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The UKRAINE Network Newsletter ◊ 3 ◊ May 2016 Dear colleagues, Шановні колеги! Sehr geehrte Kollegen, In this third Newsletter В рамках третього випуску Mit diesem dritten we announce a call for нашого вісника ми Informationsblatt möchten wir our first PhD Thesis оголошуємо конкурс для einen Aufruf für einen PhD- Presentation Contest, аспірантів на кращу Vortrags Wettbewerb inform you about the презентацію своєї veröffentlichen, Sie über die 1 Heinz Maier-Leibnitz дисертації, повідомляємо Verleihung des Heinz Maier- Prize to Ukraine-born Вас про присудження премії Leibnitz-Preis an die neuroscientist Tatjana імені Хайнца Майера - ukrainestämmige Tatjana Tchumatchenko (Max Ляйбніца Тетянi Чумаченко Tchumatchenko (Max-Planck- Planck Institute for Brain (Інститут Макса Планка з Institut für Hirnforschung, Research, дослідження мозку, Frankfurt/Main) aufmerksam Frankfurt/Main) as well Frankfurt/Main); а також machen und Ihnen einige as inform on other news, хочемо привернути Вашу interessante Informationen, relevant funding увагу до деяких цікавих sowie Hinweise zu aktuellen opportunities and новин та актуальних Fördermöglichkeiten zukommen events. грантових пропозицій. lassen. With kind regards, З найкращими Mit freundlichen Grüßen, побажаннями, Dr. Oksana Seumenicht International Relations Manager, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin Professor Olga Garaschuk Chair of the Institute of Physiology II, Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen CONTENTS: Announcement of the PhD Thesis Presentation Contest Awards, prizes & remarkable achievements News from Ukraine Cooperation Highlights & Interesting Developments Funding Opportunities Forthcoming Events Quick & Useful If you have news you wish to share or interested to join the Newsletter team – just get in touch! The UKRainian Academic International NEtwork – The UKRAINE Network NEWSLETTER, Issue No3, May 2016 Contact: [email protected] NEWS FROM THE UKRAINE NETWORK: PhD Thesis Presentation Contest: Application is open till 25 July, 2016 Application link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NJSQSM5 The Final will be carried out on 21 September 2016 at the Impact Hub Berlin, Germany, where the finalists will be invited and funded to present their PhD Thesis at the Forum “UkraineLab: Playing Polyphony of the Society. Exploring the European Identity” (19-22 September, 2016). Head of the Contest Coordination Committee Dr Denys Makarov, Research Group Leader, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), e-mail: [email protected]). 2 Confirmed Jury members: Prof. Yarema Okhrin, Universität Augsburg; Prof. Yury Gleba, Nomad Bioscience GmbH; Dr. Olesia Lazarenko, Oleksandr Potebnia Institute for Linguistics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv/ Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. www.phdcomics.com This PhD Thesis Presentation Contest aims to promote young scientists from any research field, who can be identified as • Ukrainian PhD students studying in Germany (incl. exchange PhD students); • PhD students working on a collaborative German-Ukrainian (or multi-lateral) project; • PhD students, whose topic of research relates to Ukraine. With this Contest we aim to contribute to increasing the visibility of Ukrainian PhD students in Germany and raising the profile of the German-Ukrainian academic collaboration. This is the opportunity for PhD students to advance their presentation skills, learn to present complex scientific questions to a broader interested non-specialist audience and network with other researchers from different fields. Successful candidates will be invited to present their research at the Final event on stage, and get a chance to win one of three prizes as well as add an extra ‘brownie point’ to their CVs. This Contest is organised for the first time in 2016 within the framework of the Forum “UkraineLab: Playing Polyphony of the Society. Exploring the European identity”, by the German-Ukrainian Academic Society (the German Chapter of the recently launched professional scientific network “The UKRainian Academic International Network”, The UKRAINE Network), in cooperation with the MitOst e.V. and supported by the Embassy of Ukraine in Germany. Up to 10 finalists are expected to be pre-selected by the Contest’s organising committee, based on the submitted e-applications. For more information: please see a separate competition announcement or contact the Coordination Committee ([email protected]). If you have news you wish to share or interested to join the Newsletter team – just get in touch! The UKRainian Academic International NEtwork – The UKRAINE Network NEWSLETTER, Issue No3, May 2016 Contact: [email protected] AWARDS, PRIZES & REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS Maryna Viazovska Solved the Mathematical Problem First Formulated 400 