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3 Day Startup Cluj – April 2015

A video of the event organized by Research for Industry, a project of the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology

Research for Industry is a partner of Cluj Innovation Days

Cluj Innovation Days, organized by Cluj IT Cluster, is an annual regional forum aimed to consolidate the IT community and to facilitate the interaction with business partners as well as the public sector.

The fourth edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School

The fourth edition of TENSS will take place between June 1-19, 2015. 150 students from 42 countries have applied for one of the 13 available places.
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Crowdfunding campaign for the Transylvanian Neuroscience Summer School

The philosophy of the school is learning by doing and while doing so, openly sharing ideas and expertise. TENSS is unique in that most of the experimental (hardware and software) tools are assembled from scratch, with minimal costs leading to a deeply personal transfer of information from first principles. Your support is vital for the continuity of TENSS itself, and for accomplishing one if its main goals to support neuroscience research in Eastern Europe and Romania, to raise community awareness and support in the matter. Donate on Indiegogo.

A new class of spike train metrics

Cătălin Rusu and Răzvan Florian have developed a series of several new metrics for quantifying the differences between spike trains. The new metrics are inspired by the Pompeiu-Hausdorff distance.

Digi24 TV showcases the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology

Raul Mureşan and Răzvan Florian have talked about the institute’s history and results.

Nature, about TENSS: „a rare beacon of research excellence in Romania”

The prestigious weekly journal of science has published an editorial about the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School, co-organized by our institute’s Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies.

3 Day Startup Cluj – November 2014

A video of the event organized by Research for Industry, a project of the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology

Neuronal membrane resonance enables stable and robust gamma oscillations in the brain

Vasile V. Moca, Raul C. Mureșan and colleagues have recently shown that membrane resonance, a property of inhibitory neurons, may hold the key to the emergence of robust and stable gamma oscillations in the brain.

Seminar on Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca in partnership with researchforindustry.ro, a project of the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, organized with the support of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) a seminar regarding the exchange of best practices and consulting in intelectual property.