Public Lecture Michael Bronstein

DeepMind Professor of Artificial Intelligence, 
University of Oxford, United Kingdom

BREAKTHROUGHS WILL COME FROM INNOVATION
BOTH IN WETLAB AND ML/AI

Monday, 16 September 2024, 6:00 pm
Festive Hall, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Welcome and Introduction
Heinz Fassmann, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
Music & Cocktail Reception

Thank you for joining the event!
Link to Photo Gallery 
Video Link of Public Lecture

Michael Bronstein is the DeepMind Professor of AI at the University of Oxford. His research interests lie in geometric deep learning, graph neural networks, 3D shape analysis, protein design, non-human species communication. Michael Bronstein was previously Head of Graph Learning Research at Twitter, a Professor at Imperial College London and held visiting appointments at Stanford, MIT, and Harvard. Michael Bronstein received his PhD from the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in 2007. He is the recipient of the EPSRC Turing AI World Leading Research Fellowship, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award, Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal, five ERC grants, two Google Faculty Research Awards, and two Amazon AWS ML Research Awards. He is a Member of the Academia Europaea, Fellow of IEEE, IAPR, BCS, and ELLIS, ACM Distinguished Speaker, and World Economic Forum Young Scientist. In addition to his academic career, Michael Bronstein is a serial entrepreneur and founder of multiple startup companies, including Novafora, Invision (acquired by Intel in 2012), Videocites, and Fabula AI (acquired by Twitter in 2019).

 

13th S.M.A.R.T. Lecture Ivan Krastev

Chairman, Centre for Liberal Strategies, Sofia
Permanent Fellow, Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna

WORLD IN PIECES. ELECTIONS, WARS, UNCERTAINTIES

Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 5:00 pm
CeMM Large Seminar Room, level 8

Welcome by Giulio Superti-Furga, CeMM Scientific Director
Lecture by Ivan Krastev
Reception

Please register until 20 October 2024: https://cemm.at/13th-smart-lecture 

Ivan Krastev is the chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies and permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences, IWM Vienna. He is a founding board member of the European Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Board of Trustees of The International Crisis Group and member of the Board of Directors of GLOBSEC. He was a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times (2015-2021) and currently is a Financial Times contributing editor. Ivan Krastev is the author of "Is it Tomorrow, Yet? How the Pandemic Changes Europe" (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2020); The Light that Failed: A Reckoning (Allen Lane/Penguin, 2019), co-authored with Stephen Holmes - won the 30th Annual Lionel Gelber Prize; “After Europe” (UPenn Press, 2017); “Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics on Protest” (UPenn Press, 2014) and “In Mistrust We Trust: Can Democracy Survive When We Don't Trust Our Leaders?” (TED Books, 2013). Ivan Krastev is the winner of the Jean Améry Prize for European Essay Writing 2020. 

Save-the-date: 
2025 Landsteiner Lecture Tony Wyss-Coray

Stanford University School of Medicine

Monday, 12 May 2025, 6:00 pm
Festive Hall, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Dr.-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna

Host: Giulio Superti-Furga