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The institute launches the researchforindustry.ro platform

The Romanian Institute of Science and Technology announces the launch of the web platform researchforindustry.ro for supporting technology transfer and entrepreneurship in Romania. The platform’s objective is to increase the international visibility of Romanian applied research, to accelerate its international interconnectedness, and to offer the training and mentorship that researchers and institutions need in order to make measurable improvements in the technology transfer field.

RIST launches the Research for Industry project

RIST is launching the Research for Industry project, in partnership with the Technology Transfer Office of the Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne (EPFL-TTO). The project aims to stimulate contacts between academia and the private sector, both Romanian and foreign, as well as to support high-tech entrepreneurship in higher education and research institutions in Romania.

The story of TENSS 2013

Mihai Goţiu wrote an article on the story of this year’s edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School.

Read the article on VoxPublica (in Romanian)

The second edition of the Transylvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School

The second edition of TENSS will take place between 1-17 July, 2013
See the school’s website

Intricate connections between the Julia and Mandelbrot sets

RIST’s scientist Marius F. Danca and his colleagues have discovered that the Mandelbrot set is not only the set of complex plane points for which Julia sets are connected, but also the set of all parameter values for which alternated Julia sets are disconnected.

The research of Raul Mureşan’s lab is featured on the Max Planck website

The website of the prestigious Max Planck Institute (Germany) features an article on the work of the group led by Raul Mureşan at our institute’s Center for Cognitive and Neural Studies.

TENSS at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

The blog of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory features an article on the Transilvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School, co-organized by our institute.

TENSS in National Geographic

National Geographic featured an article on the history of organizing the Transilvanian Experimental Neuroscience Summer School, co-organized by our institute.

Nature showcases the research of Florian Engert

The prestigious Nature journal showcases the research of Florian Engert, who is a member of the board of the Romanian Institute of Science and Technology and a professor at Harvard University, USA.

The chronotron – a neuron that learns to fire temporally precise spike patterns

Răzvan Florian has shown how neurons can learn to process and memorize information that is entirely temporally coded, both as input and as output, in the precise timings of spikes.