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Wolfgang Gatterbauer receives NSF Early Career Award

By Monika Trebo | April 23, 2016

The National Science Foundation recently awarded Wolfgang Gatterbauer a Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award for his research proposal to develop novel methods to draw conclusions from uncertain and inconsistent data. Gatterbauer received the five-year, $550,000 award for the cross-campus project titled “Scaling approximate inference and approximation-aware learning.” News Release: http://tepper.cmu.edu/news/2016-04-06-gatterbauer-nsf-career-award
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A Brief History of the Dark Side of the Universe

By Monika Trebo | April 12, 2016

Dr. Josef Pradler hosted the Ascina Alumni Chapter Vienna and colleagues for his talk entitled "A Brief History of the Dark Side of the Universe" at the Institute of High-Energy Physics of the Austrian Academy of Sciences on April 6, 2016. MR Mag. Stephan Neuhaeuser from the Dept. for International Research Cooperation in the Federal Ministry of Science, Research and Economy joined us for this interesting event. Josef was awarded the ASCINA Junior PI Science Award in November 2015.
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ASciNA Award: Jetzt bewerben! Einreichfrist endet am 20. Mai 2016

By Monika Trebo | April 11, 2016

Das Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Wirtschaft (BMWFW) ermöglicht es ASciNA, sehr renommierte Preise auszuloben. Der ASciNA Preis wurde 2008 erstmalig verliehen und ist heuer insgesamt mit EUR 25.000,- dotiert. Er wird in die Bereiche "Young Scientists" (zwei Preise jeweils EUR 7.500,-) und "Junior PI" (EUR 10.000,- Preisgeld) unterteilt.
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Global Innovation Expert Program -- Rat für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung

By Monika Trebo | April 7, 2016

Global Innovation Expert Program -- Rat für Forschung und Technologieentwicklung Das Programm ist ein Kooperationsprojekt zwischen Shanghai, Wien und San Francisco, das 11 Tage (October 2016, 16 – 26) dauert und 3 Kontinente umspannt.
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