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2025 RASA Conference
On November 15–16, the 16th RASA Conference will take place at Rutgers University, New Jersey. We invite you to review the full conference program. Program →
The 1st RASA conference in Berlin has ended – the first after the decision of the American RASA to create the European Coordination Council. The main outcome of this conference was that European colleagues, especially those who left Russia to Europe after the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, found common ground with Russian-speaking scientists in the United States, especially those who have left long ago – before or shortly after the collapse of the USSR, and found their place in American and world science. More →
George Gamow® award, established by the Russian-American Association of Scientists (RASA-America, Russian-American Science Association) in memory of the outstanding Russian-American physicist, Professor Georgy Antonovich Gamow (1904-1968) and to encourage members of the Russian-speaking scientific diaspora for outstanding achievements recognized by the wider scientific community, for 2025 is awarded to:
Anna Krylov professor of the University of Southern California “For her pioneering contributions to theoretical and computational chemistry, particularly the development of novel electronic structure methods for open-shell and electronically excited species; for her leadership within the theoretical chemistry community; and for her advocacy of scientific integrity and academic freedom”.
Mikhail Iampolski, professor of the New York University “For his uniquely original contributions as a cultural theorist and commentator, whose work bridges literature, film, philosophy, and social theory; for the breadth and depth of his scholarship, which have reshaped the study of Russian culture and intellectual history; and for his influential critical voice in Russian and international intellectual life” .
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| Anna Krylov, photo from the personal archive | Mikhail Iampolski, photo from the personal archive |
The 16th International RASA Conference will take place on November 15–16, 2025, at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey). The museum’s collection includes over 60,000 works, featuring Russian and Soviet Nonconformist Art, American art from the 18th–21st centuries, and European art with a special emphasis on 19th-century France.
The conference will commemorate the 175th anniversary of Sofya Kovalevskaya—the first woman in the world to earn a doctorate in mathematics and to hold a professorship in Europe. Sessions will also be dedicated to Israel Gelfand (mathematics), Lina Stern (biology and medicine), and Vladimir Zakharov (physics).
A highlight of the program will be the roundtable “Challenges for the Future and Possible Responses”, featuring leading scholars including Oleg Itskhoki, Yulia Sineokaya, Igor Efimov, and Vadim Gladyshev. Registration is open and free.
The conference will be chaired by Dr. Sergey Erofeev (Rutgers University), with Tatiana Tatarinova ( the Jones Endowed Chair in Computational Biology) serving as program co-chair.
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