{"id":73,"date":"2015-11-03T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/?p=73"},"modified":"2025-02-25T19:39:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T00:39:01","slug":"2015-november-george-gamow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rasa-usa.org\/en\/conferences\/2015-november-george-gamow\/","title":{"rendered":"6th Annual Conference of RASA-USA, November 7-8, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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George Washington University Science and Engineering Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n

800 22nd Street NW, Washington DC<\/strong><\/p>\n

PROGRAM<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Saturday, November 7, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 Opening of the First Day of the Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 \u2013 9:15 Activity of RASA-USA – Nikolay Vasilyev, President of RASA-USA (Boston Children\u2019s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)<\/p>\n

9:15 \u2013 9:45 Welcome address by the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation – Dmitry Livanov<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:45 \u2013 11:15 Panel discussion: New initiatives for cooperation with Russian-speaking scientific diaspora (Moderator \u2013 Alexey Sitnikov, Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:45 \u2013 10:15 Joint presentation of the Report prepared by the Russian International Affairs Council, the New Eurasia Foundation, “Inconsult K” LLC and RASA \u2013 \u201cDevelopment of cooperation with Russian-speaking scientific diaspora: experience, problems and perspectives\u201d \u2013 Irina Dezhina (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)<\/p>\n

10:15 \u2013 10:45 Program \u201cGlobal Education\u201d \u2013 Alexey Sitnikov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)<\/p>\n

10:45 \u201311:00\u00a0RASA \u2013 ANO NDT: promotion of cooperation between Russian universities and foreign partners in science, education and innovation \u2013 Nargis Valamat-Zade (the New Eurasia Foundation \/ ANO \u201cNew Development Technologies\u201d)<\/p>\n

11:00 \u2013 11:15 Discussion<\/p>\n

11:15 \u2013 11:30 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:30 \u2013 13:00 Scientific session 1 (Moderator \u2013 Valery Fokin, University of Southern California)<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:30 \u2013 12:00 Mysteries and capabilities of the human brain \u2013 Vladimir Zelman (University of Southern California)<\/p>\n

12:00 \u2013 12:30 Future of implantable cardiac devices \u2013 Igor Efimov (George Washington University)<\/p>\n

12:30 \u2013 13:00 Trust, but verify: the need to check the quality of the data before modeling \u2013 Alexander Tropsha (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)<\/p>\n

13:00 \u2013 14:00 Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n

14:00 \u2013 15:30 Panel discussion. Commercialization of academic research results (Moderator \u2013 Eugene Kuznetsov, OJSC “Russian Venture Company”)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Davison (American Councils for International Education)<\/p>\n

Yakov Korkhin (SciTech Legal PC)<\/p>\n

Alexey Sitnikov (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)<\/p>\n

Victor Taratukhin (Stanford University)<\/p>\n

Kendrick White (Marchmont Capital Partners)<\/p>\n

15:30 \u2013 15:45 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n

15:45 \u2013 17:45 Scientific session 2 (Moderator \u2013 Alexander Kabanov, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)<\/strong><\/p>\n

15:45 \u2013 16:15 Designing structures for additive fabrication \u2013 Denis Zorin (New York University)<\/p>\n

16:15 \u2013 16:45 The mechanisms of aging \u2013 Vadim Gladyshev (Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)<\/p>\n

16:45 \u2013 17:15 How tissue engineering could help in the fight against cardiac arrhythmias? \u2013 Konstantin Agladze (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)<\/p>\n

17:15 \u2013 17:45 HIV infection and metabolism of cholesterol: why HIV infection leads to high risk of cardiovascular disease\u2013 Michael Buckrinsky (George Washington University)<\/p>\n

17:45 \u2013 18:00 Summary of the First Day of the Conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n

19:00 \u2013 21:00 Gala Reception at the Embassy of the Russian Federation<\/strong> (buses depart from the hotel Westin Georgetown at 18:45, returning from the Embassy at 21.30)<\/p>\n

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Sunday, November 8, 2015<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Washington University Science and Engineering Hall<\/strong><\/p>\n

800 22nd Street NW, Washington DC<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 Opening of the Second Day of the Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 \u2013 9:15 Welcome address by the Ambassador of the Russian Federation in the United States – Sergey Ivanovich Kislyak<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:15 \u2013 10:45 Panel discussion. US-Russian scientific and technical cooperation (Moderator – Lyudmila Ogorodova, Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation)<\/strong><\/p>\n

