone and an administrative "smart stenographer" were demonstrated by the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies (IICT-BAS) at BAS. The three innovative developments are based on original machine speech processing technologies and are based on recent advances in deep machine self-learning. Prof. DSc. Stoyan Mihov gave a demonstration for the first time of how the products work. The speaking programme makes it possible to generate speech as natural as possible for people with visual problems. During the presentation, the President of the Bulgarian Union of the Blind, Vasil Dolapchiev, presented the honorary sign of the Union to Prof. Stoyan Mihov. More than 10 000 people will be able to use [...]

2022-07-11T11:51:16+03:00Thursday, 7 July 2022|Categories: Information and Communication Sciences and Technologies, Selected|
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