An opening ceremony of the 6th Summer School will take place on August 8, 2011 at 10:00 in the Great physical auditorium, building #1 of NTUU "KPI".
As part of the ceremony the key professors will give Plenary talks:
John Rinzel (New York, USA)
"Modeling and Neuroscience"
Short overview of the 20 years history of Computational Neuroscience and its role in Neuroscience will be presented. What the Neuroscience is, and how it has been changed by theoretic and computation modeling is the major focus of this talk. This overview will be presented by a person who has really contributed a lot to the development of Computational Neuroscience.
Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber (Ankara, Turkey)
"Insight into Contemporary Operations Research"
This talk will introduce the audience to the role of contemporary Operations research in decision making and solving urgent problems of mankind. Thespeaker will give a short overview of historical origins of the discipline, its main tasks and applications. In addition, the forthcoming OR events will also be announced giving a chance for everyone interested to join them.
Michael Z. Zgurovsky (Kyiv, Ukraine)
"Scientific Data Infrastructures for Interdisciplinary Problems"
A distinctive feature of our time is rapidly growing amount of data — both global and local, diverse and monotonous, valuable and redundant, complex and simple. For contemporary scientists it's both a huge opportunity and a challenge. With robust infrastructure for data transmission and data processing in place, we can now start to think about the next step: data itself. Scientific community should not waste resources on recreating data that have already been produced, in particular if public money has helped to collect those data in the first place. Scientists should be able to concentrate on the best ways to make use of data. Data become an infrastructure that scientists can use on their way to new frontiers.
To collect, curate, preserve and make available ever-increasing amounts of scientific data, new types of infrastructures will be needed. Given talk covers some aspects of developing scientific data infrastructures for solving interdisciplinary problems and recent achievements of Ukrainian scientists in that field.