Events

Yesterday, on May 24, IST Austria had the great pleasure to welcome Stephen Smale for his IST Lecture on “The protein folding problem via relations with patterns in data and the geometry of kernels”. Smale is an American mathematician, famous for his proof...

The concept of shape and how to deal with it touches on many areas of research, including mathematics, computer science and life science. PhD students and postdocs at  the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) are currently preparing completely independently the Young...

On September 12, IST Austria had the great pleasure to welcome Arnold J. Levine for his IST Lecture on "How does the Influenza virus escape the immune system?". Arnold J.  Levine is Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, where he...

In the coming months, IST Austria is the venue of a number of international scientific conferences and workshops. These events, organized by IST Austria professors together with faculty of other institutes, will bring scientists from a range of research fields to the IST Austria campus. Here is an overview: NEURON...

The brain is one of the most remarkable organs: more than 100 billion neurons form a communication system that enables human beings to think, feel and act. Although enormous efforts have been made, research has not yet been successful in explaining the functions...

On June, 28, 2012 IST Austria had the honor to welcome Stefan Hell for his IST Lecture on “Nanoscopy with Focused Light”. Prof. Hell is Director of the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen and Head of the Optical Nanoscopy Division of...

Approx. 1500 visitors from the Klosterneuburg and Tulln regions seized the opportunity of the Open Campus Day 2012 to  enjoy the varied program provided by the top research institute for its fourth open campus day. Among the many attractions was the award ceremony...

How to commercialize results from basic research? This is hard to answer because the disinterested study and analysis of the fundamental processes of matter are the only promising methods in basic research. But successful institutions like the Weizmann Institute (Rehovot, Israel), which earns an annual total sum of several hundred...

On May 7, 2012, the Institute of Science and Technology (IST) Austria in Klosterneuburg staged its first ‘IST Young Scientist Symposium’. The one-day meeting, which was entirely organized by PhD students and post-doctoral fellows from IST, was dedicated to human evolution. The conference...

Human evolution is a process of constant changes and adaptations. Likewise, scientific research on this topic is continuously developing as well and news such as the discovery of the Denisovan hominid (2010), or more recently the ‘Red Deer Cave people’ (March 2012) continue...