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Institute for Advanced Studies (IAS) Community Event

Pushing Limits, Igniting Connections
A space where imagination has no walls and innovation thrives without constraints. Here, bright thinkers from every horizon unite to dissolve
barriers, spark collaboration, and confront the world’s most pressing challenges with bold, cross-disciplinary vision.

Facilitator: Vivienne PARRY, OBE

Programme

• 13.30 – 14.00

  Welcome coffee 

• 14.00 – 14.15

  Welcome address
  Dr Sylvie FROMENTIN – Programme Manager
  and Prof. Dr Anupam SENGUPTA – Head of IAS – Professor of Biological Physics
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• 14.15 – 15.00

  Presentation of the IAS Audacity Project “TRANSCEND”
  (Transforming Autonomous Navigation, Swarm robotics and Construction by Encoding Data into surfaces) by Prof. Dr Jan LAGERWALL – Professor of Physics
  Prof. Dr Holger VOOS – Professor of Automation and Robotics
  Dr Deniz Işınsu AVŞAR – Material Scientist
  Dr Ali TOURANI – Computer Scientist
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• 15.00 – 16.00

  Keynote 1: “MXenes: The unique flatland where matter learns to multitask”
  by Prof. Dr Agnieszka JASTRZĘBSKA – Chair of the Scientific Council for Biomedical Engineering Institute of Metrology and Biomedical Engineering – Faculty of Mechatronics – Warsaw 8xav�������� of Technology – Poland

• 16.00 – 16.30

  Coffee break

• 16.30 – 17.30

  Keynote 2: “Post-conflict virtual recovery of the cultural heritage site of Tell Nebi Yunus in Mosul, Iraq and how to tell its 2,700-year-long history in a Virtual Reality application”
  by Dr Juan Aguilar – Independent Digital Archeologist

• 17.30 – 17.45

  Closing words
  Prof. Dr Anupam SENGUPTA – Head of IAS – Professor of Biological Physics
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• 17.45 – 19.30

  Networking cocktail

Contacts

ias@uni.lu