The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, has awarded today a diploma of Associate Member of the Assembly of Academicians and Corresponding Members to Prof. Ivan Kostov. Our goal is to maintain good cooperation with colleagues working abroad, said Prof. Revalski and recalled that in March the Assembly of Academicians elected two Bulgarian scientists as associate members of AACM - Prof. Ivan Kostov and Prof. Dimitar Sasselov. Prof. Ivan Kostov is the author of 100 articles, cited over 5940 times. Since 1990 he has been on permanent appointment at CEA, Saclay, France. He has been awarded the Grand Prix Servant de l'Academie des Sciences (2007), Associate Professor at CERN, Geneva (1997-1998) and at the Yukawa Institute, Kyoto (2000-2001), Visiting Professor [...]

Prof. Erhard Hinrichs from the University of Tübingen, Germany, has been awarded with a badge of honour "FOR MERITS TO BAS". The award was presented to him today in “Prof. Marin Drinov" Hall of BAS by the Scientific Secretary-General of the Academy Prof. Neli Koseva. The prize is awarded for the contribution of Prof. Hinrichs to asserting BAS as a leading centre in the field of language resources and technologies. The ceremony took place during the official opening of the second international CLaDA-BG conference - Language Technologies and Digital Humanities: Resources and Applications 2023 which is taking place from 10 to 12 May.

  The President of BAS Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member of the Academy, awarded an honorary medal "FOR MERITS TO BAS" to Prof. Raytcho Lazarov. The Governing Board of the Academy awarded the distinction to Prof. Lazarov for his contribution to the modern development of scientific research in the field of numerical methods and algorithms at BAS. Raytcho Lazarov is a world-renowned scientist in the field of mathematics and computer science, Professor Emeritus at Texas A&M University. He has published highly acclaimed and cited joint papers with scientists from the Institute of Mathematics and Informatics and the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of BAS.  

A new experimental laboratory at the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IICT) will be established under the "VIBraTE" project, funded by the Horizon Europe programme. This was announced by Assoc. Prof. Dimiter Prodanov who presented the planned activities of the project and gave a lecture at BAS on the perspectives of neurotechnologies. The "VIBraTE" project has started in February 2023 and will last until 31 January 2028. The Director of IICT Corr. Mem. Svetozar Margenov, who opened the event, specified that so far in Bulgaria such an innovative project had not been implemented. Assoc. Prof. Dimiter Prodanov works at IICT and shares a position at the Imec Centre for Nano-Electronics in Leuven (Belgium), which is the world-leading research [...]

A memorial plaque to Academician Stefan Dodunekov was inaugurated on 10 November in Veliko Tarnovo. The Institute of Mathematics and Informatics of BAS, the Union of Mathematicians in Bulgaria and the Regional Academic Center of BAS in Veliko Tarnovo organized the event. The memorial plaque of Acad. Dodunekov is located in the alley "Personalities of Bulgaria with contribution to Veliko Tarnovo", where memorials are placed to prominent personalities who contributed with their activities to the development and promotion of the city in all areas of life. The opening ceremony was attended by the President of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prof. Julian Revalski, Full Member (Academician) of BAS, His Eminence Metropolitan Grigory of Veliko Tarnovo, the Deputy Mayor of Veliko Tarnovo Municipality Prof. Georgi Kamarashev, [...]