Materials of the 10th RASA-America conference, November 9-10 2019, Chapel Hill, USA
RASA-2019 Conference Program
Vladimir Shiltsev (Distinguished Scientist, FermiLab) “Mendeleev – Genius: Table and beyond (vodka, ether, coffee and economy)” (in Russian)
Anatoliy Popov (Associate Professor of Radiology, U of Pennsylvania)
“Smart NIR fluoroprobes for imaging, therapy and fluorescence-guided surgery”
Alex Spokoyny (Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, U of California LosAngeles) “Bonding with Boron”
Vitaly Pronskikh (Applications Physicist II, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory), “US-USSR collaboration in high-energy physics during the Cold war”
Alexander Kiselev (Professor of Mathematics, Duke U) “Singularities and Partial Differential Equations”
2019 Gamow Laureate
Vera Serganova (Professor of Mathematics, U of California, Berkeley)
“Symmetries and supersymmetries”
2019 Gamow Laureate
Valery Fokin (Professor of Chemistry, U of Southern California) “Chemical Insights into Biological Complexity”
Ancha Baranova (Professor, School of System Biology, George Mason University) “Step away of the edge of an illness: Longitudinal monitoring and abatement of stress”
Maria Polinsky (Professor, University of Maryland) “Cognitive sciences and language diversity”
Vadim Arshavsky (Professor of Ophthalmology, Duke U) “How to build a light-sensitive organelle”
Igor Efimov (Professor of Biomedical Engineering, George Washington University)“New generation of bioelectronics”
Mikhail Lebedev (Senior Research Scientist, Center for Neuroengineering, Duke U) “Brain-computer interfaces for functional restoration, neurorehabilitation, fundamental science, and for fun”
Ekaterina Shishatskaya (Professor, Siberian Federal University, Krasnoyarsk, Russia) “Biodegradable polymers of natural origin – chemical compounds for environmental technologies and agriculture”
Alexander Polinsky (CEO, OncoTartis, Inc.) “I developed a great technology, now what?”
Marina Litavrina (Professor, Moscow State U) “Rendezvous with Russian emigrant. Reflecting on personal experience.”