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Ngo Viet Trung is the Vietnamese mathematician. He currently is the Head of Institute of Mathematics at Viet Nam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST); and is member of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS).
He came to Germany to study the maths at 16, and holds Master of Science at Martin-Luther University, Halle, Germany in 1974; Ph. D. in 1978, and Dr. Sc. in 1983.
His book “Commutative Algebra” was published in 1994 (with A. Simis and G. Valla) and he has published many articles on international specialist journals.
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Steven Lipsitt is in his twelfth season as Music Director of the Boston Classical Orchestra. The Boston Globe has observed: “The concerts have a distinct profile, Lipsitt’s and no one else’s. He has a knack.”
First Prize Laureate of the inaugural Dimitris Mitropoulos International Conducting Competition in November 1996, Steven Lipsitt made his Russian debut with the St. Petersburg Philharmonic in 1997, and is a frequent guest conductor of orchestras in the United States and abroad, including the Athens Camerata, the West Czech Symphonic Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra of São Paulo (Brasil), the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra (Canada), the St. Petersburg Camerata of the Hermitage Museum, the Chinese National Opera Orchestra, the Colorado Symphony, the North Carolina Symphony, the San Diego Chamber Orchestra, the Spokane Symphony Orchestra, and the Hudson Valley Philharmonic. He has served as cover conductor for the symphony orchestras of St. Louis, Toronto, and Boston. Foreign critics have hailed his “exalted and well-structured performances” (Le Monde de la Musique, Paris) and praised his “technically and expressively balanced interpretations” (Adesmeftos Typos, Athens).
As a conductor of opera, ballet, and music theater, Steven Lipsitt has collaborated with Scottish Opera, Boston Lyric Opera, English National Opera, Boston Ballet, Saint Louis Ballet, the Boston Music Theater Project, the Boston Conservatory Opera Theatre, and Opera at Longy. He has worked with directors Robert Carsen, James Hammerstein, and Gerald Gutierrez, and choreographers Peter Martins and Daniel Pelzig. He conducted twenty performances of Carousel at the Kennedy Center Opera House with Broadway stars Faith Prince and Tom Wopat. His concert performance of scenes from Boris Godunov was called “an astonishingly vivid account” by The Globe’s Richard Buell, who wrote: “Steven Lipsitt’s conducting showed real mastery.” In 1994 his production of Viktor Ullmann’s Der Kaiser von Atlantis was called “compelling” by The New York Times, while The Globe’s Richard Dyer observed: “a razor-sharp intelligence was balanced by a generosity of spirit…Steven Lipsitt conducted with an unusual degree of skill and caring.” Dyer named this production Boston’s “Best Opera of 1994″ (tied with Robert Spano’s Rigoletto at Boston Lyric Opera).
Also dedicated to the training of young musicians, Steven Lipsitt has served on the conducting faculties of the Tanglewood Institute, New England Conservatory, the Hartt School of Music, Boston Conservatory, and Boston University, and has prepared student orchestras for Kurt Masur, Christoph von Dohnányi, Leon Kirchner, Luciano Berio, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Sergiu Comissiona, and Gunther Schuller. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Yale University, where he was the recipient of awards for exceptional promise and excellence in conducting. His principal conducting studies were with Otto-Werner Mueller at Yale, and in master classes with Herbert Blomstedt, Helmuth Rilling, Charles Bruck at the Pierre Monteux School, and Gustav Meier at Tanglewood. His earlier training included clarinet studies with Boston Symphony Orchestra member Pasquale Cardillo and Yale’s Keith Wilson, vocal studies with Joan Heller and Phyllis Curtin, and composition studies with Martin Bresnick and Jacob Druckman.
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Charles Jennings joined the McGovern Institute of MIT in 2006, as director of the newly established McGovern Institute Neurotechnology (MINT) program. The goal of this program is to support collaborations between neuroscientists and researchers from other disciplines within and beyond MIT, with a view to developing new platform technologies for brain research. In addition to the MINT Program, he oversees communications for the McGovern Institute.
Jennings has a research background in developmental neuroscience. He obtained a PhD from University College London and was a postdoctoral researcher at Harvard and MIT. From 1993 to 2004 he was an editor with the Nature journals, where he founded Nature Neuroscience, one of the leading journals in its field. From 2004-2005 he was the first executive director of Harvard Stem Cell Institute, and he has also worked as a private consultant to academia and industry. From 2006-2008, he served as a member of the advisory committee for the State of Connecticut’s Stem Cell Research Program.
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Dr. Alessio J. G. Brown is currently executive director of c(GES) since September 2007, and is visiting researcher at Kiel Institute for the World Economy since January 2011. Dr. Brown’s research focuses on employment incentives and employment policies.
Between 2004 and 2010, he was economist at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. He was Head of the Research Area Reforming the Welfare Society from 2008 to 2010. Between 2007 to 2010, he was the senior advisor to the President and Kiel Institute for the World Economy.
Dr. Brown is known for his expertise in reforming the welfare society and labour economics. He has published many articles on employment policies, most recently “Comparing the effectiveness of employement subsidies” (2011), and many more in leading journals such as IZA Discussion Paper, Kiel Working Paper, European Journal of Political Economy.
Dr. Brown was born in Rome, Italy, hold Ph.D in Quantitative Economics at the Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel in 2009; Diploma in Business Administration at University of Passau (2003); Bachelor of Commerce at University College Dublin (1999).
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Ulrik Haagerup has been Head of News for the National Danish Broadcasting Corporation since 2007. He was previously Editor-in-Chief of NORDJYSKE Media as it became a world leader in cross-media publishing. Before that, he was Editor-in-Chief at Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten, the country’s largest daily newspaper,
Haagerup is a member of World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Journalism, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington D.C. In 1990, he won the Cavling Prize, the Danish equivalent of the American Pulitzer Prize, for his investigation into a flamboyant developer and his transactions with a large Danish mortgage institution
He has conducted major investigations on the Danish Cancer Society and political parties. He serves on the European Journalism Center’s Board of Advisors. Haagerup was a Knight journalism fellow at Stanford University in 1992