George Herrfurth (Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health)<\/p>\n

Elena Koustova (National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health)<\/p>\n

Olga Kochetkova (Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation)<\/p>\n

Maija Kukla (National Science Foundation)<\/p>\n

Alexander Sharov (Russian Foundation for Basic Research)<\/p>\n

10:45 \u2013 11:00 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00 \u2013 13:00 \u2013 Joint Scientific Session RASA-USA, George Washington University and American Physical Society (Moderator \u2013 Vladimir Shiltsev, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)<\/strong><\/p>\n

11:00 \u2013 11:05 George Gamow Session opening address \u2013 Amy Flatten (APS, International Affairs), Vladimir Shiltsev \u00a0(Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)<\/p>\n

11:00 \u2013 11:20 George Gamow scientific legacy and years at GWU \u2013 William Briscoe (George Washington University)<\/p>\n

11:20 \u2013 12:00 Remembering my father \u2013 Igor Gamow (University of Colorado)<\/p>\n

12:00 \u2013 12:25 Modern Physics \u201cPuzzles\u201d \u2013 Vladimir Shiltsev (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory)<\/p>\n

12:25 \u2013 12:50 Recent discoveries in astrophysics and cosmic rays – Igor Moskalenko (Stanford University)<\/p>\n

12:50 \u2013 13:00 George Gamow Session closeout<\/p>\n

13:00 \u2013 14:00 Lunch break<\/strong><\/p>\n

14:00 \u2013 16:00 Scientific session 4 (Moderator \u2013 Igor Efimov, George Washington University)<\/strong><\/p>\n

14:00 \u2013 14:30 Complexity \u2013 is it complicated? \u2013 Edward Crawley (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology)<\/p>\n

14:30 \u2013 1 5:00 Multiscale modeling of materials: From surface nanostructuring in laser processing to carbon nanotube networks \u2013 Leonid Zhigilei (University of Virginia)<\/p>\n

15:00 \u2013 1 5:30 Measuring utility of sociality, a neuroeconomic study \u2013 Michael Myagkov (University of Oregon)<\/p>\n

15:30 \u2013 16:00 Russia cannot be grasped with the mind. Once again about the ” peculiar character” \u2013 Yuri Slezkine (University of California, Berkeley)<\/p>\n

16:00 \u2013 16:15 Coffee break<\/strong><\/p>\n

16:15 \u2013 17:45 Open panel discussion. Development of RASA-USA and future projects of the Association (Moderator – Nikolay Vasilyev, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Elena Atochina-Vasserman (University of Pennsylvania)<\/p>\n

Sergey Chasovskikh (Georgetown University)<\/p>\n

Edward Lozansky (American University in Moscow)<\/p>\n

Oleg Mansurov (NUST MISiS)<\/p>\n

Tatyana Tatarchevsky (RASA Online, University without borders)<\/p>\n

Ruslan Zhexebaiuly (The Alliance of Kazakhstan’s People Abroad “KazAlliance”)<\/p>\n

17:45 \u2013 18:00 Summary of the Second Day of the Conference and Closing Ceremony<\/strong><\/p>\n

19:00 \u2013 21:00 Reception at the One Washington Circle Hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Monday, November 9<\/strong><\/p>\n

(Previously registered participants)<\/strong><\/p>\n

9:00 \u2013 11:00 Tour of the National Institutes of Health (Lyuba Varticovski, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health)<\/p>\n

The bus leaves at 8:00 from Westin Georgetown Hotel<\/p>\n

9:00 \u2013 11:00 Tour of the US Senate<\/p>\n

The bus leaves at 8:00 from the Westin Georgetown Hotel<\/p>\n

The bus leaves at 11:15 from National Institutes of Health<\/p>\n

The bus leaves at 11:15 from US Senate<\/p>\n

12:30 \u2013 13:30 Lunch, cafe Silk Road Choyhona, 28 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 20878<\/p>\n

14:00 \u2013 16:00 A visit to the National Institute of Standards and technologies (Albert Davydov, National Institute of Standards and Technologies)<\/p>\n

17:00 \u2013 Returning to the hotel Westin Georgetown<\/p>\n

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