Years Ago Ukrainian mathematician Dr Maryna Viazovska, currently working at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, has solved the densest packing problem (first formulated in 1611 by Kepler) in dimension eight. Subsequently, Maryna with her colleagues – Henry Cohn, Steve Miller, Abhinav Kumar, and another Ukrainian – Danylo Radchenko, currently PhD student at the Hausdorff Center for Mathematics at the University of Bonn, solved the densest packing problem in 24 dimensions. Here are the links to the papers: 3 Maryna Viazovska, The sphere packing problem in dimension 8. http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.04246 Henry Cohn, Abhinav Kumar, Stephen D. Miller, Danylo Radchenko, Maryna Viazovska, The sphere packing problem in dimension 24. http://arxiv.org/abs/1603.06518 More about this breakthrough discovery: Sphere Packing in Dimension 8, by Frank Morgan, The Huffington Post, 21 March 2016 www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-morgan/sphere-packing-in-dimensi_b_9496736.html Задача Кеплера отримала український розв’язок, by Larysa Kit, Tech Today Awards, 28 April 2016, the May winner of readers’ choice article http://today.vodafone.ua/posts/vitayemo-travnevogo-favorita-chitatskih-simpatiy-konkursu- tech-today-awards So stapeln Mathematiker Melonen, von Andreas Loos, ZEIT Online, 21 March 2016 www.zeit.de/wissen/2016-03/mathematik-kugeln-dicht-packen-achte-dimension Neuroscientist Tatjana Tchumatchenko awarded the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize 2016 Dr Tatjana Tchumatchenko leads the research group "Theory of Neural Dynamics" at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt/Main. She studies the dynamic and information processing of neural systems from individual nerve cells to neural networks. She has developed mathematical models for describing dynamic and static properties of biological neural networks and theoretically analysed and numerically implemented them. Tatjana was born in Dnipropetrovs’k, Ukraine and came to Germany in 1993. She graduated in physics from the TU Darmstadt (2006) and Research and Lecher, Frankfurt ResearchLecher, and © Max Planck Institute for Brain MaxPlanckBrain © for Institute gained her PhD in physics at the Göttingen Graduate School for Neurosciences, Biophysics, & Molecular Biosciences, Göttingen University (2010). The Heinz Maier-Leibnitz Prize, named after the physicist and former president of the DFG, is one of the highest distinctions in Germany for young researchers and provides further incentive for excellent achievements in their research work. www.dfg.de/en/funded_projects/prizewinners/maier_leibnitz_prize/2016/tchumatchenko/ind ex.html http://brain.mpg.de/research/theory-of-neural-dynamics-group/group-leader.html If you have news you wish to share or interested to join the Newsletter team – just get in touch! The UKRainian Academic International NEtwork – The UKRAINE Network NEWSLETTER, Issue No3, May 2016 Contact: [email protected] Elsevier Announced Winners of 2016 Ukrainian Scopus Awards The Ukrainian Scopus Awards, organized for the first time this year, aim to foster Ukrainian research excellence and collaboration. The winners were selected by the Ministry of Education & Science of Ukraine, based on publication and citation data drawn from Elsevier's Scopus. The awards recognize the contributions made by the Ukrainian research community to the global scientific landscape, early-career Ukrainian researchers, and scientific collaboration within research groups. Two further awards acknowledge consistency in research performance demonstrated by a Ukrainian research institution and a local academic journal. The winners are: 4 Volodymyr Lushchak, Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University Leonid Levchuk, National Science Center, Kharkov Institute of Physics and Technology Boris Minaev, Cherkasy Bohdan Khmelnytsky National University Olha Brovarets, Institute of Molecular Biology & Genetics, Nat’l Academy of Science of Ukraine (NASU) Dmytro Hovorun, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, NASU Yury Ushenko, Chernivtsi National University Pavlo Mikhailyuk, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv Anna Morozovska, Institute of Physics, NASU The institutional award was presented to Kyiv National Taras Shevchenko University. The journal award was presented to “Eksperimentalnaya Onkologiya” (Experimental Oncology). www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elsevier-announces-winners-of-2016-ukrainian-scopus- awards-580479141.html (In Ukrainian) http://vnz.org.ua/novyny/podiyi/9234-premiya-scopus-awards-ukraine NEWS FROM UKRAINE Science reforms An initiative group of scientists launched an information portal “Science Reform in Ukraine”, with the goal to propose a platform that could be used to inform the community on the processes behind the ongoing science reform, and