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ERC Starting Grants for Julian Fischer and Scott Waitukaitis
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) two grants for frontier research set to improve our understanding of understanding of tribocharging and explore the role of randomness in multiscale problems in physics and mechanics.

September 3, 2020

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When is necessary sufficient?
Researchers provide the key to an algorithm for finding integer solutions to certain polynomial equations.

August 17, 2020

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Documenting the beauty of nature
IST Austria scientists present three novel techniques to simulate nature’s complexity

August 13, 2020

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Tamas Hausel appointed member of the Academia Europaea
Mathematician Hausel is the seventh IST Austria professor to join the pan-European scientific society

August 10, 2020

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Thomas Henzinger elected to two prestigious American academies
The computer scientist and president of the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria) has been elected to the US National Academy of Sciences and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

May 4, 2020

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Two IST Austria postdocs receive FWF fellowships
New fellowships for immune cell response and nanotechnology research – FWF Lise Meitner Fellowships to Alba Juanes Garcia and Cheng Chang.

April 14, 2020

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Boosting large-scale quantum computing networks
Superconducting quantum circuits — a new pathway towards large-scale quantum computers. Future and Emerging Technology (FET) grant awarded to IST Austria quantum physicist, Johannes Fink.

April 9, 2020

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ERC grant for soon-to-be IST Austria professor Vadim Kaloshin
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded soon-to-be IST Professor, Vadim Kaloshin, an ‘Advanced Grant’ for the development of tools to study rigidity and integrability of large classes of dynamical systems.

March 31, 2020

RESEARCH NEWS
How to thrive without gene regulation
IST Austria scientists demonstrate alternative evolutionary strategy – Study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution

March 9, 2020

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Little cell – big cover story
IST Austria scientists rebuild cell division machinery to reveal protein choreography – Study featured on the cover of Nature Microbiology

March 5, 2020

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The beginning defines the end
IST Austria scientists and collaborators revealed surprising effects of different initial configurations in quantum many-body systems. By using concepts of classical physics applied to quantum systems, scientists find a way to search for the “least chaotic” initial conditions in interacting quantum systems. Study published in Physical Review X.

February 28, 2020

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Gašper Tkačik receives highest honor of Austrian Academy of Sciences
The IST Austria biophysicist will receive the Lieben Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences for his outstanding research at the interface of physics, biology, and neuroscience.

February 20, 2020

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Sanitary care by social ants shapes disease outcome
Social interactions of ants affect pathogen competition – Study published in Ecology Letters

January 17, 2020

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Geometry meets time
IST Austria PhD student and computer scientist in collaboration with researchers from Caltech and Rey Juan Carlos University designs flat sheets that transform themselves taking the predefined curved shape with the rates of deformation specified across the whole surface – Study published in Nature Communications

January 13, 2020

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New function for potential tumor suppressor
Analysis of Cdkn1c loss at single cell level reveals novel and unexpected role of gene – Study published in Nature Communications

January 10, 2020

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„Flash and freeze“
New method to simultaneously study both structure and function of synapses in intact brain circuitry of mice presented – Study published in Neuron

January 9, 2020

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