| IIASA selects participants for Young Scientists Summer Program
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Forty-nine students from 24 countries have been selected for IIASA’s 2012 Young Scientists Summer Program. IIASA’s Annual Fund Scholarship for students from developing countries was awarded to Pheakkdey Nguon, from Cambodia. The Petr Aven Fellowship went to Lan Ngoc Hoang, from Vietnam. A new fellowship, a bequest from the late IIASA scientist and Deputy Director Nathan Keyfitz, went to Sam Hyun Yoo, of the US. | |
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| Registration now open for IIASA’s 40th Anniversary Conference
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Registration is now open for IIASA’s 40th Anniversary Conference, Worlds Within Reach: From Science to Policy, to be held 24-26th October 2012 at the Hofburg Palace Vienna and at IIASA. An estimated 800 scientists, academics, and policy makers are expected to attend the event, which will explore options for resolving the many sustainability issues associated with global change. Consider submitting an abstract for the conference poster session. Register now. | |
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| Wolfgang Lutz elected to Austrian Academy of Sciences
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Leader of IIASA’s World Population Program Wolfgang Lutz has been elected as a full member to the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Humanities) in recognition of his pioneering research in demography. In particular, the election honors Prof. Lutz’s leadership in the development of probabilistic population forecasts and methodologies to analyze the relationship between human population and the environment and between education and human health. More | |
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| Low-Carbon Prosperity: WBGU International Symposium
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